Archive for May, 2011 - Page 13

Google Wallet & Google Offers Now Official as NFC Becomes an Important Mobile Standard

Google Announces NFC-based Wallet & Offers Services, Will You Trust It With Your Money Too?
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

We told you this was coming since yesterday and it looks like Google delivered. I’m yet to figure out why this announcement didn’t come at Google I/O, as one would have expected since Google’s event just ended a few weeks ago. Because it really looks as if Google hurried to [...]

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Sega: Sonic Generations 'Abandoned' On Wii

Sonic Generations Skipping Wii Release Because Sega Wants All Versions In HD, Could It Eventually Come To Project Cafe?
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

Even though Sonic had a reinvention of sorts with Sonic Colors on the Wii, Sega’s not showing any love to the Nintendo console with the release of Sonic Generations. In an interview with Nintendo Power (as reported by CVG), Sega’s Takashi Iizuka said that Sonic Generations won’t be showing up [...]

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Crysis 2 Double XP Weekend Going On Now

Crysis 2 Double XP Weekend Lasts Until Monday Across All Platforms, Be One of the Top XP Earners & Win Yourself Some Crysis Swag
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

Grab your Nanosuit and stock up on Mountain Dew, because you’re staying in this weekend and doing nothing by Crysis 2 multiplayer. Yep, there’s another double XP weekend going on, but unlike most of the double XP events that have taken place lately, this one is happening across all three [...]

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Grand Theft Auto Creators Locked Up To Long-Term Contract With Take-Two

The Houser Brothers & Leslie Benzies Of GTA Fame Pen New Contract With Take-Two, Terms & Length Undisclosed
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

Great news for Rockstar fans. In their latest earnings call, Take-Two Interactive chairman Strauss Zelnick reported that the company had renewed the employment agreement with the two Houser brothers – Sam and Dan -  as well as Leslie Benzies. Video game fans will note that those three Scottish developers are [...]

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Nokia C2-00 & X1-01 Are New Dual-SIM Featurephones

Nokia Launches 2 New Dual-SIM Handsets In Developing Regions, One With Hot-Swap SIM Capability
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

With all the networks competing for your attention (and money), what do you do? Buy a dual-SIM mobile phone, of course. Here are two new dual-SIM smartphones from Nokia.

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Hasselblad Brings Out Its H4D-200MS Camera

Hasselblad's Huge New Camera Offers Impressive Resolution At A Hefty Price
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

It’s been a good long while since we last got much news out of the folks at Hasselblad, but for impressive cameras, it’s really pretty tough to beat them. So with that in mind, we’ve got a new camera announced from them, namely, the Hasselblad H4D-200MS.

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Dell Says XPS 15z Is Thinnest 15-Inch Laptop... Not Counting The MacBook Pro

Dell Not Counting Apple Products In Their Claims Of Thinnest 15-Inch Laptop, Are They Debating Semantics Or Being Honest?
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

Apple fans are furious and up in arms regarding a line of text on Dell’s website. Dell is claiming that their new Dell XPS 15z laptop, which is less than an inch thick, is the thinnest 15” PC on the planet. Folks were quick to realize that the MacBook Pro [...]

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Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm Gold In Popular MMOs

Chinese Labor Camp Prisoners Forced to Farm MMO Currency In Twelve Hour Shifts, Were Beat if They Failed to Meet Quota
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

We all know that gold farming is a huge market in China – it’s estimated that 80% of the virtual world’s gold farmers and sellers are located in China – but apparently it’s so big that prisons have even been looking for a cut of the profits, forcing prisoners to [...]

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Evo 2 Console Lets You Play Android Games On Your Television

Play Angry Birds And Others In Comparatively Huge Fashion With The Evo 2 Console
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

This is some fairly weird stuff, folks, but it’s actually kind of impressive all the same. Most of us here like Angry Birds, I’d say. And there are probably a lot of other Android-compatible games that you also enjoy. But sometimes, you just don’t want to play them on your [...]

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PlayStation 4 Coming At E3? Sony Executive Drops PS4 Hint

Sony's Masaru Kato Confirms To Investors That Sony Is Working, Spending Money On Next PlayStation Console
Filed by on Thursday, 26. May 2011

We know that Nintendo is working on a new console, the so called Project CAFE that has been talked about a lot recently. But, Sony is also working on a new home console – a PlayStation 4, if you will. That’s according to a hint dropped by Sony Chief Financial [...]

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