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Fight Night Round 4 Springs to the Top

Electronic Arts must be pleased with the performance that its games on the United Kingdom market. After EA Sports Active managed to take Wii Fit down from its top position, Fight Night Round 4 battled its way to the top position on its first week on sale.The game is the follow-up to a very good title, Fight Night Rou...

2 July 2009
04:12 GMT

Prototype to the Top in the United Kingdom

Electronic Arts surely has high hopes for The Sims 3. After all, the series has broken sales records after sales records and the new game can be seen as being a platform on which Electronic Arts can continue to deliver content for quite a few years.Unfortunately, the initial performance of the title does not seem to ...

25 June 2009
14:31 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 13 – 20 June

This week, there has been a lot of talk about Project Natal and a rumored new Xbox gaming console. Before reading the news related to these subjects, bear in mind the fact that various Microsoft executives apparently cannot tell the difference between “a new console” and “a new launch.” And if...

20 June 2009
08:21 GMT

Prototype

Open world games are pretty standard these days, with many developers trying to place players in the shoes of ordinary people who have an interesting story. But sometimes, game creators spice it up a bit, and give every gamer what he wants: a super-powered character who can cause havoc in the world around him with a ...

19 June 2009
04:41 GMT

Prototype Challenges The Sims 3

The videogame chart in the United Kingdom might just have found its long term king, as The Sims 3 from Electronic Arts has managed to hold on to the top spot in the face of quite a strong challenge from Activision's Prototype.Of course, The Sims 3 has a wider appeal than Prototype. After all, the Sims series has...

18 June 2009
04:28 GMT

Impulse Gets Activision and Ubisoft Videogames

Stardock has announced that Impulse, the digital distribution service that it has created is now supported by two of the biggest publishers, Activision and Ubisoft, which are offering their games through it.Impulse is one of the latest comers to the digital distribution scene, competing with other services like Steam...

16 June 2009
02:33 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 6-13 June

Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important news in the gaming industry from the last seven days. It has been a pretty busy week, as E3 passed and companies are still trying to make their ideas heard by the average gamer. Without further ado, here's this editio...

13 June 2009
08:11 GMT

One Hour With: Prototype

Super hero games. Everyone loves them because they offer people the ability to pretend they have superpowers. From jumping buildings in a single bound to obliterating everyone in one's destructive path, all of them fascinate people and gamers make no exception. Activision's latest attempt to the super hero...

13 June 2009
04:21 GMT

BenzaWave from Heinz – The Smallest USB-Powered Microwave

Should we have ever found ourselves in a situation in which we were so pressed for time at work and there was clearly no chance of meeting deadlines that we skipped lunch in a bid to make up for it, things are about to change. Heinz, the company making ketchup and other types of canned food, has developed BenzaWave, ...

12 June 2009
14:21 GMT

Here's How You Can Install Prototype on the PS3

The PlayStation 3 has always been hyped up by Sony for having some big hard drives come with the different versions of the console. This made a lot of developers create a mandatory install in order to speed up the loading times from the Blu-ray disc that was inserted into the console. Prototype is one of the latest ...

11 June 2009
03:02 GMT

Prototype Gets PC System Requirements

Activision is one of the biggest firms in the gaming industry today. It has made a huge amount of money thanks to franchises like Guitar Hero or Call of Duty, for which it creates new iterations on a yearly or even more often basis.But the company is also focused on new projects and properties, with the most interest...

4 June 2009
02:21 GMT

Pre-Order Goodies for Prototype Include Action Figure and Books

Prototype is one of this summer's most anticipated titles, promising to deliver a massive open-world game in which gamers will play as Alex Mercer, a normal everyday man who, due to an unfortunate turn of events, now has mutant superpowers and must escape an Army-filled New York by using his powers against them ...

7 May 2009
11:01 GMT

Spider Man Game Set to Follow Prototype

Radical Entertainment has been working hard recently. Its upcoming Prototype videogame is set to launch this summer and, after a delay, the free running title featuring a morphing protagonist looks really interesting.But Radical might have even bigger plans once it ships Prototype, as several sources have been quoted...

