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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 16, 2013
Old school gamers can remember playing the part of God in the game Populous, a classic title developed by Peter Molyneux for Bullfrog way back in 1989. Sequels would follow and Molyneux would eventually win over a new generation of gamers to the god genre with the release of Black & White...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Sep 15, 2013
The biggest, most expansive installment of the hugely popular Grand Theft Auto series is set to debut next week on September 17th, 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game consoles. This is easily one of the most highly anticipated titles...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 13, 2013
Given the success Samsung has had with Android, it's not really surprising that it isn't pushing its own Tizen operating system (co-developed with Intel) as aggressively as it could be. This might even be the first you've heard of Tizen, which is a Linux-based OS designed for a range of...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 12, 2013
Microsoft may need to take yet another mulligan on more Patch Tuesday updates that, for some, are causing more problems than they purport to fix. The latest round of updates were supposed to address 14 security flaws, though some users are...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Sep 10, 2013
While Yahoo's logo didn't draw too much (any?) applause, the company's refined mobile apps have been nearly universally praised. Now, it's branching out into yet another sector: the second screen. Yahoo Screen is a new iOS app, which Yahoo says is designed to bring a "simple, intuitive...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Sep 05, 2013
The digital world is here, and there's really no getting around it. In the gaming sector, physical media still rules, and in the movie realm, Blu-ray Discs are still selling. But the digital creep is happening. Netflix and streaming...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Sep 01, 2013
Not a fan of the freemium game model? Unfortunately for you, there's plenty of incentive for developers of casual games to go this route. PopCap Games, for example, found nearly 25 million reasons with the release of Plants vs. Zombies 2...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Sep 01, 2013
If it's been a long time since you fired up Borderlands 2, get ready for a host of changes to the game play experience. That's because Gearbox Software issued a large software update with a bunch of alterations, including several made to...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Aug 22, 2013
Hot on the heels of Microsoft and Gameloft's partnership comes this: an alliance between NVIDIA and Ubisoft. Announced at Gamescom this week, the two mainstays have decided to partner up in order to bolster Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Aug 21, 2013
At launch, Google Keep showed a lot of promise. There's Google's epic cloud infrastructure, excellent syncing across the Google ecosystem, and a drop-deal simple interface. Plus, it seems that mobile users at large are howling for a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 21, 2013
Vine, the Twitter owned video sharing app that allows users to post 6-second video clips of whatever they want, is now home to over 40 million users, the company announced in a Twitter post. That's not bad for a service that launched around 7 months ago. "We've said this before and we'll say...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 16, 2013
Geekbench 3, the latest version of the multi-platform benchmarking tool and the first major upgrade in six years, is now available to download, developer Primate Labs announced. It includes 15 new benchmark tests designed to mimic...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Aug 08, 2013
NVIDIA's Shield is a very, very bold move. It's a company that has historically dabbled in GPUs, introducing a gaming product that's essentially creating a new product segment. There's a lot riding on the success or failure of the Shield...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 07, 2013
The promise of being able to view, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents on your Android device finally came true earlier this month when the Redmond software giant ported a version of its productivity suite over to Google's open...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Aug 06, 2013
Google has just been granted a patent for which it applied last year regarding the ability to launch programs via specific unlocking patterns. Android users can already unlock their phones with a special pattern to jump into the operating...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Jul 29, 2013
If you live in the United States, chances are that you don't think much about the prices other people pay for US products. Everyone is generally aware of the exchange rate, so it's logical to assume that a game, PC, or other product costs...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 24, 2013
Still holding onto Office 2010? Microsoft would be tickled pink if you'd make the plunge to its subscription-based Office 365 suite, but that doesn't mean the Redmond software giant has forgotten about its customers rocking an older...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Jul 21, 2013
One of the things that helped Mozilla's Firefox browser gain a following is that it's constantly updated. While Internet Explorer (IE) remained stagnant for years on end, here came Firefox with a bunch of new features, and these days...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jul 16, 2013
It seems like such an obvious feature, but Uber's car-hailing app did not have a way to easily split fares until this week. Now, at last, users can ride together without worrying about settling up later. Now, riders can just request a pick-up, tap the 'up arrow' near the driver information...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jul 15, 2013
These days, anyone unconcerned about privacy violations is probably just being blissfully ignorant. There's plenty to be aware of, and apps like this certainly fit into the category. SecureIM Free Beta just launched onto the Google Play...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jul 09, 2013
If you're an avid Twitter user, you're probably aware that a few kinks still exist in the system. In terms of apps, one is particularly glaring: Direct Messages that are opened and replied to on one device look as if they're unread on...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 04, 2013
The battle for short video supremacy is heating up, and Twitter has every intention of ensuring its Vine application stays relevant. Hence the latest update to Vine. Not just any update, mind you, but the "biggest, most exciting" one to...
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