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On Monday, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced the expansion of its 3G network in New Haven County, Connecticut, in a move aimed at offering it the possibility to meet the increasing demand for voice, Internet, and 3G multimedia services. According to the company, the new enhancements brought to its netwo... |
10 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has announced recently that it has made new enhancements to its 3G network, and that a new cell site has just been activated in Yukon, southeast of Pittsburgh. According to the company, the new deployment is set to offer improved coverage from Yukon southwest along Interstate 70 ... |
12 October 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The universe that Blizzard started with the Warcraft series is truly an amazing one and it deserves all the spin-offs, side-projects and all other forms of franchise additions. As far as the stories are concerned, the games that have left the company's front door are nothing short of amazing so when it announced... |
8 October 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans to ship the third expansion to World of Warcraft, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows PC and Mac OS X. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm was unveiled at the company’s fourth BlizzCon gaming festival. WoW: Cataclysm changes Azeroth f... |
24 August 2009
08:14 GMT |
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There are certainly a lot of MMORPGs out there, many struggling to find a story universe in which all of the classes and characters make sense. One game that managed such a thing is Funcom's Age of Conan, which has its background in the universe of the famous warrior. After registering quite a lot of acclaim fr... |
19 August 2009
11:11 GMT |
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CCP Games, the developer of the highly acclaimed sci-fi MMORPG EVE Online, has announced that the mini-expansion pack Apocrypha 1.5 will be available this week, Thursday, August 20. Among other additions, the expansion brings small and medium ship rigs, several new epic mission arcs, specialized cargo holds and more.... |
17 August 2009
11:03 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is one of the biggest video games in the world, boasting over 11,5 million paying subscribers each month. These players are engulfed in the fantasy world of Azeroth and play various factions, races and classes. That is why any new update is extremely important for them, as it might have a crucial i... |
17 August 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is announcing that the first of what will indisputably be many expansion packs for The Sims 3 is set to arrive on November 16, 2009 bearing the rather uninspiring name World Adventures. The game is in development at the moment and it will be outed for both the PC and Mac platforms, although the releas... |
4 August 2009
18:11 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is one of the biggest games in the world, and it is the most popular MMORPG, with over 11,5 million paying subscribers each month. As such, there is a lot of interest regarding any new updates that will be made and any new character classes or races that might be added. The two add-ons already rele... |
21 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced the expansion of its 3G network in Unity, Maine, through the deployment of a new cell site in the area. According to the company, the new roll-out is meant to offer leveraged wireless voice and 3G coverage along Route 202, Route 139 and Route 220 in Unity and Troy, whil... |
7 July 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel's affiliate Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) announced on Monday the enhancement and expansion of its broadband mobile network coverage in York County through the deployment of a new antenna. The new cell site went live at 16 College Avenue on Friday, June 5, and is meant to offer St... |
30 June 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Vodafone Essar has announced today the completion of a rapid expansion of its services across seven new regions in India, and the infrastructure service provider that made this possible was Nokia Siemens Network. Mobile phone users in India who live in or will travel to Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir... |
29 June 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Russian development studio 1C: Ino-Co and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that they plan to release an expansion for Elven Legacy, their turn-based strategy videogame released in 2008.The addition to the videogame is set to arrive sometime during fall and is called Ranger. Apparently, it will only be lau... |
10 June 2009
02:34 GMT |
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One of the primary and most broad goals of astronomy is to determine the speed at which the Universe is expanding, a phenomenon that was first described by Edwin Hubble. In honor of the great scientist, modern-day experts have termed the constant that gives the Universe expansion speed Hubble's constant. At this... |
9 June 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Finnish communication service provider Elisa has announced today plans to expand its 3G network so as to be able to deliver faster mobile broadband services to its customers. According to the company, the new network will include HSPA+ capabilities, as well as support for LTE deployments. In addition, the carrier has... |
9 June 2009
10:11 GMT |
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The Hubble Constant is, in astronomical terms, the value given to the speed at which the Universe expands. It's unknown at this point, but mathematicians and physicists have narrowed its possible range down to about a five percent uncertainty rate. And while this is good news for those seeking to learn exactly h... |
8 May 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Stardock, as the publisher, and Ironclad Games, as the developers, are announcing that the Entrenchment micro expansion for Sins of the Solar Empire will be released worldwide on February 25. Players who already own the game will be able to get the expansion using the digital download platform developed by Stardock, ... |
