Can't find a 16GB iPhone? Or the $499 for a new one? Now you can save 150 bucks on a refurbished one from AT&T.Read More...
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Grand Theft Auto IV series a Guinness World Record giant
http://arstechnica.comGrand Theft Auto IV is officially in the record books, beating out Halo 3, Spider-Man 3, and Harry Potter for best first-day sales. Read More...
Read more »Too Human co-op limited to two humans
http://arstechnica.comSilicon Knights has revealed that even though co-op gameplay is still going to be an important part of Too Human, it's only going to be playable by two players.Read More...
Read more »EA's sales figures paint a rosy picture for Sony
http://arstechnica.comElectronic Arts details another big year with its fiscal 2008 earnings report, but the real benefactor is Sony, which, with continued success on the hardware front, accounted for a large chunk of EA's overall software sales.Read More...
Read more »Game designers, please stop playing games
http://arstechnica.comThe people who make our games often suffer from a very small number of influences. Too often, their inspiration comes directly from earlier games. It's a hard problem to fix, but first we have to admit that it IS a problem. Let's put down the controllers. Read More...
Read more »PS3 Hot Shots Golf sneaks for-pay characters into patch
http://arstechnica.comTwo new characters in Hot Shots Golf for the PS3 will be available to buy tomorrow, but the content actually snuck onto your hard drive a few weeks ago. Read More...
Read more »Dyack may step down as Silicon Knights prez, focus on new IP
http://arstechnica.comSilicon Knights President Dennis Dyack is considering stepping down from the position in order to focus on the more creative aspects of making games.Read More...
Read more »Software Updates Week 19
http://www.ghacks.netLots of updates for popular applications in this week. The usual suspects have been updated, like uTorrent, Azureus, Opera or foobar that seem to be updated on a weekly schedule but also some applications that don’t get updated that often, say Azureus or Tagscanner.
A short explanation about this post for the new readers. I’m writing an article each Wednesday about last week’s software updates. Only free and Open Source software makes it into that list and if you follow it regularly you can be sure that the software on your system is up to date.
Sega Sammy posts $500 million loss
http://arstechnica.comAfter some massive financial losses, Sega Sammy has announced a number of cost-saving measures to get back on track.Read More...
Read more »EA shows MySims Kingdom, for Wii and DS, game strangely familiar
http://arstechnica.comElectronic Arts has revealed that the Nintendo-centric MySims franchise will be taking a medieval turn, with MySims Kingdom. Sadly, it seems like Square-Enix beat the game to the punch. Read More...
Read more »Thunderbird 3.0 alpha 1
http://www.ghacks.netA release version of Thunderbird 3.0 alpha 1 has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site yesterday and is available for public download. Currently only the US-Version of the popular email client is available on the ftp site which can be installed on all supported operating systems including Linux, Windows and Apple Macintosh systems.
Read more »Guitar Hero IV drums revealed
http://arstechnica.comThe first pictures of the Guitar Hero IV drum set surface, and they reveal that it features raised cymbals and pressure-sensitive pads. Will this be your second set of fake drums?Read More...
Read more »Booq Boa Laptop Case Review
http://www.legitreviews.comToday, we take a quick look at Booq’s newest briefcase-style case for laptops, the Boa Case. We have seen evidence of Booq’s high quality and functionality when we reviewed their Python XL Backpack case. Unlike the Booq backpack, the $215 Boa Laptop case is much more conservative case looking more like a traditional laptop carrier. For this price, the Boa has to be special. Read on to see what this case is all about!
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Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?
http://www.codinghorror.comOne of the things we're thinking about while building stackoverflow.com is how to let users style the questions and answers they're entering on the site. Nothing's decided at this point, but we definitely won't be giving users one of those friendly-but-irritating HTML GUI browser layout controls.
Read more »Get new and upcoming releases of your favorite bands
http://www.ghacks.netSoundamus (via Feed my App) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that the user listens to. All that’s needed to create the feed is the username of a Last.fm user, it does not have to be your own because no personal data or password is required to generate the feed.
Read more »AMD tries to hack its way back to the black with job cuts
http://arstechnica.comSeveral AMD executives have left to "pursue new opportunities" today as the company continues cost-cutting its way towards the black. Given Phenom's market position and Shanghai's H2 2008 launch timeframe, AMD faces a long, hard road back to profitability.Read More...
Read more »Codemaster's release Race Driver: Grid demo
http://www.pureoverclock.comCodemasters has released the demo for its latest driving simulator, Race Driver: Grid, which supports up to 12 players.
Read more »Create executable media files
http://www.ghacks.netWant to send a video to your friend that you found on Youtube only to find out that Youtube is blocked at his school or workplace or that the video is not playable because it is missing the needed codec and the installation of new applications or codecs is blocked ? Audio / Video to Exe might be the solution. I’m usually not very fond of executables send over email or offered on websites and very cautious before I even think of double-clicking those files.
Read more »GTA IV busts two Guinness World Records
http://www.pureoverclock.comThe Guinness World Records committee has announced that GTAIV has set two new records related to the first 24 hour's sales and revenue.
Read more »Office 2008's first service-pack released
http://www.pureoverclock.comMicrosoft has released the first service pack for Office 2008 (a Mac exclusive release). Office 2007's first service pack will arrive "mid-June".
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