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Square Enix: A Tale Of Two Gaming Cultures
When Mike Fischer took the reins of the U.S. subsidiary of Square Enix in 2010, the Japanese developer of Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest had just merged with Britain’s Eidos, creator of Tomb Raider, Hitman, and Deus Ex...
MOST CREATIVE SUBMISSION
I hate my job because … it’s so depressing. I’m not alone. A lot of us hate it. But what can we do? We are who we are. We’ve been put on Earth to serve a purpose. Sadly that service is not of our choosing. Oh, it is not doing the job that I hate. It’s just that, ...
Salazar bans new uranium mining claims near Grand Canyon
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has...
Apple says first-day sales of iPad topped 300,000
LOS ANGELES — For Apple Inc. and its iPad, the easy part is over...
U.S. government moving to deport longtime legal residents with criminal convictions
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Roger Simmie is no angel...
Finishing the job
They call it “the worm.” It’s the enclosed conveyor belt suspended above Highway 66 outside of Lyons that used to bring raw materials from...
Romney Wins Ugly—Again
Who says Mitt Romney isn't exciting? He's making the Republican presidential campaign really exciting...
Boulder’s municipalization minefield
The City of Boulder has reached another milestone in its effort to explore creation of a municipal electric utility company. Staff has prepared a 285-page memo for city council members explaining that it is, indeed, possible for the city to successfully create a ...
Talking it out
The past few years have marked a broadening in the conversation about race and policing in the United States. The disproportionate number of young...
Supervisors reject changing name of Mount Diablo
MARTINEZ, Calif. — California's Mount Diablo will continue to carry its historic name and it will become neither Mount Ronald Reagan nor Mount John Muir if Contra Costa County supervisors have anything to say about it...
Climate change panel: Warming slowdown doesn’t mean much
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) kicks off, the Stockholm, Sweden meeting has included some discussion over the much-reported "slowdown" or "pause" in global warming...
