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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... |
8 August 2008
21:11 GMT |
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Two weeks ago I was writing about the death of the point-and-click adventures, now I'm posting about another dying genre - the fantasy turn-based strategy one. Unlike the adventure games, TBS titles were never very popular, even though some of the most hardcore strategy fans are still surrounded by their hexagon... |
8 August 2008
21:06 GMT |
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Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is part of a four-release combo made up of PS2 and Xbox editions of Mortal Kombat Armageddon. UMK3 features all the players present in Mortal Kombat 3 plus some hidden characters in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II like Jade, Smoke, Ermac and Noob Saibot. A new feature in UMK3 will be 2-on-... |
8 August 2008
19:36 GMT |
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Square Enix just wrapped up an event called DK Sigma3173 Event and they could not stop talking about Final Fantasy XIII, which might be the company's biggest hit to date. They talked about cross platform development and about the plans they have for the run up to the launch of the game. The major Xbox 360 relate... |
8 August 2008
19:21 GMT |
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UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 is part of the series that we can call FIFA's younger brother, one that has plenty of potential and provides the experience that we were only able to enjoy on the telly on those two-day CHL derbies. It has plenty of innovations, lots of updates and what's most important, that... |
8 August 2008
19:06 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, the Xbox from Microsoft and the PC. It was released in 2003. It is classed as an action adventure game, with a touch of manga and played f... |
8 August 2008
18:31 GMT |
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When a videogaming company hits a rough patch, the earliest signs of trouble, apart from red underlined numbers in financial reports, are news that important people are leaving the company. It happened when Flagship Studios went down and it seems to be happening now to Midway.Mike Bilder, who joined the company somet... |
8 August 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Two Worlds is set in the fantasy world of Antaloor where the player is free to roam, complete the missions of the seven factions featured in the game and choose his objectives as he wishes. Moral options are always present in this RPG and the player has to choose whether he wants to earn the respect or the fear of th... |
8 August 2008
17:06 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 ... |
8 August 2008
16:46 GMT |
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To work faster and with less frustration - a goal we are all striving to achieve, especially given the hectic times we live in. Quick as lightning access to documents, files and the websites you are usually working with should be a standard these days.Application launchers are a good idea and, in this particular case... |
8 August 2008
16:31 GMT |
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The online sports worlds will soon welcome a new member to their family, since Outspark is closer than ever to release its latest game, Project Powder. This newest addition to the company's Virtual Playground promises to offer a true snowboarding experience to everybody who tries it. In even better news, the ope... |
8 August 2008
15:06 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... |
8 August 2008
14:36 GMT |
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Star Wars is one of the best known movie series in the world and one of the most successful. It has also managed to spawn a whole universe of books, action figures, magazines and loyal fans. Traveller's Tales understood the potential of Star Wars but knew that creating a game set in that universe would require s... |
8 August 2008
14:21 GMT |
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In parallel with the Windows 7 client, the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft is also building the next iteration of the Windows server operating system. Windows 7 Server will follow Windows Server 2008 R2, but Microsoft has failed to deliver a timetable for the release so far. Still, while revealing close to no i... |
8 August 2008
13:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned end users that performing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot. According to the Redmond company, t... |
8 August 2008
13:14 GMT |
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Namco Bandai's latest release, the fighting game Soul Calibur IV, seems to be one of those titles that will break a few records. First of all, it was the first title in five years to grab the top spot as the best selling game in the UK and now we have word from the publishers that they have shipped no less than ... |
8 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Samsung U800, the most recently released mobile phone from the Soul lineup of handsets, is now available in Ukraine, one of Europe's largest mobile markets in terms of the number of subscribers (about 55 million). Also called Samsung Soulb, the U800 was officially introduced to the world at the end of May, comi... |
8 August 2008
12:43 GMT |
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The death of the mammoth Windows operating system releases was proclaimed even before the availability of Windows Vista. With Windows 7, Microsoft managed to prove that Windows was still very much alive and kicking. Now, a new product cooking in Redmond has the potential to make Windows history. With its roots deep i... |
8 August 2008
12:43 GMT |
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Runes of Magic is a WoW-like MMORPG with one huge advantage over the giant: it is completely free to play! However, visual aspects and freeness ratings are not the only important things when it comes to computer and video games - the gameplay matters quite a lot too and that's what Frogster, the developer of the... |
8 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Most people enjoy watching several types of sports or, even better, playing them in real life or at least virtually. While Google announced the launch of a portal that would cover the Beijing Olympics, Yahoo! chooses to base its strategy on American football only. The 12th season of Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football com... |
8 August 2008
12:00 GMT |
