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If anybody remembers Intel’s Atom launch, you’ll also remember how the company hoped that their chips would end up in everything from vacuum cleaners to fridges, cars and phones. With Intel’s “bribe” funds, incomparable R&D funds and unending monopoly of the x86 computing world, this was... |
5 May 2012
22:35 GMT |
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The following Linux news were published last week: the stable and final version of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment has been released, bringing interesting features; Mark Shuttleworth talked to Ubuntu users on the usual "Ask Mark" session on IRC; The GIMP 2.8 image editor has been released and it brings lots of new ... |
5 May 2012
20:33 GMT |
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Motorola is trying to expand its market share in South America. The company launched several entry-level smartphones and PTT handsets, which are now available in multiple countries in South America.Today, Motorola Mobility Brazil announced the upcoming availability of an unusual feature-phone that comes with both ful... |
5 May 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes cites industry sources with knowledge of Apple’s short term plans reporting that TPK Holding and Wintek are to see less profits because of new technologies adopted by the Cupertino giant for its next-generation iPhone.Specifically, the two touch panel vendors "are expected ... |
5 May 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome has had support for themes for a few years now and there are some interesting ones in the Web Store. But the Chrome team has come up with something that's even better than having access to a ton of themes, the ability to create one yourself.There's now an app, dubbed My Chrome Theme which enab... |
5 May 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Enlisting the help of Appadana Development, Polaroid has released Polamatic, a new photo / video app for iOS devices that combines Polaroid frames (Classic Border Logo) with digital photo effects.Polamatic 1.0 allows users to take photos right from the app, as well as to choose an existing one from their photo librar... |
5 May 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Call of Duty games may be some of the most successful titles out there, breaking sales records with each iteration, but their reluctance to mess with the tried and true first-person shooter formula has certainly gotten them a bad rap among more educated gamers.
I’m the first to admit that, while I like shooter... |
5 May 2012
15:21 GMT |
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LG Optimus L7 has already been confirmed in Canada via Rogers about two months ago. However, it looks like the smartphone will make its debut on Fido airwaves as well.Part of the L-Style family, the LG Optimus L7 has just been introduced in several Europeans country and will soon arrive in North America.According to ... |
5 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may fine Google millions for hacking past a key privacy setting on iPhones and iPads using Apple’s Safari web browser. The Commission is reportedly analyzing the matter to determine how big the fine should be.Google reportedly placed tracking cookies on iOS, the underlying sof... |
5 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has added two new Best of Bing themes to the list of personalization packs available for its Windows 7 operating system, namely China 2 and Australia 3.
With images that lay before your eyes vast surroundings or close-ups with flowers and animals, these new packs are meant to offer you a taste of two beau... |
5 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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The new leader of Sony is Kazuo Hirai, the man that has long led the PlayStation building and game publishing division of the company, and some of his early remarks about the future of Sony have suggested that the Japanese company will rely heavily on gaming and on television business.
Surely Sony also has plans lin... |
5 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Although SaskTel announced about a week ago it expects the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for Samsung Galaxy S III to be available in mid-May, the regional carrier received the update earlier than expected.The information comes directly from SaskTel's support site where the carrier notes that is working ... |
5 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Several MacBook refurbs priced under $1,000 are now available at Apple’s Special Deals area with savings in the $170 - $200 range and some pretty decent specs.For $929, customers can buy a Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.3GHz dual-core Intel i5 with a 13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display (1280-b... |
5 May 2012
12:53 GMT |
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The next LTE-enabled tablet arriving at Verizon Wireless, the SCH-I705 is about to make its debut on the carrier's airwaves.Also known as Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), the tablet has been spotted at Bluetooth SIG more than a month ago. In the meantime, the Wi-Fi only tablet made its way into the market and is now ... |
5 May 2012
12:20 GMT |
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Phabricator is a very advanced project management solution, developed by Facebook's dev team itself.
Phabricator is a suite of web applications, combined into one massive app dedicated to hosting and managing software repositories.
It allows a group of developers to come together, create and manage coding proj... |
5 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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TELUS LG Optimus Black has finally received the promised Android 2.3 update, though the smartphone was launched at Koodo Mobile with Gingerbread on board.It took LG no less than 10 months to bring the Optimus Black to Gingerbread, but the South Korean company already promised another Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich u... |
5 May 2012
11:57 GMT |
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Facebook Inc. has rolled out an update to its Messenger application for iPhone and iPod touch users making it even easier to reach groups of friends on the go.Facebook Messenger version 1.7 lets you text friends for free, using your existing data plan, as well as to reach them wherever they are – on their phone... |
5 May 2012
11:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung and Opera Software have announced that the Opera Mini mobile browser is now available for download for all bada and Android-based Samsung mobile phones.
