In 1949, Yamauchi's grandfather and the incumbent President of Nintendo, Sekiryo Yamauchi, suffered a stroke. As he had no other immediate successor, he asked Yamauchi to come immediately to Nintendo to assume the job of President. He had to leave Waseda University to do so. Yamauchi would only accept the position if he were the only family member working at Nintendo. Reluctantly, Yamauchi's grandfather agreed, and died shortly thereafter. Under the agreement, his older cousin had to be fired.

Helmed by David I. Strasser (‘Coyote Creek Christmas‘ and ‘A Very Merry Bridesmaid‘), the festive-themed romance drama ‘Campfire Christmas’ is a blast of a movie. The premise entails Peyton and her eccentric family, who decide to throw a family-themed holiday reunion in a summer camp they own just before selling it. Therefore, while she returns to her roots, romance begins brewing for Peyton and her closest buddies. A part of Hallmark’s ‘Christmas in July’ line-up, the family romance comedy movie garnered a lot of praise from the media, thanks to its casual subversion of generic holiday movie tropes.

Marriage is supposed to be “’till death do us part.” Unfortunately, that death can come from your own spouse, ending the marriage in a horrific way galaxies away from the love a couple used to share. This was the case with former Los Angeles chef David Viens, who admitted to murdering and cooking his wife Dawn following a deadly argument. Recommended Videos The couple were the proprietors of a successful bistro – David was a renowned chef, and his wife ran front of house operations and greeted everyone with a smile.

Robert Jordan in 2000. Photo / Beth Gwinn KEY POINTS:Best selling fantasy author Robert Jordan has died of a rare blood disease aged 58, it has been reported. Jordan - whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr - wrote the "Wheel of Time" series, which sold millions of books since the first - "The Eye of the World" - was published in 1990. Associated Press (AP) news agency reported that Jordan died at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston on Sunday local time.

In what’s proving to be a busy week for GPU news, AMD has just wrapped up their webcast announcing their next flagship FirePro product. Dubbed the FirePro W9100, AMD’s latest card is their expected refresh of their FirePro product lineup to integrate the company’s recently launched Hawaii family of processors. As Hawaii itself was a small but important refresh to Tahiti and the GCN architecture, the same can be said of the FirePro W9100 compared to the FirePro W9000.