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Video game developer BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 3 has gone Gold, meaning that actual game disk are now being printed, and the company has also allowed a lot more video of the game to be released.
The above video is 40-minute long and shows quite a few chunks of gameplay, enough for any fan of the series ... |
13 February 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Casey Hudson, who is an executive producer working on Mass Effect 3, has confirmed that the upcoming mix between role-playing and action from BioWare has reached Gold status ahead of its March launch date.
The Twitter message from the developer reads, “After an awesome effort by our team, I’m proud to an... |
13 February 2012
07:39 GMT |
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On January 15, 2012, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will help celebrate the best in film and television for the previous year at the Golden Globes. Below is a video of what A-listers at the ceremony will have for dessert. Putting the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie in the same room (to name jus... |
11 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Hublot is well known for its expensive, one of a kind watches. Soon enough, the luxury brand will add another timepiece to its incredible offering: the Magic Gold timepiece, made of 18-carat indestructible gold.Gold alloy (18-carat gold) is prone to scratches, so a piece of jewelry made of it shows the signs of time ... |
21 December 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Not everything that glitters is gold and no gold-digging process is risk-free. Scientists highlight that goal extraction implies the usage of mercury, presenting long-term risks for
mine workers and communities located near the sites. This alarming situation made the EU adopt strict regulations and ban the usage o... |
18 November 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Picking up a book and selling it as many times as you want is the simplest and quickest way of putting together a huge pile of gold in the just launched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the open world first person role playing game from Bethesda.The book can be found on a skeleton corpse which seems to have an endless su... |
14 November 2011
10:21 GMT |
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If there’s but one computer model in the whole world that shouldn’t be pimped out with gold, that computer is an Apple MacBook Pro.
Not that everyone has to agree, but I’m sure many of you will when I say that having loads of cash doesn’t have to equal having zero taste.
Is a MacBook Pro... |
10 October 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft has announced that more than two thirds of the subscriptions for its Xbox Live Gold service are being bought at retail rather than using the online store of the company.
The company cited the statistic in order to show that it has a very close relation with its retail partners and pl... |
5 September 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Like so many other companies, Philips did not miss the chance to attend the 2011 edition of the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, having created, among other things, a pair of high-end TV lines.There are many ways circumstances under which companies may come forward and release some new product or other.Granted, in... |
5 September 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has announced that the Special Edition for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which is set to be released on November 20, will include a gold Wii Remote accessory.This bundle will set a player back 69.99 dollars and Nintendo says that there will be no other way of... |
30 August 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has clarified that it does not plan to introduce a real money in-game item auction house for its MMO World of Warcraft despite having plans to do so for the upcoming hack-and-slash title Diablo III.
Rob Pardo, who is actively working on Diablo III, has said that having a real-world mo... |
2 August 2011
18:01 GMT |
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We're now one step closer to the fabled release of Duke Nukem Forever, as Gearbox Software and 2K Games have officially announcement that the iconic game has reached gold status, meaning it's complete and ready to be printed on discs for its release.
Duke Nukem Forever is somewhat of a legend in the gaming... |
25 May 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Microsoft has announced that it has launched a new Xbox Live Rewards-based trivia game that allows interested gamers to get free Microsoft Points by answering some pretty simple questions about games.
The trivia game will continue until May 15 and all one has to do to pl... |
4 April 2011
10:25 GMT |
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For the most part, cities are currently the biggest consumers of natural and processed resources. But what if they could be turned into the largest sources of such resources? Certain chemicals and minerals may now be found in ampler supplies in cities than in deposits located elsewhere.Changing the way we think about... |
27 December 2010
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Researchers in Mexico and the United States might have just created the smallest Christmas tree decorations ever – 25 nanometers in diameter, over 100 million times smaller than the usual tree balls.
