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In Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, you create your own story. This authentic skating experience gives you the freedom to truly define your character, story and style, based on the choices you make, the path you select and the styles of skating you choose. In the demo, for example, gamers skate through Philadelphia a... |
6 August 2008
21:06 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
20:56 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
19:46 GMT |
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Electronic Arts continues to press its now laughable attempt to take over Take Two but a much bigger prize might be looming just over the horizon for the publisher. Valve, which has been quietly establishing a good developer - publisher relationship with Electronic Arts, might be interested in being acquired by the c... |
6 August 2008
19:16 GMT |
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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 has been 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 Sk... |
6 August 2008
19:06 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
18:21 GMT |
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This slipped through our news net when we first talked about the conference call that Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick had with investors following the posting of the financial results for his company. It seems that, alongside information about Vivendi games franchises and World of Warcraft re... |
6 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
16:26 GMT |
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is widely credited with reviving the adventure genre on the PlayStation 3 and even on the consoles as a whole. The game managed to blend adventuring and puzzles with action in an almost perfect way and players were attracted to it. This justifies the fact that a new patch implements Tr... |
6 August 2008
16:06 GMT |
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One of the most appreciated racing titles of the year, Race Driver: GRID, will soon go handheld - Codemasters has just announced that the Nintendo DS version of the game is being shipped to game shops across North America, so you can schedule a trip to the nearest store and grab the title. The game also comes with a ... |
6 August 2008
15:11 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
14:46 GMT |
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In an exchange with MTV Multiplayer, Electronic Arts CEO, John Riccitiello, talked about the company's balancing licensed titles with original developments and the developers' creativity being what really drives EA forward.Riccitiello pointed to titles like Mirror's Edge from DICE and Dragon Age from B... |
6 August 2008
13:56 GMT |
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Since everybody seemed to be madly in love with Bus Simulator, the game industry has decided to push things a bit and try bringing us a Truck Simulator. Actually, the game is developed by the same company that brought us the bus sim, so we can say that it's a fair deal, after all. Let's hope it will actuall... |
6 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Only a few days after the release of the fashionable Motorola U9 clamshell, Fido has now launched another new Motorola phone for the Canadian market, namely the Z6w. First unveiled by Moto back in February, Fido's new handset comes in a slider form factor, resembling the older Z6 and Z6c models. The Z6w is p... |
6 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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A recent comScore study showed that the popularity that Yahoo! is enjoying in the UK is growing smaller with each month. The websites of the search engine were used by merely 4.3% of the Britons in June. The stats from May showed that Yahoo!'s share of the search market had risen to 4.7% of the audience. Neverth... |
6 August 2008
12:22 GMT |
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T-Mobile USA has announced today the availability of its 3G services in the "entertainment capital of world" - which is, of course, Las Vegas. Thus, T-Mobile subscribers from the city of lights and casinos can now enjoy 3G speeds on their compatible phones. T-Mo said that it had invested slightly over $37.5 million i... |
6 August 2008
12:07 GMT |
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Fans of modern warfare computer video games will be extremely happy to find out that Shrapnel Games and ProSIM have decided to bring no less than three great titles to digital distribution, allowing you to experience the excitement of armor clashes in the Middle East, a true airmobile assault at the top of the world,... |
6 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Oracle has officially released the patch for the security vulnerability in Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic that had been previously announced at the end of July.On July 28, Oracle was forced to release a security advisory due to a newly discovered vulnerability in the Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic. This vulne... |
6 August 2008
11:49 GMT |
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GRAW, as Tom Clancy's game is often referred to, comes with 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 was one of the most important aspects of the game.Tom Clancy's... |
6 August 2008
11:41 GMT |
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While Windows 7 is still a taboo subject as far as Microsoft is concerned, with the company offering just crumbs from the feast that is Windows Vista's successor, details do manage to slip through, and the Redmond company has nobody to blame for it but itself. In this context, the software giant has revealed via... |
6 August 2008
11:38 GMT |
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11 men of different nationalities pulled a large-scale scam on nine major U.S. retailers, such as OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and Forever 21. Three Americans, one Estonian, three Ukrainians, two Chinese, one man from Belarus and one whose origins are not yet known are responsible for h... |
