Friday, March 18, 2011

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Cage: Heavy Rain gave birth to a new video game genre

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Heavy Rain released to critical acclaim by various media outlets and proved that "outside the box" games can work in [...] Related posts: Heavy Rain developer: Sony has “balls” Quantic Dream: Heavy Rain hits 1 million Quantic Dream: Heavy Rain to be a PS3 system seller… when it finally arrives

Batman: Arkham City multiplayer would have reduced the overall quality

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Rocksteady Studio, the creative minds behind the highly successful Batman: Arkham Asylum recently explained why Arkham City won't have a multiplayer component. [...] Related posts: Batman: Arkham City officially announced Batman Arkham Asylum save Eidos from Tomb Raider woes? Naughty Dog focusing on multiplayer aspect of Uncharted 2

Goodbye Guitar Hero, Hello Rocksmith

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Who needs Guitar Hero with its cheap plastic controllers when Rocksmith lets you play with a real guitar. Can this possibly work? A month ago Activision announced it was killing the long-running Guitar Hero franchise, mainly because sales had dropped [...] Related posts: Forget Guitar Hero and Rock Band – Play D-Pad Hero instead Do [...]

Social media drives smartphone satisfaction

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An annual survey has found iPhone users the most satisfied for the fifth year running. That’s satisfied with their handset, not self-satisfied, though some would say that’s also the case. Perhaps the more notable aspect of the survey is that owners [...]

The New York Times’ new paywall

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If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. So it is at the New York Times, which is about to hide behind an online paywall for the second time in its history. In 2007 the New York Times <a [...] Related posts: The New York Times to start charging for online content, again – [...]

Switzerland sweet on chocolate, the Mac

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We all know that America’s big metros and their well-educated, well-paid residents are the most Mac friendly in the United States. If you’re abroad or planning a move, what countries should be first on your list of places to set up your Mac housekeeping? Pingdom has taken a sieve to StatCounter [...] Related Posts: Apple [...]

Firefox 4 scheduled for Tuesday

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Mozilla has announced that the finished release of Firefox 4 will be available to download from next Tuesday. It will kick off a switch to a new Google-like system of regular updates. There aren’t any revolutionary user changes to the browser, though the go, refresh [...] Related posts: Firefox 3 to battle Opera, Safari, IE7 [...]

iPad 2 scalpers get in line

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If you have plenty of time on your hands, live in a major city, and have a little capital lying around, here's a new career opportunity: iPad 2 scalper. Sounds a little bizarre but it's working for some folks. As [...] Related posts: Can the iPad outsell all Macs? Trouble: iBooks on iPad will read [...]

AT&T beckons Boy Genius back

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People had been waiting for the Verizon iPhone literally for years, having suffered badly with AT&T — clogged network, dropped calls and ham fisted customer service. Now, lo and behold, when the rubber hits the road it turns out that Ma Bell wasn’t, at least for one high profile user, wasn’t so bad [...] Related [...]