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 Mass Effect 3 is the action and role playing mix that will be launched late this year in order to close down the BioWare developed science fiction trilogy and the initial reveal that BioWare has done at E3 points to another epic, dialogue filled adventure with more role playing aspects and higher stakes.
Casey Hudson, who is the executive producer work... (read more) |
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 One of the highlights of E3 2011 for me so far has been the half hour or so that I spent at the Electronic Arts booth which showed off Battlefield 3 playing the multiplayer version of the game with another 15 gamers and the development team.
[ADMARk=1]Kevin O’Leary, who works on Battlefield 3, says that this is the video game that DICE has wanted... (read more) |
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 FIFA 12 could easily be seen as one of those revolutionary editions of the venerable football simulation series from EA Sports, with players looking back and talking about the moment when physics and realism really managed to make the franchise shine.
I played FIFA 12 at the E3 2011 event of Electronic Arts and came away impressed by how important the Player... (read more) |
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 There are people who have seen Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO from developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts, at the E3 trade show for the last 3 years and a lot of gamers hope that the game will finally be launched in the last half of this year.
But the new features that BioWare has shown at the 2011 E3 are truly impres... (read more) |
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 Need for Speed seems to be a solid brand once again, after the success of the rebranded Hot Pursuit from Criterion and of the more recent Shift 2 Unleashed, and publisher Electronic Arts seems to be determined to keep the momentum up with the incoming Need for Speed: The Run.
I saw the game today at the Electronic Arts stand at the 201... (read more) |
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 Much ink, digital and otherwise, has been spent on writing about First Lady Michelle Obama’s toned arms and, most importantly, on how much time she spends working out to keep them that way. Rodial is now saying women all over the world get their arms just as toned – and they don’t even have to lift a finger.
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 Intel has started to investigate the causes of the explosion which occurred earlier this week at the company's Fab 22 chip manufacturing facility, located just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, and sent four people to the hospital.
The explosion occurred in one of the facility's solvent waste treatment rooms, where the company processes chemi... (read more) |
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 OpenFeint, the leading social gaming network, has just announced the availability of a new cross-platform new feed, called GamesFeed, which is meant to keep users up to date with things that interest them most.
The new GameFeed was launched with real time gaming updates from players’ OpenFeint network, and was meant to fos... (read more) |
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 First she was too curvy, then she was too hot and now she’s too skinny: it looks like actress Raven Symone simply can’t catch a break. The star, who has lost a lot of weight since changing her eating habits, is becoming too skinny, voices in the blogosphere claim.
Since May this year, Symone seems to have lost even more ... (read more) |
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 Asus's Danushi Bay concept was one of the most interesting motherboards present at this year's Computex fair, but most of the details about its inner workings have remained pretty much a mystery until now, when a recent report managed to explain how the two CPUs installed communicate with each other.
According to 4G... (read more) |
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 Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just made some enhancements to its Google Maps application for devices based on the Android operating system, offering users the possibility to access live transit updates.
Through the new feature, Android users in some cities around the world would even be able to learn when the bus is ... (read more) |
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 In mid-May, we were the first to uncover a forum post that detailed the prices of AMD's upcoming Zambezi FX and Llano processors, and now the Sunnyvale-based company just confirmed the price of one of its future Bulldozer CPUs.
The chip in question is the eight-core FX-8130P, which will retail for $320, just as we previously reported.... (read more) |
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 This is one Facebook user who will be hard to unfriend. One woman from The Netherlands, who goes by the name of “susy87” on YouTube, got herself a brand new tattoo: the faces of the 152 closest friends she has on the social networking site.
As the video below will confirm, “susy87” went for a sleeve tat... (read more) |
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 Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just powered the price tag for one of the popular devices on its airwaves, the DROID 2 Global by Motorola.
Previously available for purchase at $199.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement with the carrier, the mobile phone is now for sale at only $149.99 on contract.
The mo... (read more) |
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 Owners of a Symbian-based mobile phone from Nokia were provided a while ago with an application that enabled easy pushing of content to the device. Dubbed Nokia Drop, the application has just been updated, and new features and improvements were included into the mix.
The new flavor of the mobile application is meant to provide users with ... (read more) |
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 Kim Kardashian is looking her usual fab self on the cover of the Australian issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Speaking with the mag, the reality star denies once more she ever had plastic surgery, while dishing some tips for her enviable figure.
The star has often denied getting any kind of work done save from that one tim... (read more) |
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 Square Enix brought quite a few of its big, triple-A titles to the E3 2011 conference this week, chief among them being the recently announced Hitman Absolution from studio IO Interactive.