The mobile application was made available for the handset vendor’s users through the Samsung Apps portal, the dedicat... |
5 May 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Apple has released a new version of its Remote Desktop management software to developers this week. Version 3.6 build 360A16 brings support for the IPv6 protocol, compatibility with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and more.Listing known issues, the seed notes for Apple’s Remote Desktop 3.61 reveal that build 360A16 is... |
5 May 2012
11:23 GMT |
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Google may be facing a fine for its practice of bypassing Safari's default settings to place tracking cookies on people's computers or phones. The US Federal Trade Commission has been investigating the matter and the investigation isn't going in Google's favor, it seems. It's nothing official... |
5 May 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is gearing up for the release of a new software update for its Motorola DROID 3 devices, meant to bring a wide range of enhancements to users.
Although no specific info on when the update will be delivered has been provided so far, Big Red has posted details on what it will inc... |
5 May 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Adobe has released an emergency Flash Player update that resolves a memory corruption vulnerability in the NetStream class that could reportedly lead to code execution on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows computers.In a security bulletin issued Friday, Adobe strongly advised users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.233 (and ... |
5 May 2012
10:40 GMT |
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On Friday Apple rolled out the last two Java seeds for Snow Leopard and Lion to be tested and later released as the final versions of the runtime before Oracle takes full responsibility of Java fo Mac.With the Flashback Trojan infecting over half a million Macs through a Java vulnerability, Apple is no longer willing... |
5 May 2012
10:27 GMT |
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After checking The Elder Scrolls Online earlier this week and admiring the first teaser trailer for the game, fans can now enjoy some more details about the massively multiplayer online role playing game, while feasting their eyes on the first set of screenshots and artwork from the new title.The Elder Scrolls Online... |
5 May 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Sony already launched its Android flagship smartphone, the Xperia S, in India. However, the company still has a few more Xperia NXT device that are about to make their debut on the market.So far, only the Xperia U has been confirmed and is now up for pre-order at leading retailers across the country, but Xperia P and... |
5 May 2012
09:48 GMT |
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A number of job advertisements from developer Harmonix are suggesting that the company is working on a new video game that will mix a narrative thread, explorable environments and combat, presumably set to be launched on next-generation consoles. The job opening for a narrative designer talks about a “unique m... |
5 May 2012
09:21 GMT |
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If last week we visited Russia, this week we head down to Bangladesh where we meet one of the members of a hacking group that dedicates its existence to fighting for justice and against the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The last time we heard about this hacker’s crew, the 3xp1r3 Cyber Army, they defaced ... |
5 May 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Motorola Mobility announced the upcoming availability of the RAZR MAXX in the UK, Germany, Norway and Denmark. Today, the handset vendor confirmed the smarpthone will be available in Sweden as well beginning mid-May.Unfortunately, there are no details regarding the phone's exact availability of pricing options, ... |
5 May 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Censorship, at the behest of movie studios or music labels, isn't, unfortunately, uncommon in most parts of the world. But even if The Pirate Bay was blocked in the UK by a court with little regard to due process, it's still a lot better than in India for example, where companies can have entire websites bl... |
5 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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It seems that Microsoft has already begun manufacturing the next generation of its Xbox console, in the form of the so-called Xbox 720 (aka Durango), at least according to a brand-new report that has surfaced on the web.
While Microsoft hasn't even acknowledged that it's working on a successor to the curre... |
5 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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A new 4G LTE-capable smartphone is expected to make an official appearance on shelves at Verizon Wireless in the near future, none other than the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE.
The handset was long rumored to be slated for an early May launch at the wireless carrier, yet it appears that it has been pushed back a litt... |
5 May 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Treyarch has just unveiled the first teaser image for the cooperative Zombies mode that will be included in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops II title.Without a doubt the biggest announcement of the week was Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which is set to deliver a whole new experience in the long running series.A big... |
5 May 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Twitter is always tweaking its UI and, especially since the new, new Twitter was introduced only a short while ago, its designers and UX experts are still ironing out the kinks. The latest change is small, but it's an obvious one.Hovering over a tweet in the stream at the site will now reveal the standard set of... |
5 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Artist Eric Siu with The Creators Project is of the opinion that communications mediums like Twitter and Facebook have some unfortunate consequences that usually go by ignored. Long story short, the increasing reliance on technology as a medium of communication is leading to social anxiety as people have less and l... |
5 May 2012
06:57 GMT |
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The image above was taken during a series of tests conducted recently at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, at the Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), in California. Engineers intentionally allowed a jet engine to suck in water from a special platform, in order to test new flight safety technologies.