Xavier E. Guerrero-Dib, a materials engineer at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and coll... |
4 December 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Microsoft has announced that it is renaming the Xbox Live Silver service into Xbox Live Free, while keeping the same set of features that includes demo downloads, add on buying and customizable Avatars.Graeme Boyd, who is the community manager for the European Xbox division, wa... |
21 October 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Connecticut, along with engineers from United Technologies Research Center, have been working on the development of a new type of alloy materials that behaves like gold and is resistant to oxidation.In most electronic applications, manufacturers use precious metals like gold, platin... |
14 October 2010
03:37 GMT |
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SEGA, as the publisher, has announced that it will be combining its most recent two Total War launches, Empire and Napoleon, into a new Gold package that is set to be launched on October 19 for the price of 50 dollars.The new edition of the two games is designed to deliver the complete experience to strategy gamers w... |
8 September 2010
02:57 GMT |
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At this point, launching a spacecraft – be it a space shuttle or a regular satellite – is a very risky business. Experts in charge of placing the vehicle in orbit need to calculate the risk of it being impacted by loose pieces of space junk, and that risk has gradually increased over the past decade. Many... |
2 August 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Taking a quantum dot-based infrared detector as a starting point, a group of American researchers managed to produce a new, advanced microlens that can boost the strength of an infrared signal. The main accomplishment here is that this is done with a nanoscale device that does not increase the noise (scrambled, unwan... |
19 May 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Imagine a chain composed of a single type of atoms. For argument's sake, say that you are dealing with gold atoms. For many years, physicists and chemists have wondered how hard one has to pull with a specialized device on one of the atoms, so that it separates from the others of its kind. As the issue moves fro... |
1 April 2010
06:10 GMT |
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Radio signals have been the standard for data transmission for well over a century, and innovations in the field have meant that higher and higher frequencies have been used to get as much data across as possible. Some time ago, scientists found out that wavelengths belonging to visible light could also be used for h... |
21 October 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Experts at the Kansas State University (KSU) have recently announced that they managed to augment the electric properties of the carbon compound graphene, by adding gold nanoflakes to its surface. They argue that the addition of the so-called snowflake-shaped gold nanostars (SFGN) created a uniformly distributed &ldq... |
14 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Tekken 6 has been around as a project since 2005, when it was announced at the same time as Sony's PlayStation 3. Four years have passed, and it seems like the game is finally ready for the audience. Namco Bandai announced on Friday that they'd finished developing the game for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStati... |
12 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The amazing, new find was made in Staffordshire, where archaeologists discovered the largest such pile of gold in the entire United Kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon hoard features approximately 1,500 pieces of silver and gold, and is estimated to be around 1,300 years old. Experts say that more than a year will most likely g... |
24 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Weighing any and all types of atoms individually has been a long-standing goal in science, and now efforts done by experts from the University of Melbourne, in Australia, have brought these attempts one nano-step closer to success. In their studies of gold nanoparticles of highly uniform shapes and sizes, the investi... |
27 July 2009
10:32 GMT |
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They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend and, to some extent, so are other gems and valuable metals, such as gold or platinum. However, since recession has so far proved to be a girl’s worst nightmare, all prized possessions also have to go to make ends meet. Consequently, Gold Parties or “bling a... |
3 June 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts will be in quite an interesting position in the coming weeks, as The Sims 3 is now said to be gold, which means that no more changes are made to the code and that the game is not being multiplied so that people can get their hands on a copy when the official release date of June 2 arrives. The publish... |
11 May 2009
04:01 GMT |
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If there's anything inseparable from the handhelds released by Nintendo, it's the Pokemon franchise, which has generated one of the most important series of videogames for the platform, with huge sales and a very big fan base. And it seems that the Japanese videogame developer and publisher is getting ready... |
4 May 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Online services have begun to play a major role for all consoles, as a lot of customers are now basing their decisions on the advantages they can have once the device has been connected to the Internet. Despite all their combined efforts, the PlayStation 3 and the Wii can't really touch the Xbox 360's extre... |
6 March 2009
02:45 GMT |
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The folks at 1 Infinite Loop should be patting each other on the back after seeing their products take home four separate iF product design awards from the prestigious iF International Forum Design, Macworld reports. That's right, Apple netted four awards, one for the iPhone 3G, one for the second-generation iPo... |
4 March 2009
06:27 GMT |
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It seems that just about 50% of the people who have registered for an Xbox Live account are willing to pay to enjoy the perks of a Gold membership. The others are just as happy to use a Silver account, which is free. The Gold membership costs 49.99 dollars, if you are ready to pay for a whole year. This is the best d... |
24 February 2009
13:11 GMT |
