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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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Nintendo has announced that the highly anticipated New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Wii is set to be released on North American markets on November 15. The date is a bit of a surprise, as rumors coming out last week only mentioned a December 3 launch date for the Japanese market, which usually gets such release... |
28 October 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Navigon AG has released a free update to its North American version of the MobileNavigator for the iPhone. Regularly priced at $99.99, MobileNavigator North America is now on sale ($69.99). The free update adds new features and enhancements. The MobileNavigator transforms any iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G S into a complete... |
17 August 2009
09:33 GMT |
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It seems that August 2009 will be remembered as the month when pretty much all the big games got a delay. Starcraft II is now set to arrive in early 2010, Dragon Age: Origins has been pushed back by Electronic Arts, and EA Sports is now joining the ranks of the developers that aim to disappoint by announcing that FIF... |
11 August 2009
05:33 GMT |
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As you all know, the Xbox 360 is on the receiving end of quite a lot of new features for its Xbox Live online service and for its dashboard user interface. Besides being able, at the end of the year, to interact with Facebook or Twitter, the console will get its own Games on Demand mode this month.It will be offering... |
7 August 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Huawei, a worldwide leading provider of telecommunications network solutions, which serves a number of 36 of the largest 50 operators in the world, announced on Monday that it had opened a Long Term Evolution (LTE) laboratory in Richardson, Texas. According to the company, the opening of the new laboratory is meant t... |
28 July 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC announced recently that it planned to include the standard 3.5mm headphone jack in its future handsets, following the release of its latest Android-powered handset, the HTC Hero, yet no one was expecting to learn so quickly that the company put its plan into practice, and that the HTC... |
17 July 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Two new mobile phones are reported to have passed through the FCC courtyard, both of them coming from the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, namely the Nokia E72 and the Nokia E55. For what it's worth, it appears that Nokia is determined to push even more handsets on the US market, so as to regain some of the mar... |
17 July 2009
08:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo DSi has just been launched in North America, bringing with it new features to handheld gaming. The DS is still quite popular there, but the fresh twin cameras, music playback capabilities and improved functions of the DSi will surely attract a lot of people.Alongside these hardware features, the device w... |
6 April 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Opera is announcing that just as the Nintendo DSi is being launched in North America, on April 5, and in Europe, on April 3, the well-known browser will be offered for all those interested in accessing the Internet from their new handheld.The developer is saying that it has built the application from the ground up, m... |
3 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced on Monday that Najmi Jarwala, president of Sony Ericsson USA and head of Region North America (both the US and Canada markets), would be leaving the company by the end of the month so as to “pursue other career opportunities.” Dick Komiyama, president of Sony... |
24 March 2009
06:49 GMT |
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If GameStop numbers are any indication, then the Nintendo DSi, which is set to arrive shortly in North America, will be one big seller, possibly on a scale not seen since the release of the Nintendo Wii.Bob McKenzie, who is the vice president for marketing at GameStop, has talked to Venture Beat and told it that &ldq... |
24 March 2009
03:52 GMT |
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A new scientific report, published in the Tuesday issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details a new species of dinosaurs that lived more than 75 million years ago. The creature is very similar to the velociraptor dinosaurs that can be seen in the “Jurassic Park” mo... |
17 March 2009
04:50 GMT |
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The handheld gaming market has been very elusive for a lot of companies except for the top two Japanese ones, Nintendo and Sony. Their products, the DS and the PlayStation Portable, are ruling the market with an iron fist, both of them appealing to very different types of gamers.But because the DS appeals to the more... |
19 February 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The shooter game genre is a very popular one, with a lot of developers creating titles based on a first-person view and arming the main character with a wide variety of fictional weapons. Seeing the growing popularity of these games, the United States Army has decided to create its own title, based on the conditions ... |
21 January 2009
02:30 GMT |
