By brokering a deal with online game develope Arkadium, the Los Angeles Times will add more than two dozen games to a vertical of its Web site that already includes crossword puzzles. Among the new titles are Mahjongg Dimensions.

Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and Brides are planning major revamps, the former editorially and graphically (for "a more trendy and pop-culture-driven magazine"), the latter two only design-wise, according to Amy Wicks' roundup of magazine news. We're glossy-mag loyalists ourselves, but we have to wonder if this rush to  changing a print book's looks isn't besides the point right now. Doesn't this description of of Wired's redesign by its editor -- “easy-to-scan geometry and forceful use of bold type and letterforms" -- sound too focused on tiny details?

Printing legal notices is a major revenue source for local newspapers -- and local competitors sometimes battle over which papers "meet the legal requirements to publish" such notices, writes Steve Myers.  California-based MediaNews’ Bay Area News Group  just won out over Tri-City Voice, a "twice-weekly independent newspaper serving the southeastern Bay area" -- and now the Voice claims "that MediaNews is trying to put it out of business," writes Myers. 

Of course most media- and tech-savvy folks know that it's possible to pirate TV over the Web. "Still, it’s always worth pointing out just how easy it has become," writes Peter Kafka. "It’s particularly important when it comes to live sports, because that’s supposed to be the one thing that keeps everyone — or many people, at least — paying (a lot) for cable." Kafka does the honors here by zeroing in on the pirating of a New York Knicks game, currently unavailable to Time Warner Cable subscribers due to a conflict between the cable operator and MSG …