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In a paper published in the Februray 8 issue of the top scientific journal Nature, investigators at the Yale University showcase a scenario detailing how Earth's continents will rearrange themselves. We are currently right in the middle of a supercontinental cycle. Such a cycle usually lasts for hundreds of mill... |
10 February 2012
11:39 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Sony has announced that a planned maintenance session which was supposed to only hit the European countries today has now been extended to also affect users who log in from the Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zeeland and the United States.
It is not clear whether users in Ca... |
2 February 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Lightbox and Sony Santa Monica, the developers of the upcoming Starhawk shooter, have confirmed that a public beta stage starts today across North America, allowing PlayStation 3 users to get a taste of the game’s multiplayer before its release.
Starhawk, the spiritual successor to 2007’s Warhawk, aims a... |
17 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Sony has talked about the PlayStation Vita and the slow sales experienced by the new handheld device in Japan, where it went on sale for almost a month, saying that these low figures won’t mean a poor launch next month in Europe or North America.
The PlayStation Vita went on sale in Japan last month and, while... |
16 January 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed that it will soon be releasing a demo of its upcoming Resident Evil: Revelations title in territories outside Japan, including Europe and North America. Nintendo 3DS owners are set to receive a proper console-like experience at the end of the month, when Capcom deploys its high quality and steep... |
6 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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After the lackluster update that appeared last week, Sony has posted some more content on the North American PlayStation Store, bringing new full games like Darksiders or NFL Blitz, as well as plenty of extra DLC for a variety of games.First up, PlayStation 3 owners can enjoy new downloadable titles, as well as a ful... |
4 January 2012
04:43 GMT |
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While Sony treated its North American PlayStation Network users with a huge amount of deals, new content and special discounts last week, right before Christmas, the week before the New Year is looking pretty lackluster, even if there are plenty of full-pledged games available for download.
PlayStation 3 owners have... |
28 December 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that its upcoming SSX snowboarding simulator won’t be making its intended release date in the middle of February, right on Valentine’s Day in North America and on February 17 in Europe, as the development team wants a few more weeks to polish the game.SSX was initially announ... |
23 December 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Sony has once again updated its North American PlayStation Store, this time adding quite a lot of fresh content while slashing the prices on games and DLC that already appeared on the online marketplace.First up, PS3 owners can enjoy the stunning Trine 2, as well as full game downloads that include L.A. Noire, Just C... |
22 December 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Experts may soon know more about a period of North American prehistory that has been left relatively obscured for a very long time. The new data could be derived from an 8,900-year-old piece of wood, which was found at the bottom of Lake Huron.
The pole-shaped piece is about 5.5 feet (1.67 meters) long, and appears... |
13 December 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Sony is really making its PlayStation Plus subscribers feel special throughout the month of December, as the company confirmed that plenty of free games will be given to them, as well as major deals on both full pledged PS3 titles and downloadable PSN releases.PlayStation Plus subscribers in Europe are getting a free... |
6 December 2011
19:41 GMT |
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A new study funded by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science shows that droughts such as the one currently affecting Texas and Oklahoma will become the norm over the next 40-50 years, and will not appear as out of the ordinary as they do today.
