|
Home > News > Archive > 5th of August 2008
|
|
News archive: 5th of August 2008 |
|
|
|
|
71 articles found
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is a video game developed and published by Konami Interactive. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony and for the Xbox from Microsoft and was published in 2005. The game is classed as an action and role playing title with a medieval and fantasy theme played from a thir... |
5 August 2008
21:06 GMT |
 |
|
The concept of Splinter Cell, unlike many other games, is not centered on mindless killing that makes Jack Thompson stone cold nuts. The main objective is to reach your target without being seen, spotted and for that matter even getting in contact with anyone (even if this contact means knocking them out). Sure, you ... |
5 August 2008
21:06 GMT |
|
|
Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in "Sin City" threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights. The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Stri... |
5 August 2008
19:46 GMT |
|
|
So, Microsoft is getting Avatars, which are just like Miis for the Nintendo Wii, only that they are destined to be used by Xbox Live users. In other words, Microsoft saw a nice concept that someone else created and decided to clone it and offer it as a great novelty to its users. They seem to have a lot of experience... |
5 August 2008
19:11 GMT |
|
|
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is a first-person shooter video game and the sequel to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was announced by Ubisoft on November 20, 2007. The game was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 18, 2008, in North America and on March 20, 2008, in Europe, except fo... |
5 August 2008
19:06 GMT |
|
|
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 is a video game produced and published by Capcom Entertainment. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox from Microsoft, the Dreamcast from SEGA and the Game Cube from Nintendo. The title is classed as a fighting game played from a third person per... |
5 August 2008
18:36 GMT |
|
|
Battlefield: Bad Company, the DICE game that Electronic Arts released earlier this summer, has attracted a lot of attention as it is one of the most important revenue sources for Electronic Arts in the first financial quarter of the year.Being financially successful usually means more attention, so the title is now g... |
5 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
|
|
Bioshock was the critical success of last year and it only seems natural to be totally excited when it comes to the plans the developers of the game have for the future. And it seems that these plans are exactly what gamers want to get, since Ken Levine, 2K Boston head, said that the development team was not planning... |
5 August 2008
17:06 GMT |
|
|
Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a video game developed by Spark Unlimited and released by Activision Publishing. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Game Cube and the Xbox from Microsoft. It is classed as a war shooter played from a third person perspective with sequences in first person view. Th... |
5 August 2008
16:31 GMT |
|
|
Activision has recently released its final earnings reports as an independent company, following the merger with Vivendi Games and the forming of Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest videogame companies in the industry. And, as expected, analysts poured over reports to try to discern what the company would do in t... |
5 August 2008
16:16 GMT |
|
|
For the first time in five years, a Soul Calibur title managed to grab the top spot in an All Formats Chart released by ELSPA. Namco Bandai's game Soul Calibur IV marked its debut in the United Kingdom as the best selling title of the week, with the Xbox 360 accounting for 56% of the sales. It seems that people ... |
5 August 2008
15:06 GMT |
|
|
Bully is a video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Released in 2006, it is available for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The title is classed as an action adventure title, played from a first person perspective.The main character of the video... |
5 August 2008
14:41 GMT |
|
|
There's a lot of drama surrounding the systems on which Valve's zombie killing shooter Left 4 Dead will eventually be launched. Originally, the company said that only the PC and Xbox 360 owners would be able to survive the zombie apocalypse, while subsequent rumors pointed to the PlayStation 3 as another ta... |
5 August 2008
14:06 GMT |
|
|
"What's the best RAW application?" This question alone is the starting point for aggressive topics on photography forums where supporters of certain software throw smut at each other over the issue. In fact, the answer is quite simple: "All and none". It all depends on what you're shooting, how much post-pr... |
5 August 2008
13:37 GMT |
|
|
