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Japanese video gaming adapting new tech for familiar titles

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese video game industry is finding its way out of the doldrums by adapting new technology for decades-old titles. And that energy was evident at the annual Tokyo Game Show, which opened to media Thursday before opening to the public over the weekend.

"Our old fans used to play Japanese games, and those people are excited those games are coming back and they recognize them as Japanese-style games," game creator Koji Igarashi told The Associated Press at the show in Makuhari Messe hall in Chiba, a Tokyo suburb.

"Truly game-like games" is... Read More

Fergie says she and Josh Duhamel still 'great friends'

NEW YORK (AP) — Fergie says even though she and husband Josh Duhamel are splitting up they're still "great friends" who love one another and their young son.

The singer talked about her marriage Wednesday at a screening for her new visual album, "Double Dutchess," at iPic Theaters Fulton Market. She says "the important thing is we're a family" with 4-year-old Axl and "there's so much love" that they share.

She says her new songs are about "a lot of different relationships," adding "feelings are feelings" and "they have to come out somewhere."

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Boston kicks off a year of US tributes to Leonard Bernstein

BOSTON (AP) — Leonard Bernstein (BURN'-stine) would have turned 100 next year — a remembrance that's being celebrated in the composer-conductor's Massachusetts birthplace.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra kicks off its new season Friday with a concert devoted entirely to America's most famous maestro.

Boston Symphony music director Andris Nelsons says Bernstein influenced him as a child along with generations of other musicians worldwide.

Bernstein was born in 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and became the youngest music director ever to lead the... Read More

Jake LaMotta, boxer who inspired 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95

Jake LaMotta, an iron-fisted battler who brawled his way to a middleweight title and was later memorialized by Robert De Niro in the film "Raging Bull," has died. He was 95.

The former middleweight champion died Tuesday at a Miami-area hospital from complications of pneumonia, according to his longtime fiancee, Denise Baker.

LaMotta handed Sugar Ray Robinson his first defeat and reigned for nearly two years as middleweight champion during a time boxing was one of America's biggest sports. He was a fan favorite who fought with fury, though he admitted to once... Read More

Bernie Casey, pro football player turned actor, dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Casey, a professional football player turned poet, painter and actor known for parts in films such as "Revenge of the Nerds" and "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," has died. He was 78.

Casey died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his talent agent Erin Connor said.

Born in West Virginia in 1939 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Casey excelled in track and field and football and attended Bowling Green State University on an athletic scholarship.

He went on to play wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams... Read More

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Japanese video gaming adapting new tech for familiar titles

Fergie says she and Josh Duhamel still 'great friends'

Boston kicks off a year of US tributes to Leonard Bernstein

Jake LaMotta, boxer who inspired 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95

Bernie Casey, pro football player turned actor, dies

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