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A sewage treatment facility in central Japan is currently unexpectedly engaged in the gold prospecting business, following recent discoveries that show that the sewerage it processes carries a gold density higher than that of most profitable mines in the entire country. Officials at the site say that they have recove... |
2 February 2009
05:58 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that gold is one of the most ductile materials. Architects are able to cover hundreds of square meters of building roofs with only a few grams of the stuff, which was the main reason why it was so widely used in the past, for decorating regal palaces and official structures of most empires ... |
23 January 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Gold has always been a major fuel for humans' imagination, oft-present in their tales, from legends and children's stories to serious novels, stressing on the importance of the glittering material associated with the difference between rich and poor. The Incan, who built vast cities of gold, referred to it ... |
16 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California came up with a technique that allows obtaining impressive quantities of antimatter. But as the antimatter suddenly became so easily available, two problems related to it subsequently occurred. The former refers to the possibility of st... |
2 December 2008
08:17 GMT |
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Another piece of evidence to the fact that hobbies can help science was provided recently, as a college professor from the Netherlands, with the help of his metal detector, came upon a Celtic coin cache. The coins were made of gold and silver during Caius Julius Caesar's time (sometimes in the middle of the fir... |
14 November 2008
07:36 GMT |
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A team of archaeologists from Israel led by Doron Ben-Ami, a Ph.D researcher from the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology, has recently uncovered a precious piece of jewelry lying under layers of earth beneath a parking lot, by the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The earring was dated to a period st... |
11 November 2008
03:52 GMT |
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The State Administration of Taxation in China is announcing that it plans to impose a 20% personal income tax on the profit made from virtual currency. Most people affected by the new tax will be those who buy or hoard virtual currency in order to later sell it to make a profit. This group of people is usually label... |
5 November 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Alchemy defines an occult art, a mix of science, mystical philosophy and a hint of magic, with the intended purpose of finding ways to extend lifespan and cure illnesses by discovering the elixir of life. During this search, alchemists focused on obtaining silver and gold (the perfect metals, since they were always s... |
14 October 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Bioshock is a truly terrific game. With innovations and a wide opportunity of choices which affected every aspect of the game, it was a breath of fresh air for the gaming industry. The philosophical and moral issues asked by this game really tore gamers into camps, each of them militating for the choices which ... |
30 September 2008
14:21 GMT |
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The first Battlefield games, as developed by DICE, were pretty much multiplayer affairs, very well suited for matches which employed well rehearsed team tactics. After Battlefield 2142 was launched, DICE quietly began working on Battlefield: Bad Company, only giving away the fact that their next project was likely t... |
5 September 2008
09:06 GMT |
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The wait is almost over, since Electronic Arts and Maxis have announced that the most anticipated game of the year, Spore, has gone gold and will hit the retail shelves on the 5th of September in Europe and the 7th of September in North America and Asia. Also, at the same time with the North American release, the DS ... |
15 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Besides preparing to unveil brand new products, Sony Ericsson is also readying new color versions for two of its handsets: the slim W890 Walkman and the entry-level K330. More exactly, the W890 will soon be available in a gold edition, while the K330 in a white one. Neither of the new colors are confirmed by the Swe... |
31 July 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Soulcalibur IV is one of the most anticipated fighting titles of the year, even if it brings way too many Star Wars characters in play (a total of three for both console versions). The good news is that you will probably be able to go through the game without fighting against these characters, which means that it won... |
18 July 2008
06:59 GMT |
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A massive amount of gold and other precious metals is used every year to fabricate electronic consumer devices such as computers, television sets and mobile phones. It might not seem so obvious at first, but the landfill may literally be a gold mine. The real problem with recycling these metals is that the process is... |
8 July 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Mobiado, the Canada-based manufacturer of luxury mobile phones, recently announced the release of two new handsets from its Professional line-up: Mobiado Professional 105 EM and Mobiado Professional 105 GCB. The new handsets are both CNC machined and not too different when it comes to features. The difference can ... |
16 June 2008
08:30 GMT |
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The game dubbed by its developers as the best tennis simulation title ever released, Top Spin 3, has finally gone gold and can be purchased at retailers across North America starting the 24th of June. By being available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS consoles, it makes sure that virtually any game f... |
13 June 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Last week, we were talking about some of the strangest and somewhat most disturbing ingredients scientists have mixed into our face creams, in the hope that one (or all) of them will finally put a stop to aging and effectively fight off any other type of skin damage. However, despite the fact that we're putting ... |
9 June 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Most of the luxury phones appeared on the market don't have a specific goal, but that's not the case with the new Merdeka 50 24K, which was created to celebrate 50 years of Malaysian independence from the UK. Well, the 50 years anniversary actually took place last year, when a Merdeka 50 18K phone was relea... |
31 May 2008
04:56 GMT |
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