Archive for July, 2012

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be Free to Play come Fall

July 31, 2012 4:28 PM

BioWare has announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to be almost completely free to play starting this fall.  Gamers will have access to all players and character classes and the first 50 levels of the game.  Some restrictions will be on the Free to Play model but all things [...]

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YouTube spending another $200 million on their shows

11:02 AM

YouTube has been dabbling in the original programming market for a little bit of time now and have created more than 100 channels since starting to do so.  These channels boast “professional” programming and production because they are run in-part by YouTube itself.  YouTube which is run by Google, has [...]

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Can Pro Skater HD revive the Tony Hawk game series?

12:35 AM

From the first Tony Hawk skateboarding game in 1999 all the way to 2007 with Proving Ground, Tony Hawk dominated the skateboarding game market.  After the release of “Proving Ground” sales began to drop rapidly and eventual led to Activision not releasing a new installment to the series last year.  The series [...]

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Court Documents show larger Samsung tablet in the works

12:15 AM

So far Apple has had multiple designs of iPhones and iPads released via court documents in the Apple VS Samsung patent case, but now Samsung has some designs coming out.  According to the court documents, a new Samsung Tablet might be in the works with an 11.8 inch screen and [...]

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Capcom reports high profits thanks to Dragon’s Dogma

July 30, 2012 5:40 PM

Capcom’s profits are up 290 percent from last year and they are partially giving credit to the great success of Dragon’s Dogma.  The game has sold far more than 1 million copies worldwide since it was released which is an impressive improvement over previous Capcom games released last year which [...]

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ZTE Flash might have 4G LTE and a 12-megapixel camera

5:26 PM

The Sprint ZTE Flash which is set to be released in October will include Android 4.0, 4G LTE and a 12.6 megapixel camera.  Sprint and ZTE are partnering once again to release a phone that could very well compete with higher- end Android smartphones from companies like Samsung.  Other specs for the [...]

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Surface and Windows 8 coming 10/26

2:07 AM

On the same day that Microsoft is releasing Windows 8, they will also be rolling out their “Surface” tablet running then new OS.  Both Windows 8 and Surface will come out on October 26, and if everything goes well it will be quite a spectacular day.  Microsoft said in its [...]

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Early iPhone/iPad designs come out in court case

July 29, 2012 9:19 PM

As part of the latest battle between Samsung and Apple, Apple showed never-before-seen designs for the iPad and iPhone.  The court released the photos and they are quite interesting, as it is always crazy to see what changes the devices went through before being released.  The “baby” iPhone looked much [...]

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KT Corp apologizes after 8.7 million accounts were hacked

10:54 AM

The second largest cell phone service provider in Korea KT Corp is apologizing after data from 8.7 million accounts was taken.  The two hackers responsible for this attack have been arrested and KT Corp says they are very sorry and that they have blocked any further access to user data. [...]

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Seed wins GSL 2012

July 28, 2012 12:27 AM

For the first time in 10 seasons, a Protoss player has won the GomTV StarLeague after the competition finished this morning.  By winning the competition Seed gets his first GSL Code S Championship title, and a total of $43,900.  The grand finale was dominated by Jang “Seed” Min Chu as [...]

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HTC One X’s price cut in half

July 27, 2012 4:42 PM

Likely as a result of major competition between different Android phone makers, HTC has decided to bring the price of their One X smartphone down to half price starting July 29.  The phone will be offered for $99.99 through AT&T and analysts are thinking it is because of the higher [...]

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Report: Mountain Lion populates 3.2 percent of Macs

4:17 PM

Mountain Lion is reportedly off to a good start since its release two days ago, says research firm Chitka.  There are not official numbers out from Apple yet as to how many people have downloaded to latest 10.8 OS X version but Chitka has released their calculations, and they look [...]

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