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Sony hasn’t had the greatest holiday season, as its PlayStation 3 console didn't register the same big sales that the company expected and fell well under the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, its arch rivals. But things aren't all bad for the Japanese company, as the old PlayStation 2 is still selling s... |
15 January 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Nintendo is really looking good around this time of the year, as it has experienced some very strong sales across the world, with both the Wii console and the DS handheld. Now, it seems that the company is bent on keeping the same strong momentum, as sources claim that the next version of the DS, the DSi has gotten d... |
14 January 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Killzone 2 is one of the most expected games that will be launched at the beginning of this year. This PlayStation 3 exclusive promises to bring back the same non-stop action that made the first Killzone installment in the series a great success among Sony fans. However, although it is slated to appear on February 2... |
7 January 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Making a game is a very hard endeavor these days, especially because the recession has a very big impact on small game developers. We've already seen two game studios, Factor 5 and Free Radical, being shut down because of their bad financial situation and things might get worse for independent ones. That's... |
30 December 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Street Fighter IV is, without a doubt, one of the most popular fighting franchises of all times. It has won over millions of fans with its first arcade games and, thanks to the very customized lineup of fighters, has ensured that gamers from all over the world will have someone to identify themselves with. Capcom, th... |
10 December 2008
11:01 GMT |
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Nintendo has put up the official website for Club Nintendo of America, which the company revealed earlier this year, in October. At the moment, the website is under construction, not offering any promotion but Nintendo says that, by the end of the year, the service will be completed and will allow those using their g... |
9 December 2008
04:00 GMT |
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The Nintendo DSi is the answer to the PSP-3000, the new hardware variant from Sony, and Nintendo is aiming to get the fresh handheld as quickly as possible to the West. The new hardware specifications include not one but two cameras, both with 0.3 megapixel capacities and a larger screen; the whole device is smaller... |
4 November 2008
19:11 GMT |
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At about the same time with the official unveiling of its two new smartphones (N85 and N79), Nokia has also announced the upcoming availability of the N96 Nseries flagship across North America. The North American N96 (aka N96 NAM) will be on sale in "the fourth quarter of 2008", meaning anywhere between October and... |
26 August 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Companies are starting to team up in order to maximize their revenue and offer their product to as many potential customers as possible - something that is, after all, completely natural. Atari and Empire are the latest companies to sign a multi-year distribution agreement, adding a host of titles to Atari's lin... |
15 August 2008
15:16 GMT |
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AT&T, the largest mobile operator in the US (in terms of the number of subscribers), has proudly announced that Frost & Sullivan, the famous international growth consulting company, has awarded it with the "2008 North America Company of the Year" title. The award comes as a recognition for AT&T's technolog... |
16 July 2008
13:26 GMT |
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You probably know from our previous coverage on Dreamlords: The Reawakening that the game is launched and ready to play in Europe, after a long beta test period. You can imagine how good the it was, since the North Americans wanted to play it, too, but they couldn't. Things will soon change, though, as the MMORT... |
3 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Glu Mobile, the Californian mobile content publisher, recently announced no less than 14 new games that will be released in North America by the end of 2008. The upcoming titles include brand new games, created in collaboration with companies like DreamWorks, Warner Bros., FremantleMedia and Hasbro, as well as sequel... |
18 June 2008
08:56 GMT |
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The NPD numbers for May are in and it's time for all console manufacturers to spin them their way. But, before we get to the part where said spin makes us dizzy, let's take a look at the cold hard numbers, as reported by the market research and analysis firm. Hardware sales continue to be strong despite a r... |
13 June 2008
02:37 GMT |
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One of the nicest things about the Nintendo DS handheld is the fact that it is something like an XBLA for smaller game developers - meaning that, at least in theory, everything is possible and can be released on the platform at pretty low costs. And that is a great advantage, probably one of the most important if we ... |