The goal of the... |
5 May 2012
06:53 GMT |
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Officials at NASA and Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) announce that the launch date for the unmanned Dragon space capsule has been moved to May 19. They add that some issues related to the spacecraft and its rocket are still unresolved.
Dragon will take off aboard a S... |
5 May 2012
06:44 GMT |
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Google has started sending notifications to the individuals that Microsoft appointed as being behind the ZeuS botnet they've disrupted. Some applaud this decision, while others say that the company’s “one-size-fits-all” privacy policy isn’t the best way to handle things.
Microsoft’... |
5 May 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Windows 8 retail versions won’t arrive with support for DVD playback, nor will their feature the popular Windows Media Center, Microsoft confirmed earlier this week.
However, users will be able to receive these features if they purchase upgrade packs from Microsoft, or if they get a third-party software that ... |
5 May 2012
06:40 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices may be far behind Intel on the sever and data center market, but it might decrease that huge gap by a little bit. Soon.
The company will reportedly participate in Facebook's Open Compute Project, OCP for short.
The goal of OCP is to produce a standard hardware platform for data centers... |
5 May 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Microprocessor giant Intel is reportedly planning for a world in which all our brains are connected to smartphones and we “benefit” while they profit.
It's just a white paper, but the author's future world frightfully resembles the Star Trek Borg:
"With thoughts able to be delivered seamlessly... |
5 May 2012
06:24 GMT |
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Kent, Washington-based private aerospace company, Blue Origin has recently revealed more details about its New Shepherd manned capsule, a spacecraft it is developing under a Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) contract with the American space agency.
The company is currently developing both suborbital and orbital sp... |
5 May 2012
06:10 GMT |
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Social media websites utilized by many Internet users are a great medium for cybercriminals to spread their malicious campaigns. Such is the case of Pinterest, which has recently become a heaven for spammers and other types of fraudsters. Experts from Websense have come across a number of application toolkits, price... |
5 May 2012
05:55 GMT |
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People and companies seeking storage devices that can withstand wider temperatures than normal might want to check out the new module SATA SSDs that Apacer has formally launched.
We have only just written about Team Group's commitment to create RAM that handled extreme temperatures, or at least temperatures hi... |
5 May 2012
05:52 GMT |
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A paper published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology suggests that infants born after the normal human gestational period (42 weeks) are more likely to develop emotional and behavioral problems later on in life.
These problems begin to manifest themselves since early childhood. In this... |
5 May 2012
05:43 GMT |
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The NotCompatible Android Trojan identified a few days ago by Lookout is apparently used by cybercriminals to make fraudulent purchases via the devices they infect.
The researchers note that the Trojan still only acts as a proxy, allowing its masterminds to use it with the purpose of making their transactions legiti... |
5 May 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Video game developer Cyanide and publisher Focus Home Interactive have announced that they are set to launch a new version of the Blood Bowl title, based on the Games Workshop-made board game, called Chaos Edition, during September of this year.
The new version of the title will include 3 new races for gamers to cre... |
5 May 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Very high and low temperatures are known to make life hard for pretty much everything, and technology is no exception, although Team Group does plan to do something about it.The company's newest announcement states that the next order of business is to come up with the "industrial control wide-temperature series... |
5 May 2012
05:30 GMT |
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A series of three new studies indicates that less religious people, agnostics and atheists are more likely to be generous to those in need while driven by compassion than highly religious individuals. The works call into question widespread assumptions about the link between religion and compassion.
Researchers from... |
5 May 2012
05:27 GMT |
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After the PHP-CGI bug was made public, PHP rushed to issue a patch, but as it later turned out, it didn’t completely address the problem. Researchers from De Eindbazen have added a new patch that should fix the vulnerability, but it only works if applied on top of the official PHP security update. PHP have alm... |
5 May 2012
05:15 GMT |
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A team of astronomers from the Carnegie Observatories announces the detection of arsenic and selenium, two neighboring elements in the Period Table, in a very old star located in the faint stellar halo surrounding the Milky Way.
This is the first time that such an old object reveals these two chemicals, which mark t... |
5 May 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Since NVIDIA's new graphics processors are running all over the place, Eurocom figured it may as well use one of them in its Racer 2.0 laptop.
