2K announces Borderlands 2 special editions

By News Staff | Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at 5:01:GMT+5 2K Games has revealed two special editions for the much anticipated Borderlands 2, namely the Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s Edition and the Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition. The game is currently being developed by Gearbox Software, while the special editions will bring several collectible and in-game items to enhance the experience. Deluxe Vault Hunter’s CE ships with an authentic Marcus Kincaid bobblehead, a game art hardbound book, a map of ...

Immune System: How memory B cells stay ‘in class’ to fight different infections

ScienceDaily (May 7, 2012) — Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have made an important discovery about the internal programming of B cells, the immune cells that make antibodies against infections. The finding opens the way for the development of vaccines that can work more efficiently and hints at therapies for conditions in which B cells cause harm — such as the autoimmune disease lupus erythymatosus, severe allergies, and B-cell lymphomas. The discovery reveals that B cells produce special proteins ...

Helen Mirren: Royal Family won me over (but I’m a working class dame at heart)

She added: “My hope for the future is to see Charles become king one day. I would like to see him come to the throne in my lifetime. “He will make a very good monarch. If you have a good and sensible person in that role, It’s a good thing. And I firmly believe that Charles is a sensible, decent person. He’s a courageous guy too – I have a lot of time for him. “I think very highly of ...

Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill HD Collection to Get Patched Soon

By News Staff | Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 4:24:GMT+5 Issues like frame-rate drops, audio-synching and faulty auto-saves are being cited as the main reasons behind Konami’s decision to develop patches for the Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill: HD Collection titles. Buyers of both games have supposedly asked the developer to fix these problems. And in response to this, new on-line updates will be doled out for both the titles in the coming weeks. While SH: Downpour is experiencing ...

Opera 12 Beta Released, Preview Upcoming Features

Opera Software is currently working on the next version of the Opera web browser.  Today Opera 12.00 Beta has been released by the Opera team which can provide interested users with a preview of the upcoming new features and changes of that new version of the browser. If you have followed yesterday’s news, you already know that Opera plans to retire both Opera Unite and Widgets, and that both features will be disabled by default in Opera 12.00 for new ...

Obama Slow Jams the Campaign

Tuesday night, there was a two-hour report by “Frontline” that explained better than anything I have ever seen on TV how the middle-class got shredded by Wall Street and sold-out by our elected leaders in Washintgon — and that includes Democrats in the White House. There were also presidential primaries that made Mitt Romney all but official as the GOP candidate. But all anyone will be speaking about this morning is President Barack Obama slow jamming the news with latenight ...

Anno 2070 Deep Ocean Expansion On its Way to PC

By News Staff | Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 5:27:GMT+5 Ubisoft’s city-building RTS released in November last year is all set to be induced with new content, as the Anno 2070 Deep Ocean expansion has been announced for release during the autumn of this year. A new civilization level, additional content and challenges as well as a supposedly deeper game experience will be on offer with the DLC. This will mark the first time in the history of the Anno ...

China Firm ‘Ready To Buy’ Britain’s Weetabix

British cereal firm Weetabix could be sold to a Chinese company 5:07pm UK, Sunday April 22, 2012 Shanghai firm Bright Food has been in speaks with Lion Capital, Weetabix’s private equity owner, for several weeks, according to the Sunday Times. Weetabix dates back to 1932 and was family owned until it was purchased by Texan private equity firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst in 2004 for £642m.

Way of the Samurai 4 Confirmed for North American PS3 Release

By News Staff | Friday, April 6th, 2012 at 3:26:GMT+5 More than a year after its official Japanese release, Way of the Samurai 4 has been announced to be headed for North America exclusively for the PS3 through publisher, XSEED Games. This uncut and uncensored version of the original game is stated to be filled with torture chambers, naughty midnight missions in the dark as well as a historically accurate sandbox-style samurai period setting. Through a post on the official ...

After Primary, a Different Kind of Fight in the Fall

WASHINGTON — If anything is stable in this presidential race, it is the idea that 2012 is a volatile campaign year. A one-stop destination for the latest political news “” from The Times and other top sources. Plus opinion, polls, campaign data and video. In part that reflects the last two elections, when Democrats and Republicans in turn won huge victories, and the expectation that November represents a tiebreaker.