European fans should be really excited since Koei has just announced that the highly anticipated PC game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI will be released on the 5th of September this year. The game combines political maneuvering with city building and tactical warfare, offering a truly unique experience to players o... |
5 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
|
|
Nokia has announced today that Reset Generation, the "game about video games", is available on its N-Gage platform and can be downloaded by users who own the following handsets: Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N82, Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB. To play the game you have to choose from one of the ten heroes availa... |
5 August 2008
12:43 GMT |
|
|
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over. In fact the software giant is already hammering away at Windows 7, Vista's successor, and has also started to plan Windows 8, the Windows cli... |
5 August 2008
12:07 GMT |
|
|
You can say anything you want about Nintendo's Wii except for one thing: that it's not the most family-friendly console ever. Following this idea, we can say that the Miis are not meant to be used in M-rated games, nor associated with such titles in any way. Now we also know that Xbox 360 users will receive... |
5 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
|
|
Adobe announced today the launch of a new version of Scene7, the tool that enables companies, and not only, to display their products on their webpages in an attractive way. Online catalogs, zooming options and resizing are available ever since the first version came out and it seems only natural that they be present... |
5 August 2008
12:03 GMT |
|
|
GRAW, as Tom Clancy's game is often referred to, features an upgraded AI for the Ghosts and some new Cross-Com features. The graphics are also improved - for example, the devs implemented changing weather systems. GRAW's online popularity is one of the most important aspects of the game.Tom Clancy's Gh... |
5 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
|
|
At the same time with the unveiling of its three new ROKR phones, Motorola also announced the availability of two portable speakers, which are also part of its ROKR family of products. The new devices are called MOTOROKR EQ7 and MOTOROKR EQ5 and come to enlarge Motorola's line-up of music accessories.Unlike the ... |
5 August 2008
11:34 GMT |
|
|
Black Hat USA 2008 was the stage where Microsoft revealed that it was kicking its security game up a notch. The software giant's commitment to protecting its customers has spawned a pair of new initiatives designed to enable a new level of security-information sharing. In this regard, the Microsoft Active Protec... |
5 August 2008
11:20 GMT |
|
|
U.S.-based websites are responsible for 42% of the global malware, with viruses, worms, Trojans and a lot of other kinds of threats very likely to infect any computer with an Internet connection. China is the second worst country when it comes to secure Web content, being responsible for about 12% of the global malwa... |
5 August 2008
11:20 GMT |
|
|
The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the ... |
5 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
|
|
After two hard and long years of development, the CCux Linux team proudly announced last night a new version of their Linux-based operating system. Powered by the final version of Linux kernel 2.6.26, CCux Linux 0.9.9 is the first stable distribution injected with the freshly released KDE 4.1.0 desktop environment. U... |
5 August 2008
10:55 GMT |
|
|
Although people are just getting used to Intel's latest mobile platform, the Centrino 2, the Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer is already planning ahead. The company is reported to be working on the development of their next-generation mobile platform, which follows the current one codenamed Montevina.Details ... |
5 August 2008
10:52 GMT |
|
|
Motorola has just announced the future availability of three new mobile phones in its ROKR family: EM30, EM28 and EM25. The handsets target young consumers who want their handsets to pack lots of music related features. First appeared on the Web several months ago, Motorola EM30 is a candybar that resembles the ROK... |
5 August 2008
10:40 GMT |
|
|
The company MoneyBackJobs has announced today the launch of the website with the same domain name, promising to revolutionize the way job seekers and employers interact. MoneyBackJobs.com developed a system that would allow the company to virtually eliminate the competitors that put together offers from different emp... |
5 August 2008
10:34 GMT |
|
|
Some of you might remember Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus keyboard, which uses an OLED technology for all of its 113 keys. This keyboard is accompanied by a configuration software that allows users to setup their keyboard anyway they please. The thing with the Optimus Maximus is that, because of the OLED technolo... |
5 August 2008
