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Dishonored Has Potential for Sequels and Spin-Offs

The new action and role-playing mix Dishonored is not even close to launch, but the team working on it is ready to think about the future of the game universe it has created and how it might be used in sequels and spin-offs. Raf Colantonio, who is a co-creative director working on Dishonored, told VG247 during an ev...

27 April 2012
05:05 GMT

Man Dies Buried Alive Trying to Set New World Record

One man in Sri Lanka tried to set a new world record for the longest time being buried alive – and died in the process. He was 24 years old and, as per reports in the press, this was his third attempt. While buried alive-like stunts have been done before by world-famous illusionists like David Blaine, the rea...

7 March 2012
04:54 GMT

Future Rare Games Can Capture Nintendo Era Magic

Despite delivering fewer hits during the last few years former employees still believe that the Rare development studio still has the ability to deliver video games that are at least as good as those launched during its Nintendo years. Ed Fries, a former leader of the Microsoft Game Studios, has told Eurogamer as pa...

9 February 2012
17:31 GMT

King Arthur II – The Role-Playing Wargame (PC)

As men stand shoulder to shoulder, pikes ready, I find myself thinking about how much pain someone can feel when ripped apart by a flying demon-bird. This is the sort of question that King Arthur II – The Role-Playing Wargame brings to the mind of a gamer who knows a little too much about how a weapon can rip t...

8 February 2012
18:31 GMT

Leaked Gears of War 3 Torrent Ruins Final Game Experience

Gears of War 3, the third-person shooter from Epic Games that will arrive this year exclusively on the Xbox 360, is one of the biggest launches of the year, but some of the surprises in the game have already been revealed via a leaked game build that was at one point widely available on torrents. Executive producer ...

3 August 2011
15:51 GMT

Magic Gives Insight on Autism

Autistic people have difficulties in interpreting social cues, so Gustav Kuhn of Brunel University along with Anastasia Kourkoulou and Susan R. Leekam of Cardiff University, UK, thought that in order to better understand their functioning, they could use magic tricks.A good magician is one who moves so fast that peop...

21 October 2010
06:01 GMT

Belief in Witchcraft in Africa Creates Monsters

Belief in magic is widespread mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and more that half of the respondents said they personally believe in witchcraft, found a new Gallup poll.For most educated people, witchcraft is a ridiculous concept and believing in magic is at most for small children to whom bedtime stories are read.Well, ...

30 August 2010
11:05 GMT

iBuyPower Uses MAGIC To Give All Games Multi-Touch for Free

Custom PC maker iBuyPower recently made itself heard, again, when it showed off its NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround gaming solution. Still, it appears that the custom PC maker is bent on increasing the appeal of its machines, especially those with multi-touch capabilities. Basically, the company has developed a software ap...

2 July 2010
02:35 GMT

Rogers Delivers 911 Fix for Dream and Magic

Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers has delivered to its HTC Dream and HTC Magic users new software updates for their devices, which are meant to resolve an issue that prevented the handsets from completing 911 calls when the GPS was turned on. According to the operator, HTC has come up with a fix for the two devic...

25 January 2010
03:51 GMT

Rogers Details the HTC Dream to Magic Upgrade Offer

Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers Wireless announced a few days ago that, given the fact that the HTC Dream would not be upgraded to Android 2.1, the newest flavor of Google's mobile operating system, it would put in place an offer for its Dream users. To be more precise, the operator revealed that it would ...

13 January 2010
12:01 GMT

Rogers' Dream and Magic Won't Taste Donut

Canadian mobile phone users who purchased an HTC Dream or HTC Magic from Rogers, the two phones the carrier delivered to the market earlier this year with Google's Android operating system on board, won't see the Android 1.6 version of the OS loaded on their handsets, it seems. The two phones have been lau...

21 December 2009
03:31 GMT

Albinos Are Sources of Body Parts for Magic Rituals

While this may come as a shock to many people, there are still countries out there in which witchcraft and black magic are not considered relics of the Dark Ages, but parts of everyday life. In these nations, most of which are located on the African continent, the mere suspicion that you may be involved in rituals an...

10 December 2009
04:23 GMT

Magic: The Gathering Will Arrive on the PC and PS3 As Well

Magic: The Gathering is about to give video gamers a brand-new reason to cheer about. The title will be arriving on the PC and PlayStation 3 next year as Duels of the Planeswalkers. Wizards of the Coast will also take this opportunity to add some extra content on the Xbox Live Arcade version. The game will be ready f...

