• Ubisoft, Game Crazy, and GGL have teamed up to bring you an Official Haze 4v4 Tournament.
• GGL and Sony Launch Official Warhawk Team Tournament.

A new version 1.2 of the First Strike modification for Battlefield 1942 is now available

On this day in history ..

• 1536 - Anne Boleyn Executed
• 1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
• 1780 - About midday - near-total darkness descends on much of New England
• 1856 - Sen Charles Sumner - Mass - spoke out against proslavery people
• 1862 - Homestead Act becomes law
• 1898 - Simplon Tunnel opens from Brig - Switzerland to Iselle - Italy
• 1971 - USSR Mars 2 launched 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1795 - John Hopkins, Philanthropist
• 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer
• 1925 - Malcolm X, Muslim
• 1935 - David Hartman, TV personality
• 1941 - Nora Ephron, NY writer
• 1947 - Glenn Close, actress
• 1952 - Grace Jones, in Jamaica singer

Astronomy Picture of the Day

On this day in history ..

• 1527 - Sack of Rome - End Renaissance
• 1626 - Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan Island for $24
• 1794 - Haiti - under Toussaint L’Ouverture - revolts against France
• 1840 - 1st postage stamps issued - by Britain
• 1851 - SF Chamber of Commerce starts
• 1851 - Dr John Farrie Patents a “refrigeration machine”
• 1860 - SF Olympic Club - 1st US athletic club founded
• 1861 - Arkansas becomes 9th state to secede from US
• 1882 - Lord Cavendish assassinated at Dublin - Ireland
• 1890 - Mormon Church renounces polygamy
• 1906 - Temporary permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street
• 1915 - Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR - loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
• 1937 - Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst - NJ (36 die)
• 1953 - Bobo Holloman’s 1st major league start - a no-hitter
• 1954 - Roger Bannister breaks 4 min mile (3:59:4)
• 1962 - 1st nuclear warhead is fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
• 1985 - 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 returns to Earth

• 1006 - Supernova observed in Lupus the Wolf constellation
• 1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
• 1701 - England - Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
• 1840 - 1st adhesive postage stamps (”Penny Blacks” from England) issued
• 1841 - 1st wagon train leaves Independance - Mo for Cal
• 1850 - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
• 1860 - 1st school for deaf founded
• 1869 - Folies-Bergre opens in Paris
• 1873 - 1st US postal card issued
• 1884 - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper
• 1890 - May Day
• 1892 - Angel Is US Quarantine Station opens
• 1920 - Babe Ruth’s 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career - out of Polo Grounds
• 1926 - Dogers & Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
• 1926 - Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
• 1928 - Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
• 1931 - Empire State Building opens in NYC
• 1932 - Charles Lindbergh’s baby kidnapped
• 1947 - Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
• 1948 - Dem People’s Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
• 1949 - Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid - (2nd satellite of Neptune)
• 1951 - Mickey Mantle’s 1st HR
• 1955 - Bobby Feller’s 15th 1-hit or less game
• 1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers’ US spy plane
• 1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
• 1964 - 1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
• 1975 - Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4 - Semi Finals- Flyers hold 2-0 lead
• 1977 - Empress Lilly dedicated
• 1979 - Marshall Islands becomes self-governing
• 1980 - Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
• 1982 - Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT) - Semi-Finals- Isles hold 3-0 lead

On this day in history ..

• 1754 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
• 1919 - 1st successful parachute jump is made.
• 1974 - Last Americans evacuated from Saigon.

On this day in history ..

• 1607 - 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry - Va.
• 1906 - 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
• 1954 - nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
• 1971 - San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy.

Once you see all the things your PlayStation 3 can do, you’ll feel way better about how much you paid for it.

FilePlanet Presents The Age Of Conan Open Beta

G4’s Adam Sessler Interviews “Grand Theft Childhood” Authors

The Sims has reached a big milestone. EA announced today that the life simulation franchise has hit 100 million in sales worldwide.

A new version 1.25b of the Zombie Panic undead modification for Half-Life 2 is now available.

RIP: Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dead at 90.

X-Files movie finally titled.

Tetris - The Movie.

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• 1524 - New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
• 1853 - US Marine Hospital at the Presidio established.
• 1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed - ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
• 1941 - Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing)
• 1961 - Bay of Pigs - invasion.

The following comes from a new ModDB Preview of the Jailbreak mod.

My entire team was ambushed just outside our HQ, dragged off to this damp heavily fortified jail. There has been rumors circulating of an execution for the current prisoners - we don’t have much time. Given the circumstances, our only option is to escape and the only possible exit is a small air vent just big enough for one. I take it upon myself to free my teammates from the Combine. I was not ready for the challenge ahead of me, looks like they thought that we would try escape. The entire exit is obstructed by a laser grid; I will have to tread carefully. One false step and I’ll lose my life and those of my teammates. The countdown begins for the execution - can I make it out in time?

Cyborg Arm Games offers a demo for Cry of the Infected, a first-person shooter where the player is a zombie. Following their credo of creating unique and cheap PC games, Cry of the Infected retails for $4.00, and there is a playable demo as well.

The Fistful of Frags Website has a new beta 1.35 of this western-themed Half-Life 2 modification.  Improvements in the objective localization system. That’s a critical part in our game and finally here is a much more complete and solid implementation. There are also a few major bugs/exploits fixed, and the usual weapon balances meant to increase the weapon diversity and make the game faster. Player forward speed also was increased a bit and weapon view models are bigger, more natural, the iron sights are easier to use.”

* 1862 - Battle of Shiloh.
* 1868 - Brigham Young marries number 27 - his final wife.
* 1906 - first animated cartoon is copyrighted.
* 1926 - 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
* 1957 - New York City ends trolley car service.