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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... |
7 August 2008
21:26 GMT |
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Turok, the latest installment in the Turok games series based on Acclaim's comic series with the same name, was developed by Aspyr Media and published by Disney Interactive Studios under the Touchstone banner in North America and the United Kingdom and by Capcom in all the other territories. The PC version (whic... |
7 August 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Triggerheart Exelica is a vertical arcade shooter game originally designed for arcade systems in Japan, but later ported on Sega's Dreamcast and Xbox 360 consoles. Developed by Warashi and published by Sega, the XBLA version was released on the 27th of February 2008, featuring revamped visuals and high definitio... |
7 August 2008
19:46 GMT |
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So, there were rumors and then there was certainty. Microsoft has decided to drop the price of the 20 GB hard drive Xbox 360 to 299 dollars, while supplies last, as it was discontinuing it, while also introducing a new version of the console, sporting a 60 GB hard drive, which was set to retail for 349 dollars.Actual... |
7 August 2008
19:16 GMT |
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In Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, you create your own story, and 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 skating styles you choose. In the demo, for example, gamers skate through Philadelphia ... |
7 August 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is a video game created 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 third ... |
7 August 2008
18:31 GMT |
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Peter Hines is the main voice of Bethesda when it comes to promoting the company's upcoming post apocalyptic role playing game Fallout 3. Even if die-hard fans of the first two games dismissed Bethesda's effort as being just "Oblivion with guns", while criticizing virtually every aspect shown by the develop... |
7 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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iPhone owners who are interested in playing on their precious handsets might be happy to find out that two new games are available for download via the App Store. The first is Frogger, the popular arcade title originally released by Konami back in 1981 and re-made in lots of new versions since then. The Japanese dev... |
7 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... |
7 August 2008
16:31 GMT |
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The Trophy wave seems to be hitting every major PlayStation 3 game this summer. As the console introduced the Achievement-like system in firmware update 2.41, publishers promised that games would begin to get Trophies as soon as possible. Now it's time for multiplayer shooter Warhawk to detail its offerings, whi... |
7 August 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Even though the console war is a global "conflict," winning one of the three big regions - North America, Asia and Europe - could offer a console manufacturer company huge profits. Microsoft and their Xbox 360 kind of lost hope with Asia and especially Japan, even though the recently released Tales of Vesperia has pr... |
7 August 2008
15:06 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... |
7 August 2008
14:46 GMT |
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The situation is looking kinda grim for all who love World in Conflict as much as I do. When Activision announced its intention to only retain intellectual properties like Spyro, Ice Age, Crash Bandicoot and Prototype from Vivendi Games, everybody was worried about the fate of Ghostbusters, the videogame re-interpret... |
7 August 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Mozilla is making forays into the future of Firefox and the Web, but at the same time is cooking Shiretoko. The list of Firefox 3.1, codename Shiretoko, features is growing ahead of the Alpha 2 and Beta 1 builds that are planned to drop by the end of this month. Nothing is completely set in stone as far as the next v... |
7 August 2008
13:39 GMT |
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Virgin Mobile Canada has just released its first-ever BlackBerry smartphone, the Pearl 8130. The handset comes not long after the Canadian division of the global MVNO (Mobile virtual network operator) launched the popular full-QWERTY LG Rumor phone. BlackBerry Pearl is a quite popular device itself, and it's pre... |
7 August 2008
13:23 GMT |
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Microsoft has already indicated through the voice of Anantha Kancherla, manager of Windows desktop and graphics technologies, that DirectX 11 would be at the vanguard of the upcoming general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution. However, the real details have only been shared with developers and not the gen... |
7 August 2008
13:12 GMT |
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The America's Army series of games exists ever since 2002, when Ubisoft released the first title, but it is only now that an antiwar group has decided to protest against the decision to create video games that serve as real recruiting tools for the US Army. Actually, the reason stated by the antiwar group is tha... |
7 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Snowl is designed to extend the functionality of Firefox beyond the default tasks associated with the process of navigating web content. In fact, this is the premise of Snowl, that the open source browser is capable of dealing with content in addition to what it was originally designed for. Snowl, a project from Mozi... |
7 August 2008
12:43 GMT |
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Yahoo! announced today that its application, Zimbra Desktop, which was launched last month, would be available for the Linux platform. Canonical, a company that supports Linux distribution, has just signed an agreement with Yahoo! that will give Linux users the possibility to have offline access to multiple email acc... |
7 August 2008
12:20 GMT |
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Vodafone will soon offer a new high-end Pocket PC to its subscribers across the UK, and we're talking about HTC Touch Pro, the handset announced by the Taiwan-based manufacturer at about the same time with the Touch Diamond.The Touch Pro has recently appeared on Vodafone UK's Business Shop website, with the... |
7 August 2008
12:15 GMT |