10 November 2009
08:29 GMT

Elven Legacy Gets Three Expansions in Three Months

1C Company and Paradox Interactive are announcing that they plan to release no less than three expansion packs for their strategy title Elven Legacy in the coming three months. Each of the coming packages will be digitally distributed and will include new missions for gamers to test their skills and new armies to pla...

30 September 2009
04:53 GMT

HTC Magic Sold in More Than 1 Million Units

While announcing the launch in Taiwan of its third handset running under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Hero, mobile phone maker HTC Corporation also mentioned that the second Android-based device in the world, the HTC Magic, had been sold in more than 1 million units since its launch on the market, ...

13 August 2009
03:14 GMT

Rogers Lowers HTC Dream and Magic Price to $79.99

Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers has operated yet another price cut to the recently released HTC Dream and Magic, the only Android-based handsets in the country. After having the phones available for $99.99 at the beginning of July, a decrease from the $149.99 price tag the devices came to its airwaves with, now ...

11 August 2009
09:01 GMT

HTC Willow in Live Photos, HTC Magic Available in Taiwan

The HTC Willow has been spotted quite a few times before wandering in the wild, and now it is time for some more photos of it to surface, showing it in action. The handset is the Sprint-branded CDMA version of Snap, or the S511 that has already been rumored to come to the market. What the HTC Willow for Sprint brin...

14 May 2009
04:06 GMT

HTC Announces the Magic for Taiwan

HTC Corporation and Chunghwa Telecom announced today the first traditional Chinese-language Android-powered mobile phone in the world, the HTC Magic, which will become available for purchase in the country starting May, while being complemented by various price plans CHT offers to its customers. The specification l...

30 April 2009
08:36 GMT

Ancient Mysteries Unraveled

Solving mysteries and puzzles defines the human species as we know it and it is because of this native curiosity that we have made our greatest achievements. In order to feed an ever inquisitive mind, we also need to play games so that we can explore the fun side of solving puzzles. This is where titles such as the &...

10 March 2009
14:01 GMT

Goat Arrested for Armed Robbery in Nigeria

A number of vigilantes came at the police station carrying the goat and saying that the thief, who allegedly tried to steal a Mazda 323 car, used some form of ritual to turn himself into a goat, so as to avoid detection by the police. Authorities announced that the animal is currently in custody, but that they need s...

24 January 2009
03:09 GMT

Join the School of Wizardry on Nintendo DS

Konami is preparing to bring us a huge, brand new world of magic on the Nintendo DS sometime in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. The game is entitled Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry and it will be a definite hit for the fans of the handheld, as well as for those who always dreamed of becoming a wizard.As y...

21 August 2008
17:06 GMT

Nintendo DS Will Get Some Magic Made Fun This Spring

Ever dreamed of becoming a great magician, perform the tricks nobody has ever seen before and put a spell on the audience? Seen "The Prestige" and dreamed about doing the same magical stuff - or at least something close to that? The Nintendo DS portable console might get you as close as you will ever be to becoming a...

22 February 2008
15:31 GMT

Blades & Magic Is the Best Mobile Game of the Year

FISHLABS, a well-known developer of premium 3D mobile phone games, has won the German Developer Award 2007 in the category 'Best Mobile Game'. As the only 3D-mobile game, the action role-playing game Blades & Magic won over the jury, consisting of 30 industry-experts, and beat out the competition. "We are e...

18 December 2007
05:25 GMT

Why Do We Believe in Witchcraft and Magic?

You may have met people wasting a fortune on going to mediums with the purpose of high-lightening their ways towards happiness and finding the ideal mate. Or you may have known an educated lady going to a gypsy witch to 'regain' the love of her boyfriend / husband who cheated on her. The main issue is that,...

25 October 2007
06:59 GMT

Criss Angel and Cameron Diaz - A Cat and Mouse Game

The mysterious magician Criss Angel, most known for his magic show, "Mindfreak", seems to be the ideal man from the ladies' dreams: tall, dark, handsome and mysterious. The mysterious part is what makes him target practice for masters of gossip, who claim that Criss also has quite the love life, being paired ove...

19 July 2007
08:50 GMT

Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds Cheats and Hints (Xbox)

Enter a world of intense fighting action, where dueling wizards battle in arenas conjured from the world of Magic: The Gathering-Battlegrounds. Victory goes to those who cast spells strategically, but fight with furious and ruthless power. Think like a wizard, and fight like a warrior. While the Magic expert's d...

26 March 2007
09:09 GMT


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