Dungeons and Dragons goes online
Traditionalists greet the classic role playing game's move to cyberspace with cautious optimism.
Watch the BBC footage by clicking here.
Lee Gets National Medal Of Arts
Comic-book legend Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man and The X-Men, among others, was one of the recipients of the 2008 National Medal of Arts, the nation's highest honor for artistic excellence, the White House announced on Nov. 17.
Lee joined other recipients in receiving his medal from President Bush and Laura Bush in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.The National Medal of Arts is a White House initiative managed by the National Endowment for the Arts.
LittleBigPlanet game tour
Media Molecule's Alex Evans and Kengo Kurimoto give a tour of the new video game ahead of its release over the next few weeks.
LittleBigPlanet has been described as a game about making games.
It lets gamers build their own playground levels and then swap them with other players over the PlayStation Network.
LittleBigPlanet's is scheduled for release on 5 November in the UK.
Sony delayed the launch while a problem with one of the music tracks in the the game. The background music contains phrases from the Koran.
The music in question comes from Grammy award-winning artist Toumani Diabate from Mali and has been available through online music stores for months.
In an e-mail the gamer who spotted the Koranic phrases while testing the game warned that mixing music and words from Islam's most holy text could be considered deeply offensive by Muslims.
Space is the place,well Norbury actually!
If you are looking for a bit of Rock n Roll Shakespeare in space you could worse than heading on down to the opening tonight of 'Return To Forbidden Planet'
The play at Norbury theatre is loosely based on the Bard's finest work (discuss) The Tempest .Dialogue is interspersed with Rock and Roll classics such as Great Balls of Fire and Shake Rattle and Roll.If that wasn't enough there is the promise of an ex newsreader doing the narration. My money is on Angela Rippon! Find out more here
Phew! The Flying car is here
Prototypes of flying cars occasionally depart from the pages of Sci Fi and land in the real world .One such voyage has just occured for Gilo Cardoso.He has produce a street legal car for a reasonable price .He will be test driving/flying the Skycar from London to the Sahara.