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GameTap, one of the best known PC gaming services focusing on digital distribution of episodic content games as well as free, ad-based titles, will be sold to an undisclosed company, according to reports coming from website Gamasutra.GameTap parent Turner has decided to sell the service following the parent media com... |
7 August 2008
12:06 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... |
7 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Whether Microsoft likes it or not, its first commercial surface computing product is still far from going mainstream. The largest impediment by far is the price tag of Microsoft Surface. The hardware built around a Windows Vista operating system and complemented by the surface computing technology developed by Micros... |
7 August 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The anti-spam department at Yahoo! decided to hold a workshop in order to help users express their doubts and concerns regarding spam received via email. Also, the team wanted to give some pieces of advice to those who got tired of the numerous methods used by spammers to get their messages to as many people as possi... |
7 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Lenovo finally unveiled its latest IdeaPad notebook, the S10, which will compete with ASUS's Eee PC on the netbook market. Despite the fact that Lenovo is yet to begin shipment, the company's product has already received a hands-on treatment and we can say for sure that we are looking at ... |
7 August 2008
11:18 GMT |
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Nokia N85, a new Nseries smartphone that has not been officially announced yet by Nokia, has been approved by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and it should, sometime in the future, be released in the US. The N85 comes with support for quad-band GSM frequencies (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) as well as tri-... |
7 August 2008
10:55 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, the second largest North American mobile carrier, announced today having completed the acquisition of Rural Cellular, the Minnesota-based mobile carrier that offers services under the Unicel brand. The deal was sealed for a total of $2.66 billion (in cash as well as in assumed debt) and it brings Ve... |
7 August 2008
10:17 GMT |
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Just when you thought that your 4GB of desktop system memory was just the thing to knock the socks off any computer enthusiast out there, OCZ intros its latest P45 Special 8GB and 16GB memory kits. That's enough to make any 32-bit operating system user want to upgrade to a 64-bit OS. In fact, that's just wh... |
7 August 2008
10:12 GMT |
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According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, year after year, more and more people tend to use a search engine when they need information on something. The total number of Internet users conducting searches everyday got from almost 30%, as it was reported in 2002, to 49%, six years later. The survey al... |
7 August 2008
09:37 GMT |
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SQL Server 2008 was launched on February 27, 2008 alongside Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, but the platform was only released to manufacturing on August 6, 2008, and is available for download only to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The Redmond company promised that the downloads for the SQL Server 2008 Exp... |
7 August 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Tron was, at first, a sci-fi movie hero that entered a video game and had to battle for survival (your parents probably know more about this one). As strange as it might sound, this movie was later turned into a video game about a man that enters a video game in a movie and... OK, I'm lost, but it doesn't m... |
7 August 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Mythic is clearly making up for the long development cycle (more than three years) of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning by announcing that it plans a world wide release for the game on September 18, which is no less than five days earlier than the date we were expecting to see it thanks to recent rumors. Well, five ... |
7 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Research In Motion and Indosat, the second largest mobile carrier in Indonesia, have announced the availability of a new prepaid service for Indonesian BlackBerry users. Called "BlackBerry On Demand", the new service comes to offer business users and companies an improved solution for enjoying all the features that t... |
7 August 2008
09:15 GMT |
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ASUS' Eee PC netbooks are undoubtedly among the company's most successful products, but even so, the Taiwanese manufacturer has seen its notebooks shipments fail to rise to the expectations in the first half of 2008. As a result, the company's CEO announced yesterday, during an investors press conferen... |
7 August 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Following some more or less disappointing financial results for Q1 posted yesterday, the Japanese company Nikon has decided that it's about time to boost its sales and launched no less than 6 new models, most of them targeting especially mainstream photographers. The new digital cameras are all members of the CO... |
7 August 2008
09:01 GMT |
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It seems the Achievements that Blizzard implements into World of Warcraft will be retroactive, not requiring the player to go again to parts of the game he has already visited.Jeffrey Kaplan, who is a designer on World of Warcraft, clearly told MTV Multiplayer that the guys at Blizzard "retroactively track any quest ... |
7 August 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Dan Kaminsky is the IOActive specialist whose speech was the most anticipated at this year's Black Hat hacker conference held in Las Vegas. This happened because, one month ago, Kaminsky announced that he had discovered a DNS flaw that employed completely new methods to steal data and affect users' connecti... |
7 August 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Although Canadian users might already know that HTC Touch Diamond will be available in their country, no release date for the handset has been announced. Well, now this "little" detail is cleared out, as Telus - Diamond's exclusive Canadian carrier - revealed the new Pocket PC would be on sale starting August 14... |
