Archive for December, 2010 - Page 30

You may be all worked up about the recent announcement of Uncharted 3, but the folks over at Naughty Dog don’t want you to forget about Uncharted 2 just yet. As a holiday gift to everyone, they’ve opened up The Lab – which is typically only available every other weekend [...]

In an interview with Offical Xbox Magazine, Cliff Belszinski says that he and the people over at Epic Games never planned Gears of War as a trilogy, saying instead that someone at Microsoft had started the rumor (which we can now say is verified, thank-you-very-much) and it got associated with [...]

Police in Charlotte, North Carolina are reporting that they’ve arrested a man suspected of stealing game consoles from kids with cancer. Yes, you read that right, a grown man stealing from kids with cancer. Charles Everett Hinton allegedly stole some Xbox 360 consoles from kids at the Levine Pediatric Hematology [...]

Jonathan Blow is none too happy with game blog CVG after they published an article that takes his words from a recent interview with Edge Magazine out of context, he says. The headline of the article in question reads “Braid creator: Sony takes more risks than MS with indie game [...]

Sony unveiled their Qriocity streaming service last year at CES. It’s their multi-device platform for delivering music and movies and whatnot. Now, the music portion of that service has gone live in the UK and Ireland. Those with Sony Bravia HDTVs, Sony Blu-Ray players, PlayStation 3s and Sony VAIO laptops [...]

AT&T customers now can use carrier billing for their Android Market purchases. The semi-popular way to pay for your app store purchase was previously only available on T-Mobile, but now it’s spread to AT&T as well. Many customers who don’t want to use a credit card or attach one to [...]

Kaz Hirai gave a candid interview with the New York Times regarding the future of mobile PlayStations. He didn’t confirm the so called ‘PlayStation Phone’, but he did talk about it a lot. Anyway, Hirai said that Sony and their marketing will need to differentiate a clear line between the PlayStation [...]

Regardless of the reasons, it seems like several big businesses are distancing themselves from WikiLeaks as fast as they can. This week, a third-party WikiLeaks app was removed from the Apple App Store for an alleged terms of service violation. Despite that, the app was bought over 4,000 and the [...]

Bejeweled company PopCap have come out against the story we’ve previously written about, originally reported by the Wall Street Journal, that most apps misappropriate your data and send wherever they damn well please without so much as a “how do you do”. They don’t claim to speak for all companies [...]

We know what you’re thinking, is this another crappy licensed barely playable racing game? Well, we can tell you one thing, it may very well be a crappy licensed barely playable game, but it’s apparently more of a physics-based stunt game, so there. Now you know what “assume” makes out [...]