Archive for June 27, 2008

Kid Icarus, Doom 4, Alan Wake, and HL Ep.3 Confirmed for E3

For those of you who’ve been wondering what games are going to be revealed at E3 this year, here are 4 that have been confirmed!

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Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod

Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusi…

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Cliffy B Explains Gears of War 2’s Multiplayer [VIDEO]

Today you finally get to see the chainsaw battling, meat flag holding smorgasbord of gore in action as we go behind the scenes at Epic games with an exclusive interview with lead designer Cliff Bleszinski to discuss the evolution of the Gears multiplayer experience.

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Is Ballmer The Right Man For Microsoft -For Another 10 Years

George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research Inc., sees a subtle slippage in Microsoft’s standing vs. rivals such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. as Gates has disengaged himself from the company — and implies that the slippage could accelerate once Gates is even more out of the picture.

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Blizzard Affirms Upcoming Game Announcement; Diablo 3, “Yes”

Diablo fan website DiabloII.net reports that Blizzard will indeed announce Diablo III this weekend at the company’s Worldwide Invitational in Paris. Nerds unleash!

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John Carmack Anticipates Quake 3’s Huge Return

Id Software’s John Carmack, one of the worlds most celebrated game makers, projects that Quake Live will have “hundreds of thousands of players, if not millions.”

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Tricks to manage multiple accounts in Gmail

Gmail is a perfect tool to manage multiple accounts, from different domains, even when they run on different servers. It’s also possible to fetch all your mail from Live, Yahoo or another provider, straight in your Gmail inbox.

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Microsoft, then and now

Images of the microsoft group when they first began and now…

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Ubisoft Demonstrates Over 20 Minutes of Far Cry 2

“At this week’s DreamHack computer festival in Sweden, Ubisoft Montreal showed off more than 20 minutes of its upcoming shooter Far Cry 2, currently in development for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. If 20 minutes simply isn’t enough of the game, be sure to check out our other videos and trailers from Far Cry 2 including Ubisoft’s Ubidays …”

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Woman Defeats RIAA in Lawsuit, Wins $108K Legal Fees

A federal judge is awarding Tanya Andersen, who defeated the Recording Industry Association of America’s file sharing lawsuit, $108,000 in legal fees to compensate for defending herself against the RIAA. This marks the second time that a target of the RIAA who beat a lawsuit was awarded attorney’s fees.

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Group votes to Relax Web Naming Rules

A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions — potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.

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15 Ways Microsoft Can Reinvent Itself for the Post-Gates Era

Its cofounder is retiring, its latest big product has been vilified, and potential partners are spurning its advances. So what does Microsoft do to remain relevant? Here are 15 ideas.eas.

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