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The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, February 03, 2009

Welcome Wishes

Web Sites Make It Easier to Flag Trouble

By Sue Shellenbarger The Wall Street Journal

Game Preview: The Year of the Ox

Game Informer Magazine Working on a smaller platform isn't stopping Rockstar from thinking big. "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" commandeers the Nintendo DS to deliver the same bombastic mix of humor, violence and vehicular mayhem found on consoles.

The Boom in Kids' Online Games; Lots More 'Spore' Kid Games Online

When it comes to massively multiplayer online games for adults, there's "World of Warcraft" and then ... everybody else. But MMOs for kids are much more competitive, with all the usual suspects (such as Disney and Nickelodeon) looking to draw the younguns into their virtual spaces. The latest kidvid giant to try its hand at an MMO is Cartoon Network, with its just-released "FusionFall." It's an engaging adventure that lets players team up with Cartoon Network stars like the Powerpuff Girls, S...

Tips for Reinstalling Windows Installing a New Hard Drive Can Create New Hassles

Q. My original hard drive was going south, so I bought a new drive from Dell and got the disks and reinstalled Windows XP. I expected I would go online for additional drivers and so forth, but I can't seem to get the machine to connect. - Jack Honacher

Ha! Ha! Cyberbullies Cyberbullies for Kids, Far-From-Friendly Peers Pose Greatest Net Threats

By Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times

The Arcade

'Big Bang Mini' $20 for Nintendo DS from SouthPeak Interactive; rated Everyone

Social Networking Gets (More) Needy

As if Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn aren't enough for the social networker in all of us ... A Seattle-based company injects a twist with FriendlyFavor.com, a site its founders say will complement your other social networking sites, not replace it, The Seattle Times reported last week.

Box Office

LOS ANGELES Liam Neeson's CIA thriller "Taken" bumped off "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" at the weekend box office, raking in $24.6 million and helping fuel the first $1 billion January in Hollywood history.

Super Bowl Sideshow

By David Bauder The Associated Press

'Slumdog' Filmmaker Wins Directors Guild Award

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES

Tech Toys

LG HFB-500 Bluetooth Solar Car Kit $54.49; www.zipzoomfly.com

Fiery Story Line Sparks Makeover of Soap's Set

By Derrik J. Lang The Associated Press

The Flip Side of Steve Martin

It wasn't easy to silence the set of "Saturday Night Live," which at Friday evening's rehearsal was a cacophony of banging hammers, buzzing saws and chattering crew members, but Steve Martin did it with a banjo. On the main stage of NBC's Studio 8H in Manhattan, wielding a Gibson Florentine from the 1920s and accompanied by a quintet of bluegrass musicians, Martin was plucking, strumming and, yes, singing his way through an original song called "Late for School," about a young delinquent raci...