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Lara Croft gets reboot in ‘Tomb Raider’ as video game studio restarts franchise
TORONTO – After 17 years, 10 games and more than 35 million units sold, “Tomb Raider” has undergone a major-league makeover.
High school hoops player’s 55-foot, buzzer-beating shot clinches state title; video goes viral
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A New York high school basketball player’s wild, buzzer-beating shot helped his team clinch the state title, and video of the win has gone viral.
Video game team visit spring training to capture player likenesses
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Outfielder Moises Sierra sits motionless, his Blue Jays uniform top covered by a bib.
Online video claims radical Islamic group Boko Haram from Nigeria holding 7 French hostages
LAGOS, Nigeria – A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon has been posted online, with a man claiming that a radical Islamic group from Nigeria holds them.
US police lodge abuse, neglect complaints over 9-year-old boy’s sexually charged rap videos
BROCKTON, Mass. – Police in the U.S. say they have lodged child abuse and neglect complaints against a man whose 9-year-old son appears in sexually suggestive rap videos posted online.
Oscars expand social media with video-on-demand, Twitter photo booth for 85th annual ceremony
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is encouraging celebrities to tweet during the Oscars.
Penticton poet’s bullying video goes viral with 2.5M views
By Shannon Quesnel A Penticton poet's video of a poem about bullying has been viewed more than two million times. Shane Koyczan posted his animated video, To This Day, on YouTube on Feb. 19 and it has 2.5 million views as of today. The video tells the story of his own experience being bullied in...
Video causes stir of police officers punching, kicking robbery suspect in Quebec
MONTREAL – An act of alleged police brutality involving police in Trois-Rivieres, Que., caught in part on surveillance video, is causing a stir online.
‘Houdini Horse’ at Michigan farm gets attention from video showing her escape-artist antics
MIDLAND, Mich. – With her escape-artist antics now caught on video, a horse in Michigan is being dubbed the “Houdini Horse” thanks to her knack for opening stall doors.
Los Angeles police release photos, video of missing Canadian woman
VANCOUVER – Police in Los Angeles have released a video and photo of a Canadian woman who was last seen in a local hotel at the end of January and then disappeared.
Netflix’s popular Internet video service insulates company from end of Saturday DVD delivery
SAN FRANCISCO – Netflix won’t miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy.
‘Star Wars’ reboot director J.J Abrams speaks at video gaming conference in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – If the force is with die-hard fans, J.J. Abrams will give away a few clues to his vision for the seventh live-action “Star Wars” film.
North Korean propaganda video shows missiles attacking an American city
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has released a propaganda video showing an American city being attacked by missiles while an instrumental version of “We are the World” plays.
Pakistani girl shot by Taliban makes it clear in video statement that she won’t back down
LONDON – In her first video statement since she was nearly killed, a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban remained defiant in arguing for girls’ education, saying Monday she would keep up the same campaign that led to her attack.
‘The Last of Us’ video game undeterred by real-world violence
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The creators of “The Last of Us” aren’t planning to tone down the post-apocalyptic video game’s violent content, including a young, knife- and gun-wielding girl.