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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... |
8 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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If you ever felt that your iPhone (be it 3G or not) could be of more help to you when you're in a foreign country, or if you simply need to translate something, Google has now optimized the Google Translate service to be used with Apple's famous handset. Of course, accessing the Google Translate website vi... |
8 August 2008
11:45 GMT |
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The Office 2007 System is evolving, and so is Office 2003. As a direct result of end user feedback, Microsoft has worked to bridge Windows Live Translator with its Office productivity suites. For the time being, Windows Live Translator will have to be manually integrated into Office, but the Redmond company also plan... |
8 August 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Three journalists, representing the French Global Security Magazine, have been expelled from the hacker Black Hat conference, as CNet.news reports. The three went a bit too far with their hacking skills, as they broke into the LAN connection of the conference and extracted login information of other journalists. The ... |
8 August 2008
11:17 GMT |
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One of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone market, HTC, has achieved remarkable recognition over the past couple of years, thanks to its high-end Pocket PCs and smartphones. Since 1997, the year that the Taiwanese manufacturer started its business under the HTC brand, it became clear that worldwide domi... |
8 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Samsung announced today that a new handset is available for US mobile users: the so-called Samsung Messager (model name SCH-R450). The device was released via MetroPCS and it targets young users who send lots of text messages or make heavy use of Instant Messaging applications on their phone(s). To meet the needs of ... |
8 August 2008
10:42 GMT |
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MSI's Eee Box competitor was announced as early as the beginning of June this year but, since then, the Taiwanese manufacturer has failed to start shipping the product. Known as the Wind PC or the Wind Nettop, this desktop system has been designed to compete with ASUS' Eee Box for the title of the best smal... |
8 August 2008
10:21 GMT |
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It's always best to have a good ally in the fight against time and, in this particular case, against the aging of the skin. While they do say aging is a natural process that should be dealt with in as natural a manner as possible, having something to fall back upon in case that should not happen always counts as... |
8 August 2008
09:59 GMT |
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At the start of July, Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer, revealed that the Redmond company considers Windows Vista an apex of security, and in this sense, superior to Mac OS X, Linux, the whole of open source and even Windows XP. Yet this perspective is not sufficient to take either Vista or XP out of t... |
8 August 2008
09:58 GMT |
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As the Beijing Olympics just opened, Google announced the launch of a new website that comprises the latest news in the sports world, videos of the competitions provided by YouTube, or 3D models of the stadiums that host the events, created with the Google SketchUp. The events schedule and a medal count, either for s... |
8 August 2008
09:57 GMT |
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Before going into details I must confess that Galactic Dream: Rage of War is a frustrating experience from a reviewer's point of view. It was created by a little known developer called Evolution Vault, which then got a distribution deal with Strategy First. It's a real space strategy game which promises con... |
8 August 2008
09:26 GMT |
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Last week, a new netbook made the headlines, including our own - the Sylvania, to be more specific. The interesting thing about this new product is that it isn't provided by any of the major notebook manufacturers, but by a small company that is trying to capitalize from this emerging market. Today, we bring you... |
8 August 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Windows Codename Fiji is the prime example of Microsoft sticking to an absurd policy when it comes down to communicating details about its products to the general public. Even at just one month from the release of Windows Fiji, the Redmond company is keeping a tight lid on all details much to the frustration of Windo... |
8 August 2008
09:08 GMT |
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Samsung has recently unveiled two new handsets in its home country (South Korea): SCH-W460 and SPH-W3300. Neither of the new phones brings too advanced features; thus, they are targeted for users who are happy only with low to mid end devices. The first handset, Samsung SCH-W460 (or simply Samsung W460) is a clamshe... |
8 August 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Home is the social network-like hub that Sony is promoting as one of the most exciting features to be launched for the PlayStation 3 this fall. The idea is to offer players a way to quickly present their identity as gamers and as persons, with Home storing all their Trophies and with Home itself completely customizab... |
8 August 2008
09:00 GMT |
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The worm that we previously reported on as being the latest threat to Facebook and MySpace community has been eliminated, as users can no longer click on malicious links. Max Kelly, Head of Security at Facebook, assures that at least Facebook users can forget about the danger and put it behind them."We spent most of ... |
8 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Undertow is an underwater shooter set in an alternate world, featuring a 15 level campaign for single-player or co-op and two multiplayer modes for up to 16 players. A certain amount of maps have level-specific goals and the core gameplay of the game is centered on the idea of destroying as many enemies as possible, ... |
8 August 2008
08:53 GMT |
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If you are an NVIDIA fan and you are wondering which graphics card manufacturer has the best GTX280-based solution, you should know you can choose from quite a few alternatives. One of them includes MSI's most recent offer, and uses NVIDIA's flagship graphics processor in a factory-oveclocked GeForce graphi... |
