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Neilson Barnard/Getty Images The family-friendly “Cinderella,” with Laura Osnes, helped reduce the average age of the Broadway theater-goer this year. The person sitting next to you at a Broadway show is most apt to be white, female and from out-of-town. Demographic stats released on Thursday by the Broadway League, a trade association, show that the Great White Way lives up ...

20 years ago today, at the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, Id Software uploaded a two-megabyte file that would change the history of gaming forever: doom1_0.zip. Doom, which was released as shareware, quickly spread across FTP servers and bulletin board systems, becoming the first PC gaming phenomenon and popularizing the FPS genre, and pioneering 3D game worlds and networked ...

This morning, the Xbox One went on sale — and, perhaps surprisingly if you’ve been following all of Microsoft’s policy about-turns, the console promptly sold out. Unlike the PS4, which was stocked in retail stores in heavily populated areas until mid-afternoon on its release day, the Xbox One appears to have sold out a lot faster. Is the Xbox One ...

Rahi/AP Research featured at the American Heart Association’s annual conference on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, showed that on average, children 9 to 17 take 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Above, boys participate in a 100-meter race  in Bangalore, India, in 2007.  Today’s kids can’t keep up with their parents. An analysis ...

This morning, as clocks around the world ticked over to November 15 2013, Sony kicked off the eighth generation of console gaming by releasing the PlayStation 4. If you pre-ordered a PS4, the mailman hopefully delivered it this morning. If you managed to reserve a PS4 at GameStop or Best Buy, you can casually pick your console up at any ...