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Twisted Metal Arrives in Europe on March 7

The developers at Eat Sleep Play and publisher Sony have announced that the launch date for the European version of Twisted Metal is now set for March 7, with the two companies confirming that players will have abilities to paint their own cars. The game has been delayed for some time because of issues with localiza...

8 February 2012
05:46 GMT

CES 2012: SteelSeries Unveils Flux Customizable Headset

On a first look you would be tempted to think that the SteelSeries Flux is just your ordinary headset, but don’t let this impression fool you as the Flux is one of the most customizable headsets out there.What this means is that not you can swap the outer plates or change the ear cushions to fit your style, but...

13 January 2012
08:48 GMT

Miyamoto Critical of Customization Options in Mario Kart 7

Nintendo is trying to make software push to increase the popularity of the Nintendo 3DS handheld for the crucial holiday sales period and one of the avenues of attack is the launch of Mario Kart 7, a game that takes the core racing experience and brings it into a 3D world. Speaking to Famitsu, the Japanese gaming ma...

24 November 2011
15:01 GMT

Galaxy Nexus Offers Great Personalization Features

The new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset from Samsung, none other than the Galaxy Nexus, comes to the market with appealing personalization capabilities, Google inform us. Whether it comes to setting up various homescreens that group applications based on their purpose, or to placing a widget or a sho...

24 November 2011
12:11 GMT

Windows 8 Pre-Beta Supports Custom Images for Metro Background

When made available for the world, the Windows 8 Developer Preview lacked one feature that users were certainly keen on having available for them, namely customization of the Metro background. While you can easily change the theme or background of the desktop, with Windows 7 themes supported in the new desktop clien...

24 November 2011
12:01 GMT

Leaked Windows 8 Pre-Beta Screenshots Reveal New Customization Capabilities

Windows 8 Beta will deliver a more complete core user experience than the Developer Preview releases, which was focused on developers, and new leaked screenshots of a post-Build 8102 development milestone seem to confirm this. When it made available the first public preview of Windows 8, Microsoft stressed that there...

7 November 2011
01:41 GMT

SoulCalibur V Has Upgraded Character Creator, Lots of Classic Fighters

SoulCalibur V is set to have quite a lot of improvements over its predecessor, especially in terms of the Character Creator feature, which allows players to create and use their own fighters, as well as customize items they unlock through the experience.SoulCalibur V definitely made some waves last week when it was c...

27 October 2011
05:28 GMT

Windows 8 Start Screen Background Customization Options Coming

There’s a lot more coming to Windows 8 than the Windows Developer Preview has to offer, and Microsoft has stressed this on numerous occasions starting with BUILD. New features, functionality and capabilities are planned for unveiling in an upcoming development milestone, most probably the Beta Build of Win...

6 October 2011
08:05 GMT

Windows 8 Customization Tools

It’s been two weeks since the developer preview for Windows 8 rolled out, but there are already plenty of tools ready to assist you in tweaking the operating system the way you want it.What they generally offer is aesthetic customization of the Metro UI, or modifications as far as its functionality is concerned...

30 September 2011
09:26 GMT

DICE Claims Thousands of Customization Options for Battlefield 3 Weapons

Video game developer DICE has announced that it will include a number of weapon-based customization options for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 3, allowing players to transform more than 50 weapons included in the game in significant ways. The game creators are saying that each of the weapons a playe...

29 August 2011
03:07 GMT

Diablo III Enhances Customization via Runestones

Diablo III might not be ready for launch during this year, although a beta testing phase is sure to come in the next few months, but the developers working on the hack and slash game at Blizzard seem to be interested in keeping players updated with information on the game, now offering details on the runestone system...

26 May 2011
05:40 GMT

Customize Your 11 or 13-inch MacBook Air with Some Chromatics PhantomSkinz

Without a doubt, Apple's 2010 MacBook Air portable computing systems offer quite a huge cool factor, being coveted by many computer users from all over the world, not only for their impressive portability and features, but also for their design, which can actually be further enhanced by applying one of the new C...

8 December 2010
10:50 GMT

ColorWare Impresses With New iPhone 4 Customization

ColorWare, a company focusing on gadget customization, is now offering its services to iPhone 4 customers who may want to add a splash of color to their device. Notably, ColorWare doesn’t just give iPhone 4 a spray and off-it-goes, but actually paints individual parts in different colors, to achieve a trul...

14 July 2010
11:02 GMT

One Hour With: Dragon Age: Origins – Character Creator

14:00. I should be playing Uncharted 2, as seen in this column yesterday, but instead I'm pretty much caught up in looking at all the options offered by the Character Creator for Dragon Age: Origins, which BioWare and Electronic Arts have released in anticipation of the full experience, set to arrive on November...