Square Enix presented the brand new Hitman game a few weeks ago but, since then, not a lot was known about the next installment in the ver... (read more) |
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 An analysis of the user database recently leaked from Sony Pictures reveals that consumers have very poor password practices and reuse them more than previously believed.
Last week, the Lulz Security (LulzSec) hacking outfit hacked into SonyPictures.com and obtained access to the underlying database which contained over one mill... (read more) |
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 Security researchers from GFI Labs warn that scareware distributors are abusing SourceForge features to host malicious pages that direct visitors to PDF exploits.
The campaign is the work of people behind the FakeRean family of applications that pose as fake security products and trick users paying for useless licenses.read more) |
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 Lightyear Network Solutions, a well-known provider of data, voice and wireless telecommunication services across North America, has just announced today that it has launched its MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) service after inking a five-year agreement with Sprint.
Following the new deal, Lightyear is to become Spr... (read more) |
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 Trillian, an iOS app that helps you organize and stay in touch with your IM and social friends on-the-go, is now free to download and use on any iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or later.
Undoubtedly prompted to take action after the iMessage announcement from Apple, Cerulean Studios announced that their app... (read more) |
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 During Sony's E3 2011 conference, the Japanese company, together with Capcom, confirmed that the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken fighting game will be arriving for the newly unveiled PlayStation Vita and will see an exclusive character appear on all PlayStation platforms, in the form of Infamous 1 and 2 hero ... (read more) |
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 Pixmania customers tartgeted in recent spam campaigns, fear that the company's client email list might have been compromised.
The Register reports that numerous Pixmania customers began receiving unsolicited emails lately, some of them on addresses exclusively registered with the online retailer.
Concerned users fear that the ... (read more) |
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 Just as announced only a week ago, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has made available for purchase in the United States a new device running under Google's Android operating system, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
The tablet PC was unveiled in March this year as the slimmest such device in the world, and was alread... (read more) |
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 The team behind the ultimate war game Arma, Bohemia Interactive has just announced its second project for mobile platforms, Arma 2: Firing Range.
The upcoming shooter game offers a complete firing range simulation based on the critically acclaimed multi-awarded series Arma 2 that is available on the PC.
To make things even m... (read more) |
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 An 18-year old teenager was arrested in Greece for allegedly hacking into websites and systems belonging to the Interpol, the Pentagon, the FBI and the NSA back in 2008 and 2009.
The teenager was taken into custody by police officers from his home in Agios Dimitrios, one of Athens' working-class districts, where he was liv... (read more) |
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 Sony E3 2011 press conference was home to some really interesting announcements, chief among which being the new Dust 514 "persistent shooter" exclusive to the PlayStation 3 from CCP, the studio behind the massively successful EVE online PC MMORPG.
Sony is trying to make its PlayStation 3 more accessible to mult... (read more) |
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 During the first day of the E3 2011 conference, Capcom has released a few more details about its upcoming DmC Devil May Cry reimagining, including a series of screenshots, a special trailer with gameplay, and even a movie deal that has been confirmed with Screen Gems.
Capcom's Devil May Cry series remaine... (read more) |
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 A Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet is reportedly in the company’s plans for 2012. To this I say, about time!
The Redmond company has yet to confirm the information from DigiTimes, and will most certainly remain mute when asked to comment on speculation. Still, if there’s any truth to the report, the software giant could ha... (read more) |
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 The biggest news coming out of the E3 Nintendo press conference and from the entire trade show has been the reveal of the new Wii U home console, the hardware that Nintendo is currently developing and is set to allow more gaming experiences with its new, touch screen enabled controller.
At the actual press conference the Nintendo ... (read more) |
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 Switching an entire organization, especially one that relies on the community so much, to a whole new development process in the manner of months is hard, but Mozilla seems to be doing all right. Firefox 5 is well underway and should be landing in a couple of weeks and Firefox 6 is already in the works, coming six weeks after tha... (read more) |
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 When it offered the first taste of Windows 8 at D9 and Computex last week, Microsoft opted to highlight the introduction of a new development platform designed to enable devs to build applications running on the next version of Windows using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript technologies.
It’s cle... (read more) |
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 One of the biggest announcements to come at the 2011 edition of the E3 trade show was that Mass Effect 3, the action and role playing game that BioWare is aiming to launch during 2012, was set to get support for the Kinect motion tracking when played on the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft.
Ray Muzyka, who is one of ... (read more) |
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 In between making some big announcements at its E3 2011 conference, Sony has just announced that it has deployed the Gran Turismo 5 patch 1.10 for its popular racing game, which adds plenty of special features and fixes many issues.