7 August 2008
08:31 GMT |
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In Transformers: The Game you can select either the Aubotos or the Decepticons and control the robots pertaining to those factions. Once you choose the bots you like, the action starts and you'll soon notice that there's a certain feeling of freedom that reminds you of GTA, but the free-roaming is actually ... |
7 August 2008
08:25 GMT |
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While working its way toward launching the official Windows 7 Blog, Microsoft is getting ready to share more and more information on the next iteration of the Windows operating system. Even though the company continues to be largely mute on the subject of Windows 7 and prompt in burying all leaked data, while careful... |
7 August 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Catwoman is a video game developed by Electronic Arts UK and published by Electronic Arts. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, for the Xbox from Microsoft, the PC and the Game Cube. The game is classed as an action title which is played from a third person perspective, based on the comic book lice... |
7 August 2008
08:01 GMT |
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Although Microsoft and open source are two items situated by default at the opposite poles of the software environment, the Redmond company is increasingly breaking down the boundaries associated with its proprietary business model. The software giant's open source project hosting website is drawing in in excess... |
7 August 2008
07:42 GMT |
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As we are getting closer to NVIDIA's NVISION event, rumors of new high-performance GeForce graphics cards gradually gain more ground. Moreover, this month, the entire industry is all eyes on AMD, which will finally reveal its latest high-end Radeon, also known as the Spartan. And this is how rumors of a 55nm GT2... |
7 August 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat is a video game created by Magenta Software and published by Vivendi Universal Game. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, for the Xbox from Microsoft and for the PC and released in 2003. It is classed as an action adventure game, with a touch of manga and play... |
7 August 2008
07:00 GMT |
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The final version of the Live Search Webmaster Center is now live, four months short of a year since the service debuted into Beta. Microsoft's focus with the Center was to provide a hotspot dedicated to the Search Engine Optimization tools and tasks associated with bridging websites with its search engine. Even... |
7 August 2008
06:46 GMT |
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The latest trends on the market show that the LCD monitor panel prices are expected to experience massive drops in August, going under their fully-loaded costs. According to WitsView, the prices might even get close to the cash cost levels, which will be the lowest acceptable average selling prices (ASPs) for makers.... |
7 August 2008
06:35 GMT |
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The France-based Gameloft has just announced the release of a brand new "action meets racing" game for mobile phones, named Death Race. Developed after the signing of a new partnership with Universal Pictures, Death Race is inspired by the action movie with the same title, which will debut on August 22. Players who ... |
7 August 2008
06:35 GMT |
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If you were one of the six million people who watched the YouTube mania related to the Wii Fit, you probably crossed your fingers hoping to hear that Nintendo managed to cast a spell and somehow create a DS balance board. That's not the deal, but this does not mean that the DS can't have its own "a must for... |
7 August 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard is currently present on the sub-notebook market with its 2133 Mini-Note PC, whose availability the company announced back in April 2008. Since then, quite a host of other manufacturers, including ASUS, Acer and MSI, have launched their own Atom-powered netbooks. Given its different specifications and ... |
7 August 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Secure Computing announced the launch of Secure Web Reporter, a tool that reports on the entire web activity of an organization. Security, compliance and performance analysis are the specific tasks that the application has to perform. Although Secure Web Reporter continuously evaluates the web traffic of a company, i... |
7 August 2008
06:08 GMT |
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After the July 11 release of the iPhone 3G (on 21 global markets), Apple is preparing to launch its new handset in other 21 countries around the world. Thus, the iPhonisation will continue on August 22, with important markets like India (the second largest mobile market in the world), Poland and Argentina. The 21 ne... |
7 August 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Just recently, Lenovo rolled out its latest IdeaPad portable computer system, which also marked the first foray of company on the netbook market. And it's not planning to stop here either, as word in the industry has it that it is also expected to release a second model to its new netbook lineup, which will make... |
7 August 2008
05:23 GMT |
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AMD announced today two new professional graphics accelerators, the ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V3700, meant to ensure raised performance for applications like Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Digital Content Creation (DCC). The company has also introduced a new brand for its professional graphics accelerators, ... |
7 August 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Microsoft released Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and subsequently made the gold bits available for download. But, what has been deemed as the equivalent of a fully fledged Service Pack for the Windows Home Server operating system is yet to truly reach the finish line, at least in... |
7 August 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson T700, the handset said to be the modern reiteration of T610 (a phone that had a huge success back in its time), was officially presented today. The T700 is an elegant mid-end candybar which could reach high sales if Sony Ericsson prices it sagely. Feature-wise, the new T700 brings the following: a 2 i... |
