$400 80 GB PS3 Announced
At Sony’s E3 2008 press conference, Jack Tretton announced a 80 GB PS3 “Core Pack” that’ll go for $400 — “the same functionality of the 40 GB… with twice the storage,” he said.
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Archive for July 16, 2008
QuebecTorrent Clone Outmanoeuvres Music Industry
Just days after the QuebecTorrent BitTorrent tracker was taken down by an injunction in a blaze of publicity, a near identical clone of the 108,000 member tracker has appeared out of nowhere. Allegedly the product of the old team, Torrent411.com is up and running with 109,000 members - and counting.
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MAG: Massive Action Game for PS3 - Socom of the Future
Sony saved the final announcement of its E3 keynote for a concept using the placehold title of “MAG: Massive Action Game,” Unveiled by Andy Beaudoin from Zipper Interactive, MAG — whose trailer looked like “SOCOM set 15 years into the future,” according to our eyes on the scene, will immerse players in large online battles of up to 256 players.
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Bungie Game Reveal Blocked By Publisher
Today, a letter has been posted on the front page of the developer’s website. Signed by Harold Ryan, Bungie’s president, it says that the team were planning on revealing a new game at E3 this week, but their “plans were just changed by our publisher”, so they won’t be showing anything. Bummer.
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Speed Up Your Torrent Downloads, Get a Seedbox
A seedbox is BitTorrent jargon for a dedicated high-speed server, used exclusively for torrent transfers. With a seedbox you’ll be able to download and upload faster than you ever imagined. Additionally, you can manage your torrents through a browser from anywhere, anytime.
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Apple, AT&T foiled again: iPhone 3G unlocked
Despite the best efforts of Apple and AT&T, it appears that the latest version of the iPhone has been unlocked via the same method as used on the original iPhone.
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God of War III Announced for PS3
Brief trailer at Sony’s E3 keynote announces God of War III on the way for Playstation III.
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Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?
Interview with AMD: Now there is an opportunity to get PhysX to run on AMD/ATI cards, but there seem to be some roadblocks and there is a certain suspicion that AMD does not want Nvidia’s CUDA and PhysX to run on its graphics cards. We chatted with AMD’s Godfrey Cheng to get more details on this issue as well as AMD’s physics strategy.
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Nintendo announces GTA: Chinatown Wars for the DS
During Nintendo’s keynote address, the company carjacked the audience’s attention, announcing that Grand Theft Auto is coming to the Wii. Titled GTA: Chinatown Wars, little is known about the game, save for that it will feature a new game engine, characters, and the series’ standard sandbox-style gameplay.
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Disgruntled engineer hijacks San Fransico computer Network
A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco’s new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
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Xbox Live Reinvented This Fall - Adds Avatars, Live Party
A complete makeover is in store for Xbox Live this fall, reports Kotaku from Microsoft’s E3 news conference.
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WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” Released
WordPress 2.6 contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
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