Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Violent Assassin’s Creed: Revelations trailer and Crytek working on Homefront 2

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:40 PM PDT


Categories: GAMER.BLORGE

Earlier today Ubisoft release a new trailer that should get your heart pumping for Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Be warned as the trailer is extremely violent showing off all the ways players can kill each other in the multiplayer mode. In addition, Crytek confirmed rumors of taking on THQ's Homefront project. Homefront is an interesting title [...]

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Final Fantasy XIII-2 to release on one disc for the Xbox 360

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:40 PM PDT


Categories: GAMER.BLORGE

When Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIII would ship on two discs for the Xbox 360, many gamers were outraged. Fans of the series were not mad over the prospect of swapping discs but over its game-breaking implications. The Final Fantasy series have mainly been an open-world affair with ability to fast travel via [...]

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Spotify gains users, loses labels

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

A mixed week for Spotify: user numbers are up, but labels are dropping like flies. Spotify has passed a huge milestone in terms of paying subscribers. Unfortunately this comes at a time when indie labels are quitting the streaming music service. And disclosing their reasons for doing so in public. But not to worry, as [...]

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There is no Google monopoly, says Google tool

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:34 PM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

Or, if you prefer, “Mr. Schmidt’s paid FTC mouthpiece goes to Washington.” Yeah, that’s a brutal assessment, but what else do you call a person who was a farmer and has now become the fox, or at the very least, the fox’s paid representative? And, when I say paid I mean paid a lot more [...]

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White iPod touch, and unicorns, coming in October

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:00 PM PDT


Categories: iPHONETOUCH.BLORGE

Microsoft has already said it won’t release an updated Zune and other media player competitors are equally moribund. What does this mean for Apple’s iPod line? For the foreseeable future, we won’t be seeing much, if any, real innovation. September has come and all but gone without Apple’s annual iPod + iTunes media event, and [...]

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Satisfaction is the quality

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:40 PM PDT


Categories: MAC.BLORGE

There’s a lot of FUD out there over who makes the best computers — too cheap (PC), too expensive (Mac), too insecure (all computers), too closed (!!!) or too whatever (Linux). However, whereas individual pundits and users are just so much noise and not much help when it comes to buying decisions, there’s one measure [...]

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Is Windows Phone 7 proving to be more than a blip on the smartphone radar

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:40 PM PDT


Categories: VISTA.BLORGE

Currently, Windows phone 7 has approximately 1.6 percent of the smartphone market.  You can get smaller than that but no one wants to.  As it stands, Windows Phone 7 is well behind Android and iOS in market share, but it looks as if that might be changing. According to MocoNews.net, Android currently holds 43.4 percent [...]

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Windows 7 new user tips

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:40 PM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

If you’ve made the leap to Windows 7, the good news is that many of its improvements and additions are very intuitive. But there are also plenty of goodies that aren’t so obvious: here’s our guide to some of the best. Use the Windows key plus an arrow key to lock the active window to [...]

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