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 Jet Li International action film star Jet Li has signed a two year contract to promote Age of Wushu, already a popular MMORPG with more than 20 million users in China alone. Snail Games is debuting an early build of its North American version this week at E3. As the new face of the martial arts MMO, Li will make appearances, be featured in a TV commercial and endorse the game, which features the martial arts style for which he first became famous. Li began his training in Wushu at the age of eight. Multiple times a national champion in China, he often competed against adults twice or three times his age. After retiring from competition in martial arts at age 19, Li won great acclaim as an actor. He starred in many critically acclaimed Chinese martial arts epic films. Li's first role in a Hollywood film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) with Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. He soon advanced from martial arts film star to Hollywood action fi...

The rapper known as The Game was arrested earlier in the week after telling a cab driver that he was an undercover police officer and convincing the cabbie to run a series of red lights, police said Saturday.The Game, a best-selling West Coast rapper whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, faces a charge of impersonating a police officer, said Sgt. Kevin Hayes, a police spokesman. The accusation was denied by The Game's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, who said the police had been tailing the rapper throughout his stay in New York and that the cabbie was a terrible driver.The rapper, 26, is accused of picking up the livery cab at West 56th Street and Seventh Avenue. The driver drove about 13 blocks before the vehicle was pulled over Thursday night, after The Game had appeared on "Late Show with David Letterman.""This is really a new low even for the NYPD," Lichtman said Saturday. "It's a big joke to harass him and other members of the hip-hop community, and ultimat...