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Hartblei creates medium format camera with 35mm lens mount

Germano-Ukrainian specialist lens maker Hartblei has announced a medium format camera designed with a 35mm lens mount. The Hartblei CAM can mount any digital or film medium format back up to 4.5x6cm and will be available in Canon EF, Nikon F or Sony Alpha mounts. The company is working to develop th... More...

RIM buys Iris browser developer

RIM buys Iris browser developer 26 August 2009 Torch Mobile acquired to develop WebKit browsers? Research in Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry manufacturer, has bought Torch Mobile, the company known for creating the web browser known as the Iris.   Based in Canada - as is RIM - Torch Mo... More...

Cheap Smartphones Set to Boom in the Pre-paid Market

Smartphones are set to become much cheaper as mobile phone vendors try to get data-centric devices in the hands of pre-paid subscribers. Smartphones are often thought of as very high-end and expensive devices that sit at the top of vendor portfolios, according to Geoff Blaber, analyst at CCS Insig... More...

Watch Out, iPhone: New Motorola Android Phones to Sport Beefy Specs

Motorola's not messing around with its debut of two Android smartphones expected to launch this fall. The phones, one codenamed Morrison and the second Sholes, pack some serious specifications, according to reports at the site Android and Me . If these specs are the real deal, Apple's iPhone may ha... More...

Verizon May be Getting Ready to Host the Apple Tablet

The rumors just keep coming. We've heard Apple is negotiating with Verizon, perhaps to make AT&T a little nervous about maintaining its iPhone monopoly, or perhaps to actually expand service options. Or, perhaps, Apple is angling to cut a deal with another carrier in regard to a differ... More...

Sega Releases First Yakuza 4 Details

We still don't have Yakuza 3, but a sequel is already on the way. By Kat Bailey , 07/24/2009 If Yakuza 3 ever does make it to North America, western gamers will have some catching up to do. Sega has released the first details for Ryu ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu wo Tsugu Mono (Yakuza 4: Heir to... More...

GameStop Prices Tony Hawk Ride at $120

Listing also shows release date as October 13. By Steve Watts , 05/26/2009 The News: The GameStop product listing for Tony Hawk Ride (via Kotaku ) lists the price at a staggering $119.99. It also claims the game will release on October 13, but neither bit of information is confirmed yet ... More...

iPhone 3G S Early Buyers Face Activation Delays

iPhone 3G S Debuts Here's all you need to know about the iPhone 3G S, the newest incarnation of Apple's popular smartphone. IPhone 3G S Teardown Reveals Significant Speed Boost » Picked Apart: Dissecting the iPhone 3G S » iPhone 3G S Early Buyers Face Activation D... More...

Valve Changed Left 4 Dead 2 Cover to Appease ESRB

Fret not -- two of the hand's fingers are now bent back, as opposed to chewed off. By Kris Pigna , 06/17/2009 Looks like having to pacify angry protesters isn't the only trouble Valve has run into after announcing Left 4 Dead 2 at E3 earlier this month. As it turns out, they also had to mod... More...

Casio Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera Handles 1,000 Shots Per Battery Charge

Skip packing a battery charger with Casio's new Exilim Hi-Zoom EX-H10 digital camera. The company says this point and shoot can shoot 1,000 images on a single battery charge--which should be enough for anyone's vacation snaps. Senior Editor Tim Moynihan has more details on Canon's EX-H10 , More...

Hands-On with Sony PSP Go

I won't belabor the point too much because Game On's Matt Peckham has already collected all the soup-to-nuts info about E3's worst kept secret, the PSP Go. Here's a couple of the important specs Just to catch you up: 16GB of internal memory, expandable memory slot. (that memory slot is yet anoth... More...

Indigo Prophecy Sequel Unlikely

Quantic Dream's David Cage says he has "nothing more to say" about the story. By Matt Leone , 05/20/2009 When word first got out on Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain , many assumed it would be a sequel to their adventure game Indigo Prophecy . That theory didn't pan out, with the develo... More...

Virtua Tennis 2009 Delayed into June

Delay gives more time to polish the Wii version, but also sets up a battle with EA's Grand Slam Tennis. By Kris Pigna , 05/10/2009 Sega has announced that Virtua Tennis 2009 has been delayed from its originally planned release in May, with the publisher now shooting for a release on June... More...

Uncharted 2 Multiplayer May Be Confirmed

inFamous pre-order box advertising a Uncharted 2 "multiplayer beta voucher." By Kat Bailey , 04/24/2009 Rumors have been swirling that Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will feature a multiplayer component. Now it looks like we may have confirmation. A picture taken by a B... More...

New Cryptic Gran Turismo 5 Details; GT Mobile Coming This Fall

The very long awaited PSP version of Gran Turismo to be shown at this year's E3. By Chris Pereira , 04/16/2009 A forum thread on the GT Planet forums from user amar212 -- known for frequently being spot-on with Gran Turismo news -- has been posted with all sorts of hints of what we can onl... More...

One More DLC Pack Due for The Maw

Next pack coming April 29 for 100 MS Points. By Steve Watts , 04/22/2009 The News: The quirky adventure game The Maw is going to have one more shot of life put in it with another downloadable pack. BigDownload reports that the "Speeder Lane" DLC is due next Wednesday, April 29, ... More...

Ignition Entertainment Brings Muramasa: The Demon Blade to U.S.

By Earnest Cavalli April 21, 2009 | 2:03:24 PM Categories: Business Matters    Muramasa: The Demon Blade , the stunningly animated sidescrolling action game from Odin Sphere developer Vanillaware, is coming to the U.S. thanks to a new publishing agreement ju... More...

Virtua Tennis, Tiger Woods First Games to Use Wii MotionPlus

By Chris Kohler April 14, 2009 | 2:48:58 PM Categories: Console Games    Sega's Virtua Tennis 2009 will be the first Wii game to use Nintendo's MotionPlus add-on when it arrives June 8. Image courtesy Sega Wii MotionPlus will attach to the bottom of the Wi... More...

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Confirmed For The Wii

Remake of the original will be reimagined to take advantage of the Wii. By Kat Bailey , 04/01/2009 Not too long ago, we reported on rumors of a possible Silent Hill remake for the Nintendo Wii. Now it looks like those rumors are true, with Nintendo Power revealing Silent Hill: Shattered Mem... More...

Tim Schafer Nixes Notions of Psychonauts, Grim Fandango Sequels

By Susan Arendt November 05, 2007 | 3:19:26 PM Categories: Game Development    Playboy.com has a supplement to the feature on Geniuses At Play from the November issue, a series of interviews with some of the industry's biggest names, including Sony's Phil Har... More...
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