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LG announces new budget handset

LG announces new budget handset 23 December 2009 Chassis features 'rich and loud' speaker After announcing the new Arena and Chocolate special edition phones, LG is busy filling gaps in its current mobile phone catalogue with the announcement of a new budget handset called the GS2... More...

Orange and T-Mobile merge

Orange and T-Mobile merge 08 September 2009 The two companies now make the UK's largest operator T-Mobile UK and Orange UK have been entered into a 50:50 joint venture company, creating the UK's largest mobile operator.   The resulting company, which will create an estimated 19,000 ... More...

First Impressions: Nokia X6

First Impressions: Nokia X6 03 September 2009 High end Comes With Music phone with social networking focus Nokia's Xseries is its new line of social entertainment phones - photos, music, social networking, the whole shebang. At Nokia World 2009, we've just seen the X6 and its lower spec broth... More...

Google Voice Can Sneak onto iPhone

Despite recent drama , Google Voice will soon be available for iPhone -- as a Web-based app, says The New York Times . The all-things-phone-management application (which was widely speculated to have been rejected for threatening AT&T profits on calling plans) will be remade as a sty... More...

Apple Fans Uneasy Over App Store Rule on Google Voice

Apple's pretty used to doing things its way. It guards access to its wildly successful app store , controlling access to its inviting virtual shelves by a mysterious set of sometimes seemingly random criteria . Although Apple has reversed course on soft-core porn and apps in bad taste , an... More...

Rock Band 2 Lead Designer Criticizes Guitar Hero World Tour's Music Studio

Dan Teasdale doesn't want a "half-arsed" music creation suite in Rock Band. By Dustin Quillen , 11/10/2008 Now that they've had some time to tinker with Guitar Hero World Tour , what does Rock Band developer and Guitar Hero series creator Harmonix think of the competition's ... More...

New Michael Jackson Game Reportedly Under Development

Unnamed title has been under development for several months, slated for Christmas release. By Kat Bailey , 07/10/2009 Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is remembered as an iconic Sega Genesis game. Now it looks like the King of Pop is set to make a posthumous return to video games. According to... More...

'Antichrist' Game Under Development

Game based on controversial movie "definitely not coming to Walmart," director says. By Kat Bailey , 06/23/2009 Licensed games have been part of video games going back to the dawn of the medium. Everything from ET to Saw has gotten its own game at some point. This one arguably ... More...

Google Celebrates Tetris Birthday

The search engine giant changes its logo to celebrate a special videogame birthday. By Sam Kennedy , 06/05/2009 So I was just about to search for something on Google and noticed that the search engine changed its logo -- to a Tetris theme! Why? To celebrate the iconic videogame's birthday. It ... More...

Orange Hits 1 Million IPhone Sales in France

This just in: Apple has sold one million iPhones...en France. Despite being one of the first countries outside of the U.S. to offer Apple's handset, it's taken eighteen months for wireless provider Orange to hit the same milestone that Apple achieved in the U.S. in just 74 days . The iPhone was r... More...

Microsoft Slashes In-Game Ad Jobs

Microsoft cuts 28 percent of Massive's work force. By Kat Bailey , 05/06/2009 In-game ads may be the wave of the future, but it seems that the industry isn't immune to layoffs. According to Venture Beat , Microsoft has extended its cuts to its recently purchased in-game advertising firm. T... More...

6 New Screens From Ghostbusters DS

By Earnest Cavalli April 23, 2009 | 1:53:40 PM Categories: Portable Gaming    Continuing the steady stream of media related to the upcoming Ghostbusters videogames, publisher Atari has unveiled a handful of new images from the Nintendo DS handheld version of th... More...

Valkyria Chronicles DLC Gets Date, Price

Three new packs of content to hit on April 16 for $4.99 apiece. By Steve Watts , 04/08/2009 UPDATE - As expected, Sega has announced that the content will indeed come to the U.S. on April 16, for a price of $4.99 per pack. No word of a discount for buying all three, however, so players may... More...

Review: Remastered Riddick Raises Bar for Movie Games

By Earnest Cavalli April 07, 2009 | 2:32:00 PM Categories: Reviews    Game developers tasked with crafting a game based on a movie franchise need only look to The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena to learn how to do it right. First, capture the c... More...

Fat Princess Single-Player Modes Detailed

Downloadable PlayStation Network title is due this summer. By Steve Watts , 03/27/2009 Fat Princess is one of the most anticipated titles coming out for the PlayStation Network, and thanks to the Game Developers Conference we have a few more details on it. Joystiq reports that two sing... More...

Controversy Erupts Over Possible MS Mobile App Fee

Microsoft may charge developers if they submit within a year more than five applications or application updates to the Windows Mobile Marketplace, a move that has some developers concerned that the store won't be able to compete with the iPhone App Store or the Android Market. On Friday, a member ... More...

App Store, ITunes Come Under Fire in New Lawsuit

Apple launched the App Store on July 11, 2008 to sell applications to iPhone and iPod users. However, the method the App Store uses to communicate with the devices is under dispute in a lawsuit filed by Affinity Labs. Filed in the United States District Court for the eastern District of Texas, Lufk... More...

GDC 09: 6 Reasons OnLive Could Be a Bust

Are Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo in deep doo-doo when you can click an "on" button and instantly play the latest video games through a browser or set top box near your TV? That's the promise entrepreneur Steve Perlman ( WebTV , Contour ) is making with his new "microconsole" ... More...

Bionic Commando Officially Scheduled for May

By Earnest Cavalli February 05, 2009 | 3:32:25 PM Categories: Console Games    Alongside the announcement of Street Fighter IV's downloadable content details, Capcom also issued an official release window for the new Bionic Commando . The game is coming to ... More...

T-Mobile enhances its Flext tariff

T-Mobile enhances its Flext tariff 18 March 2009 Tariff now includes international calling, texting, 08 numbers and unlimited web'n'walk access In recognition that more people solely use their mobiles rather than landlines, T-Mobile has updated their popular Flext tariff. Customers will now be... More...
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