Post Tagged with: "announcement"

New Yoshi’s Island announced for 3DS – video

April 17, 2013 10:05 PM
New Yoshi’s Island announced for 3DS – video

Continuing the franchise from the original 1995 SNES game and the 2006 DS release, Yoshi’s Island for 3DS was announced by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata during the Nintendo Direct event today. “This game maintains the series’ fun gameplay mechanics, such as Yoshi’s flutter jump, ground-pound and egg throw,” “It also [...]

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Amazon App Store reaches 200 countries

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Amazon App Store reaches 200 countries

Amazon’s App Store is getting ready to expand into 200 different countries with the latest entrants being Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Vatican City. Even though this is great for developers, Amazon did not that these changes will not be taking place until a few months from now.

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HTC One will be available on T-Mobile April 24th

April 16, 2013 4:02 PM
HTC One will be available on T-Mobile April 24th

T-Mobile has just announced via Twitter that the HTC One will be launching on their network on April 24th. Specs and release date rumors have been going around like wildfire for the HTC One, so it is nice to finally have some concrete information.  

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Google Glass devices now coming off the production line

April 15, 2013 8:51 PM
Google Glass devices now coming off the production line

Google Glass Explorer units are now coming off the production line and should be available soon according to an email sent out by Google to their Explorer backers. The devices will be available in waves and individual groups of people will be notified as their Google Glass Explorer Edition becomes [...]

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Firefox OS to launch in five countries this Summer

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Firefox OS to launch in five countries this Summer

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs has announced during the All Things D conference, that Firefox Mobile OS will be launching in five countries this Summer.  The OS is intended for low-end devices which seems to fit with Mozilla’s decision to not launch the OS in the USA to start. The five [...]

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Facebook Home and HTC First unveiled

April 4, 2013 6:27 PM
Facebook Home and HTC First unveiled

While many people were only expecting a Facebook Phone (the HTC First) to be unveiled during Facebook’s media event earlier today, we ended up seeing even more than we thought we would.  During today’s event, Facebook unveiled Facebook Home alongside the HTC First. Facebook Home For the most part, Facebook [...]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic new server merges

March 26, 2013 6:35 AM
Star Wars: The Old Republic new server merges

BioWare has announced that some of their servers will be going through merges.  This decision came after consulting with many players on the SWTOR forums.  These current server merges will only be effecting the Asia Pacific servers, which will merge with high population North American servers. Getting to the point [...]

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Corsair announces new K70 mechanical keyboard

March 24, 2013 12:13 AM
Corsair announces new K70 mechanical keyboard

Corsair has announced their Vengenace K70 mechanical keyboard which includes the following: Brushed aluminum chassis, available in two colors (Silver/Blue Lighting or Black/Red Lighting) Cherry MX Switches 100% anti-ghosting 20 key roller 1,000 Hz reporting rate 10 contoured keys that can replace the WASD and 1-6 number keys There will [...]

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Canon could be announcing the 70D this month

March 16, 2013 12:58 AM
Canon could be announcing the 70D this month

Canon has just sent out invites to a press event on March 22, suggesting that previous rumors which placed a 70D release sometime this month may be correct. Other than the invite itself providing an event date, we do not really know anything about what Canon may be announcing this [...]

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MineCon to “Most Definitely” be in the US

March 11, 2013 7:59 PM
MineCon 2012

Mojang’s annual MineCon event will “most definitely”  be in the United States, according to Mojang’s Director of Fun, Lydia Wintors.  While it is almost definitely going to be held within the United States, Mojang has yet to fully decide on a location for MineCon.  Ms. Wintors stated: “It’ll be in [...]

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Google entering the music streaming market

March 5, 2013 3:58 PM
Google entering the music streaming market

Google has announced that they are also going to be entering the music streaming business with a service based around YouTube.  This service will be remarkably similar to services like Spotify and Pandora, and will work on an ad-supported or subscription model just as they do. Spotify could be in [...]

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After price cut, Japanese PS Vita sales increase sale exponentially

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After price cut, Japanese PS Vita sales increase sale exponentially

Since a Japanese price cut went into effect for the PS Vita on February 28th, sales have reportedly risen by 400%.  This announcement comes from Sony Japan President Hiroshi Kawano who said that sales have quadrupled in the past week in comparison to sales from the two weeks prior to [...]

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