| Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed: Revelation beta is PS3 exclusive Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:40 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Exclusivity around games and DLC do happen from time-to-time but its not often you hear about it in reference to a beta program. It appears that Ubisoft has worked out some sort of exclusive beta program for the PS3. According to the official PlayStation Blog, Ubisoft's Gabriel Graziani announced that the beta for Assassin's Creed [...] |
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| Gizmodo won’t be charged Posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE From the miscarriage of justice department comes news that paying for stolen property isn’t a punishable offense. A “journalist” paying a source? Not a punishable offense. However, being a stupid punk is punishable by up to a year in jail and two of those have been charged. SFGate reports that Brian Hogan — the stupid [...] |
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| Duke Nukem Forever turns a profit despite low review scores Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT 
Categories: GAMER.BLORGE Despite the hype surrounding Duke Nukem Forever, the game received negative criticism by various media outlets. However, it appears that this didn't stop the legendary game from turning a profit. Duke Nukem Forever has been in development hell for almost 14 years. The hype surrounding the game meant that the it could never live up [...] |
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| News Corp. loses big in MySpace debacle Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE News Corp. has admitted losing a lot of money in buying MySpace at the height of its popularity, running it into the ground, and then selling it on a long time after the horse had already bolted. Ah, that poor Rupert Murdoch. You have to have some sympathy for the old coot. OK, maybe not. [...] |
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| Apple and eBook publishers accused of price fixing Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:20 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Ever wondered why electronic books from major publishers often cost seemingly excessive amounts? According to a recently-filed lawsuit it’s because of an unlawful cartel led by Apple. The suit, filed as a class action case by law firm Hagens Berman, claims that publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster illegally set up a [...] |
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| Cable TV subscribers: Stop paying for free! Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Here’s how old I am — back in the ’70s my family got cable television and it was a revolution. We went from two to four channels to, wait for it, 12 channels pretty much all of the time. Dad was a hero and our lives changed forever. Now, I’m dad and we cut the [...] |
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| Amazon ‘riot sales’: reporters need a bat to the head Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:40 AM PDT 
Categories: TECH.BLORGE Headline writers understandably get excited when civil unrest breaks out. And apparently that excitement causes comprehension and mathematical skills to collapse quicker than law and order. Take your pick from newspapers in London to San Francisco and from Wellington to Edmonton and you’ll read about the amazing spike in sales of aluminum baseball bats and [...] |
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