27 April 2009
18:01 GMT

iPhone Object-Based Media Player Prototyped

Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. The folks behind this exciting project have come up with a prototype of an iPhone media player that uses physical objects to control media playback. The RFID-b...

16 April 2009
10:16 GMT

Activision Sets Definitive Prototype Release Dates

Activision Publishing is sending word that it has nailed down the release dates for its upcoming open world game Prototype.The title will arrive in Europe on June 5, while North American gamers will have to wait until June 9 to get their hands on it. The videogame is set to ship for the Xbox 360 console from Mic...

9 April 2009
04:51 GMT

Development on LittleBigPlanet Not Done Yet

At a talk at the Game Developers Conference, the guys behind Media Molecule have said that they plan to further develop LittleBigPlanet, which has picked up no less than four awards at the Game Developers Choice Awards. Speaking at the conference, Alex Evans and Mark Healey have been mentioning how the game, as a pl...

30 March 2009
03:36 GMT

Code Canvas: Spatial Representations of Code

What if code could leave the boundaries of the traditional editors, and call home an infinite two-dimensional surface as a new spatial development environment? Code Canvas makes this possible. A project put together by Kael Rowan, an RSDE in the Human Interactions in Programming group at Microsoft Research, Code Canv...

27 March 2009
07:54 GMT

The Nintendo DSi Gets a History Lesson, Promotion Announced

Just as the Nintendo DSi, the newest version of the handheld, is getting ready to break out of the Japanese market and land in Europe and in North America, Masato Kuwahara, who is the project leader for the group that handles hardware development for the Nintendo DSi, delivered a speech at the Game Developers Confere...

26 March 2009
04:35 GMT

Dell's Smartphone Is a No Go for Now

We already reported that Dell was another personal computer maker that announced plans to enter the smartphone market this year. And while the company was expected to come to the market with its first such device sometime in September 2009, it seems that we're not going to see that happen after all. On the oth...

23 March 2009
03:12 GMT

inFamous Release Date Revealed

Sony seems to have learned the lesson that Electronic Arts is only now discovering - videogames can be released outside of the Christmas shopping season and still become multi million selling hits. With the sales numbers posted by Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which arrived in June 2008, the creator of th...

10 March 2009
14:31 GMT

Prototype Morphs into Existence in June

Activision is saying that it plans to release Prototype, the open world action title that has a shape shifter as the protagonist, in June. The exact date is subject to chance depending on when the title goes gold and how much time is needed to multiply the game disk for the release.It seems that the date was mentione...

5 February 2009
13:11 GMT

ASUS Showcases AIRO Laptop Prototype

ASUS is expected to launch a new portable computer system that will bring forth a rather futuristic design, boasting a sliding keyboard. The laptop, which is still in its conceptual stage, hasn't yet been featured with a full technical specification sheet. However, the concept system was showcased at this year&#...

12 January 2009
05:31 GMT

NASA Moon Buggy to Parade at Obama's Inauguration

NASA's new moon buggy prototype is scheduled to be the first ever lunar vehicle to have an inaugural parade before launch, and will attend president-elect Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony on January 20th, in Washington DC. The small pressurized rover, scheduled to be completed in approximately 12 years, wi...

9 January 2009
02:32 GMT

Guy Buys Prototype MacBook Air, Posts Intriguing Pictures

A forum user delighted his fellow members with detailed pictures and specs of a prototype MacBook Air. The laptop, acquired from eBay, runs an interim build of Mac OS X 10.5 (8R4016), while the serial number on the machine indicates that it was built in May 2007, well before the original MacBook Air was introduced. ...

19 November 2008
05:08 GMT

Activision Retains Prototype, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Ice Age

Activision Blizzard is announcing the future of the Vivendi Games properties that it has acquired as part of the merger process. The new company is expected to keep some of the most successful franchises and to spin off or terminate other intellectual properties.The most interesting assets for Activision Blizzard are...

29 July 2008
08:04 GMT

Prototype Will Feature Free Running and Mini Games

More information is out regarding Prototype, the open world game from Radical Entertainment, that features a memory-less shape-shifting lead man. And it's sure to make the eagerly awaiting gamers take notice of this title.Senior producer Tim Bennison says that the in-game New York City is set to develop over tim...