11 February 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The online gaming scene is starting to become bigger and bigger in these very tough times, when game developers are beginning to feel the negative influence of the recession on their retail sales. People are starting to move away from games that can only be played once, and are heading towards titles that can be play... |
30 January 2009
03:36 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, as far as storytelling goes, there are a lot of trends. In the early days, when cut scenes rendered in real time weren't possible due to graphics limitations, a lot of companies started to employ live action sequences with real persons in order to cut back on costs and deliver a worthwhil... |
28 January 2009
03:33 GMT |
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It seems that Nokia plans to expand S60 on Symbian OS to new market areas and new categories, while also trying to bring the platform to lower-cost devices, at least this is what CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and CFO Rick Simonson stated at the company's recent Q4 earnings conference call. According to the two, the F... |
24 January 2009
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According to the latest theory on the creation of the Universe, dark energy is the force responsible for the multiple cycles everything around us undergoes. The year 2002 saw Paul Steinhardt, a scientist at Princeton University, and Neil Turok, at the University of Cambridge, developing the “never-ending cycle&... |
19 January 2009
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The strategy genre of games has always been a very crowded one, as a lot of titles claimed to bring the definitive RTS (Real Time Strategy) experience to the players. But among these titles, a few stood out from the crowd, with PC gamers praising the Command & Conquer franchise for its great series, like Tiberium or ... |
9 January 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Fable II was one of the most expected games for the Xbox 360, largely due to the fact that it, or rather its creator, Peter Molyneux, promised that it would revolutionize the RPG (Role Playing Game) genre and that it would offer players a wide variety of choices for their characters. It registered some pretty big sa... |
18 December 2008
09:21 GMT |
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The game distribution business is a very profitable one, as a lot of customers are buying games because they offer the best form of entertainment at a reasonable price, which is why a lot of gaming companies, like Microsoft or Blizzard, are claiming that they will keep this industry safe from the effects of the finan... |
5 December 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, available for Mac and PC, has sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is t... |
21 November 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Everquest II has been one of the most popular MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) of all time, mainly due to the fact that it introduced a variety of new features that we now take for granted in any MMO title that launches. The game was quite addictive and a lot of players found themselves hooke... |
20 November 2008
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The release of a third Spore patch was announced by Electronic Arts and Maxis. Besides fixes and tweaks, the patch also includes free exoskeleton limbs for your creatures, ranging from Arm Plated to Proprioceptive Flex. The two companies have also announced the shipping of the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack to retail... |
18 November 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Stardock and Ironclad Games have announced their intention not to release the planned Entrenchment mini expansion for their real time strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire on November 18, the date initially revealed. The developer and publisher have not indicated a new release date, but given the fact that Demigod, ... |
13 November 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Location: Bucharest, Romania. Date and time: November 12, 2008, 22:00. Event: The launch of "The Wrath of the Lich King," the second expansion to one of the world's most successful game titles to date, The World of Warcraft, an event that took place at midnight all over the world. While I’m not what you wo... |
13 November 2008
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Paradox Interactive, the developer and publisher of the very popular Europa Universalis series, has released new details regarding the Vae Victis expansion for its latest game, Rome, which deals with the history of the Roman Republic.Europa Universalis: Rome is a grand strategy title and the expansion is aiming to ad... |
12 November 2008
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Red Alert is one of the most popular franchises in the whole Command & Conquer universe of strategy games, joining the likes of the Tiberium and Generals series of games. Through its latest title, Red Alert 3, it emphasizes the co-op type of gameplay, a very innovative and pretty well built feature, which hasn't... |
10 November 2008
03:42 GMT |
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Atari and the Wizards of the Coast are announcing that Storms of Zehir, the second expansion to Neverwinter Nights 2, is now code complete and ready to be multiplied for the official release.This second expansion will allow players to create a complete party from scratch, rolling all the characters themselves, withou... |
4 November 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed the system requirements for the Mac version of its upcoming expansion pack for WoW, Wrath of the Lich King. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion for the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) available today.Following The ... |
9 October 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Square Enix say that they are now offering Final Fantasy XI 2008 Edition as a digital download in Europe in an effort to attract more players towards the MMO title. The game will be priced at 39.99 Euros and the download package, available from Metaboli and other partners, will contain the original game, as released... |
