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Players who tore through the content of Sony's epic PlayStation 3 role-playing game White Knight Chronicles should be extremely pleased with the news that...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 23:30
That's the "glass is half full" attitude we like, Verizon -- always looking for a way to sign a few more of those lucrative data contracts, no matter the circu...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 23:23
He's also sharing it with a rookie. Billed as an advertisement of the game's Ryder Cup features, some take the pairing with Rory McIlroy as more fallout fr...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 23:00
The market is darn near flooded with HomePlug AV-compatible powerline solutions, but Zinnet has seen fit to one-up the networking mainstays by dishing out a pr...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 22:59
Kotaku has occupied GDC 2010. But what of GDC 2011? Next year's show will run from February 28 through March 4, still in San Francisco. Unknown whether the...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 22:30
We'll just come right out and say it: Guitar Hero and Rock Band should watch their back, 'cause there's a better-than-decent chance that Power Gig will be all ...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 22:04
Square Enix's latest Anatomy of a Stunt video for Just Cause 2 shows off a very creative way to reach those hard-to-reach places with a rocket launcher. Mor...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 22:00
Elgato's original EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner wasn't exactly oversized, but the company has nonetheless managed shrink things down a bit for the device's latest rev...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 21:43
In 1815, having come back for one last bite of the cherry, Waterloo was Napoleon's, well, Waterloo. Could Creative Assembly be risking the same fate return...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 21:30
Are you a software dev with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, familiarity with current Web standards, and experience with browser engines, Linux on embed...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 21:21
The battle for the fate of humanity continues this fall, when NBC Universal and Bigpoint launch Battlestar Galactica Online, a massively multiplayer brows...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 21:00
Well, Newegg just seems to be full of surprises these days. The latest example is this ASUS Eee Box (model EBXB202-BLK-E0037), which wouldn't be so remarkable ...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 20:58
Samsung's all about records: firsts, biggests, smallests, thinnests, you get the idea. Indeed, it was just a few weeks ago that the company managed to slip the...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 20:41
How likely would someone in your household be to stream TV and movies from Netflix to a Nintendo DS, should such functionality be made available? That's t...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 20:30
There's more than just HDTVs on the way from Samsung this year, it's also picked today to reveal the price and ship dates for its Samsung Apps-equipped Blu-...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 20:20
Remember that painfully adorable Voltron cosplayer Ash posted about a few days ago? Well, that was nothing. More »
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 20:00
Samsung first announced its R0 PMP way back and July of last year, and we saw its R1 model hit the FCC a month later in August, but the company has just now fi...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 19:59
Suspense! Drama! Surprises! Unrealistic expectations! It's always a veritable roller coaster of emotions whenever Apple gets around to cutting a new SDK build -...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 19:40
Crapware's bad enough, but having your life torn asunder simply by plugging in that shiny new (insert USB-connected device here) is an exciting new trend -- vi...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 19:33
Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman officially outed Rock Band 3, due for release this holiday season, when it will "will innovate and revolutionize...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 19:30
. Well, it looks like Sony has a little treat for PS3 users now that they're able to turn their consoles back on -- it's just announced that it has signed up ...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 19:10
For years - no, decades - games on the Mac have been a running joke, a constant source of derision from the dominant PC gaming community. But in a single m...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 19:00
Remember that Wisair-based wireless display adapter that we knew was headed for Macville? Looks like she has arrived. Source R&D has just introduced a univ...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 18:51
Windows Phone 7 games will include the ability to unlock achievements on a phone as well as pulling in a user's gamertag, 2D avatar and even let gamer's k...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 18:40
We've all had a feeling that Microsoft is holding back some pretty big surprises (or at least completely reasonable revelations) when it comes to Windows Phone...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 18:31
Did you know that rapper Random, AKA Mega Ran, crafted a single dedicated to Capcom's recently released Mega Man 10? Well you do now, and you've got the new mu...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 18:20
While Motorola's vanilla-Android Droid has become the most recognizable Android device on the market -- thanks in part to a bombastic ad campaign -- Motorola's...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 18:13
Want to own a piece of Baltimore history, a bit of gaming that helped unseat a mayor of the east coast city? More »
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 18:00
It was hard to be anything but disappointed when Intel's dual-core Atom D510 processor started hitting nettops and was found to be no better performing than the...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 17:43
Shera Jutt, the first arcade game created by a Pakistani Company, takes a humorous look at pop Punjabi culture, or it would have, had sponsors not pulled out o...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 17:40
We have some news on the app store that Meizu announced for the M8 a while back. The official name is apparently MStore, and it is indeed open for business wit...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 17:20
The episode of Comedy Central hit South Park in which Eric Cartman sings Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" on Rock Band comes to life next week, with the release o...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 17:20
When a pair of U.S. soldiers and Modern Warfare 2 fans get bored while stationed in Afghanistan, there can be only one outcome - spontaneous cover art cos...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 17:00
Planning on buying one of those fresh Samsung 3D HDTVs and Blu-ray players now that they are available? Well, the good news from Samsung's press conference is ...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 16:57
Experience the thrill of social networking and casual gaming convergence with Tweet Defense, an iPhone zombie tower defense title that boosts your units' ...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 16:40
Cisco promised us a significant announcement this morning, one that would "forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments,...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 16:36
At the top is a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol. Below, the WiiAuto Pistol. Mistaking the former for the latter, three-year-old Cheyenne Alexis McKee...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 16:20
If you've been looking to get in on some of that red hot game development action that Palm's been all about lately, check it out: among the announcements at th...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 16:19
Kotaku darling, Independent Games Festival finalist and soon to be Electronic Arts-published game Shank gets a bit more face time this week as GDC kicks off. ...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 16:00
