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PixelJunk Developer Showing Off Three New Games At E3

Q-Games Planning To Preview PixelJunk Lifelike & Two Unannounced Games At E3 2011
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

Q-Games has been working on the PixelJunk series since 2007, and games like PixelJunk Shooter and PixelJunk Monsters have made them pretty popular with PS3 owners. While the PixelJunk games on PSN have definitely treated them well, they may be looking to branch out from the series once more, as [...]

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Red Faction: Armageddon Demo Hits One Million Downloads, Mr. Toots Unlocked In Full Game

Volition Adds Mr. Toots To Your Arsenal In Red Faction: Armageddon After Reaching Their Goal Of One Million Demo Downloads
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

So, you’re a lover of violent, mature-rated shooters, but you’re also a devoted father (or mother). With Red Faction: Armageddon coming out soon, how are you going to manage playing a violent video game without your kids sneaking a peek at the murder of horrific looking aliens? You could make [...]

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Computex 2011: LG Shows Off Its P220 Laptop

LG's P220 Laptop Lands At The Computex Show, Looks Like A Competitor For The MacBook Pro
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

Seems that the ultra-light laptop stakes just took a new turn with LG deciding to step in on that. They’re currently showing off their new LG P220 out at the Computex show, and this one actually looks–in pretty much every sense of the word looks–like a match for the MacBook [...]

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Interplay Faces Financial Woes, Fallout Online Hangs In The Balance

Interplay May Be Forced To Shelve Fallout Online As They Report Funding For Projects Has Simply Run Out
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

Interplay has had its share of financial troubles throughout the years. Their problems started over a decade ago when the company went public, and continued on for years after that, up until they were able to bounce back a bit from their sale of ownership of the Fallout universe to [...]

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Computex 2011: SMSC Shows Off Its Kleer Wireless Audio System Via Its New Processor, The DARR83

SMSC's Kleer Audio System Offers Wireless Audio Across A Variety Of Devices, Lets You Put Your Audio Just Where You Need It
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

It’s been a good long time since we last heard anything out of the Kleer wireless audio system, but leave it to the magic of the Computex show to bring us the taste we hadn’t had for some time. SMSC is showing off its Kleer system out at the show, [...]

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Steve Jobs Spotted At Apple Campus

Steve Jobs Seen Dining With Johnny Ive At Caffe Macs, Also Appearing At WWDC, Does This Mean Jobs Is Back At Apple?
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

Back in January, it was announced by Apple that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was taking a medical leave of absence from the company, leaving the company in the hands of COO Tim Cook. Considering the alleged creative control that Jobs has on Apple’s highly successful products, and his history of [...]

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iCloud Launch May Include Feature Films, Say Reports

Apple Working On Getting Movies For Their iCloud Streaming Service, Negotiations Reportedly Difficult
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

An interesting new development has cropped up for the upcoming launch of iCloud at next week’s Apple WWDC show; apparently Apple’s been trying to get actual feature film for their launch, but will they make it in time?

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New Game Announcement Coming From Bungie In July?

Bungie.net Blog Post Hints That There May Be More Details On Their Next Title Coming Around Bungie Day
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

Since wrapping up development on Halo: Reach and joining forces with Activision, we haven’t heard much from Bungie. According to a blog post on Bungie.net however, that silence might be turning into a game announcement here in a few weeks, and we might finally get a glimpse at their first [...]

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Computex 2011: LG Shows Off Its New V300

LG's V300 Is An All In One PC That Offers 3D Capability And More Besides, But Without Taking Up A Lot Of Physical Room
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

Well, I was skeptical before, no mistake there, but the whole all in one PC thing is really starting to gain some ground as LG shows off its own version out at Computex. It’s packing a surprising amount of capability into its admittedly small chassis, so brace yourself for a [...]

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Computex 2011: SanDisk Shows Off New Solid State Drives

SanDisk Brings Out the U100 and I100 At The Computex 2011 Show, Promises Impressive Speeds
By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

We’ve heard a lot here of late about solid state drives, and the folks out at SanDisk are looking to really put some spark in their new line. And whether you think these are going to be a huge boon to speeding up your hardware or they won’t be a [...]

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