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"One Core Kinect Game" Coming From THQ, Can We Handle It?

Kinect To Get One Whole Core THQ Game, Swooning Ensues
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Man, you don’t just drop something like that over Twitter. You give a nice video interview where people can see you and you can make soft and reassuring cooing noises. Regardless, all you core gamers stuck up Kinect river with no core paddles, this sweet THQ tweet’s for you: “We [...]

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130,000 Windows Phone 7 Handsets Sold to Date Says Facebook App

Microsoft Will Not Say But Windows Phone 7 Facebook App Confirms at Least 130k Users Since Launch
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Not only is Android and even Symbian^3 outselling Windows Phone 7 but it looks like while Redmond will not tell anyone how many WP7 handsets have been activated since launch, the WP7 Facebook app is ready to reveal some numbers.

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Original Kinect Trailer Analyzed For Broken Promises

Kinect Reality Faces Off Against Kinect Promises In Brutal Trailer Teardown
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

If you’re done fantasizing about Kinect & Minecraft sitting in a tree, there’s this blow by blow Kinect reveal trailer analysis by Kotaku we thought you’d like to check out. It’s basically just the first Kinect trailer put out, taken apart and analyzed for, how do we put this gently… [...]

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Motorola Droid 2 Global, Droid X & Citrus Go BOGA With Verizon Wireless

Verizon Adds A Few More Android Smartphones As Buy-One-Get-Another Devices
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Regardless of the reason behind the move, it looks like now is a decent time to purchase a pair of Android smartphones from Verizon. Up until now they have had a few devices listed as BOGA (buy one get another) and as of today there has been three more added.

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Verizon 4G LTE Press Conference Coming Tomorrow

Verizon CTO Tony Melone To Detail 4G LTE Rollout Plans To Press Tomorrow
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

The 4G Wars between Sprint and T-Mobile have been heating up in adverting lately – and now the big dog is about to enter the race. Verizon has been working on their 4G LTE in some 30 cities, and after much speculation about when it will be launched, the carrier has issued [...]

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Dell Venue Pro Smartphone Gets Pricing & Release Date

Dell Website Reveals December 14th As Venue Pro Ship Date, Will Be Priced On-Contract At $149.99
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

While we have seen a fair amount of Windows Phone 7 devices come available here in the US, there are still some that are waiting to be released. Of course, the CDMA varieties for Verizon and Sprint fall into that category, however there is also the Dell Venue Pro which [...]

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PlayStation Move Sales Numbers Hit 4.1 Million Controllers Sold

Sony Has Shipped Over 4 Million Controllers To Retailers, Almost Double Kinect Sales Numbers At This Point
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Yesterday’s great news was that Microsoft said that they’d sold 2.5 million units worth of Kinect. Not to be outdone, Sony has fired back. Gaming blog Kotaku is reporting that Sony claims 4.1 million Move controllers have been sold. Granted, Move was out before Kinect, but that’s just under double [...]

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Call Of Duty Black Ops Mythbusters-Style Video Shatters Multiplayer Myths

Black Ops Dive Over RPG Round Question Settled Once And For All
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

First, we have to give these guys props for the amazing production values behind their video, we rarely see something this beautifully edited, scored and produced even from the big bad video game news sites. Second, taking on the playground gossip while simultaneously taking mendacious braggarts down a couple of [...]

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ViewSonic G Tablet Arrives With Office Depot

Office Depot Announces ViewSonic G Android Tablet, Features 10" Display, 16GB Internal Storage & $399 Price Tag
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Good news for those in the US hoping to pick up an Android tablet this holiday season — the ViewSonic G Tablet has come available with Office Depot. If you remember back, this particular model was spotted at a press event back in mid-September and that comes some good news [...]

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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S Froyo Update Happening Today Somewhere in Europe; Or Perhaps Tomorrow

T-Mobile Wants to Launch Android 2.2 Froyo for Galaxy S Over-The-Air, If Not Possible Then Coming on December 1 Via Samsung KIES
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

The Samsung Galaxy S still disappoints worldwide when it comes to Android 2.2 Froyo support. While some carriers will only deliver Froyo to their Galaxy S customers at some point in 2011, T-Mobile is getting ready to roll out the update at some point today or tomorrow.

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