Statistically, the current drought is the worst to... |
6 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Nintendo has decided to go after the female demographic with its 3DS handheld platform and, after deploying the Misty Pink color version in Japan earlier this month, the company has now announced that two special Pink 3DS bundles will arrive in the U.S. this December.The Nintendo 3DS didn’t exactly have the bes... |
29 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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We want to wish all our U.S. readers a Happy Thanksgiving, but also a great Black Friday tomorrow, as a huge amount of retailers from that country are running a lot of stunning deals on all sorts of things, including games, consoles and peripherals.In order to help everybody sort out the best deals this year, we made... |
24 November 2011
06:06 GMT |
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After quite a lot of waiting and some legal disputes, Double Fine, the studio behind the Trenched action tower defense title, has confirmed that the game will be fully renamed into Iron Brigade and will be released in Europe on November 30.Double Fine released Trenched into critical and sales acclaim on the Xbox Live... |
18 November 2011
03:52 GMT |
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It's a bit hard to imagine but Sony's PlayStation 3 celebrates its fifth anniversary today, November 17, after being released five years ago in North America.Microsoft just celebrated the 10th anniversary of its original Xbox console, which was released back in November 15, 2001, and Sony is now taking over... |
17 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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I write a lot about video games and, often, I end an article by telling potential players about the platforms on which the titles will appear and about the day when the product will be available on store shelves.I almost always write down two launch dates, one for North America and the other one for Europe and, almos... |
29 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Sony has presented a special deal for fans of the upcoming PlayStation Vita from North America, as a special First Edition bundle will be made available a week before the official February 22 release of the console.Sony is getting ready to debut the PlayStation Vita in its native Japan, on December 17, and confirmed ... |
28 October 2011
17:31 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer of the recent The Witcher 2 role playing game, has confirmed that its publishing partner for the upcoming version of the game on the Xbox 360 for North America is Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.The Witcher 2 has been delighting players all around the world on the PC platform sinc... |
24 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony has announced that the launch date for the PlayStation Vita handheld in the United States, Europe, Canada and Latin America has been set for February 22, 2012, with all major retailers ready to stock the new platform.The announcement was made at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco a... |
19 October 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Sony has published a full list of content that's going to be made available for PlayStation Plus subscribers, ranging from free games, to full game trials, special discounts and many other great deals.PlayStation Plus subscribers are being treated with quite a lot of great content and offers by Sony, gaining acc... |
5 October 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Several North American retailers have already slashed the price on the Nintendo 3DS handheld console, before the August 12 date officially set by the Japanese company when the 3DS price cut was confirmed at the end of July.Nintendo, after months of fledgeling sales, has finally confirmed earlier last month that the p... |
11 August 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new MMORPG from BioWare and Electronic Arts, will be released, at first at least, only in North America and Europe, as the two companies have declined to deploy the online title in territories like Australia, Asia, Africa or South America.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the ... |
25 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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New studies are beginning to shed more light on the interplay of factors that can influence the harshness of winters affecting the United States. The latest such work indicates that even the amount of snow falling on Siberia has an influence on winters in North America. Coupled ocean-atmospheric phenomena such as El ... |
6 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Nintendo is getting ready to deploy the first major update for its 3DS console, in the form of the eShop online store, which is going to appear tomorrow for territories like North America, Europe or Japan, and bring lots of special content.The Nintendo 3DS was released a few months ago, but, sadly for those who alrea... |
6 June 2011
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A group of investigators has just released the most comprehensive and detailed map of the foundations on which North America lies to date. The dataset provides an extremely insightful look into the planet's interior, miles beneath the thick continental crust.
Organized as a cut-away map, this view is curved ... |
4 June 2011
06:13 GMT |
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Nintendo has seemingly operated the often rumored price cut for its Wii console, with large North American retailers like GameStop, Best Buy or Amazon selling a black Nintendo Wii bundle for just $169, down from the regular $200 price tag.Nintendo's Wii home console has been slipping in terms of sales for quite ... |
18 April 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Those BlackBerry application developers out there interested in learning some more details on the latest advancements of the mobile platform have now the possibility to do so courtesy of a new series of BlackBerry Developer Days the Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just announced for the next few w... |
10 March 2011
05:41 GMT |
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After the special update for European PlayStation Plus subscribers last week, Sony has now revealed what North American members will be getting this month.
Headlining the update is exclusive access to a demo for Mortal Kombat, which will include four playable characters: Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Johnny Cage and Mileena... |
7 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC has just announced that it would have a new Android-based smartphone available for purchase on the North American continent in the near future, namely the HTC Merge.
The smartphone made it to the headlines quite a few times before, but nothing was officially announced on it until n... |
26 February 2011
03:36 GMT |
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Seeing as how Nintendo just revealed the complete details about its new 3DS handheld console yesterday, a lot of companies have just confirmed the games that they will release on the new device.