10:15 GMT |
|
|
Various Xbox Live users report that a new scam message seems to be making the rounds and warn everyone using the service provided by Microsoft and all the owners of an Xbox 360 to be careful with the messages they receive.The new scam appears in the form of a message, from one of the people on your friends list, that... |
5 August 2008
10:08 GMT |
|
|
Lara Croft will be remembered for a long time even if we can't remember the actual games. Let's face it, the only thing that comes to mind when we think about Tomb Rider is an obscure patch that made her run without wearing too many clothes. It doesn't matter if the game design and puzzles were so frus... |
5 August 2008
09:46 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft is a software company that allows itself to flirt a tad with hardware design and manufacturing. However, the Redmond giant is limited for the most part at producing hardware peripherals, and is best known for its collections of mouse and keyboard devices. At the very same time, the software giant is making ... |
5 August 2008
09:45 GMT |
|
|
Not long after the release of its Global Navigation service, AT&T has come up with other new offerings for its customers who travel a lot around the globe. More exactly, the largest North American mobile operator now provides new data plans as well as extended roaming coverage. The two new data plans for customers... |
5 August 2008
09:34 GMT |
|
|
Although Google did not prepare its users for the launch of a human translation tool, as of yesterday, people could access the homepage of the new Google Translation Center. One day after its early beta launch and the new application has already failed, probably because Google engineers only wanted to offer a preview... |
5 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft is constantly claiming that is it one of the top companies worldwide when it comes down to coughing up money in order to drive innovation. And the Redmond company is certainly putting its money where its mouth is. According to its Annual Report on Form 10-K, the software giant has spent a pretty penny on re... |
5 August 2008
09:13 GMT |
|
|
Since Gainward decided to diversify its graphics card offer, most of the company's fans have probably been waiting for a "Golden Sample" Radeon-based graphics card. By the looks of it, they won't have to wait for that much longer, as the company finally introduced one of its designs for a HD 4850-based grap... |
5 August 2008
08:43 GMT |
|
|
The highly popular Samsung U900 Soul handset has now a new Olympic Special Edition, created to celebrate the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that will debut three days from now (on August 8). Apparently, there will be three model names for the Olympic U900: SPH-W5900IL, SPH-W5950IL and CH-W590IL. All of them have... |
5 August 2008
08:42 GMT |
|
|
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the seventh Tony Hawk Pro Skater game in the series and the first one to support Xbox Live play. The title was released on the most important platforms of 2005: PC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and GameCube. The handheld versions of the game are known as Tony Hawk's American Sk8land... |
5 August 2008
08:24 GMT |
|
|
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence is a video game created and published by Konami Interactive. It was developed just for the PlayStation 2 gaming console from Sony and was launched in 2005. It is classed as an action adventure title with a medieval and fantasy setting that is played from a third person perspective.Cas... |
5 August 2008
07:56 GMT |
|
|
Micron, a flash-based products manufacturer, introduced yesterday its next-generation RealSSD solid state drives designed for enterprise computing and notebook applications. The company has brought to light two new models, the RealSSD P200 and the RealSSD C200, meant to bring about a boost in capacity, power and perf... |
5 August 2008
07:55 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft is moving to the next stage in the evolution of Windows Live. In this context, the WindowsLive.com website was overhauled in order to fall under the same design as the online destinations on Microsoft.com reserved for the Windows operating system, indicating, yet again, the intimate connection between the c... |
5 August 2008
07:50 GMT |
|
|
The FCC has recently approved a new Nokia candybar, namely the Nokia 6212 Classic, a handset that was first announced by the Finnish company back in April. The phone might not be seen by many users as a "good looking device", but at least it has some nice features packed in it. First of all, the 6212 embeds the NFC (... |
5 August 2008
07:19 GMT |
|
|
Users of embedded devices and mobile phones running the Windows Mobile operating system need to get ready for an updating infrastructure and experience similar to that offered by Microsoft for its client and server platforms including the recent releases of Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. A... |