22 May 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Right on time, Nintendo's promised WiiWare service has been launched in North America, with a bunch of games available for download and promising an exciting, fun future for all the Nintendo Wii fans in the world. Already released in Japan (with a different lineup of games, though), the WiiWare service has prove... |
13 May 2008
12:06 GMT |
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As the countdown towards the launch of the WiiWare service in North America goes slowly down to 0, Nintendo is announcing more and more games that will be available at launch to the American Wii owners. After the likes of Square Enix, Namco Bandai or Hudson announced games that would be available on WiiWare on day on... |
8 May 2008
18:16 GMT |
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All the North American Wii fans have another reason to be happy since Konami's Target: Terror has been released and it is now available for purchase in game shops across the country. The game will bring the classic arcade shooter action, taking full advantage of the next-gen technology, utilizing the Wii Zapper.... |
23 April 2008
12:06 GMT |
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If you like vertical scrolling shooters, you're sure to have heard something about Star Soldier R. The game is all about taking on huge numbers of enemies in levels as you slowly get upgrades and aim to have the best score possible. It's fast and fun, which is all that a shoot them up should aim for.Hudson ... |
18 April 2008
03:22 GMT |
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It is a known fact that successful RPG games in Asia will eventually hit the European or North American stands and this is exactly what will happen to La Tale, a charming side-scrolling MMORPG. Scheduled to debut sometime during the third quarter of 2008, La Tale will be brought to us by publisher OGPlanet.The game, ... |
14 April 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The adventure games publisher, The Adventure Company, the same people that brought us some absolutely great games in the past year (their most recent success being the revolutionary title, The Experiment) have announced that they started shipping Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb in North America, exclusively for PC syst... |
4 April 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Theatre of War, the real time strategy (RTS) slated for a May 2008 release on PC systems, will be published in North American territories by cdv, following the company's deal with developer Battlefront. The game will bring back the ever-present (in video games) World War II, with historical campaigns from the Ba... |
31 March 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Namco Bandai is going very ninja crazy this week. They have recently announced that three Naruto games are being made available for purchase in North America for the PlayStation 2 platform at special retail prices. The main attraction is Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 which is only now available for sale outside of Japan, ... |
27 March 2008
04:51 GMT |
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The old model of buying a game in a case is slowly dying out. One more nail in the coffin is the WiiWare initiative from Nintendo. It aims to be a digital distribution channel for games that is easily accessible, largely customizable and offers all developers the possibility to get games out to players.Think of it in... |
20 February 2008
10:46 GMT |
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Sudden Strike 3 Arms for Victory has finally been dated for North America too. Fireglow Games has made it official yesterday, with the release of a report, disclosing a 10th March 2008 release date for their strategy/warfare-simulation game in North America, for which PAL folks can already download a map pack. A dem... |
15 January 2008
03:27 GMT |
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It's official, RPG fans, Electronic Arts and Namco Bandai Games America have announced the availability of Hellgate: London at North American and European retailers. The game has been developed by Flagship Studios and is rated M for Mature, just like Rockstar's Manhunt 2 - so you know what you're getti... |
1 November 2007
07:31 GMT |
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This isn't exactly the freshest of news, nor the most exciting, but everyone should know what else they can add to their library of games, right? As such, Xbox 360 owners should know that Electronic Arts has launched their much awaited "urban sports" title, SKATE, in North America. Those of you owning a PlayStat... |
14 September 2007
04:10 GMT |
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MMORPG fans worldwide have a lot of reasons to be happy this year. More and more MMO developers are reaching out to the PC but also next-gen platforms. There's no question whether gamers of the genre want another game or not, and so, it wouldn't hurt to know that VestGame Entertainment has announced that &#... |
2 August 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Factor 5's Lair is almost finished. Sony's official PlayStation.Blog revealed last night that the PS3 exclusive is currently being manufactured for a North American release on August 14. However, Associate Producer Ryan Hamlyn hints... no, actually clearly says… that Factor 5's job isn't quite ove... |
27 July 2007
08:10 GMT |
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