Just one open platform would likely remove a lot of the headaches that now plague both gamers and developers, said Gerhard Florin, Electronics Arts senior executive in charge of international publishing.
“We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible,” Florin said during the interview. “We’re platform agnostic [...]
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A presentation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2, that’s been caught on shaky cam, reveals new details about the sequel while also providing us with plenty of eyes-on action.
A lot of the footage/presentation focuses on the technology Ubisoft has developed for the sequel - which the company’s spoke at length about before - and the [...]
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Sony Corp. on Thursday cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console in the U.S. and announced an even cheaper model that will arrive before the holiday shopping season.
The top-line PlayStation model, with an 80 gigabyte hard drive, now costs $499, down from $599. That effectively eliminates the lower-end model, which has a 60-gigabyte [...]
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In an apparent about-face, Apple Inc. will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on the company’s Web site Wednesday.
Apple infuriated developers and some iPhone users when it issued a software update Sept. 27 that disabled unofficial programs installed on the handsets.
Until Wednesday, Apple had [...]
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Capcom is resurrecting classic Bionic Commando in a new game in development for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Bionic Commando first appeared in the late 1980s. The 2D, side-scrolling action-platformer starred a weapon-toting lead character who also happened to sport a bionic arm that acted like a grappling hook which allowed him to navigate around [...]
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Japan’s largest electronics show, Ceatec, was certainly no let down this month. It provided visitors a chance to catch some world-first technology, like a 3-millimeter thick TV, a laptop with super-charged graphics processing and new high-def video recorders.
The show has grown greatly over the last few years and this year hit a milestone: attendance of [...]
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A diverse list of useful websites to make life a little easier.
1. Crossfit
A free fitness website that posts a new “Workout of the Day” every day. The workouts focus on total body fitness. The workouts are used by military personnel, athletes, and normal people. The site also contains an index of the exercises used in [...]
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That’s right! Windows Vista can run using a total of zero system memory. Well, bear with me, it will all make sense in the end. When it first introduced Windows Vista, Microsoft faced criticism because of the system requirements associated with the new platform. And the truth of the matter is that Vista is nothing [...]
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Did you think Apple’s new $600 iPhone was expensive? You’re not even close. The world’s most expensive cell phones can cost as much as a luxurious apartment in the center of Paris. Here are some of them:
10. Gresso Black Aura Collection - approximately $13.000
Gresso phones are made out of 200 year-old black African wood. The [...]
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Sony Corp. said it will launch an ultra-thin flat TV in December, the world’s first television based on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology into an $82 billion market dominated by LCD and plasma models.
OLED panels are energy efficient, make thin and light displays. They offer crisp pictures and have strength in showing fast-moving images, suitable [...]