Gamers on the lookout for this year's iteration of the realistic baseball sim from 2K Sports have something to look forward to as Major League Baseball 2K8 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and Wii) has recently gone gold and is all ready to ship out this March 4. If you want to find about some of the neat features included in the upcoming baseball video game title, you can read all about it in the full article.

Can't wait for 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K8 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, DS, PlayStation Portable, and PS2)? Well, you might get even more excited once you've taken a look at what this game will have in terms of gameplay. Head on over to the full article to find out more about this game's features.

Will Wright will be the recipient of the 2007 Vanguard Award from the 2007 Producers Guild Awards. The Vanguard Award is a recognition of outstanding achievement in new media and technology. Previous recipients of this award include George Lucas, James Cameron, and Jon Miller. The awarding would be on January 20 at the Century Plaza.

Just in case you have no idea who the heck Will Wright is, he just happens to be the brains behind simulation games SimCity, The Sims (PC, Wii), and the upcoming PC game Spore. Mr. Wright dabbled on a lot of things when he was in college, he took up architecture, then mechanical engineering, and then finally landed on computers and robotics. In the end, he became a statistic in the classic story of high tech business - after five years of college, he did not attain a degree.

But back to the Vanguard Award. PGA Awards co-chairs Mark Gordon and Hawk Koch said that "Will Wright is the icon of the gaming industry and one of the great producers of entertainment content. His creations have transcended into feature films and continue to entertain a global audience. We are proud to have him be the first Vanguard recipient from the gaming universe."

In return Mr. Wright said that "The PGA’s decision to honor a game designer is a big moment for game designers such as myself, and those who would like to follow in our footsteps. The PGA is signaling that games are an integral part of the entertainment industry, and an art form worthy of recognition. For that reason, I am incredibly honored to be the first game designer to receive the Vanguard award."

Congratulations to Will Wright! He deserves it.

It seems that gravity isn't the only culprit in sending matters into centers of black holes, apparently, magnetism also has a hand on this. According to a new study, magnetism provides the final nudge that trap matters into a black hole, this result confirms a 1973 theory which states that magnetic fields drive both the infall of matter into black holes and the production of light energy created by the process.

Although a black hole's gravity is enough to draw matter in and keep it spinning in a stable "accretion disk". But before getting sucked up in a black hole, the matter must first lose some of its rotation speed which is called angular momentum. If angular momentum from the disk were not dissipated away, gas in the accretion disk would circle the black hole forever in a stable orbit, like the planets around our sun.

So how did the researchers uncover the role of magnetism in this phenomenon? Using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the researchers studied GRO J1655-40, a binary system made up of a seven-solar-mass black hole that is stealing gas from the surface of a normal star. The siphoned gas accumulates in an accretion disk around the black hole. The spinning gas generated its own magnetic field which in turn powered a wind of charged particles blowing away from the black hole.

The wind of charged particles then transferred angular momentum from the inner regions of the disk outward which slowed down some of the spinning gas, allowing it to fall onto the black hole. The same researchers believe that magnetic fields play a pivotal role in the activities of black holes of different sizes and proportions. According to one of the researchers, University of Michigan astronomer Jon Miller, "we already know that disks around some young stars are driven by [magnetic] processes...It would not be a major surprise if all accretion disks rely on internal magnetic properties, at least partially."