7 August 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Just after ASUS' CEO confirmed the rumors of new Eee PC models being in the making, the first photos of the upcoming products have already surfaced on the Internet. Now that the Eee PC 701SD has had what can only be deemed its fair share of media attention, time has come for another one of the company's yet... |
7 August 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Moving forward with Windows, and even past what is currently its proprietary operating system, Microsoft will have to deal with a crucial gambit – evolution on a non-Windows path vs. perpetuating the platform's heritage for 1+ billion users. Not really much of a choice for the Redmond giant, which can't aff... |
7 August 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Google has announced that its search marketing business, Performics, is to be acquired by Publicis Groupe, a France-based company. Publicis Groupe is more of a multinational search advertising business, which has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, London, Hamburg, Sydney, Singapore and Beijing. The Google t... |
7 August 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Nvidia has recently unveiled some of its plans on the upcoming drivers for its graphics cards, the ForceWare Release 180. The new drivers will be code-named "Big Bang II", and they are going to bring significant improvements on the company's SLI technology support (for those that do not know, the first SLI drive... |
7 August 2008
04:13 GMT |
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RIM and T-Mobile Europe have finally announced the release of BlackBerry Bold 9000 in Germany. After several delays, the new high-end smartphone is now available online, on T-Mo's official German website, and in the carrier's stores across the country. T-Mobile Germany offers the Bold for several prices, st... |
7 August 2008
03:55 GMT |
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Fans of the RTS genre were pleased with the first Theatre of War game developed by 1C Company, especially because the game brought an unprecedented detail level to the entire game mechanics. It seems only natural to hear now that the company is working on a new title in the series, one that will take the action back ... |
7 August 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Reading magazines, looking at videos over the internet or talking to friends - these were the only ways Europeans were able to have some sort of contact with Square Enix's Chrono Trigger. But things are going to change very, very soon, since the developers have announced that, for the first time ever, fans from ... |
7 August 2008
03:24 GMT |
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Following a rather lengthy period of media hype, ASUS has finally rolled out its Wiimote-like Eee Sticks. As most of you must already know by now, the new Eee accessories have been designed with the clear purpose of allowing users to have a better gaming experience. Given all this, the company has just announced that... |
7 August 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Google has just announced the launch of a clever office tool - a box that can store and index by itself up to an astonishing number of 10 million documents or even more, upon request. The new Google Search Appliance is conceived as a handy tool that can help organizations give up on the impractical solutions they hav... |
7 August 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Media Molecule and Sony are revealing the details of the pre-order campaign that will target their LittleBigPlanet game. From the way the Sony PlayStation blog entry is formulated, it would seem that the publishers intend to make it so that each major retailer has a different promotion tied to LittleBigPlanet. There ... |
7 August 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Nvidia's M84 and M86 cards turned into a great disaster after all. A lot of consumers were affected by the weak die/packaging material that resulted into the GPUs failing at a certain point. The Santa Clara announced a few weeks ago that it had set aside $200 million to handle the situation, but that might not b... |
7 August 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Vodafone UK has announced the release of W980, Sony Ericsson's latest Walkman flagship phone, which will come preloaded with Usher's new album, "Here I Stand". The new W980 will be available starting this weekend, for free (with a data plan and a contract agreement for 18 months) or for prices up to 300 GBP... |
7 August 2008
03:00 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, the guys over at Piranha Bytes started a teasing process, by announcing their Project RPB - a working title created by the combination of PB (the name of the company) and RPG (the genre of the new game). Other details were not given, though, so we just started to imagine things that had nothing... |
7 August 2008
02:58 GMT |
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The first release candidate of Linux Mint 5.0 KDE Edition was announced earlier today by Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint Community. This version comes with updated packages and an upgraded kernel to be in sync with Ubuntu 8.04.1. However, be aware that this is not based on KDE 4, it's KDE 3.5.9!Linux Mint 5.... |
7 August 2008
02:34 GMT |
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We live in a MMO era on PCs, but one that is ruled by RPGs, even though players might want to try something different every now and then. Beyond Protocol, developed by Dark Sky Entertainment, is one of those games that wish to offer a brand new experience and explore an under populated genre: the real time strategy i... |
7 August 2008
02:27 GMT |
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At long last, Rockstar and Take Two have announced that Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to the PC. The release date is set for November, with the game arriving in North America on November 18 and with Europe getting it on November 21. According to the announcement, the game may remain pretty much the same as when it wa... |
7 August 2008
02:26 GMT |
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It's already a very well-known fact that most people around the world use the Internet and torrents for downloading multimedia content. For this reason, the popularity of those special devices that are capable of playing back the respective content directly on a widescreen, high-definition TV set (without the ne... |
7 August 2008
02:06 GMT |
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