What if you could play all your favorite Xbox Live games on your mobile phone? You may soon be able to do just that, if a job listing from Microsoft offers any clue.
Based on recent job postings on Microsoft’s site, it appears that Redmond is making moves to bring Xbox Live to Windows Mobile devices. [...]

How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests.
If someone in your home has swine flu, your odds of catching it are about one in eight, although children are twice as susceptible as adults, the study found.
It is one of the first [...]

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney believes he will beat his best ever goal tally for a single season after inspiring Sir Alex Ferguson’s side to a comprehensive 5-0 demolition of Wigan.
Roberto Martinez’s Wigan held United at bay in the opening stages at Old Trafford on Wednesday before Rooney took over and [...]

Texas – Mike Leach’s firing by Texas Tech stemmed from more than just a lone complaint by the father of a player who alleged the coach mistreated his son.
Jerry Turner, vice chairman of the university system’s board of regents, said Wednesday that “other things” became known during an inquiry into the complaint. Turner added that [...]

While 2008’s “Incredible Hulk” only performed marginally better at the box office than its 2003 counterpart, many fans praised Louis Leterrier’s take on Marvel’s green goliath as a significant upgrade from Ang Lee’s earlier film.
One of the most notable improvements, according to many critics, was the addition of award-winning actor Tim Roth as the villainous [...]

Call them “cult classics.” “Guilty pleasures.” “Comfort movies.” We all have a mental rolodex of flicks that may not be terribly popular but, for one reason or another, they resonate in a very special way.
Maybe you saw it at the right moment. Maybe you just see gold where everyone else sees feces. Whatever the case, [...]

Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that’s why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.
It’s freezing cold here in New York, so anybody [...]

2009 is coming to a close, which means that it’s time to check in on what the favorite albums, artists, songs and moments were among the fine folks in the MTV Newsroom. Be sure to check out James Montgomery’s definitive year-end list for 2009, and enjoy the “10 In 2009″ series that will be running [...]

Movie fans have mixed feelings about this year’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”
On one hand, the action-packed sequel, which grossed more than $830 million in ticket sales worldwide, was voted the worst movie of the year by readers of the Web site Moviefone.com.
But in a bout of what can only be described as voter schizophrenia, [...]