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    Sony’s announced the UK pricing of PlayStation Move, further detailing the Starter Pack that will release alongside it. The Motion Controller itself will be £34.99, while the Sub Controller will be £24.99. The PlayStation Eye will cost £24.99. There will also be a £49.99 bundle featuring the Motion Controller, the Eye and a starter disc. Starter Pack. The disc will contain, as well as an instructional video, the following demos on the disc: ...
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    Earlier this summer, Sony closed another fiscal year of being in the red, but it's starting the 2010/11 ledger with its quill dipped firmly in the black inkwell. For the quarter ending June 30, the Japanese megacorp clocked up ¥25.7 billion ($293 million) in pure, unadulterated profit off the back of a ¥67 billion operating income. When you compare that to the performance this time last year, a ¥37 billion loss, you have to agree that the Stringer purse-tightening program seems to have delivered the desired effect ...
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    Back when we outlined the iOS 4 features missing from iPhone 3G, we forgot one key bullet point: performance. As more and more two-year veterans of Apple's phones have taken the plunge and upgraded to the latest firmware, slowdown and battery drain issues have become a common complaint, which is even more irksome when you think of just how little the update really adds to the UI. The Wall Street Journal reports speaking to an Apple spokesperson who said the company is looking into the matter. That doesn't necessarily mean a fix ...
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    SOCOM fans, are you sitting down? Oh, you say you’re sitting because you’re playing SOCOM 3 in rabid, feverish anticipation of SOCOM 4’s upcoming release? Hoo boy. This isn’t going to be easy. SOCOM 4’s officially ducked out of 2010, and will instead be deployed into the deep, dark reaches of 2011. “While we’re certainly aware that you’ve been looking forward to playing SOCOM 4 this year, we don’t want to take any shortcuts. Instead, we want to deliver the best and most immersive SOCOM game we possibly can and we’re going ...
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    Fans of ‘Rasslin’ know that there might be 100’s upon 100’s of Wrestling leagues out there, but only one truly rules the sport. That is the World Wrestling Entertainment Federation, better known as the WWE. The company has become a multi-million dollar machine and THQ is the lucky game developer who has the exclusive license to get a part of the money-making pie. Seeing that three different WWE games wasn’t enough, THQ is currently working on a fourth. Could this title become the New ‘King of the Ring’ ...

