- GilaOut this Week: Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
Games:
- Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
- Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (PS3, 360)
- Shaun White Snowboarding (PSP, PS3, Wii, PS2, 360, DS, PS3)
- Left 4 Dead (360, PC)
- Castlevania Judgement (Wii)
- Lips (360)
- Luminous Arc 2 (DS)
- Metal Slug 7 (DS)
- Sonic Unleashed (Wii, 360, PS3, PS2)
- Tomb Raider Underworld (PC, 360, PS3, Wii, DS)
- You’re in the Movies (360)
- Cooking Mama world Kitchen (Wii)
World:
- Tuesday 18: Australia short-selling ban; UN food meeting.
- Friday 21: Financial experts gather; Ethiopian withdrawal.
- Sunday 23: Islamic banking conference.
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Games
MONDAY 17
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades (DS)
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (PS3, 360)
Shaun White Snowboarding (PSP, PS3, Wii, PS2, 360, DS, PS3)
TUESDAY 18
Cradle of Rome (DS)
Gallop and Ride (Wii)
Hello Kitty Big City Dreams (DS)
Left 4 Dead (360, PC)
Merv Griffin’s Crosswords (Wii)
NCAA Basketball 09 (PS3, 360, PS2)
Need for Speed Undercover (DS, 360, PC, PS3, Wii, PSP)
Robocalypse (DS)
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2 (PS3, 360, Wii, PS2)
Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack (PC)
Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff (DS)
The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff (PC)
WEDNESDAY 19
AMF Bowling World Lanes (Wii)
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (Wii)
Alone in the Dark: Inferno (PS3)
Bolt (DS, PS2, Wii, PS3, 360)
CSI: NY (PC)
Castlevania Judgement (Wii)
Chmapionship Foosball (Wii)
Cradle of Rome (DS)
Dynasty Warrior 6 (PC, PS2)
Imagine Movie Star (DS)
Imagine: Ballet Star (DS)
Iron CHef America: Supreme Cuisine (DS)
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2 (Wii, 360, PS3)
Legendary (PC)
Lips (360)
Luminous Arc 2 (DS)
Metal Slug 7 (DS)
Monkey Mischief: Party Time (Wii)
Mortimer Beckett and the Secrets of Spooky Manor (Wii)
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009 (PS2, 360)
Naruto: The Broken Bond (360)
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (PC)
Petz Crazy Monkeyz (Wii)
Petz Monkeyz House (DS)
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii)
Rayman Ravings Rabbids TV Party (DS)
Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest (DS)
Skate City Heroes (Wii)
Ski Doo: Snowmobile Challenge (PS3, 360)
Ski and Shoot (PS2)
Sonic Unleashed (Wii, 360, PS3, PS2)
Tomb Raider Underworld (PC, 360, PS3, Wii, DS)
Winter Sports 2: The Next Challenge (DS, PS2, 360)
You’re in the Movies (360)
THURSDAY 20
Cooking Mama world Kitchen (Wii)
EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey (PC)
Skate It (Wii, DS)
FRIDAY 21
Beyond Protocol (PC)
The Last Remnant (360)
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VC
WiiWare™
Strong Bad Episode 4: Dangeresque 3 (Telltale Games, 1 player, Rated E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older – Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Crude Humor, Mild Cartoon Violence, 1,000 Wii Points)
Target Toss Pro: Bags (Incredible Technologies, 1-16 players, Rated E for Everyone, 700 Wii Points
Virtual Console™
SPACE INVADERS: The Original Game (Super NES™, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points)
FORGOTTEN WORLDS (SEGA GENESIS, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone – Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points)
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XBLA
Kingdom of Keflings (800 MS Points)
OS Update
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DVD and Hi Def
Tropic Thunder (also on Blu-Ray)
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2
300 Limited Collecotr’s Edition
David Lynch: The Lime Green Set
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Theater
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Box Office
- Quantum Of Solace $70.4/$70.4
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $36.1/$118.0
- Role Models $11.7/$38.1
- High School Musical 3: Senior Year $5.8/$84.3
- Changeling $4.2/$27.6
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno $3.2/$26.5
- Soul Men $2.4/$9.4
- The Secret Life of Bees $2.4/$33.6
- Saw V $1.7/$55.4
- The Haunting of Molly Hartley $1.6/$12.6
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua $1.5/$90.8
- Eagle Eye $1.5/$98.8
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World
MONDAY 17
Miliband in the Middle East David Miliband, UK foreign secretary, will visit Syria, Israel and Lebanon during a four-day tour to strengthen regional ties.
