DVD A champion emerges In "Invictus," Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the captain of the South African rugby team the Springboks, which in 1995 won the World Cup. The movie tells the story of that unlikely and politically crucial victory, which as much as anything was the result of the gentle coaxing and moral persuasion of the country's new president, Nelson Mandela. Morgan Freeman doesn't play Mandela as much as inhabit the man, in a performance that seems to embody the transcendence that Mandela has come to stand for. Director Clint Eastwood adopts a flat, uninflected style for the film, wisely letting the remarkable story tell itself with a minimum of flourish. The result is a thoroughly absorbing, inspiring movie that features one of the year's most galvanizing performances. The DVD and Blu-ray (Warner, $29-$36) include a featurette and a music trailer.

WASHINGTON POST

Out Tuesday: "Extraordinary Measures," "Greatest American Hero" (complete series), "Hunter" (Season 2), "The Jeff Dunham Show," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" (Season 5), "The Messenger," "The New Daughter," "Oshima's Outlaw Sixties," "Outlander," "The Spy Next Door," "30 Days," "Valentine's Day," and Blu-rays of "Carlito's Way," "Coming to America"/"Trading Places," "Walkabout."

GAME

Blizzard hits Facebook Blizzard Entertainment, creator of "World of Warcraft," recently announced that its Battle.net gaming service will tie into Facebook, linking the online gaming platform with the popular social network. The first step in the integration will let players of the upcoming "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty" PC game easily add Blizzard gamers who are friends on Facebook to their Battle.net friend lists, facilitating their social gaming experience on the service. The new Facebook functionality will be tested in the "near future" through the ongoing "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty" beta test and will be available to all "StarCraft II" players when the game ships July 27.

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WEB

5 best cell-phone blogs Wirefly, a website that sells cell phones and plans, recently announced the winners of its first blog awards. The site says it created the kudos to recognize smaller sites serving "as the front lines in educating and informing consumers about cell phones and the wireless industry." More than 15,000 voters determined the winners:

• Android blog: Phandroid (www.phandroid.com).

• BlackBerry blog: CrackBerry (www.crackberry.com).

• Cell-phone news blog: TmoNews (www.tmonews.com).

• Cell-phone review blog: PhoneDog (www.phonedog.com).

• WindowsMobile blog: Pocketnow (www.pocketnow.com).

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