Archive for March, 2011 - Page 6

NVIDIA Wanted GTX 590′s Price To Be Even Higher [Disgusted By The GeForce GTX 590's $700 Price? Rumors Say That NVIDIA Wants Partners To Charge Even More For Their Halo Card]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

Regular TFTS readers will know that when NVIDIA unveiled the GTX 590 last week, I was utterly disgusted by the $700 price, calling it a return to a dark place in graphics card history – or something like that. Now, [...]

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GAME Caught Telling Employees To Buy New Nintendo 3DS From Tesco To Sell Used [Memos Show That GAME Used Tesco's Low Price, Generated Their Own Pre-Owned Stock Of 3DS]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

UK readers may have noticed that just the day after the Nintendo 3DS came out there, some GAME shops were selling pre-owned Nintendo 3DS handhelds. How is that possible? Easy. According to internal GAME documents acquired by Eurogamer.net, GAME corporate management encouraged local [...]

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Microsoft & Apple Hire Linguists For Trademark Battle [The Flame War Over The "App Store" Trademark Continues As Tech Giants Turn To Language Experts To Prove Their Point]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

In case you haven’t been following this case, Microsoft and Apple are engaged in a battle over Apple’s trademark of the word “App Store”. App Store is Apple’s popular marketplace for third-party apps on their iPhone, and they’ve held the [...]

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Rogers Admits To Throttling World Of Warcraft [Canadian ISP With Already Horrible Monthly Bandwidth Caps Now Admits That They Accidentally Throttled WoW Gamer, Blames Software]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

It’s no secret that if you start clogging up your DSL or cable connection by download massive amounts of porn or something else from BitTorrent, the ISPs will gently being throttling you back so you don’t hamper the internet connections [...]

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Nintendo Says Next Console Won’t Be 3D [Nintendo Says That Glasses-Free Is A Big Deal, They Don't Plan On Doing A 3D Home Console Anytime Soon]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

We know that Nintendo has been experimenting with 3D technology for a long time, and now they’ve finally had success with the Nintendo 3DS. Does that mean that the next Nintendo home console will be 3D? No so fast. Nintendo [...]

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LA Noire To Join Lineup At Tribeca Film Festival [For The First Time Ever, A Game Joins A Film Festival's Lineup, And What Better Game Than LA Noire?]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

After seeing the trailers for the upcoming L.A. Noire, I got to thinking that it was downright cinematic. If someone had told me that it was a movie instead of a game, I likely would have believed it. But now, [...]

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Microsoft’s IE9 Saves Battery Life [Five Different Web Browsers Went Head To Head, And Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 Used The Least Battery Life]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

If you spend a lot of time on your laptop–I know I do; I’ve taken to using them more than I use a desktop these days–especially if you spend a lot of time on your laptop away from power outlets, [...]

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WWDC Tickets Appear On eBay–Buy It Now At $4599 [Tickets To The Rapidly Sold Out WWDC 2011 Show Start Hitting The Auction Site At Massive Markups]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

You were here just about 18 hours ago when my cohort Kevin Schram asked the question: “Any guesses on how high we’ll see WWDC tickets go on eBay?” Well, we’ve got an answer, at least for the time being–there are [...]

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Nintendo 3DS Sets First-Day Sales Records In US [Nintendo Says 3DS Sold Better On Launch Day Than Any Other Nintendo Handheld System]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

The Nintendo 3DS launched in Europe and North America this past weekend, but something seems a little off: we haven’t been hearing stories of massive 3DS shortages like we did with the launch of the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, or [...]

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Xbox Live Extreme Shopping Event Begins Today [Pick Up Arcade Games Like Costume Quest, Defense Grid & A Kingdom For Keflings Plus Various DLC, Avatar Items On The Cheap During Xbox Live Extreme Shopping Event]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

Face it: your Xbox Live account is in a sorry state. You don’t have any cool Xbox Live Arcade games, you don’t buy DLC for the retail games you own, and even your avatar looks stupid. I know that may [...]

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