Euro parliament plenary More fruit and vegetables for school children and the threats facing continental Europe’s bees are among items on the agenda at the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg (to November 20).
Duke addresses bankers Elizabeth Duke, Federal Reserve board governor, speaks in New York at the Institute of International Bankers on managing financial crises in a globally competitive world.
Morales at the UN Evo Morales, Bolivian president, addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Support for Pakistan Friends of Pakistan – a group including the US, China and the European Union set up to give the country political and economic support – meets in Abu Dhabi.
African forum The Africa Partnership Forum meets (to November 18) in Addis Ababa to discuss “strategic, political and socio-economic issues relating to African development”.
Armenian aid The International Monetary Fund’s executive board meets in Washington DC to discuss Armenia’s request for a three-year loan.
Nuclear future Dennis Spurgeon, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in the US Department of Energy, speaks at a Chatham House conference (to November 18) in London examining the power source’s global future.
NZ inauguration John Key, leader of New Zealand’s centre-right National party, hopes to be sworn in as prime minister after securing 59 seats in parliament after elections.
FT report Mexico Trade and Investment 2008
TUESDAY 18
Merkel meets Berlusconi Angela Merkel, German chancellor, is due to hold talks with Silvio Berlusconi, Italian prime minister, in Trieste on the next G8 summit.
Australia short selling ban Australia’s Securities and Investments Commission is expected to lift the restriction on short selling of the nation’s stocks.
Policy innovation The OECD and World Bank’s Paris conference (to November 19), entitled Innovation and Sustainable Growth in a Globalised World, looks at innovation in policy areas such as science and technology, and education.
UN food meeting Ministers and officials from member nations of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation assess efforts to reduce by half the world’s undernourished people by the year 2015.
FT reports Risk Management 2008; Belarus 2008
WEDNESDAY 19
Retail real estate expo Investors and retail real estate developers meet (to November 21) in Cannes for Mapic, a yearly gathering. Mipim, the trade show’s Asian equivalent, takes place in Hong Kong at the same time.
Chief rabbi speaks Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, addresses the European Parliament as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
FOMC minutes The US Federal Reserve publishes minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee’s October 28 and 29 interest rate meeting.
FT report Digital Business 2008
THURSDAY 20
Female director numbers The Cranfield School of Management publishes the 2008 Female FTSE report. Other research shows just 12 per cent of FTSE board directors are women.
Chief executive summit Lima hosts an annual meeting of Asia-Pacific region business leaders.
Fannie and Freddie hearing A US House of Representatives oversight committee investigates the collapse of federal mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Witnesses include Daniel Mudd, former Fannie Mae chief.
FRIDAY 21
Kosovo president at LSE Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovo president, gives a lecture entitled the Independent Kosovo: partner for peace and stability in the region, at the London School of Economics.
Financial experts gather Developments in Global Financial Markets, a two-day conference at Wilton Park, West Sussex, gathers financial market practitioners, regulators and experts to discuss global regulatory, economic and pensions developments.
Spotlight on social economy The two-day European Conference on Social Economy in Strasbourg promotes entrepreneurship, competitiveness and economic growth in the European Union.
Ethiopian withdrawal Ethiopian troops are scheduled to begin a phased pull-out from Somalia after a ceasefire between the Somali transitional government and a main opposition faction.
Dublin franchise showcase The Irish Franchise Exhibition, in Dublin to November 22, is a showcase for business opportunities in the sector, with seminars and professional advice.
SATURDAY 22
Apec summit Lima hosts the annual meeting of leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation bloc (to November 23). Apec’s 21 member economies include the US, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Palestinian investment An investment conference to boost Palestine’s economy and peace talks takes place in the West Bank city of Nablus (to November 23).
SUNDAY 23
Islamic banking conference The World Islamic Banking Conference takes place in Bahrain, organised with the support of the country’s central bank.
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