Enjoy your CES peek at Samsung's ultrathin 9000 series LED-lit LCD HDTV, with its touchscreen, video displaying remote control (also available as a $350 add-on...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:59
Samsung has just visited a bunch of data sheets upon us, and we've drawn out a few as yet unknown numerals regarding pricing and availability of the shooters i...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:58
From a Japanese game developer saying that the Japanese industry was "finished" to lower attendance, last year's Tokyo Game Show was disastrous. This year...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:40
Samsung still hasn't committed to a formal launch date for the e-reader line it launched at CES, but the company narrowed down the launch date from "early 2010...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:37
Some role-playing game is out today. Talk about it or other video games here in Talk Amongst Yourselves. More »
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:20
We'd heard that the NFL would be bringing the RedZone channel to phones this season, and it looks like Verizon was the highest bidder: NFL Mobile will launch o...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:09
Call it Project Mercury, and as of today, call it an EA game. The epic role-playing game that won't — confirmed! — be called The Adventures of ...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 15:00
If there's one thing we're pretty sure Windows Phone 7 Series will be worse at than its Windows Mobile precursor it's in the running of various and sundry othe...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 14:43
We're still waiting for all the legal fallout from the Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District webcam spying case, but more news is slowly trickling out ab...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 14:17
There are many PSP colors. Loads. And apparently, there will be one less. More »
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 14:00
In the market for a new HTPC? Then you'll probably be wanting the slimmest possible enclosure that can still fit an optical drive and the grunt to power throug...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 13:53
The 2010 World Cup draws near, and that means one thing: football. OK, two things: football, and an EA Sports football game cashing in on the World Cup. ...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 13:30
. Sometimes companies spar out their differences behind closed doors, and sometimes they have guys like Jen-Hsun Huang at their helms and the whole world gets...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 13:29
The super-high-end 17-inch M6500 is all well and good for giant people, but we're glad Dell's finally giving us regular-sizers a shot with the new Precision M4...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 13:01
There are strings on the newly-unveiled Power Gig guitar, which is coming, with a brand-new music game to video game systems this fall. But you won't have ...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 13:00
We've seen "real" guitars made to "work" with existing music-band titles, and we've even seen MIDI guitars play nice with Rock Band, but we've yet to see a com...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 13:00
Remember that wireless induction charger that we saw poking around at the CES iLounge Pavilion earlier this year? Seems that Case-Mate has finally given that l...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 12:38
With Mac computers the flavour of the week, Battlefield developers DICE are not ones to be left off the bandwagon, saying that they're "currently investiga...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 12:30
Using "super" to describe your new display technology just begs for criticism. Especially when the word is affixed to a handheld display technology as notori...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 12:04
At last night's launch event for Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada showed up with a Fal'cie symbol from the game tattooed on his hand. He t...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 12:00
The BBC World Service has conducted a poll of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries to answer one primary question: is internet access a fundamental huma...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 11:37
Like previous God of War games, God of War III has sex mini-games. Because a mini-game is pretty much what sex is, isn't it? More »
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 11:30
Having filled our business laptop lust with a T410 undressing yesterday, today we've come across a comprehensive teardown of Alienware's gamer-friendly M11x ul...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 11:05
It's not often we're told how much a company spends making a video game. So when Sony discloses how much coin was spent developing God Of War III, we'll no...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 11:00
Remember the $200 smartbook reference design that we saw at CES this year? Well, it's back, it's holding on to that same price and 7-inch enclosure, but this t...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 10:36
This is a video guide on how to look like Miranda, one of the stars of sci-fi adventure Mass Effect 2. Not how to dress like her. How to actually look like her...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 10:30
Those lowly Core 2 Duo chips already feel like a long forgotten memory, and frankly, that's a-okay with us. MSI is helping its seductive X-Slim line get a tast...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 10:02
The Xbox 360's online service Xbox LIVE is available in 26 countries. Poland is not one of them. More »
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 10:00
Later this month, Mass Effect 2 players will get access to the Hammerhead hovertank, along with five new missions for the game. Here's what the new toy loo...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 09:30
Given how simple we've made timekeeping over the years, it was inevitable that luxury watches would have to move into more esoteric lands in order to exude the...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 09:24
Now that role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII has been released in the West, gamers are looking forwarding to the next Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XIV. T...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 09:00
Being drip-fed information on the HTC Supersonic is unlikely to be as pleasant an experience as actually having one, but it's all we can do to fill the time un...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 08:48
Robert Bowling, community manager for Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward, has returned to his Tweeting ways after a week's well-deserved silence. M...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 08:30
Kicking off an expected repeat flood of 3DTV info over the next few days (Samsung and Panasonic both have events scheduled over the next couple of days) Sony h...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 08:23
From the co-creator and designer of Black comes Bodycount, Codemasters' newest shot at "genre-defining gun play" for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a game...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 08:00
Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with onl...
Engadget, Date: Tue, Mar 9 07:47
World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is available on the PC and on the Mac. It is not available on ...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 07:30
Not only is Seattle Mariners' superstar Ichiro one of Japan's greatest baseball players, he's also one of the most talented big leaguers today. He also li...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 07:00
Spanning three excellent, bloody titles, Sony's God of War trilogy has finally come to an end with the release of God of War III. But did you know there wa...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 06:30
Kicking off tomorrow at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the 2010 Game Developers Conference won't only feature, wait for it, game developers, but also...
Kotaku, Date: Tue, Mar 9 06:00
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