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unassimilatible writes "If there was ever a sad day for nerds, it's today, as Majel Barrett-Rodenberry has passed away. The widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is best remembered as the gorgeous Nurse Christine Chapel from the original series, the pesky and officious Lwaxana Troi from The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, and of course the ubiquitous voice of Star Trek computers in movies, TV, and animated films (who hasn't used her voice as a system sound on their PC?). Majel also attended Star Trek conventions yearly and was a producer of Andromeda. Fortunately, Majel just finished her voice over work for the computers in J.J. Abrams' latest Trek movie. I have to admit, this made me sad, just having caught up on the entire TNG and DS9 series on DVD."

The upcoming Metal Gear Solid-themed level pack for LittleBigPlanet will feature a new paintball gun gameplay mechanic, according to a report by ps3fanboy based on leaked images of the pack's additional trophies.

Capcom has announced that the downloadable port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo has broken several sales records for downloadable games, with over 250,000 downloads recorded to date. The fighter has so far broken one-day and one-week sales records, and is near to eclipsing the one-month high.

With the exception of Southwest's post-holiday, system-wide sale, special offers are slim. But the airlines do have a new set of fees to slap on frequent flyer travel, along with a handful of add-ons

It's arguably a sin to come to Berlin and not eat sausage -- at least once -- especially if you're traveling while penny-pinched. Here's where to go.

After half a century of walking their dogs under the same old streetlamps, New Yorkers are ready for a new age of enlightenment. Gotham's own Office for Visual Interaction won an international competition to design a replacement. Its inspiration: LED headlights. "We took the same idea and made it vertical," OVI's Enrique Peiniger says. The new lamppost's 4-to 6-foot head boasts up to 100 LEDs with multiple lenses that can be configured to dial in specific lighting "footprints" of uniform brightness. For New York, the coverage patterns will be tailored for three distinct situations—park, street corner, and mid-block.

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After a gruelling several weeks, the U.S. government announced Friday it will extend short-term funding to General Motors and Chrysler , allotting $13.4 billion in immediate funding to the two automak

With the U.S. government promising a total of $17.4 billion to General Motors and Chrysler, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has officially requested the second half of the $700 billion TARP funds from the U.S.

Just in time for the holidays, Capcom has unleashed a torrent of new screenshots from its impending home release of Street Fighter IV, showing off a number of hard hits and confirming the rumored addition of Street Fighter Alpha veteran Rose.

Updates to Tomb Raider: Underworld have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

• Fixed inability of users to map the mouse buttons.

Artist Paul Fryer calls his piece of art Rehabilitation. Because it has a little room inside, I would have called it Bomb Shelter. (via Shedblog)...

Updates to Far Cry 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

General changes

• Added triple-header support to the game.

Spore, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and More Available Now

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 18, 2008. Just in time for the holidays, Valve announced that, Spore™, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™, Mass Effect®, Need for Speed™ Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in North America via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.