Developer: Gearbox Software
Publisher: Ubisoft
Genre: action / FPS
Platform: PC / Windows
Release date: World: 07 October 2008

Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 256 MB (GeForce 7600 or better), 8 GB HDD, Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1.

Operation Market Garden was a bid to destroy Nazi Germany before Christmas, 1944.
The plan was ambitious – it was the largest airborne invasion in the history of the world. They planned to capture a corridor through Holland to punch through the German lines. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne and other divisions dropped from the sky in mid-September to seize and hold the corridor by surprise. The surprise attack was a bust. Hitler’s best units were in the area and immediately counter-attacked and crushed the corridor. To the Allied paratroopers who fought there and lost brothers in arms, the corridor became known as Hell’s Highway.
It was the last great Nazi victory. It was hell for Sgt. Baker and his squad.

Holy origin story, Batman!

The Caped Crusader’s No. 2 is stepping out from the shadows of his Gotham-saving friend and into the limelight, with the CW announcing plans for The Graysons, a pilot centering on comicdom’s top sidekick, Robin, in his pre-Bat-partnering days.
The Boy Wonder-centric show will follow Dick “DJ” Grayson before he donned the cape, according to Variety, much like Smallville centers on a pre-Superman Clark Kent.
The hourlong series, which will be set in present day, will follow Grayson as he navigates through family dramas, first loves and rivals.
There’s no word yet on whether the show will follow the mythology of the character set forth in the DC Comics franchise, in which Grayson was part of a family acrobat act dubbed the Flying Graysons and later orphaned when his parents’ trapeze equipment was sabotaged by some ne’er-do-wells.

Homer Simpson is gunning for you, Matt Dillon.
The writing staff keeps track of the longevity milestones, executive producer Al Jean says, but creator Matt Groening only cops to one record for the iconic Springfield family, its friends and neighbors. “I think we’ve used more yellow paint than any other TV show,” he says.
Both believe the show is still performing strongly despite recording 445 episodes, including a season premiere that has Homer and neighbor Ned Flanders teaming as bounty hunters and Marge Simpson unwittingly going to work at an erotic bakery. “The writers and animators continue to amaze me,” Groening says.
He has proof of the show’s staying power, too: its 10th Emmy for outstanding animated series, bestowed this month.

Developer:     System 3
Genre:     racing / cars
platform:     Sony PlayStation® 2 (PS2)

Release date: Europe (PAL): 30 August 2008
USA (NTSC): 26 August 2008
see this game on other platforms:      PS3    NDS    Wii
play modes: single / multiplayer
multiplayer: split screen | number of players: 1-2
age requirements: everyone  |  media: 1 DVD
game using:
Memory card 8 MB.

Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli for PlayStation 2 is a groundbreaking racing game pushing driving simulations into the next generation, based on the legendary Italian marques’ official racing series. Veteran UK games publisher System 3, holder of the exclusive Ferrari Challenge license, brings all the authentic cars and tracks to home consoles for the very first time, with unprecedented levels of realism and true Ferrari racing dynamics.

developer: Sports Interactive
publisher: SEGA
genre: sports / soccer manager
platform: PC / Windows

play modes: massive online multiplayer
multiplayer: Internet
age requirements: everyone
suggested system requirements:
not specified

Football Manager Live is a new concept in football management. Put your managerial skills to the test in a ‘real-time’ environment where you compete live and online against your friends or rivals. Features Include:
Create and manage your very own football club. Choose your colours and badge, design your kit and name your stadium.
Build your own dream team from the huge Sports Interactive database of real-world players within the Football Manager database.
Compete in Football Manager Live gameworlds 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in your quest to top the rankings table.
Create and run your own league and cup competitions. Take on the world or simply compete for bragging rights with your friends.
A comprehensive transfer system allowing you to buy, sell and loan players, as well as bidding for new players with the exciting auction system.
If you invest in an expensive squad, you’ll need on-field success to win tournaments and climb the rankings to balance your finances.
Go head to head and utilise all your football management knowledge as you pit your wits against other human players in a unique match-day experience.

developer:     The Behemoth
genre:     action / fighting
platform:     Microsoft® Xbox 360

release date: Europe (PAL): 27 August 2008
play modes: single / multiplayer
multiplayer: Internet / common screen | number of players: 1-4
age requirements: 12+
game using:
Xbox Live.

Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this red-hot arcade adventure from the award-winning development studio, The Behemoth! Featuring hand-drawn characters, Castle Crashers® delivers unique hi-res illustrated visuals like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Play with up to three friends locally or over Xbox LIVE® and discover the mind-boggling magic and mystery in the amazing world we have created just for you. Save your princess, defend your kingdom, and crash some castles! Play with more than 20 unlockable characters, 40 weapons to customize your hero, and an arsenal of combos and magical attacks to choose from.

* Intuitive combo and magic system: Unlock new combos and magical attacks as your character progresses through the game. You have an almost limitless amount of combos to perform alone, or with a group of friends.
* Arena mode: This mode allows players to battle each other head-on with four unique modes to choose from!
* Experience system: As you fight your way through the various levels of Castle Crashers, your character gains more experience points that will in return give you the option to adjust your four main stats — Strength, Magic, Defense, and Agility.
* Weapons weapons weapons! Each player has the ability to unlock more than 40 weapons.
* Animal orbs: These little companions add enhancements to your attributes. Each pet has different abilities to benefit you, with various ways of unlocking each one. Defeat a boss and steal his companion, dig them up, or buy them at a store.
* Treasure hunt: Unlockable items, weapons, pet companions, and characters are buried throughout the various levels of Castle Crashers.
* Stores: Spread across the various worlds of Castle Crashers, every store has specific items to sell. Collect gold from killing enemies, finding treasures, or opening chests, then take your collected gold to these stores for some weapons, items, character unlocks, and more!

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is a two-dimensional fighting arcade game in development by Arc System Works, the staff behind the Guilty Gear series. It is set to come out out in winter 2008 in Japan. It is a spiritual successor to Guilty Gear. A playable demo was presented at AOU 2008. The game is being developed for the Taito Type X2 arcade system board, with a 16:9 ratio and 720p resolution.[1] While a console version has yet to be announced, BlazBlue is rumoured to be a PlayStation 3 exclusive.[2]

 An encounter with some (former) fans may have left Kid Rock feeling a little punchy, but it also left his onetime worshippers more than a little litigious.
The trio of autograph seekers who first filed a $15 million suit against the Detroit rap-rocker in March over a 2006 skirmish at Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel have amended their complaint, adding additional claims of assault and battery and clarifying allegations of negligence against Rock and his cohorts.
In the new version of the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, Michael Medlin, Carlos Bonilla and Jose Perez say they were punched and left licking their wounds in front of the hotel-based Teddy’s nightclub following a run-in with Rock, his entourage and and members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe.
“Kid Rock himself owed a duty to [the men] to ensure that his own actions, and the actions of those he had control over, such as friends, security, entourage and others associated with him, would do nothing to cause injury to foreseeable persons such as plaintiffs,” states the revised suit.
The complaint claims Rock’s security detail, which had “undertaken a duty to ensure that others would not be unreasonably harmed by their activities,” but ultimately “failed in their duties.”

WHAT YOU NEED:
socks
hat or bowl

HOW TO PLAY:
Have each player remove a sock, ball it up, and label it with tape if it looks the same as another. Set a hat or bowl as a target on one side of a room and mark a tossing line on the other (the farther away from the target, the better).

Players then take turns standing at the line on one foot trying to toss their sock into the target. Whoever succeeds (or, if no one does, gets closest) gets 1 point. The first person to score 5 wins.