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'Soft Spot' Found in San Andreas Fault Line

A team of investigators working on the US West Coast managed to drill a very deep borehole through the San Andreas fault line, one of the most famous and dangerous in the world. The group was able to determine that a soft spot exists in the fault line, and that it is mostly made of clay.Researchers were trying to det...

31 March 2011
04:30 GMT

Shagg from Cypress Hill Claims He Is Model for Carl CJ Johnson

One of the back-up singers for hip hop group Cypress Hill has sued both developer Rockstar and its publisher Take Two for the modest sum of 250 million dollars, saying that the two companies have used his background without his permission in order to create the Carl “aka CJ” Johnson character that made Gr...

10 December 2010
04:15 GMT

NOAA Will Create a Model of the San Andreas Fault

Investigators with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will for the first time ever lead a study that will seek to map the unexplored offshore Northern San Andreas Fault line.The investigation will cover an area spanning from San Francisco all the way to the area off the coast of Mendocino, ...

1 October 2010
09:04 GMT

San Andreas Fault More Active Than Thought

New studies of the infamous San Andreas fault line have revealed that the structure is a lot more active than thought, producing large earthquakes as often as every 45 to 144 years.The team behind the research bases its conclusions on a chart depicting the intensity and number of tremors that took place in the Fault ...

21 August 2010
04:48 GMT

How Tidal Forces Trigger Tremors

A large number of the earthquakes that take place on the San Andreas fault line – one of the most active on the globe – are caused by tidal forces, experts say. These forces are generated by motions in the planet's crust, they explain, which make the tectonic plates on top tremble. The extreme tensio...

28 December 2009
15:11 GMT

Wii Play Is the Most Sold Videogame of the Decade

It seems that Nintendo has managed not only to make the Wii home gaming console the best sold of the generation and the Nintendo DS one of the most ubiquitous platforms for videogames in the world but to also to pride on the best sold title of the decade beginning with the year 2000. The game is Wii Play, one of the ...

15 October 2009
03:14 GMT

One Hour With: Saints Row 2

The open world sandbox genre of games is currently dominated by Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise. It took realism and story telling to new heights with its recent iteration, Grand Theft Auto IV, but, as some fans and critics said, it lost its amusing features and it took itself too seriously.  That�...

9 January 2009
15:01 GMT

GTA: San Andreas Comes to Xbox Originals

Microsoft has announced that it plans to release Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as part of its Xbox Originals service on the Xbox 360. The game is set to arrive on October 20 and people who are willing to play the 1 200 Microsoft Points price tag will be able to download the title on their consoles. Because the game i...

17 October 2008
04:31 GMT

San Andreas Fault Longer than Previously Estimated

Newly discovered geological features, known as 'mud pots', found south of the San Andreas fault and stretching across most of the state of California, US, now confirm a long standing prediction that the famous fault line is indeed much longer than previous evidence seemed to suggest. The finding is detailed...

30 July 2008
05:42 GMT

Scientists Take a Step Forward in Earthquake Prediction

It will still take a long time before man will be able to predict an earthquake and its force, and science seems to be taking baby steps in this field, albeit when it comes to earthquake predictions any step is a big step. US researchers have recently brought new insight into the dynamics of earthquakes after detecti...

10 July 2008
06:21 GMT

Nobody Wants to Get Money out of Hot Coffee Lawsuit

When the "Hot Coffee" class action lawsuit was settled somewhere in January 2008, the judges declared that any consumer that had bought Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and had issues with the possible unlocking of non-advertised content was entitled to a 35 dollar rebate from Take Two Interactive.The lawyers that broug...

26 June 2008
03:13 GMT

Did Hot Coffee Disgust You? Get Your Money Back!

Strange things happen, that is a proven fact. And if you would like to disagree with the previous statement, we have another proof for you, coming straight from Rockstar, a company that is no stranger to lawsuits and big huge game scandals. They are known to defend their games (duh!) like any other developer would. S...

30 January 2008
05:35 GMT

Take-Two Announces Preliminary Settlement Over Hot Coffee

Take-Two has announced this weekend the settlement of all consumer class action lawsuits pending in the United States against Rockstar Games and the mother company itself, related to the much debated Hot Coffee scene in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Given that the proposed settlement receives preliminary and final a...

12 November 2007
03:04 GMT

Pikachu and Schoolgirls in GTA IV? Nope, Just Another Japanese Mod

Now I've seen everything! This isn't the first Grand Theft Auto mod that features unusual characters, but it may be one of the best done ever. Somebody really worked hard in order to implement tons of anime-related content in GTA, from Japanese schoolgirls to the famous Pikachu and even some robots. See fo...

26 September 2007
04:51 GMT


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