Archive for July, 2011 - Page 23

Ubisoft’s latest downloadable offering, From Dust, was one of the games that stole the show at E3 2011. Ever since being featured at Microsoft’s Xbox Live Summer of Arcade booth (along with some other notable titles like Bastion), it seems that anticipation for From Dust has skyrocketed.

A survey conducted this June determined Apple iPhone 4′s status as king of the smartphones for the month in the United States. But according to a study carried out by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, Samsung might have actually sold more phones globally than both Apple and Nokia this second quarter of [...]

Nintendo 3DS owners in North America can now get exclusive 3D content through the new Nintendo Video service. The feature was first released in Japan earlier this July. The 3D videos are but short clips and not full-length features by any stretch of the imagination. But hey, they’re totally free.

Over the past year or so, BioWare and Electronic Arts have been slowly releasing tidbits of information about the playable classes in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Now, here we are, six months or so before the game’s release (hopefully), and all 8 of them have been revealed. If you [...]

For a while now, the iPhone 5 has been rumored to be coming in September. That’s a change from the usual June/July that the new iPhone comes out in and the change has even hurt Apple’s stock price a little. Earlier today, my colleague here Steve Andersen told you about [...]

Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London flat this past weekend, and many folks have issued condolences for the late star who had her share of personal troubles. However, tech giant Microsoft is coming under fire their Tweet mentioning Amy Winehouse’s passing, which encouraged people to buy Winehouse [...]

A few days ago, our man Robert told you about Best Buy had announced that they would be selling an AT&T version of the Samsung Nexus S. This is similar to what they’ve done with other Nexus S phones where Best Buy is the exclusive seller of these phones. For [...]

Continuing on with our coverage of HD makeovers, Capcom has just announced Tekken Hybrid for PS3, a new bundle that brings together something old, something new, and something… weird. As you may have already guessed from the title, Tekken Hybrid is a mishmash of all sorts of things, so head [...]

For those of you who haven’t hit the vacation trail yet this year, you’re probably already starting to think about where you’re going to go and what you’re going to see and do when you get there. For those of you who favor a vacation in the later part of [...]

There’s no doubt that the iPhone 5 release date is keeping everybody interested. We’re all following every scrap of news we can lay hands on to figure out when this thing is finally hitting stores, and just which stores it will be hitting when it does. And while we’ve seen [...]