5 August 2008
07:17 GMT |
|
|
The investors/directors' annual meeting at Yahoo! didn't bring any changes in the board of directors. Despite the fact that some of the officials who played an important role in the rejection of the Microsoft proposal were criticized by investors, they still got an average of 80% positive votes. This caught... |
5 August 2008
06:58 GMT |
|
|
CART Fury: Championship Racing is a video game developed and published by Midway Games. It was created and released exclusively for the PlayStation 2 gaming device from Sony in 2001, when the console had just been launched on the market. The title is classed as a racing game with a third person perspective. This is o... |
5 August 2008
06:40 GMT |
|
|
Given all the recent rumors of NVIDIA's major board partners leaving the Santa Clara-based chip maker, it looks like things aren't all that gloomy, at least as far as one partner is concerned. EVGA, which was reported to have pondered on manufacturing Radeon graphics cards, has infirmed the latest reports a... |
5 August 2008
06:37 GMT |
|
|
Indosat, a leading Indonesian mobile operator, together with Nokia Siemens, will expand and enhance its nationwide wireless network in order to better respond to the "unprecedented subscriber growth" in the last months. Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy a mobile softswitching solution, allowing Indosat to give ... |
5 August 2008
06:23 GMT |
|
|
The latest nightly build of Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) has native Theora and Vorbis codecs support. The man behind this implementation is developer Chris Double. This has been in the works for over a year and was considered necessary due to the and tags of the new HTML5 specification, which are also supported by Firef... |
5 August 2008
06:14 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has placed its Windows operating system firmly at the core of a new initiative, described by the company as a crowdsourced digital concert experience. CrowdFire, presented by Windows, is a project designed to orbit around music fans and their content at the intersection of music, culture and technology. "Cr... |
5 August 2008
06:09 GMT |
|
|
Samsung and Elissa, the famous Lebanese singer and the company's brand ambassador for the Middle East, have just launched a new music phone in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The phone is Samsung F400 and it's one of the company's latest multimedia devices. Available across Europe since last mont... |
5 August 2008
05:44 GMT |
|
|
Nvidia is getting ready to release some new driver versions that will bring major improvements to its cards. The drivers are expected to mark a "bang", a "Big Bang II" actually, as the Santa Clara-based company talks about the driver releases it has under preparations now. It has given this name to its ForceWare Rele... |
5 August 2008
05:32 GMT |
|
|
Cooling is one of the most significant aspects of any hardware component, which is why countless companies are always ready to provide us with products designed to keep the computer temperatures within optimum range. From time to time, one of these aforementioned companies comes out with a rather interesting and uniq... |
5 August 2008
05:31 GMT |
|
|
Paris was the first European location chosen by Google to be part of the Street View project and Tour de France was a great opportunity for a July launch of the new online service coming from the search giant. However, now Street View is going to Australia and Japan, despite the fact that nothing happening there at t... |
5 August 2008
05:30 GMT |
|
|
DFI, the worldwide renowned motherboard manufacturer, is about to introduce two new products designed to support the latest AMD and Intel technologies. The AMD-based mobo will be equipped with the 790GX + SB750 chipset combo, while the Intel-based motherboard will run with Intel's P45 and ICH10R chipsets. Both p... |
5 August 2008
04:41 GMT |
|
|
At the end of May Microsoft introduced the Live Search Cashback initiative, in an effort to organically increase the market share of its search engine against Google. Paying end users for their searches was not by any means a new idea, and as far as the Redmond giant was concerned it had Jellyfish (which it acquired ... |
5 August 2008
04:39 GMT |
|
|
Indian mobile users in search of affordable handsets have now a new option, as LG has just released the entry-level LG KP106B in the Asian country. Coming in a candybar form factor, LG KP106B is nothing to get too excited about, as its design is a simple one and its features are only on the basic side. The new hands... |
5 August 2008
04:38 GMT |
|
|
PC gamers have quite an interesting week lying ahead, with Intel publishing Larrabee info and feeding details on the x86-compatible GPU, while Advanced Micro Devices is hosting the annual CTO Summit in Reykjavik (Iceland), and Nvidia is expected to release the announced PhysX content pack and also holding the Nvision... |
