“Games will be respected soon because gamers will grow up and become politicians.”
I get this one all the time. And sure, it makes perfect sense in theory, but the reality is that politicians - young and old - make political hay out of what they can.
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- Sony has no plan to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console, the company’s chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda said Friday.”This year, our strategy is not to sell more quantity for PS3 but to concentrate on profitability,” Oneda told a forum in Singapore. “Our plan is not to reduce the price.”
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Intel Centrino 2 Platform Launches Monday and the Intel integrated graphics are still not ready. On Monday, only platforms with Nvidia or ATI based graphics chips will be available, as Intel are having problems their own integrated graphics for the platform.
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It appears that Microsoft has banned TinyURL links on its Windows Live Messenger network. Currently it is not clear whether this is intentional or simply yet another slip up by Microsoft’s third-party partner which manages the URL blocking.
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At $99 a year, I expect my online service to function all the time. So perhaps that is why I am a little upset that Apple hasn’t been able to launch their MobileMe service properly and are experiencing outages. The fact that the service was supposed to launch at a time of Apple’s choosing, leaves no room for excuses on today’s problems.
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Following comments which suggested that the closure of QuebecTorrent was “a major victory” for the recording industry, we have a statement from the owner of the site to balance things up. The smaller battle against this site is over, the larger one against Canadian BitTorrent sites in general appears unaffected.
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Diablo III was unveiled at Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational in Paris and over the course of the weekend we were able to see quite a bit of gameplay, talk to a couple of top Blizzard staffers about it, and listen to a host of panels about the game. We figured the time was right to look at the ten things that are central to Diablo III.
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A number early iPhone 3G adopters are finding that their new phone’s display is much warmer, or yellow-tinted, compared to the displays of the original iPhone and have begun lodging complaints.
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