No not that Carcassonne - This is the city of Carcassonne, France. Its a fortified town in the Languedoc region. It is separated into the fortified Cité de Carcassonne and the more expansive lower city, the ville basse. The folk etymology – involving a châtelaine named Carcas, a ruse ending a siege and the joyous ringing of bells ("Carcas sona") – though memorialized in a neo-Gothic sculpture of Mme Carcas on a column near the Narbonne Gate—is of modern invention. The fortress, which was thoroughly restored from 1853 by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
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Or at least that's what it said on Wikipedia. The more relevant Carcassonne (at least for us non-white flag waving, gaming Americans) is the free Xbox Live Arcade game that you should be downloading right now. You only have a day left to download it, so save yourself 800 Microsoft Points and get at it.
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Other random crap on a "The Office" Thursday - A PGR4 update, which will provide four new MP tournaments, will be available tomorrow...Early Kane & Lynch impression - Its okay. The control scheme is a little off, Kane moves way too stiff, shooting is incredibly wonky. I don't think I'll like this game as much as I had hoped...Early Assassin's Creed impression - very fun, the moves Altair can pull off are numerous and cool. Storyline much better than I thought. I think I'll like this much more than I anticipated.
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