    Bungie was on-hand at Comic-Con last week with Halo: Reach in tow, allowing folks at the San Diego Convention Center to sample the title.An attendee at the event, calling himself Voltron64x, was lucky enough to try his hand at the Reach remake of Blood Gulch from Halo 1, and his moment of glory was videoed for posterity. We’ll let the video the demo below speak for itself. Halo: Reach is out September 14, and a Halo-centric 360 will be up for grabs then as well. ...
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    Battlefield Bad Company 2 receives a fifth map pack today across all formats, courtesy of developer DICE. Battlefield Bad Company 2 now lets players wage war across Nelson Bay in Conquest mode and Whie Pass in Rush mode. Previously, both Bad Company 2 maps wee not available in these modes. Once again, VIP players can download the pack for free, while anyone who bought Bad Company 2 preowned will have to shell out 1200 MSP for the pleasure of going VIP, which opens up all of the map packs for download. ...
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    Think giant active-shutter glasses are a roadblock to 3D adoption? Wait until you get a load of this, the N-3D from Aircord Labs, a glass pyramid with semi-reflective sides that allows you to peer through while reflecting the image of a screen above. In this case the screen is provided by an iPad which, as you can see in the video below, separately renders three sides of an object. Each slab of glass reflects a different rendering and, hey presto, changeable perspective as you move from side to side, reducing the usable ...
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    Oh sure, VoIP on the iPod touch is hardly breaking news these days, but what if you could actually slap on a regular SIM card and make calls on said device? That's what Yosion's appropriately named Apple Peel 520 claims to do. Powered by an Infineon baseband chip, this adapter not only offers voice calling and text messaging (presumably requiring a jailbroken iPod touch for the apps; GPRS not possible yet), but it also doubles up as an 800mAh battery and provides 4.5 hours of call time or 120 hours of standby juice ...
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    Naughty Dog’s detailed Update 1.09 for Uncharted 2, set to go live tonight in the UK. The patch, mostly for the game’s multiplayer, will include the following:
    • Changes made to multiplayer character skin system to allow for voices to be included with future skins
    • Made changes to character game mechanics to prevent players from using exploits
    • Fixed ability for players to “super throw” the treasure in Plunder matches
    • Cash awarded per kill in Elimination has been increased to $750 per kill
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    Since MAG hit earlier this year, it is one of the few games that keeps on giving to those who joined in on the Shadow War. Everything from free DLC to paid DLC, to various patches, the MAG team over at Zipper Interactive has shown some massive support for their 256-player fragfest. Awesome news for all you MAGers out there: Zipper Interactive has just announced patch v.1.07 and you’re in for quite a tasty treat of updates and fixes with their latest update. Hitting during the first week of August, patch v.1.07 ...
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    It seems like the year is filled with an endless amount of gaming conventions one after the other. While it used to only be the big two that people cared about (E3/Tokyo Game Show), it’s now turned into a multitude of events that major players in the industry prepare exclusive content for just to appease the members of the audience. This year, Gamescom is set to take place during the days of August 18th through 22nd. Today, Sony has announced that its press event and conference is scheduled for August 17th ...
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    A High Court has ruled that devices that allow gamers to play pirated video games are illegal in the UK. The ruling specifically targets a range of popular devices which can be used to store and play copied games on the Nintedo DS handheld console. The ruling says "game copiers" are illegal to import, advertise and sell in the UK. The defendants - Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan - had argued that they allow gamers to play home-made games. ...
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    RUSE, which was revealed early last year, has seen its fair share of setbacks and delays. Slated for release earlier this year Ubisoft had decided to delay it once again in order to incorporate changes that were brought about by the beta. Well today we get word on what hopes to be the actual release date. RUSE is a WWII RTS and is all set to release this September. It was revealed at E3 that RUSE would be getting Move support, so most gamers thought that when it got delayed it would be seeing a simultaneous release ...
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    Being tied to a disc hasn't made for the easiest Netflix Watch Instantly experience on the PlayStation 3, but it has its benefits, and now that includes the ability for all users to search its library directly on the console. This feature's been available to some for months before it was even announced the Xbox 360 would get parity in a fall update, but we can confirm it's currently rolling out to all PS3 users. It should automatically update the next time you're watching, so just slide left from Instant Queue on the top bar to live ...

    Codemasters has released an extended edit of its fourth developer diary video for F1 2010, and we’ve got it below the break for you. In it, you will find two minutes of additional content over the original, complete with unseen game footage plus additional commentary. The video also goes behind the scenes at Codemasters Birmingham, and shows how all of the cars and circuits were recreated in the game, with former Formula One driver Anthony Davidson, who worked as a tech consultant on the title, providing video feedback. “Driving the real ...

    Dell's Kevin Andrew answered a few questions about the Streak in a new "vlog" on YouTube, and it's a mixture of encouragement and confusion. On the good side, Kevin showed off Android 2.1 up and running on the phone / tablet / lady-killer. It looks just like 2.1, of course, but with Dell's customizations still riding atop it. Oddly, while showing off 2.1, Kevin reassures us that Dell is still planning to go to Froyo (2.2), which is reiterated by the text below the video, with no clarification if 2.1 will actually be released as an intermediate measure ...
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    Madden NFL 11 redefines the way you experience the game of football. Simpler: from 350 plays down to 1, the all-new GameFlow system puts you in the helmet of an NFL quarterback, to execute an authentic, situational game plan, one play at a time. Quicker: with 60-minute game times reduced to 30, spend more time on the field and less in the playbook. Same drama, half the time. Deeper: Madden NFL 11 is feature-rich, with improved animations and control options, enhanced online functionality ...

    Microsoft’s released the first piece of Alan Wake DLC, known as The Signal.It’s available now on Marketplace, as you can see above, for 560MSP.Day one buyers of the Remedy thriller can get it for free with a code they got with the game. The next piece of DLC, The Writer, has no date as yet. ...
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    The Library of Congress recently announced some exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that governs usage of copyrighted electronic material. The DMCA, signed into law by unanimous vote by the U.S. Senate in October of 1998, places restrictions on everything from posting copyrighted videos to video sharing sites like YouTube, and even circumvents DRM in computer software and video games. Here are the specific exceptions that could affect the PSP and even other gaming devices: ...