We already heard what titles will be launched for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan a few weeks ago, and now, companies like Nin... |
20 January 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Nintendo of America has just announced that the Nintendo 3DS handheld will be launched in the United States on March 27 of this year, with a suggested retail price set at 249.99 dollars.We already knew that the device was set to arrive in Japan on February 26, with a price which is the equivalent of about 300 dollars... |
19 January 2011
10:07 GMT |
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The distant past held an entirely different continental configuration than the modern world does, experts say, and, as part of that setup, it could be that the eastern parts of Antarctica were connected to the southwestern portions of the United States. It's no secret that the world's land masses were hundr... |
4 January 2011
08:04 GMT |
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The retail chain GameStop, the most important when it comes to video games and the hardware needed to run them, has begun taking pre orders for the Nintendo 3DS handheld, although the device does not yet have a clear launch date for North America or a price set directly by the manufacturer.Reports from those who have... |
29 December 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced that its latest entries in the long-running Pokemon series, officially called Black Version and White Version, are set to be released on the Nintendo DS family of devices on March 6, 2011, about six months after the two titles were launched in Japan.Nintendo has not yet announced a release date... |
28 December 2010
06:29 GMT |
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Newzoo, a firm that specializes in market research, has released a new report which shows that customers based in the United States are projected to have spend 24.7 billion dollars on video games in 2010, a figure that is 2 percent lower than the one registered in 2009. The company points out that the figure includ... |
28 December 2010
03:09 GMT |
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The winter solstice will be arriving on December 21 this year, and most people probably won't even remember it, so here is another reason to circle the date in your calendar (or mark it on your phone): the same night, a total lunar eclipse will be visible too. Sky watchers across North America, Greenland and Ic... |
18 December 2010
05:06 GMT |
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The best meteor shower of this year is going to be hitting its peak tonight, a few days before the holidays, so skywatchers should prepare to be amazed by the 120 meteors that should be seen every hour. The star of tonight's show is the Geminid meteor shower, which is an annual mid-December rain of meteors that... |
13 December 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Gran Turismo 5 from developer Polyphony Digital and publisher Sony has again been delayed, with the official launch date set to come before Christmas in North America, but it seems that retailers actually have the retail editions of the game in stock at this very moment, which prompts questions about the reasons for ... |
11 November 2010
05:07 GMT |
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No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, the latest installment in the quirky hack and slash franchise, has just been confirmed for a North American release by Konami, after it was launched on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Japan.There are a few catches though, as in North America the game will only appear on the Pl... |
28 October 2010
02:31 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts is interested in seeing both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony sell well on both North American and European markets, creating a competitive environment that leads to stronger video game sales for the company.Jens Uwe Intat, who is the senior vice president for Elec... |
28 September 2010
15:01 GMT |
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After a lot of rumors, all of them stemming from a retailer listing last week, EA Sports has finally come out and announced that FIFA 11 is set to launch on September 28 in North America and on October 1 in both Asia and in Europe. The dates are a bit earlier than the series used to arrive and, in an ironic twist, No... |
7 July 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Skype, the highly popular VoIP service that offers users the possibility to make long distance calls all around the world at low costs, has recently announced the introduction of a Skype for Symbian application in Nokia's Ovi Store, but it seems that the solution won't be available for North American users... |
8 March 2010
03:51 GMT |
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According to an update to ABI Research's mobile business vertical markets database, the North American mobile-business customer base decreased by 2.9 percent in 2009. One of the main factors that led to this decrease was the unemployment that had increased drastically in the last period, causing many business cu... |
10 February 2010
09:33 GMT |
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While most of us already expected this to happen, it's nice to see Atlus offering an official announcement and setting it in stone. Persona 3 Portable will be making its way to North America in July, and it will feature some new features, compared with its previous release. Gamers will have the chance to play th... |
21 January 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Leading provider of global navigation solutions NAVIGON announced today the launch of its on-board navigation application, MobileNavigator, for handsets running under Google's Android operating system in North America. According to the company, the solution is expected to become available in spring this year, a... |
7 January 2010
10:49 GMT |
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The Glory of Heracles has quite a lengthy history, and it began long before its appearance on the DS. The game has its roots in 1987, when it was first released by Data East on the Famicom. Herakuresu no Eiko, as it was its original Japanese title, had four more sequels, all focusing on the Greek mythology and on the... |
3 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Chinese telecommunication-equipment provider Huawei Technologies Co. is reportedly getting ready to increase its presence on the North American Market. It seems that the company is considering the addition of a number of 600 more jobs to its operations on the continent, in an attempt to expand its market share in the... |
24 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Capcom announced at the Tokyo Game Show that the Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition would be coming to America as soon as it decided on the release format. The game was planned for Japan as an individual item, with its own disc and art-covered box, but there was a debate regarding whether to make the North American ... |
10 November 2009
03:04 GMT |
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We already know that Final Fantasy XIII is set to be launched in Japan on December 17 in what is sure to be one of the biggest and most lavish releases of a JRPG ever. The game will only come on the PlayStation 3 at that date and Square Enix has not said when the game will arrive on Western markets, where it will be ... |
29 October 2009
14:41 GMT |
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