6 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Microsoft's next iteration of DirectX is bound to be situated at the forefront of the general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution, according to the Redmond company. The software giant has been extremely shy of revealing details about the successor of DirectX 10 directly to the general public. At its r... |
6 August 2008
11:13 GMT |
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Just two days before the debut of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, AT&T, the leading North American mobile carrier and one of US Olympic Team's official partners, has announced the release of its Team USA Soundtrack. The Olympic soundtrack was produced by AT&T in collaboration with lots of famous musicians and i... |
6 August 2008
11:09 GMT |
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In nowadays computer systems the venerable hard disk drive is the main data storage unit and its purpose is to "remember" all kinds of stuff, ranging from music, video and document files to games and software applications, though the list can go on almost indefinitely. The hard disk drive, or HDD for short, dates bac... |
6 August 2008
11:04 GMT |
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HP, the leading vendor of computer systems, is working on an array of new products, including notebooks, which will provide the same finger-tapping features that have made Apple's iPhone such a popular device. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has high hopes that, within 18 months, it will be abl... |
6 August 2008
10:52 GMT |
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If a cheap Ferrari mobile phone is not exactly what you need, maybe a Mercedes Benz fits your tastes better. Of course, such a handset would first need to exist and to be commercially available, but that's not a problem anymore: a Chinese manufacturer has come up with COOLF5, a mobile phone that mimics the look ... |
6 August 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Track And Field is an arcade classic game developed and published by Konami back in 1983 and ported to home computers in 1984. Since then, the game became a very popular one and kept being ported on lots and lots of consoles and systems, eventually hitting the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. The game can be downloaded... |
6 August 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Mozilla is looking well past Firefox 3.1 and 4.0, the next versions of its open source browser, and is not doing it alone, as it is inviting the community to explore the future of Firefox with no holding back from bold, radical and even crazy ideas. In this regard, Chris Beard, Vice President and General Manager of M... |
6 August 2008
10:04 GMT |
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EVGA has recently informed the public that it will keep manufacturing NVIDIA-based products, contrary to what all the recent rumors have to say. Also recently, it has introduced a new GeForce 9800GTX+-based graphics cards. As you probably can imagine, we are not talking about a standard version of the above-mentioned... |
6 August 2008
09:59 GMT |
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According to a study performed by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, over 99% of the music Chinese people listen to is unlicensed. The Chinese are major music consumers, but they're also among those who rely the most on piracy when it comes to listening to their favorite tracks. Google ha... |
6 August 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, North America's second largest mobile carrier, has recently lowered the prices of three BlackBerry handsets from its line-up of smartphones. In consequence, users across the US can now buy the BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition for 70 bucks less. The new prices... |
6 August 2008
09:43 GMT |
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Who said that advertising in videogames can only be intrusive and game breaking? Massive Inc., which is owned by Microsoft and boasts of being the leading provider of advertising in the videogaming medium, is partnering up with movie company Paramount Pictures and with publisher Ubisoft Entertainment to create what i... |
6 August 2008
09:32 GMT |
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While ASUS is hard at work to bring to light more Eee PC models that fans can enjoy, MSI also has a few surprises in store for the customers, and one of them is the unveiling of the latest edition of its highly successful 10-inch Wind Netbook. In order to celebrate the successful run that it has had so far, the manuf... |
6 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Microsoft's monthly release of security bulletins is bound to get a tad richer as far as the information provided to customers is concerned come October 2008. This will happen via the new Exploitability Index, introduced at the Black Hat USA 2008 conference on August 5, 2008. The new resource was spawned in acco... |
6 August 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Top Spin 3 brings us stunning graphics and a revolutionary gameplay that contains innovative new controls, as well as signature player animations and styles. Of course, one of the most important things when it comes to tennis simulation games is the star cast brought by the developers and we must admit we're hap... |
6 August 2008
09:08 GMT |
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One of Adobe's applications, Flash player, is used by two versions of a malicious software in order to infect the computers of Facebook and MySpace social networks users, as we already reported. Users are taken to certain fake websites that promise to reveal exclusive videos of celebrities or hidden-camera foota... |
6 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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EMOBILE, the newest Japanese mobile carrier, will soon offer its customers a wide range of games developed by Gameloft, the well-known mobile entertainment company headquarted in France. For the beginning, Gameloft will provide nine of its latest successful installments. These include: - Tokyo City Nights, the new t... |
6 August 2008
08:48 GMT |
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AquaZone: Life Simulator is a game one rarely gets the chance to see released for major consoles like the Xbox 360. Basically a re-creation of a lifelike aquarium, AquaZone: Life Simulator allows players to raise, take care of and enjoy the company of a tropical fish, with different species to choose from - each with... |