7 October 2008
06:20 GMT |
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World of Warcraft is one of the most popular games out there, with a fan base spreading from school kids to adult men or women, having over 11 million subscribers. Part of this huge popularity is that it is accessible from the weakest computer to the most high end gaming rig. It is also available on DVD and the old ... |
26 September 2008
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The Leipzig Games Convention is a great place to announce new stuff when it comes to MMOs, so it should be no surprise that Funcom, the people behind Age of Conan, have chosen this venue to talk a bit about their plans to expand the game in 2009. Apart from the usual balancing which is an ongoing process, it appears ... |
25 August 2008
03:10 GMT |
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If you are one of the players who enjoy Codemasters' massively multiplayer online game ArchLord, you will be really pleased to hear that now Codies' title is bigger and better than ever - everything for free! And knowing that about 750,000 players have registered accounts there, I'm sure this announcem... |
22 August 2008
04:37 GMT |
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If you're into horror games and especially if you loved Penumbra: Black Plague, you will be really excited to find out that the release date of the expansion is now set: the 27th of August 2008. Named Penumbra: Requiem, has been developed by Frictional Games and it will be available exclusively via digital downl... |
17 June 2008
12:06 GMT |
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At some point in time, Crytek decided to trademark everything in the world that might, sometime in the future, serve as a name for a Crytek-made game. Initially, they only thought of Crysis Wars, Crysis Warhead and World in Crysis. It somehow made sense, seeing how the game basically sets it all up for a sequel and h... |
5 June 2008
09:13 GMT |
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Generally, PC users receive their expansions, patches and similar updates for free, while console users have to pay for what we know as DLC. Keeping in mind that consoles often sell what PC users get for free, it is clearly a gap somewhere and the fact that Kalypso Media has decided to try its luck and sell to PC own... |
2 June 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Something is happening with the games industry today: more and more companies start thinking about creating original IPs (which is a great thing) that can be easily turned into multi-platform moneymakers (which is not necessary a good thing). We first heard about Capcom who plans to create films in order to promote v... |
27 May 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Even though The Sims 3 are under development, Maxis still has time to create additional stuff for the money-maker called The Sims 2. And that's OK, as long as people are buying it, I guess. So, this time, Electronic Arts has launched a new content pack for its game, called The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff. Probably th... |
16 May 2008
02:20 GMT |
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Probably one of the most successful franchises on the Nintendo DS handheld console, the Pokemon franchise, will welcome a new member to the family and it will be called Pokemon Platinum. The news has been revealed in the latest issue of the Coro Coro Magazine and, even though most of the fans would've loved to g... |
12 May 2008
12:06 GMT |
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The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar subscribers have every reason to be happy now, since Codemasters and Turbine have announced the release of Book 13: Doom of the Last-King, the fifth content update since the MMORPG was launched. Unfortunately for the European players, this update is available only for t... |
25 April 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Whenever a game gets two sequels and the third is in the works, one thing is clear: it is a great one or developed by Electronic Arts, but that's not our case because we're talking about Gothic - the one which could be among the best RPG games that were ever made, a title with both great story and gameplay.... |
15 April 2008
02:17 GMT |
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Disney Interactive Studios is creating its sixth internal game production studios after it has recently acquired a Chinese-based developer called Gamestar, that has studios in both the Wuhan province and in Shanghai. The move is part of a wider Disney Interactive plan to create a strong internal division that can pro... |
8 April 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Wired is reporting that Brad Wardell, Stardock's president and Chief Executive Officer, has recently confirmed that Sins of a Solar Empire was due to get an expansion in the not-too-distant future. That's good news and shows Stardock's dedication to the game and its commitment to keeping the fans happy... |
3 April 2008
16:11 GMT |
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It was last week when Adam Kiciński, head of CD Projekt RED, announced a "pretty big" surprise regarding their hit RPG The Witcher and everybody started to speculate. Most of the people were expecting an expansion pack, while others were sure the developers were going to announce the sequel. Unfortunately, none of th... |
19 February 2008
02:50 GMT |
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This 4 years old and highly appreciated massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne, will receive its largest expansion in the history: The Kamael. At more than 1 GB in size (and no, that's not the reason it is the largest), this expansion will be available in Europe s... |
23 January 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Just days ago, CCP was confirming the launch date for EVE Online's free, next-gen graphical expansion in light of reaching a 200,000 subscriber milestone. Everyone playing CCP's popular MMORPG has surely downloaded the free expansion, but not all have had a very satisfying EVE Online experience afterwards. ... |
7 December 2007
05:23 GMT |
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