23 May 2008
18:16 GMT

Prototype Producer Details Web Mechanics

Prototype, in development at Radical Entertainment and to be published by Vivendi Games, is one of those games that offers freedom, an open world experience. The player is cast in New York, playing a character with limited to no memories of his past, that has the ability to steal the identities of people around him a...

22 May 2008
05:34 GMT

Prototype Delayed to 2009

Radical Entertainment's open world game, Prototype, was originally slated for a fall 2008 release, but it seems that development is somewhat harder when it comes to prototypes, since a delay has been officially confirmed by publisher Sierra Entertainment. The game is now expected to be released in 2009, but a ce...

6 May 2008
15:06 GMT

Marvel Gets Vicepresident from Sony

Marvel, a company best known for superheroes like Hulk (who is getting an Edward Norton starring movie) and Iron Man (who is also getting a movie, starring Robert Downey Jr.), has announced that Ira Rubenstein would be its new Global Digital Media executive vice president. The move signals a desire by the comic book ...

24 April 2008
03:45 GMT

Fujitsu Touts its Eco-Friendly Wooden Notebook

Fujitsu plans to introduce an innovative notebook design, that aims at replacing plastics and other polymers in the casing with eco-friendly, bio-degradable wood. Modern designs are usually based on plastics and metal, but they have an extremely destructive impact over the environment. Although the laptop is in its e...

14 April 2008
10:31 GMT

New T8 Prototype Tonearm From Goldmund

Well, Goldmund is a name that's recognized for two things mostly: first of all, it's the extreme quality of its products and then comes their fabulous pricing that makes Goldmund gear available only for those with really, really strong bank accounts.The Reference 2 turntable is one piece of Goldmund technol...

7 January 2008
07:02 GMT

BenQ SL98 Prototype Hits the Market

A few moths ago, BenQ Siemens unveiled a new mobile phone concept, the SL98 model, which had and still has all the chances to reinvent the idea of slider phone. Instead of having a display that slides to uncover the keypad (you know, like Nokia N95, LG Chocolate or Samsung U700 - just to name a few successful sliders...

11 December 2007
10:43 GMT

Fresh Motion Tracking Prototype from Keynetik

Keynetik's new concept could very well be worthy of surpassing the touchscreen in terms of popularity, if properly promoted. Their prototype uses motion instead of touch for navigation through the menu and this sounds highly futuristic and with great potential for setting a new trend.At this time, Keynetik'...

15 November 2007
06:18 GMT

Nokia's First Success with Bringing Touchscreen

Nokia surprised everyone, showing off a prototype of its Haptikos touchscreen system. The producer claims this product to be more evolved than anything out on the market right now, even than that of the iPhone.Apple's phone is, in fact, the one which triggered all this huge touchscreen demand from handset users....

8 November 2007
08:04 GMT

Prototype

Prototype is not the average game. In fact, it's probably the most promising title I've seen at GC 2007 in Leipzig. It may not stand up to Fallout's hype or to the GTA IV's franchise, but when it's going to be released a lot of developers will hide their heads in the sand or utter words of in...

27 September 2007
03:23 GMT

An Alternative Laptop Design Approach

Worldwide laptop sales are expecting to surpass desktop sales by 2009, reaching the figure of 150 million. Studies show that most laptop buyers keep their hardware around for only about three years, before discarding it and buying a new one. Here is how laptop designers plan to make laptops more eco-friendly across t...

14 July 2007
06:11 GMT

Japanese Robotic Hand Has Working "Air Muscles" and Can Pick Up a Raw Egg

When it comes to robots, so far, Japan rules. They're a few generations ahead of most competitors. Sony's AIBO was the first robot dog to recognize words and objects, and Honda's ASIMO is the first humanoid robot that can walk on two feet in a manner resembling human locomotion at up to 6 km/h (3.7 m...

26 June 2007
09:07 GMT

Speakers Have Socks

The title may sound silly; nevertheless, it couldn't be closer to reality: Yanko Design have made a prototype portable speaker which can be covered in a piece of cloth like a sock. And hanged to your backpack, belt, bike handles or… whatever. The goal of such a thing? Yanko Design claims that this speakers will ...

19 March 2007
05:02 GMT


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