In 2008, Princess Leia was selected by Empire magazine as the 89th of the greatest film characters of all time, with IGN listing her as the 8th top Star Wars hero.

In December 2008, IGN listed it as 8th out of 10 in a list of " Franchises We Want Resurrected " and praised the game as having " some of the best writing and characterization seen in gaming ".

In 2008, Levi Buchanan of IGN listed Marble Madness as one of several titles in his " dream arcade ", citing the game's difficulty and the fond memories he had playing it.

In a 2008 article, Entertainment Weekly named Winona Ryder's role as Allison Taylor as one of the sixteen best The Simpsons guest stars, while IGN placed her sixth on their list of the " Top 25 Simpsons Guest Stars.

In 2008, IGN listed her as third top Soul series bonus character for her cameo appearance in Soulcalibur III.

In a 2008 retro review, IGN gave Alex Kidd a score of 9 out of 10 and an " Editor's Choice " award, calling it " an exceptional platformer with loads of action and some great puzzle-solving challenges " that " still holds up remarkably well.

" In 2008, IGN included him on the list of characters they would like to see in an ultimate fighting game, adding: " The Avatar may not be the first RPG adventure hero, but he's certainly the most memorable of the early gaming era.

In 2008, IGN ranked him as the best bonus character in the Soul Calibur series, while GameDaily ranked him first on the list of top ten Smash Bros. characters.

Then in April 2008, IGN. com reported that a successful movie adaptation would be restarted in May that year.

In 2008, IGN also chose it as one of the Horror Franchises that Should Rise from the Grave.

", argueing it is " little more than Space Harrier with a 3D camera and cut-scenes " By contrast, in 2008, IGN gave the game a score of 9 / 10, for " amazing ," remarking that " the fact that Panzer Dragoon holds up as well in 2008 as it did in 1995 is a just testament to the staying power of good art and tight gameplay.

A 2008 IGN Reader's Choice poll determined that he ranked among ten heroes most desired to appear in a Soulcalibur game, and he appeared in an IGN list of gaming's most notorious anti-heroes, sharing both honors with Raziel.

" IGN listed Tifa as the 13th best Final Fantasy character of all time in 2008, describing her as an attempt by Square to " give Final Fantasy characters real sex appeal ," and someone who " could take care of herself in a pinch "; in a follow-up Reader's Choice edition of the list, Tifa placed first, with the staff repeating their previous comments while attributing her placement on the list to her breasts.

He was ranked # 20 in The 47 Most Diabolical Video-Game Villains of All Time poll by GamePro in 2008, and # 67 in the list of Top 100 Videogame Villains by IGN.

" " Hungry are the Damned " was selected as the fifth best Treehouse of Horror segment by Eric Goldman, Dan Iverson and Brian Zoromski of IGN in 2008.

" In 2008, IGN readers voted her at the top position on the list of the Metal Gear series villains, the staff commenting, " Who else could number one be but the incredibly beautiful, and impossibly deadly, Sniper Wolf?

Regarding her personality issues, sometimes perceived as complicated, Sniper Wolf was ranked as the 25th top " chick behaving badly " in all entertainment by IGN in 2008, featured as one of nine " bad girls of videogame land " by FHM in 2009, and ranked as the seventh top " bitch in games " by PLAY in 2010.

Website IGN posted a video at the 2008 Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, revealing " Shiver " to be part of the song list in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour.

In a 2008 Flashback Review, Robert Canning of IGN called the episode " outstanding " for its several sight gags and pop culture references.

The first screenshots, video and game information for This is Vegas were unveiled the week of February 4, 2008 at IGN.

In 2008, " Starship Poopers " was named the tenth best Treehouse of Horror segment by IGN.

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* Affinity ( film ), a 2008 feature film based on Sarah Waters ' novel

The conclusion of the countdown was altered in 2008 to feature the new presentation style, rather than a data stream moving in towards the camera.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

On 12 August 2008, Variety reported that Universal Pictures had optioned the rights to produce feature film adaptations of The Wheel of Time books.

In 2008, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment premiered Straczynski's feature thriller Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie.

In October 2008, a feature film, Stone of Destiny, based on the theft of the stone, was released by Infinity Entertainment of Vancouver.

A 40th anniversary Close to the Edge and Back tour was scheduled to begin in 2008 that was to feature Oliver Wakeman on keyboards, as his father was advised by his doctors not to tour.

* A Beginner's Guide to Composing, an online feature from Bloomingdale School of Music ( February 2008 )

It was also the first James Bond feature film of the Eon Productions series, released in 1962 and starring Sean Connery ; the most recent adaptation was a BBC Radio version, broadcast in 2008.

* Australian band You Am I's 2008 album Dilettantes and its first single, Erasmus, feature a drawing of a lyrebird by artist Ken Taylor.

* Ormazd and Ahriman feature in the 2008 video game, Prince of Persia.

Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as this one in Renville County, Minnesota, pictured in May 2008.

Development of a feature film based on the series was announced in 2008.

In 2008 Smiffy gained a pet pebble called Kevin, this character even had his own feature in the Beano issue 3604 entitled Where's Kevin.

* Virtualization becomes a key feature of operating systems, as exemplified by Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 or HP Integrity Virtual Machines in HP-UX.

In July 2008, at the San Diego Comic-Con International, he appeared in a teaser for Tron: Legacy, shot as concept footage for director Joseph Kosinski ; this developed into a full 3D feature release in 2010.

It has been made into one feature film ( in 1962 ), three radio drama series ( in 1957, 1968 and 2008 ), and two TV series ( in 1981 and 2009 ).

In 2008, Givens returned to feature films in Tyler Perry Southern drama The Family That Preys.

More recently, Squeeze has been started as an archive manager designed to integrate better into the Xfce desktop, though no further updates have been released since 24 February 2008, the development git branch for both squeeze and xarchiver are more up to date and feature rich than the last stable release.

The island was also the location for GMTV's Inch-loss Island slimming feature in 2008, as it was for the original series in 2001.

Malick's fifth feature, The Tree of Life, was filmed in Smithville, Texas, and elsewhere during 2008.

* Latrobe is featured prominently in the 2008 feature length Kurt Kuenne documentary entitled Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.

The series received both acclaim and criticism for its subjects and characters, and spawned two feature films, Sex and the City ( 2008 ) and its sequel Sex and the City 2 ( 2010 ), and a planned spin-off by The CW, The Carrie Diaries.