IBT Staff Reporter

Electronic Arts' Visceral Games officially announced today the sequel to the action horror game, Dead Space 2, which will be available for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The sequel came as no surprise as it had already been leaked through EA statements and various job listings, including one for a Senior Online Level Designer.

Independent News & Media Plc sold its Verivox Holdings Ltd unit for 16 million euros ($23.8 million) on Monday, taking its total from divestments this year to its target of 150 million euros.

Luminaries from the worlds of music and film were feted by President Barack Obama and a black-tie audience of artists and political heavyweights on Sunday at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.

U.S. major Chevron Corp's gas sale agreement with Japan's Tokyo Electric Power is worth A$90 billion ($82.5 billion), and is the biggest Australian LNG supply agreement ever signed, the West Australian government said on Monday.

TNT might know drama, but does it remember how to launch a hit show?

Fans of the television series Boston Legal would be well advised to head to David Mamet's new play Race, in which James Spader is once again doing a crackerjack job of portraying a ruthless lawyer.

An explosion at a motor oil refinery unit of Russian oil major Rosneft has not affected overall production, a spokesman said on Sunday.

Wine-tasting and brewery-touring trips are popular in countries around the world. But connoisseurs of other beverages needs not be left thirsty. From Mexico to Japan, in nearly every corner of the

Monk ended its eight-season run with a bang, becoming the most-watched hourlong series on basic cable.

Tokyo Electric Power Co will invest more than 300 billion yen ($3.3 billion) in acquiring a stake in liquefied natural gas development in Australia, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

Capote filmmaker Bennett Miller is in negotiations to direct Moneyball, a baseball drama starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's who rewrote the unwritten rulebook of baseball.

Paris is a great city in many ways. In other ways it can be terrible. One of the ways in which Paris is absolutely horrific is its traffic. Observing this seemingly organized chaos from the sidewalk café can

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday it has signed a Heads of Agreement with U.S. major Chevron to procure 4.1 million tonnes per year of liquefied natural gas from Australia's Wheatstone project. Under the agreement, TEPCO, Japan's top utility, will acquire 15 percent of Chevron's equity stake in Wheatstone field license and an 11.25 percent stake in Wheatstone gas processing facility.

New Line has picked up a pitch from Darren Lemke, the writer behind the studio's Bryan Singer-directed project Jack the Giant Killer, that reimagines the classic tale of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as an action-adventure movie.

Republican firebrand Sarah Palin invaded the city she loves to hate on Saturday and rubbed shoulders with the herd of journalists she usually holds in disdain.

New Orleans' multi-tasking funk outfit Galactic is set to return February 9 with its sixth studio album, entitled Ya-Ka-May.

Seven children were killed and 42 wounded in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad Monday when a bomb exploded outside a school, police said.

Officials of CME Group Inc expressed optimism on Friday about the success of a new physically deliverable U.S. sour crude oil futures that launches next week, but said it would take years to become a benchmark, if it ever does.

Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel on Monday as a rising dollar sent investors fleeing from risk and global markets began to speculate on a specific future date when the United States would raise its interest rates.

Stocks rose on Monday as a broker upgrade for three credit card companies offset jitters that interest rates might rise sooner than expected and as investors awaited comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Flags flew at half mast and entertainment programs were canceled across Russia on Monday as the country mourned 112 victims of a weekend nightclub inferno and dozens more fought for their lives in hospitals.

About nine women have emerged on Tiger Wood's affair record in the last week, including waitresses, a club hostess, a marketing manager, a British TV presenter and a porn star.

The number of rigs drilling for natural gas in the United States was unchanged this week at 748 following a big gain last week, according to a report on Friday by oil services firm Baker Hughes in Houston.

Iranian police clashed in Tehran Monday with opposition demonstrators seeking to renew their challenge to the government six months after a disputed presidential election, witnesses said.

Brazilian oil upstart OGX said on Friday it had found a 50 meter column of hydrocarbons with net pay of 15 meters from a well it is drilling in the BM-C-41 block in the Campos basin.

MetLife Inc , the largest publicly traded U.S. life insurer, issued profit forecasts for the fourth quarter and 2010 that could beat average Wall Street expectations.

The head of the U.N.'s panel of climate scientists on Monday strongly defended findings that humans are warming the planet, after critics said that leaked emails from a British university had undermined evidence.

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The biggest climate talks in history opened on Monday with a stark U.N. warning of the risk of desertification and rising seas and an assurance by hosts Denmark that a deal to combat climate change was within reach.