Oh, where can you find pleasure, or search the world for treasure, or learn science and technology? Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true, on the land or on the sea? Where can you learn to fly, play in sports and skin dive… heck, even study oceanography? Why… in...
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Those of you who have never lived in the British Isles can’t really lay claim to having experienced it, but public television sucks. I don’t mean PBS. I don’t mean Sesame Street or 3-2-1 Contact. I mean public television: the idea that the government directly taxes you for merely owning a television set....
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When the DSi LL was first announced we knew it was going to be big from a single image of it sitting next to a DSi. But that was a distant shot making it hard to see the real difference in size. Late last week Impress Watch got its hands on a DSi...
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I have a theory: Sony’s corporate culture is split right down the middle by an invisible wall. On one side, there’s the engineers, and they run the company with little regards to the consumer, locking their hardware down with DRM and releasing products with absurd names made up almost entirely of random alphanumerical...
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It’s a banner day for chipmakers scoring game console contracts. Hot on the news that NVIDIA have secured a contract to provide their system on a chip Tegra platform for a new Nintendo handheld to be released in 2010 comes word that the California based semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices (more colloquially known...
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Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime has been known to take a few shots at the competition in the past and, while he's not exactly verging into CE-oh no he didn't territory this time around, it seems that he just couldn't help himself from offering a few thoughts on Sony's latest handheld. Speaking with The Washington...
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We know the HD2 is hitting O2 later this month and Vodafone is getting the handset in Spain in December, but now it looks like the unlocked version isn't too far off either: UK retailer Clove says it'll be out on November 11 for
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The official line is still that T-Mobile customers affected by Sidekick amnesia will be given a months' credit on their data plan, but that may not be the end of it (and considering the magnitude of the issue for affected folks, we'd certainly hope not). At this point, they're leaving the door open...
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Sony will not be the only company taking money from gamers to buy items in the PlayStation Store. Proof of that has come in the form of Amazon opening its own gateway to PSN goods. What that means is you will no longer need to buy things directly from the PSN store and...
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A pair of highly anticipated downloadable games encompass this week’s Xbox Live Arcade update on Xbox 360, with South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! and LucasArts’ Lucidity now available to purchase. Originally announced way back at the E3 expo in 2008, South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! puts the Comedy Central...
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