The rest are licensed and adapted for the local market from Chinese and Korean gaming companies--with some misses, such as introducing hard-core, martial arts features to Vietnam's less advanced gaming market.

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The two-week arts festival, which features Shakespearian plays at Ludlow Castle, began in the town in 1960.

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But it's recognizable among the 12-to-24-year-old bracket that buys videogames like Electronic Arts' Fight Night Round 3, which features a boxer, Big E, clearly modeled after Ogbogu.

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Alternatively, head to Teatro Insurgentes, a functioning theatre in the suburb of Benito Juarez, whose facade features an extraordinary 46m-long mosaic depicting the arts through historical figures.

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Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.

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Last week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Wreck-It Ralph as one of 21 features eligible for next year's best animated film Oscar.

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The world-wide social networking site features a very different group of users than the voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who tend to be white, older and male.

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There is a new nostalgia for the kitsch features of the classic 1930s homes, says Elizabeth Wilson, visiting professor at the University of Arts in London.

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