8 August 2008
08:17 GMT |
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Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms is a video game created by Snowblind Studios and published by Sony Online Entertainment. It was only developed for the PlayStation 2 gaming consoles from Sony and was published in 2005. The game is classed as an action title with a dark medieval theme that sought to introduce some... |
8 August 2008
08:02 GMT |
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After the recent release of its BalckBerry Curve in a sunset color version, T-Mobile USA is getting ready to bring even more new BlackBerry smartphones to its customers. Although it seems that the Stateside T-Mo will not be getting the BlackBery Bold 9000 anytime soon (like its German and Austrian cousins), the fourt... |
8 August 2008
08:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has geared up its resources for the 2008 Olympic Games, and as the sporting celebration debuts today, August 8, 2008, a wide range of its software products and online services will parade content from the Beijing event. From MSN to Live Search, and from Windows Media Center, to the Xbox console, and to the ... |
8 August 2008
07:39 GMT |
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A few days ago, users of my.yahoo.com reported that their personal pages were offering a link to plgou.com/csrss/yahoo.htm, a suspicious webpage that turned out to be spreading trojans. The msyahoo.exe file, downloaded as rondll32.exe, installed hidden programs and commands that made some resources in users' com... |
8 August 2008
07:26 GMT |
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games will debut today (August 8); this is why the Mobile version of Google's official website has undergone through some changes. These have enhanced the search engine in such way that it is now optimized to offer users the best-possible Olympic coverage. More exactly, when sear... |
8 August 2008
07:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering a unique perspective behind its mapping, search and location service. An integral aspect of the infrastructure that contributes content, and ultimately permits the building and evolution of Virtual Earth, is a piece of photographic equipment that Microsoft produces itself, namely UltraCamX. Mark... |
8 August 2008
06:53 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... |
8 August 2008
06:47 GMT |
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While ASUS' notebook business is going through a rough patch, competitor Lenovo appears to be doing quite well. The company announced today that its revenues were up 10% during the fiscal first quarter. According to the official line, the successful first quarter is due to the strong notebook sales and an expand... |
8 August 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Social network websites enjoy, worldwide, a well-defined and engaged audience. Japan makes no exception to the rule, as over 56 million users were reported to have accessed their personal social network webpage at least once in June. While Mixi, a Japan-based network, recorded the largest audience, of almost 13 milli... |
8 August 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Bionic Commando Rearmed is indeed a makeover of the classic 8-bit game, originally released some 20 years ago. Rearmed will be available for digital download from Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network this Fall, with the PC version becoming available at the same time. As the trailer below shows, the intense 2D side s... |
8 August 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows operating system will not take center stage in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but this is not to say that it will not play an important role behind the stage, in the infrastructure of the event. One illustrative example in this context is Windows XP Embedded which will be intimately connecte... |
8 August 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Dell announced that it managed to become a carbon-neutral company five months before the projected moment. The company has improved the energy efficiency at its own facilities, which allowed it to reach its target. Dell also made some "green" electricity purchases and investments in wind power in the U.S., China, and... |
8 August 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Samsung's Soul U900 handset is undoubtedly a huge commercial success for the South Korean company. This is why the Asian manufacturer thought of coming up with another phone of this kind, namely the Samsung S7330. The S7330 keeps the slider form factor of the already famous U900, adds some slightly different de... |
8 August 2008
05:59 GMT |
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If you remember the MSI Wind Netbook Love Edition we mentioned earlier this week, then you should know that you can already get your hands on it, as the Taiwanese manufacturer has listed it on its own shopping website. In fact, at this time, the Love Edition is the only Wind Netbook available here so, quite obviously... |
8 August 2008
05:30 GMT |
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The first RIM smartphone to come with a flip design, known until now as BlackBerry KickStart, will in fact be released under the official name of BlackBerry Pearl 8220. Therefore, the upcoming clamshell smartphone will be the fifth device from the Pearl series, which is currently comprised of the following models: Bl... |
8 August 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Microsoft is cooking a new testing program tailored to the future releases of Windows. The Redmond company confirmed Windows 7 as an evolution of Windows Vista, but this doesn't seem to apply to the infrastructure that helped produce the current Windows client. In fact, not only for Windows 7, but "beyond" as Mi... |
8 August 2008
05:12 GMT |
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It looks like AMD is working hard on the introduction of Havok on GPU. The company wants to make it run faster than Physics on a GPU, at least that is what AMD's Physics department seems to have told news site Fudzilla. While Ageia's PhysX was able to leverage the physics in original Ghost Recon Advanced Wa... |
8 August 2008
05:07 GMT |
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A 502 server error prevented Gmail and Google Apps users from accessing their accounts for about 15 hours. The error, associated with servers that have to deal with too many connections, disappeared after the number of people who tried to access a specific location decreased. In this particular case, it took Google e... |
