AP - Elvis Presley fans from around the world flocked to Graceland on Sunday for the annual late night procession past the king of rock 'n' roll's grave.

Nolan North is probably best known for playing Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series of games, and in that role he took a character that could have been little more than a bundle of Indiana Jones jokes and brought it to life. North as Drake is always a pleasure to listen to, and is a large part of the appeal of the Uncharted titles... but then he became the go-to guy when you needed a hero or character who sounded like Nolan North, or Nathan Drake. It's a problem.

It's not that North isn't a talented voice-over artist, because he is. It's not that he doesn't deserve work, because he does. The problem is that his voice sticks out like a sore thumb, and it can be found in so many games that, at this point, it doesn't aid immersion as much as it actively pulls you out of a game.

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Off the coast of Korea, a utopian new city is rising. New Songdo City, which is slated to be finished in 2015, is the most expensive private real estate venture in the world. The city is being built on reclaimed land in Incheon Bay (site of the famous Korean War landing), and, when it is complete, will include the "world's largest twin tower," a 100-acre "central park," full city-wide integration into wireless technology (which one of its architects describes as "a municipal concierge service"), and groundbreaking levels of environmental sustainability (with wind turbine power and rainwater collection, it aims to be the world's first LEED-certified city). If all goes well, New Songdo will be the first of 20 privately built, fully wired and ecologically friendly utopian cities built on six different continents by the same group of architects.