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New NFL 2K Games Will Be Able to Use Official Player Names, Numbers, and Likenesses

Football and sports game fans hoping for an alternative to yearly Madden NFL installments will get something along those lines with 2K Games’ upcoming NFL 2K titles. Under a new partnership deal with the NFL, the publisher will be able to use official names, numbers, images, and the likenesses of players in the league. This is a major shake-up to the status quo that’s been in place for football video games since Electronic Arts clinched the exclusive NFL licensing rights in 2004, virtually shutting out all other competition. We’ve already chronicled how Madden NFL became king of the gaming gridiron.…
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Official Secrets

She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain?s help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by…
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