14 October 2009
17:41 GMT

Download Winterface 2.0 for Windows Mobile

VITO Technology announced recently the release of a new version of its Winterface software solution for Windows Mobile-based handsets, Winterface 2.0. According to the company, the new version of Winterface offers users the possibility to customize the look of their handsets with 10 new skins, as well as with various...

23 September 2009
09:57 GMT

Five New Designer Themes for Windows Phones

Redmond-based Microsoft will unleash on the market the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, in about three weeks from now, and handset markers around the world already announced plans to launch their own Windows phones that day. While the new OS iteration is expected to come to the market...

15 September 2009
03:00 GMT

Closed Beta for APB Coming Soon

All Points Bulletin is one of the most interesting MMO projects coming up for release in 2010 and there surely are players bored of fantasy multiplayer online worlds who are eager to jump into a fully detailed city to wage street battles either on the side of the law or against it. For all those people, the developer...

9 September 2009
16:31 GMT

Xbox Avatars Integrated into Guitar Hero 5

Activision has announced that one of the new features for its upcoming music simulation Guitar Hero 5 will be full integration of the Avatars that users have been able to create for Xbox Live. Basically, instead of using the in-game characters to rock out, players can import their Xbox 360-based creation and see how ...

4 August 2009
14:51 GMT

Exclusive: ZTE's Key Qualities Will Help It Grow Further

ZTE is a leading telecommunications equipment maker from China, yet it also has a strong position on the mobile phone market, and it is expected to grow even more in the future, so as to become one of the top five phone vendors in the world during the ongoing year. Putting the company's name beside other ones in...

8 April 2009
03:00 GMT

Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.6 Review

Ubuntu can undoubtedly be considered one of the most newbie-friendly Linux distributions out there. Yet, there still are some hidden functions and settings that will improve your experience. Though you don't need a third-party program to unlock them, it will save you a lot of time to have an application that cen...

3 April 2009
08:48 GMT

TinkerTool - Customize Your Mac Using Hidden Options

Although customizing your computer has lately become an art, the point of this entire struggle is to achieve the perfect workflow, to set the balance straight between the requirements of your projects and personality, and what your system has to offer and is able to support. And if usually this is achieved by using s...

12 February 2009
12:01 GMT

Behind-the-Scenes Look at Google's Search Customization

Google has announced that it will provide users with the possibility of customizing their search results depending on three key factors: location, recent searches and web history. The three were also taken into account every time Google returned results to a query but, from now on, people will be given a greater oppo...

31 July 2008
06:06 GMT

CustomPlay Golf 2009 Announced

It seems that golf is one of those sports which start to gain huge popularity, if we are to judge by the number of golf simulation games recently released. And it seems that things are not going to stop too soon, on the contrary: we should expect even more similar titles to be released by the end of the year. Joining...

2 July 2008
02:37 GMT

New Icons for Your Old Desktop

Occasionally, we all feel the need to change something about our surroundings or about ourselves - no matter if it's the hairdo, the place of our furniture or simply our daily habits. If you don't want to try anything big (the new hairstyle might be 'uninspired' or you could end up breaking your f...

27 June 2008
07:41 GMT

Tiger Woods 2009 Details Emerge

When you are Electronic Arts and you're doing a sports game, you want the best of the best to headline your product, so it's no real surprise that EA have snapped up Tiger Woods as the front man for their golfing game. The real surprise is that the Tiger Woods of 2009 will be more than just a prettier game ...

6 May 2008
04:30 GMT

Dell: Less Customization Options for the Company's Products

System builder Dell was one of the industry pioneers in terms of custom-built computing systems, but its recent problems on the market are forcing the company to move away from its build-to-order business model.According to Dell's operations chief Mike Cannon, the company will limit the degree to which its custo...

7 April 2008
03:55 GMT

Customized Map Search Available

The Lat Long Blog is the place to go when you want to know whether there's something new in store related to Google Maps. Yesterday, Lior Ron posted an entry relating to the new options added to search. Much to my surprise, they are actually really useful to the average user and not necessarily to the maps afici...

1 February 2008
05:23 GMT

NFS ProStreet Developer's Diary - Use the Wind Tunnel to Check Your Drag and Downforce

You won't believe how well Need For Speed ProStreet is shaping up and the latest developer's diary for ProStreet, revealing even more customization features, stands as pure confirmation that the series is heading towards a whole new level of racing. In fact, the developers have chosen the game's motto ...

17 October 2007
04:02 GMT


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