The State Department gets its share of criticism for how it oversees millions of dollars in grants for keeping the internet open to dissidents. But a group of activists wants to make sure that Foggy Bottom keeps control of cash that some in Congress think could be better spent by the United States’ foreign broadcasting arm.

In a letter sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, activists warned that moving the funding for the Obama administration’s Internet Freedom Agenda to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees pro-American radio, TV and internet programming abroad, would undermine the g...

Japanese game publisher Irem cancels development of Disaster Report 4, a PlayStation 3 game in which you play a survivor in a post-earthquake Tokyo.
Image: Irem, via andriasang.com

Following last week’s killer earthquake and tsunami in Japan, game publishers have canceled and delayed several PlayStation 3 games with disaster-related themes.

Irem will cease development on its PlayStation 3 game Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4 (City in a Desperate Situation), the publisher said in a statement on its website Monday. Previous installments in the action-adventure series, which has been released outside...