6 August 2008
08:36 GMT |
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After announcing its latest chipset with integrated graphics, Advanced Micro is showing clear signs of thinking well ahead into the future. A rep for the company just announced today plans for extending the efforts in the adoption of the next-generation GPGPU software development. What that actually means is that, in... |
6 August 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download version 12.1 of the Beta build for the Outlook Live Connector. Designed as an add-in for the email client that ships as an integral part of the Office 2007 System, the Outlook Live Connector is set up as a bridge between Windows Live Hotmail and Outlook. With version 12.1 Bet... |
6 August 2008
07:49 GMT |
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Iusacell, the only full-CDMA mobile carrier from Mexico, announced that it now provides roaming services across China, just in time for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games that will debut on the 8th of August. The services are offered together with Aicent, Inc., a California-based company, which deployed its C... |
6 August 2008
07:23 GMT |
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On August 1, 2008, Microsoft introduced an update to the Deep Zoom Composer solution designed to permit users to take advantage of the Deep Zoom features of Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2. Just a few days later, the Redmond company made available for download a new Deep Zoom Composer update in an effort to deal with a few is... |
6 August 2008
07:18 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
06:55 GMT |
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Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research at SecureWorks, discovered that a group of Russian hackers used a type of trojan that affected over 378,000 computers. The computers, all part of the same network, were infected via a genuine Microsoft application. Coreflood is the name of the trojan used to steal data from t... |
6 August 2008
06:52 GMT |
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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... |
6 August 2008
06:45 GMT |
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AT&T is getting ready to offer a new Samsung handset for all its American customers in need of affordable devices. The phone we're talking about is Samsung A237 (or SGH-A237) and, since it's an affordable one, it does not come with too many features. As a matter of fact, its official specs are completely mi... |
6 August 2008
06:40 GMT |
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It has become somewhat of a trend for NVIDIA's graphics cards to pop up at various online retailers before they are launched officially. We've seen this happen with the company's current lineup, and we are once again witnessing the same thing with one of its upcoming products. However, before jumping t... |
6 August 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Intel has finally allowed the world to take a look at what Larrabee is supposed to look like. The news spread fast, as expected, as the new technology has been said from the beginning to be innovative and lots of rumors have circled around it since its name first appeared on the web. The chip giant promises a lot wit... |
6 August 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Speed Launch is an application designed to deliver a breath of fresh air to the process of launching mundane and repetitive tasks in Windows, offering a high level of flexibility in comparison to what is available by default with the operating system. The product of a collaboration between Matt Dyor, a patent attorne... |
6 August 2008
06:28 GMT |
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There are relatively few GPS devices designed especially for bikers available on the market nowadays, but it seems that the demand in this segment has become a pretty serious one as well, as more and more manufacturers try to come up with such products. And the latest announcement regarding a device of this type come... |
6 August 2008
06:16 GMT |
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HandyGames, a famous independent mobile games publisher based in Germany, has recently announced having signed a deal with Sony Ericsson in order to become one of the two official providers of content for SE's Play Now arena and its Fun & Download service. This comes after GlobalFun, the well-known Swedish dev... |
6 August 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Matrix Games' catalog is slowly turning into the biggest, most complete game inventory for the most hardcore fans of them all. The list of available products keeps growing and we are really happy to see that until now they have never changed their path and only kept to true quality titles. The latest game added ... |
6 August 2008
05:44 GMT |
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New software and tools designed to deal with tasks involving risk and compliance management are available via a Microsoft and BearingPoint collaboration. The BearingPoint Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (EGRC) is a solution that has at its foundation Microsoft technology, namely, Office SharePoint Server 2... |
6 August 2008
05:29 GMT |
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The idea of creating a dirt-cheap computer system for Third World students is still bubbling in the minds of many. And it's only natural that this happened, given we're not talking about a $100 computer, but about something that will be priced at only 10% of that. Unbelievable as it may sound, a few MIT stu... |
6 August 2008
05:28 GMT |
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The RPG fans in Japan are already playing a great title from Atlus, called Poison Pink. In fact, the game was so successful in Asia that the developers have decided to give it a shot and release the title in the US, too. However, they wanted to change the name a little bit, to make it fit for the western markets and ... |
6 August 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Do you want to know which was the most popular travel-related query in the last 30 days or over the last year in your country? Some would say that Google Trends fits this job just perfectly. However, it was the giant itself that considered differently, and launched another tool to come to the aid of advertisers, merc... |