Gran Turismo 5 impressed quite a lot of people when it finally appeared for the PlayStation 3 at the... (read more) |
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 A study published in the May 20 issue of the esteemed Astrophysical Journal Letters describes what could very well be a new class of star clusters. Experts say that the object known as NGC 6791 cannot be readily classified in any of the existing stellar cluster types.
Up until now, astronomers used to divide any new such structure between two gr... (read more) |
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 The World IPv6 Day is upon us, for 24 hours, companies around the world will be offering native IPv6 connectivity for their sites and services to test the readiness of the internet to make the switch to the newer protocol.
If successful, you shouldn't notice anything special about today, but if you're having problems connecting to your favo... (read more) |
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 Officials with the Australian government appear to have misplaced all files related to the rich history of UFO sightings in the country. After spending two weeks looking for them, officials could not retrieve more than one such file.
The general public in the country has been reporting various sightings and mysterious occurrences for decades,... (read more) |
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 The 23rd James Bond film is finally happening, after quite a long hiatus and a brief while when fans were told the end of the franchise had come. Producers will introduce a sidekick to Daniel Craig’s 007 spy and she will reportedly be played by Naomie Harris.
For those to whom the name doesn’t ring a bell, Harris has also made ... (read more) |
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 Apple introduced its own iCloud set of synchronization, backup and sharing services earlier this week, and Microsoft was quick to applaud the main advantage of its own set of Cloud offerings, they’re already available to the public, have been for quite a while.
In contrast, Apple’s iCloud will only be of... (read more) |
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 Samsung and Google have just kicked off a special program that allows those interested in buying a Chrome OS notebook to place a pre-order for Samsung's Series 5 portable a week before the laptop will become available from retailers across the US.
In order to qualify for this program, consumers will have to find a link by fo... (read more) |
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 Hate her or love her but Rebecca Black doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. While working on her follow-up single and debut album, the Internet star has also found the time to shoot a cameo in Katy Perry’s latest video.
Perry has released a teaser for the video for “Last Friday Night (TGIF... (read more) |
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 If there's need for further proof that Twitter usage is exploding in Brazil, the fact that the entire website was translated into Brazilian Portuguese in just three days should be enough. After adding it to the crowdsourcing Translation Center, fans got on the job and completed the translation in record time.
This is the latest language t... (read more) |
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 Shortly after Apple released iTunes 10.3 with support for iCloud and other nifty stuff, a number of Apple Discussions users began reporting synchronization issues with the new software and their iDevices.
So perhaps this is the most likely reason for the mysterious iTunes 10.3.1 that’s recently popped up lacking any ... (read more) |
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 Microsoft confirmed that future versions of Office will evolve by swallowing technologies from Prodiance, an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) software provider that the Redmond company acquired.
According to Albert Chew, Senior Product Manager for Office, the move was necessary in order to better equip custome... (read more) |
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 Although information about the upcoming release of the Galaxy Mini at T-Mobile USA leaked one month ago, new details and images are now available.
One of the entry-level Android smartphones announced earlier this year, Galaxy Mini will be launched by T-Mobile USA as Samsung Dart.
As expected, the Dart will... (read more) |
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 Since the debate about whether video games are dangerous for children or not began, experts have been arguing for and against both sides of the discussion. But a new view, provided by researchers in the United Kingdom, holds that the playing these games may actually be rewiring players' brains.
Questions as to the effects technology has on... (read more) |
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 Three new variants of the MacShield scareware were identified today, suggesting that Apple's efforts so far haven't discouraged Mac malware development.
"F-Secure Labs located three new samples today, and added detection for today's in-the-wild versions of MacShield," Sean Sullivan, security advisor at the Finnish antivirus vendor announced on Twit... (read more) |
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 One of the great features in Google Maps, especially when you're on the go, is transit data. You can see what public transport options you have to get about in a city and also a schedule of when the buses, trains and so on, depart from a certain station.
But, as we all know, public transit isn't the most reliable form of tran... (read more) |
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 Mobile phone carrier Vodafone UK is gearing up for the release of the new Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 tablet PC, and has already placed a coming soon page for this device on its website.
This is the second version of the large tablet PC, the one that was unveiled in at CTIA Wireless in March along with the Galaxy Tab 8.9 slate, and not... (read more) |
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 Asus announced its range of GTX 580 Matrix graphics cards just a couple of days ago and now the company has informed members of the press that the GPUs should become available in stores in about two weeks from today.
The first GTX 580 Matrix graphics card to make its appearance is the Platinum edition, while the regular version... (read more) |
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