Posts Tagged Recreation and leisure

The new consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony

An audience member photographs the stage at the unveiling of Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox One entertainment and gaming console system, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. The unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall’s debut of Nintendo’s Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from Sony.

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First Look: New Xbox elegant, but much unknown

A group of visiting journalists try out the improved motion-detecting capabilities of the new Kinect controller for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox One entertainment and gaming console system, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Redmond, Wash. The new Kinect, which will come standard with the Xbox One can also see users in total darkness and has a wider field of view than the previous Kinect device in use with the Xbox 360. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Will gamers want One?

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Schilling lawyer argues for tossing lawsuit

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A lawyer for Curt Schilling and executives of his bankrupt video game company say they disclosed everything to Rhode Island’s economic development agency before being granted a $75 million loan guarantee and a lawsuit against them should be dismissed.

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Man completes 216-mile kayak trip for fundraiser

In a May 13, 2013 photo, Western Michigan University student Cody Ledsworth, 20, prepares for his 216-mile trip down the Muskegon River, in Muskegon, Mich. Ledsworth completed a six-day kayak trip down the Muskegon River to raise money for Parkinson's disease research, education and advocacy. He paddled to the finish line at a boat launch on Muskegon Lake on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The trip was in honor of his grandmother, Marguerite Ledsworth, who has the disease (AP Photo/Muskegon Chronicle, Jon Garcia)

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A Western Michigan University student has completed a six-day, 216-mile kayak trip down the Muskegon River to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research, education and advocacy.

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Southern NJ property to remain golf course

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The development firm that bought a 155-acre property in the thick of southern New Jersey’s Philadelphia suburbs says it will keep it a golf course.

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