8 August 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Plastic surgery and all kinds of beautification methods no longer being available only to those "select few," it should probably come as no surprise that it's the world's most famous cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists those who are currently hailing the advent of a new era in terms of beauty. However, for... |
8 August 2008
05:00 GMT |
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ASUS has recently rolled out a new motherboard based on one of AMD's latest products, the 790GX graphics integrated chipset. The new ASUS M3A78-T has been designed to support AMD's latest CPUs and graphics cards, with help from one of the most promising chipsets to have been released by Advanced Micro Devic... |
8 August 2008
04:40 GMT |
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An article written by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager, and posted today on the Google blog, announces that in the upcoming months the Google content network (AdSense) will benefit from several enhancements based on DoubleClick technology.Several months ago, Google purchased the DoubleClick ad management... |
8 August 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Fable 2, the much talked about Peter Molyneux game, has a clear release date. It will be launched in North America on October 21 while Europe will get the game on October 24. Microsoft reps say that they are taking pre-orders for the game now and offered the details regarding the Collector's Edition of Fable 2.T... |
8 August 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Samsung's latest iPhone 3G fighter, namely the Omnia i900, will be soon released in a new white color version, according to several rumors appeared on the Web. You might say that this is obviously a move aimed at stealing some of the success the white iPhone 3G has, and you'd probably be right. Although the... |
8 August 2008
04:13 GMT |
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People living in Japan greatly enjoyed a game called Neverland Card Battles, a PS2 exclusive (at that time) bringing the trading card genre to a whole new level. The US branch of the game's developers, Yuke's Company of America, understood that such a great project should be shared with the western markets,... |
8 August 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Toshiba announced today the launch of the largest density NAND products, embedded flash memory devices of 32GB, which also feature full compliance with the eMMC and eSD standards. The new devices are designed for use in digital consumer products like mobile phones, video cameras, HDTV, personal navigation devices, PO... |
8 August 2008
04:05 GMT |
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AGEOD, a company focusing on the development of hardcore strategy games, seems to be ready to take over the world with some quality titles since, following the announcement of Birth of America II, it went public with the development of World War One, a historically accurate TBS (turn based strategy) game for PC only.... |
8 August 2008
03:39 GMT |
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Nowadays, typos no longer lead to dead-ends anymore, messages like "server not found" being less encountered. This is all the more true when it comes to words that match almost perfectly the original names that give identity to the URL of a website. The race for presidency in the U.S. is one of the matters of most in... |
8 August 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Sparkle, one of NVIDIA's board partners, announced yesterday the Calibre Fly Cooling System, an innovative cooling solution for some of the latest graphics cards released. The new product has been designed to be compatible with both NVIDIA and ATI-based graphics cards so, quite obviously, it should provide an al... |
8 August 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Although the summer holiday season is almost over (unfortunately), it would seem that various manufacturers of digital cameras are decided to keep our interest levels up. So, following Nikon's announcement regarding the P6000, Sony has also unveiled two new Cyber-shot models, the T77 and the T700, designed espec... |
8 August 2008
03:22 GMT |
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Can you tell me which entertainment industry is on its death bed and trying desperately to find something to cling to? Yes, it's the music industry and its newest ray of hope is to get more money out of videogames. How? By charging more on the tracks that games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero use.Warner Music Gro... |
8 August 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Spice Mobiles, an Indian telecommunications company, has recently released its first gaming handset for India, targeted at young consumers who need more than just a mobile phone. Named Spice X-1, the handset comes with a mini-game controller, which should offer users a pretty cool gaming experience. Moreover, there a... |
8 August 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Transmeta Corporation recently announced that it included Nvidia into its group of LongRun and LongRun2 low-power technologies licensees. It looks like this licensing might keep the company alive for quite a long time. Nvidia had to pay a "one-time, non-refundable license fee of $25 million", which granted the Santa ... |
8 August 2008
03:13 GMT |
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It seems that fans of the football management genre will soon have a huge catalog of games to choose from, since new titles for different platforms have started to be announced, along with the classics. The latest company to promise us some fun with a football (soccer) game is Xing Interactive, which is working on th... |
8 August 2008
02:53 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Casual Entertainment division has announced that it plans to introduce a new franchise of casual games, based on the For Dummies brand created by Wiley Publishing. The development duties will be handled by Beanbag Studios and the games will target the Nintendo DS and the PC.The first release in ... |
8 August 2008
02:39 GMT |
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You probably were not completely excited to hear that a cheerleading championship game is going to hit the Nintendo Wiis, but let's face it: it's a game you could definitely try and maybe even enjoy for a few hours. Actually, Namco Bandai, the developer, is so sure that the title is going to be a success th... |
8 August 2008
02:31 GMT |
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