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Namco Bandai Announces "Surge" Publishing Label

Label will focus on Western gaming sensibilities, premiere with Afro Samurai. By Steve Watts , 12/04/2008 Namco Bandai has announced a new studio and publishing label today, entitled "Surge." The label was formed specifically to cater to the fickle tastes of the Western gaming audi... More...

Nikon unveils 24.5MP D3X digital SLR

Nikon has announced the D3X, its latest high-resultion professional DSLR. Sporting an imaging sensor with double the number of photosites of the popular D3, the 24.5 megapixel D3x includes similar features such as a 3.0", 920,000 dot LCD monitor with Live View, 51-point autofocus, EXPEE... More...

Why You Should Care About Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Diving into the plot zaniness of SE's latest on the DS. By Kevin Gifford , 10/22/2008 Top five reasons why you should care about Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days , revealed this week as coming out next February in Japan in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine: 1. Roxas. The darling of fanfi... More...

AT&T Settles Ringtone Lawsuit

posted Jun 2, 2008, 7:35 PM   by Eric M. Zeman AT&T has settled a group of sixteen separate class action lawsuits filed against it over third-party billing of ringtones and other content. The original lawsuits contended that AT&T customers were misled or not thoroughly informed abo... More...

GSM Operators to Set NFC Standards

posted Jun 30, 2008, 9:32 AM   by Eric M. Zeman updated Jun 30, 2008, 9:47 AM Updated: typos.... The GSM Association announced that it will be releasing an early set of requirements for handsets equipped with near-field communications capabilities, but it will be up to network operators... More...

Lego Batman Gets Cartoon Tie-In

By Earnest Cavalli August 28, 2008 | 11:59:50 AM Categories: Culture    Production has begun on an animated feature set to tie in to the upcoming Lego Batman videogame, reports GamesIndustry.biz. The "20-minute" production will utilize asse... More...

Bungie Warns Against Installing Halo 3

By Earnest Cavalli November 20, 2008 | 10:24:19 AM Categories: Console Games    Halo 3 players should avoid using the "install game to hard drive" feature of the just-released New Xbox Experience, warns Bungie. One boon in installing games ... More...

Harmonix Talks Beatles Game, Rock Band Wii at Wired Store

By Chris Kohler November 22, 2008 | 11:49:51 AM Categories: Rock Band    Alex Rigopulos, CEO of Rock Band creator Harmonix, joined us at the Wired Store in New York City Friday for a chat about music games, the history of the company, and how games are changing... More...

PopCap Donating Bejeweled Twist to Overseas Military

500 free copies on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan. By Steve Watts , 11/13/2008 PopCap will be donating the first 500 retail copies of Bejeweled Twist to soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company gave the copies of the game to the non-profit Games for Soldiers (GFS) organiz... More...

Sony Outlines Deletable Offenses in Little Big Planet

After missing stage controversy, Sony clarifies what will and won't be nixed. By Steve Watts , 11/13/2008 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has gone over the basics for what will and won't result in a stage deletion for Little Big Planet , according to a post on VideoGaming247. The compa... More...

What Games Are Releasing Alongside Little Big Planet?

Little Big Planet has been delayed, so how does that affect your shopping list? By Chris Pereira , 10/17/2008 If you own a PlayStation 3, there's a good chance you were ready to buy Little Big Planet this Tuesday. But after the unfortunate delay we learned of earlier today, come next wee... More...

Copyrighted Songs Disappearing from GH World Tour's Sharing Service

As expected, your shared songs won't last long online if they're based on copyrighted music. By Kris Pigna , 11/08/2008 One of the most exciting features in Guitar Hero World Tour is the custom song creation tool, allowing gamers to write their own note charts and share them online. And ... More...

Sony Ericsson G705 mobile phone spotted in the wild

Sony Ericsson G705 mobile phone spotted in the wild 08 September 2008 New Sony Ericsson handset, still under development, revealed Currently still under development by Sony Ericsson, the forthcoming G705 handset has been spotted in the wild by the Cell Passion website team. This sighting is j... More...

Casio launches EX-Z300, EX-Z250 & EX-Z85

Casio has launched the 10.1MP EXILIM EX-Z300, 9.1MP EX-Z250 and EX-Z85. Both Z300 and Z520 have 3.0” LCDs and 4x (28mm - 112mm equiv) zoom lenses. Apart from Image Stabilization, Noise and Moiré reduction, these two cameras have features such as Makeup function, Multi-Motion ... More...

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX37

Panasonic has today announced the successor to the FX35 digital compact camera - the FX37. The new model comes with Panasonic's Venus IV imaging processor and an enhanced Intelligent Auto mode which is now capable of tracking an object once the AF has locked onto it. All this fancy new technology ha... More...

Review: USB Microphones

Grateful as some are that Apple builds microphones into the iMac and its laptops, no one with a fully-functioning set of ears would claim that the results of recordings undertaken with these built-in mics are wholly satisfying. No, to avoid the kind of background noise and generally-lo-fi results yo... More...

Nokia MusicXpress 5320, N78 and N82 all gain N-Gage

Nokia MusicXpress 5320, N78 and N82 all gain N-Gage 25 July 2008 Three recently released handsets now feature N-Gage gaming client Nokia has released an N-Gage gaming compatible client for its three recently released handsets: 5320 MusicXpress, N78 and N82. There has been no word on older han... More...

Samsung tops-up NV range with new NV9

Samsung's distinctive NV range gets another member with the announcement of the NV9 (TL9 in North America). It's got a 5x optical zoom, 10.2 megapixel sensor and the ability to play MP3 music files. It also contains all sorts of metering and image processing cleverness to help optimise photographs o... More...

Apple iPhone 3G Pre-Orders Crash O2 Site

Customers eager to pre-order an Apple iPhone 3G in the U.K. overwhelmed the O2 Web site early Monday, and when the site returned to operation, the mobile operator said "unprecedented" demand had exhausted its available inventory. Starting at 8:00 a.m. in the U.K., O2 began taking pre-o... More...

The Digital Video Distribution Dance

There's an interesting gavotte taking place in the world of digital video. On one side, Apple and the iTunes Store . On another, the studios. On yet another, those invested in physical video media--DVD and HD and the hardware used to play this media. What makes it interesting is the thin line eac... More...
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