5 August 2008
04:30 GMT |
|
|
We usually hear about game-related studies only when some organization wants to prove how bad they are for the mind and the body of a human being. However, there are people who want to do more than criticize video games - use them to help patients with cancer, for example. And they not only try to do that, they'... |
5 August 2008
04:23 GMT |
|
|
Adobe will make available some of its high-end technologies, such as Flash and Flex, to offer a full Internet coverage of the Olympics in China and Macau. The company has partnered with CCTV.com, the enterprise that has the online video rights to the Beijing Olympic Games. While the Chinese company will allow users t... |
5 August 2008
04:16 GMT |
|
|
Although everyone was expecting RIM's latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, to be first released in Canada (via Rogers), the handset made its debut "a bit" more to the South, in Chile, via Movistar. Thus, Chilean mobile users are the first people in the world to buy the new BlackBerry (only wit... |
5 August 2008
03:56 GMT |
|
|
Blizzard is sending word that it plans to implement something like a Gamerscore for its games. After announcing that World of Warcraft would get a system that tracks achievements of players, the company decided to make this action part of a larger plan designed to enhance the experience that players have with Blizzar... |
5 August 2008
03:51 GMT |
|
|
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 is available for download since July 28, 2008 under the codename Shiretoko, and now Mozilla is gearing up for the release of the first Beta of Firefox 3.0's successor. According to Mozilla's initial plans, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is scheduled to drop by the end of August; however, nothing is ... |
5 August 2008
03:48 GMT |
|
|
Usually, whenever somebody has to just type some letters, Asda is the result. From now on, though, if you ever write this combination, you will actually refer to a new massively multiplayer online game developed by Gamescampus. Let me tell you one thing - there will be tons of free marketing for this one!However, thi... |
5 August 2008
03:45 GMT |
|
|
It looks like Advanced Micro Devices is getting its RV710 and RV730 mainstream and low-end products on the market this September. The RV710 chip is said to feature Hybrid CrossFire capabilities. Although the company would not disclose too much info on the GPUs, they are believed to be AMD's response to Nvidia�... |
5 August 2008
03:39 GMT |
|
|
MSI, one of the largest Taiwanese manufacturers of computer hardware products, has recently launched new notebooks designed to meet the requirements of today's gaming users. With these two additions, MSI is taking a step forward, in line with its competitors, which have already launched their Intel Centrino 2-ba... |
5 August 2008
03:31 GMT |
|
|
Fallout 3 effective ban from sales in Australia is text book example of how games should not be treated by censors. The Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia, known as the OFLC, only charged with rating games because the politicians could not tell that the new medium of expression has rather diff... |
5 August 2008
03:13 GMT |
|
|
City building sim titles don't seem to be one of the most sought after types of games over on the Xbox 360 systems, but NinjaBee plans to change things a bit with A Kingdom for Keflings, a special and unique city building game that will be released exclusively for the Xbox Live Arcade later this fall and that pr... |
5 August 2008
03:08 GMT |
|
|
Verizon Wireless, North America's second largest mobile operator, has teamed up with Linkin Park (the Grammy Award-winning rock band) and Chris Cornell (ex-front men of Soundgarden and Audioslave), in order to get fans closer to them during the upcoming Projekt Revolution US summer tour. Debuting on August 7, t... |
5 August 2008
03:03 GMT |
|
|
Many people, supporters and relatives of the competitors, want to get a front seat at the Olympics. Since tickets are almost sold out, some resort to anonymous websites that promise unbelievably small prices for the best seats in the house. Beijingticketing.com is one of these sites that scammed many people, one of t... |
5 August 2008
03:03 GMT |
|
|
Every now and then, Nintendo manages to surprise its fans with some real quality releases for the WiiWare or Virtual Console. This week, platformer fans will be very excited to hear that one of the most appreciated games of the early 90s, Sonic the Hedgehog, will make its comeback to Nitnendo's console. And that... |
5 August 2008
02:36 GMT |
|
|
A videogame distributor in Thailand decided to stop selling Grand Theft Auto IV following news that a teenager confessed to copying a scene from the game as he robbed and killed a taxi driver. To my knowledge, there is no specific scene in the game that depicts the murder of a taxi driver but the confession of the mu... |
5 August 2008
02:30 GMT |
|
|
|
|
Find us on Google+
