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The sun shined at last on Golden Gate Park and Outside Lands [ ], and on a mellow crowd that tossed frisbees, caught some rays, and in generally just soused up the festival's concluding (and by far mellowest) day with a

Video-game news: Europe's big show

Real news program from the virtual world:

-CONTINENTAL CONGRESS: The Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, is the biggest annual computer game event in Europe, and it keeps getting bigger. This yr, more than 203,000 people (which includes normal civilians, not just gambling professionals) got a look at the latest offering from 547 exhibitors gap out over more than 1 million square feet. That's a lot to take in over the entire four-day show, a great deal less in one day.

Sony was the star of this show, thanks to an compartmentalisation of hardware introductions. There's a new PlayStation 3 with a 160-gigabyte hard drive - twice the storage of the flow console - that will sell for $500.

There's as well a revamped PlayStation Portable, priced at $200, with a new LCD blind and a built-in microphone. And there's a cute new wireless keypad, which attaches to the PS3 controller and is meant to make it easier to old World chat with your friends in Sony's "Home" virtual world.

Perhaps the hottest gadget of the establish, though, was Sony's PlayTV, which essentially turns the PS3 into a digital video fipple pipe. It only works with Europe's digital terrestrial TV standard, though, and on that point hasn't fifty-fifty been a suggestion that Sony power bring a similar device to the United States.

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-BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: There wasn't a whole portion of fresh software at Leipzig - although, of course, it was the first time that most Europeans got a glimpse of the games we saw at E3 in July. But there were a few intriguing new titles that we'll plausibly see in the U.S. as well.

Sony led the way, over again, with "Heavy Rain," a moody PS3 thriller from "Indigo Prophecy" developer Quantic Dream. The company too scored with "EyePet," a virtual critter that reacts to your movements through the PlayStation Eye camera attachment. One game, still, that's not likely to cross the Atlantic is "SingStar: Queen" - as in the rock band Queen. The "SingStar" karaoke series has never quite caught on stateside, simply who wouldn't want to sing wish Freddie Mercury?

Konami offered an intriguing new action secret plan, "Lords of Shadow," which it described as "a dark queer tale" and "an epical battle between good and evil" adjust in the Middle Ages. Sega has revamped its zombie-hunting dealership with "House of the Dead Overkill," which has the nip of a missing episode from Quentin Tarantino's "Grindhouse." And Ubisoft has something for fans of "Super Monkey Ball" and "Ape Escape": the virtual pet we've all been waiting for in "Monkey Madness."

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-TOWER DEFENSE: All the fun stuff at Leipzig was overshadowed by a disputation over a piece of art that was on display at the show. As part of an exhibit celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of "Space Invaders," the French-American artist Douglas Edric Stanley created a version of the game in which you're stressful to keep the intimate aliens from destroying the World Trade Center.

"Like the original, this trial is ultimately unsuccessful, thus creating an articulate and critical commentary about the electric current war strategy," Stanley explained on his Web website. Naturally, some New Yorkers whose relatives died in the Sept. 11 attacks had a different interpretation, telling the New York Daily News they institute the art "distasteful" and "disgusting."

Taito, which holds the "Space Invaders" copyright, assign out a press acquittance describing Stanley's use of the game as "totally unauthorized" and said it was considering legal action against him. Finally, Stanley unplugged the installation, locution, "The American response to this ferment has been, frankly, immature, and deficient the sophistication and retainer that other parts of the populace have so far shown the work."

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-NEW IN STORES: The summer role-playing game drought ends with trine epics: Square Enix's "Infinite Undiscovery" (for the Xbox 360), Namco Bandai's "Tales of Vesperia" (360) and NIS America's "Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice" (PlayStation 3). ... With the waft races warming up, Nintendo's "Mario Super Sluggers" (Wii) steps up to the plate. ... The only home you'll see a certain golf maven this year is in EA Sports' "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09" (nearly systems). ... Forget about high school gas prices and learn a gyrate in Activision's "Ferrari Challenge" (PS3, PlayStation 2, Wii, DS). ... Atari brings the indie muffin "Nplus" to the DS and PlayStation Portable.

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Charlie Sheen - Sheen And Richards Both Happy With Latest Court Ruling

LATEST: Warring exes CHARLIE SHEEN and DENISE RICHARDS have both emerged "pleased" with the outcome of their latest court hearing in their long and bitter custody battle over their two young daughters.

Former Bond girl Richards was forced to scrap a photoshoot for her reality TV show Denise Richards: It's Complicated on Friday (20Jun08), because Sheen had summoned her to a Los Angeles court.

The actress revealed the news during a phone interview with Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM show - but she refused to say what the nature of the impromptu hearing was.

The couple, who divorced in 2006, has been trading insults through the media for weeks, but after meeting in court on Friday, they both claimed to be happy with the latest ruling.

Sheen's representative tells TMZ.com, "Charlie was very grateful and more than pleased with the court for how they dealt with the custody issues regarding his two children this morning."

And Richards was equally "pleased" with the judge's decision. Her attorney tells TMZ.com the ruling was "in the children's best interests", although neither party has revealed exactly what that outcome was.

Richards and Sheen are parents to three-year-old Sam and Lola, two.

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Judge Needs More Time to Review Brit's Case

It was back to court for Britney Spears' camp on Tuesday, where a judge postponed a July hearing to discuss control of the singer's assets.

Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled that the July 31 hearing --which was scheduled to decide whether to end or extend Britney's conservatorship--will instead review matters of evidence in her case, giving attorneys more time to compile information about Brit's affairs.

Goetz also granted the singer's dad and co-conservator, Jamie Spears, permission to sell his daughter's Studio City home.

Following a disastrous split from ex-hubby Kevin Federline, a bitter custody battle over their two sons and an erratic lifestyle that ultimately led to the singer being hospitalized twice for psychiatric evaluations, the court established a conservatorship in February, giving Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet control over Britney's assets and medical decisions.

In the months since, Britney,26, has been lying low, even attempting to get back to work with two successful cameos on the CBS hit How I Met Your Mother.




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Neil Young gets new honour - his own spider

LOS ANGELES - Iconic singer and songwriter Neil Young has had an honour bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians - his own spider.An East Carolina University biologist, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favorite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi."There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," Bond said in a statement."As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."Young, 62, is a veteran rock musician who rose to fame in the 1960s with the band Buffalo Springfield and later became a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose 1970 release Deja Vu has become a classic rock album.The singer/songwriter, whose solo work ranges from older albums such as Harvest to newer CDs like Living with War, has long been an activist for social and anti-war causes.




Bond discovered the new spider species in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007. He said spiders in the trapdoor genus, who tend to live in burrows and build trap doors to seal off their living quarters, are distinguished from one species to the next on the basis of differences in genitalia.He confirmed through the spider's DNA that the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is an identifiable, separate species of spider within the trapdoor genus.Young is not the first musician to have a creature named after him. A species of beetle that looks as if it is wearing a tuxedo - the whirligig beetle, or Orectochilus orbisonorum - was named earlier this year after the late rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow Barbara.- REUTERS/Nielsen