The Racer 2.0 is one of the Eurocom laptops that have been receiving maintenance the most lately, as its maker has been experimenting with hardware and such.
Not long... |
5 May 2012
05:07 GMT |
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There are less than two weeks left until Microsoft pulls the plug on its older Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace, or Windows Marketplace for Mobile, as it was called when launched.
The Redmond-based software giant announced several months ago plans to discontinue the service in mid-May, and is now reminding all Windo... |
5 May 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Facebook has just pushed another major update for its Messenger application for Android devices. The new version brings improved messaging features and the option to see who read your message and who hasn't.However, the developers claim that users will be able to text everyone for free, using their existing data... |
5 May 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Between June 5-6, Venus will complete its last solar transit this century. Astronomers are currently getting ready to observe the event with numerous telescopes, both on the ground and in orbit, and the Hubble has recently undergone a series of calibrations to enable it to zoom in so close to home.
In the image to ... |
5 May 2012
04:32 GMT |
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The hacker collective called “The Unknowns” has released another statement to reveal their reasons behind the breaches on NASA’s Glen Research Center, ESA, the US Military, US Air Force, the Thai Royal Navy, Harvard University, Renault, the Yellow Pages in Jordan, the Ministry of Defense in Bahrain... |
5 May 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Since there will definitely be people buying the reference GeForce GTX 680, people who will want better and more silent coolers, Arctic has decided to release the Accelero Hybrid cooler. Those who've seen the Inno3D iChill GTX 680 Hybrid are acquainted with this item, a watercooler that does not need pumps and ... |
5 May 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Fans of the Star Wars branded video games have long mourned the cancellation of Battlefront III and one leading developer behind the projects laid the blame straight at the door of license holder LucasArts. David Doak, who was a co-founder at Free Radical, told Eurogamer that, “It was so ambitious because you ... |
5 May 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Vendetta Online, a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) from Guild Software Inc, in which thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe, is now at version 1.8.219. Just a couple of weeks ago, Vendetta Online has celebrated its 10th anniversary and the dev... |
5 May 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Shortly after Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) onto the market, the South Korean company decided to come forward with a much larger tablet, the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1).Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) is currently available for pre-order online for $399.99 USD (305 EUR) at Office Depot. According to the retailer, the... |
5 May 2012
03:54 GMT |
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During its first week on sales, Prototype 2, the action-packed open world video game from developer Radical Entertainment and publisher Activision, has managed to occupy the overall top position in the Nordic video game chart. The title was followed by long-term fan favorite FIFA 12, which got a boost from the new E... |
5 May 2012
03:49 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is moving closer to the release of two new applications for its Windows Phone devices, namely Nokia Drive 3.0 and Nokia Transport 2.0.
The company has already offered a preview of the new flavor of Nokia Drive at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, but hasn’t y... |
5 May 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Bethesda and ZeniMax announced earlier this week that they’ll release The Elder Scrolls Online, a MMORPG set in the popular universe, but this announcement hasn’t exactly gone well with fans of the franchise that prefer the current single-player games.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was launched last year by ... |
5 May 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), a thin Linux operating system that creates a secure end node from trusted media on almost any Intel-based computer (PC or Mac), is now at version 1.3.4. As usual, LPS-Public comes with many updated packages and improvements, among which we can mention:• Mozilla Firefox update... |
5 May 2012
02:56 GMT |
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The Creative Assembly, the development team behind the Total War franchise, has announced that in the coming weeks it will be launching an editor for Shogun 2 and for Fall of the Samurai called TEd, which will allow any fan to create their own battle maps using the same kind of assets that the developers had access t... |
5 May 2012
02:53 GMT |
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BioWare is celebrating the semi-official Star Wars day, May 4 (as in, May the Fourth be with you) and is offering a major discount for Star Wars: The Old Republic, its recently launched massively multiplayer online game.Star Wars: The Old Republic was hyped up before its release and, while it's quite popular and... |
5 May 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Wargaming.net has announced that it has chosen four charities to receive a part of the revenue that the company is generating from Gold packages purchased from the United States during the month of May and from the T14 Gift Shop package.The developer will donate to AMVETS, Homes for our Troops, M... |
5 May 2012
02:21 GMT |
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After confirming Crysis 3 and even showing off quite a few screenshots and a video of the sci-fi shooter, developer Crytek has now unveiled a fresh series of images.Crysis 3 is set to improve on the experience we saw last year in Crysis 2, offering enhanced visuals, new gameplay options, and progressing the story of ... |
5 May 2012
00:31 GMT |
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