6 August 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Shortly after the official announcement of the 8 Megapixel Samsung Innov8 smartphone, another high-end camera handset from the South Korean company has surfaced. Named Samsung i7110, the new phone is not yet confirmed by the world's second largest handset manufacturer, as it only appeared in several leaked pictu... |
6 August 2008
04:50 GMT |
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It has been a while now that Call of Duty keeps fighting Halo 3 for the spot of most played multiplayer game over on Xbox 360 - with short interruptions from GTA IV, it's true, but nothing important. However, it is known that gamers tend to get bored pretty quickly of doing the same thing over and over again (un... |
6 August 2008
04:35 GMT |
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It was just a couple of days ago when I was reporting that there are more MMO games than anyone can play, and it seems I was right, since one of the side-effects of this MMO explosion is the fact that some of them will eventually die just because there are not enough players for them. Of course, this is only in the b... |
6 August 2008
04:30 GMT |
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It's official: AMD's latest chipset has finally landed. Consequently, as expected, a number of motherboard manufacturers have already announced their brand new AM2+-based mobos. Over the next few days, we are probably also going to see quite a few 790GX-based platforms being announced. One step ahead of the... |
6 August 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), a world's leading motherboard, graphics card, barebone system, and notebook manufacturer, has just launched another video card based on the latest NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT graphics processing units (GPU), the N9500GT-512MU-F. The new ECS board comes with 512 MB GDDR3 memory and a... |
6 August 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Motorola Alexander, the next flagship handset to come from the well-known American manufacturer, will be indeed a touchscreen device, as rumored. However, it will not run on Symbian UIQ, as previously believed, but on Windows Mobile 6.1. Moreover, the handset will bring a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out vertical... |
6 August 2008
03:55 GMT |
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The Game Critics Awards is a group of journalists part of 36 North American media outlets. They are game columnists in charge of scouring the floor of E3 to see which releases are the best of the show. Of course, once their deliberations are complete, they are ready to share their knowledge with the masses. The award... |
6 August 2008
03:45 GMT |
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Considering the results of the recent elections, it seems like Yahoo!'s board of directors got more credit from the investors than everyone expected. Most of the current executives were voted by at least 80% of the stockholders, which gave them a sense of security, but now things are not as bright as they seemed... |
6 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices, better known just as AMD, has officially launched its latest and highly anticipated mainstream chipset. Based on one of the company’s earlier products, the 780G, the 790GX comes in a better and improved package. Now that the official release took place, this can only mean that the next couple ... |
6 August 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Konami has released its financial results for the first quarter of this fiscal year and reports that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the last game to star Solid Snake, has sold more than 3 million units worldwide, making it one of the bestsellers of 2008.Overall, the videogame publisher posted an increase i... |
6 August 2008
03:24 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, we learned about Lenovo's new line-up of lightweight mobile machines, the ThinkPad Notebooks, which promised a lot in what performance and design meant. The new SL, R, T and X series came with a Centrino 2 platform and "rock solid" design, all in the spirit of the company's line of best bus... |
6 August 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Windows 7 is continuing to cook over in Redmond with Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, keeping a tight lid on all the details, especially the estimated baking time left. However, signs of Windows Vista's successor are starting to pop on Microsoft.com. In this con... |
6 August 2008
03:18 GMT |
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The hard working team behind the Fedora project announced yesterday the first alpha release of Fedora 10, which brings many new improvements, features and fixes over previous versions. Dubbed Cambridge, Fedora 10 Alpha introduces better support for webcams, a revamped boot environment, upstream improvements, RPM 4.6,... |
6 August 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Telus Mobility, the third largest Canadian mobile operator, has just released the so-called LG KEYBO handset. We already knew that Telus intended to add this device to its line-up of products, and now the KEYBO is finally out, with all the official details, pictures and prices. Coming as the Canadian version of ... |
6 August 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Publisher THQ is announcing that it is canceling the PlayStation Portable version of its Nintendo Wii title Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed. The game was set to be a third-person shooter with a humorous take, and was being developed by Locomotive Games. The main reason for the cancellation is the fact that th... |
6 August 2008
02:33 GMT |
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You might say that there's no such thing as a cheap LCD TV coming from one of the best-known names in the industry, and you'd be perfectly right. However, even big players do roll out, from time to time, various models targeting especially the people on a budget, and that's also the case with Sharp, wh... |
6 August 2008
01:36 GMT |
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