My hope is that other games that come out later this year, like The Last of Us, buck the trend a bit.
The Last of Us and Beyond Two Souls certainly lead the console pack for 2013, but God of War looks like it should hold its own.
The Last of Us, the highly anticipated title for the PS3, will show the world that a plague of endoparasitoid Cordyceps is every bit as deadly as a zombie one.
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It was a short video, but I recognized BioShock Infinite, The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls, and God of War: Ascension, games that have been developed for the PS3 with release dates coming in hot.
FORBES: Sony PS3 Video Suggests Backward Compatibility of the PS4
The extent of insecurity was underlined last week by the kidnap last week of the Venezuelan US major league baseball player Wilson Ramos.
"We're erring on the side of six weeks, and if that is the case then he will be capable of playing the last part of the season for us and putting himself in the frame for the World Cup, " said Coyle.
Woods said it was a family tradition to play golf against his dad on Father's Day, and then get home in time to watch the last round of the US Open.
Next month, America's long campaign in Iraq will come to an end with the departure of the last US forces from the country.
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Notably, while Israel allegedly used forged British passports to target a terrorist, last week it emerged that Russia used British passports to spy on the US. Reports of the Russian spy ring that was arrested last week in the US indicate that members of the ring used forged British passports.
In the other direction the high level of bullishness and complacency the last couple of months has had us warning you of the high risk of a market correction, and watching our indicators for a potential sell signal (which was recently triggered within a few days of the top).
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Under Obama, the last three years of US abandonment of the truth about Israel for Palestinian lies has made the region less stable, Israel more vulnerable, the US less respected and US interests more threatened.
Oh casts our current state of affairs as lying somewhere between Analyst 1.0, the state of maturity that the last generation of tools got us to, and Analyst 2.0, the eventual state in which big data will be much easier for a wide group of people to use.
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And while it may seem small, it gets rid of the last real reason most of us absolutely had to have an optical drive.
More broadly, the events of the last two weeks also speak to the need for all of us to honestly address the tensions between the West and the Arab world that is moving towards democracy.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President to the UN General Assembly
Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.
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Meanwhile, Iraq is currently awaiting the results of provincial polls held on 20 April - the first elections since the last US troops withdrew at the end of December 2011.
We both recognize that what is most important is putting the failures of the last three years behind us and setting America back on the path to prosperity.
Obviously the President is frustrated and angry that Wall Street continues to have the sense that excessive compensation should reward some of the excessive risk-taking that we've seen over the course of the last couple of years of Wall Street, things that brought us to the brink.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
He's also the author of "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, " and he joins us now.
One of the reasons why US companies have done so well in the last 12 months is because of growth in their non-US markets.
The last full-field tournament of the US season, the Chrysler Championship has attracted a number of big names eager to either nail down their places in the season-ending Tour Championship next week in Atlanta or find some form ahead of that event.
When the first BlackBerry handsets were unleashed on unsuspecting employees over the last decade they revolutionized the way many of us work.
As the industrial base of the US has declined over the last four decades, these middle strata of workers has been slowly declining.
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The violence came days after the US withdrew the last of its combat troops from Iraq on Monday, ending nearly nine years of military engagement.
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The United States, in particular, is demanding that the Taleban hand over the Saudi-born militant, Osama bin Laden, who Washington accuses of involvement in the bombing of two US embassies in Africa last year and of masterminding a loose network of Islamic radicals hostile to the West.
The lack of questioning is part of what got us into the mess of the last three (or more) years.
What I won't do is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place, because those theories have been tested and they have failed.
Over the last few months, some of us at Forrester have been wrestling with the concept that CIOs play a key role in employee engagement.
The US and Niger signed a status of forces agreement last month, and the US is weighing a base for surveillance drones there, US media have reported.
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