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Streaming Only Plans Are Coming To Netflix

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Netflix offered a new streaming-only plan today for $7.99 per month. The online movie rental giant’s previous options all included a DVD-by-mail option. Netflix made sure to clarify that this plan is the cheapest available but does not include any DVD rentals. This announcement comes on the back of Hulu’s price cuts last month. Hulu [...]

Call Of Duty Release Breaks Another Record

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Call of Duty is suitably proud of their new record-breaking game, Black Ops. Their previous game in the series, Modern Warfare, set the bar high for future games. It was massively popular and had sales figures that reflected its popularity. Earlier this month Call of Duty’s parent company, Activision, announced that Black Ops had claimed [...]

Cityville Hopes To Attract Urban Gamers

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Introducing, CityVille, the newest social network game by internet gaming giant Zynga. This past Wednesday, Zynga proudly announced not only its newest game but also the companies very first worldwide launch. CityVille will soon be available as a beta version in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. For those who have avoided social networking, Zynga [...]

Kinect On Track For 5 Million Units Sold

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Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect is on track to sell 5 million units by the end of the year. The original projection by Microsoft was 3 million units, but after a very positive uptake on sales over the first 10 days of availability Microsoft has upped the ante. The Kinect has sold 1 million units during its [...]

Microsoft Casual Gaming Goes Social

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On Monday, November 15th 2010 Microsoft announced a variety of new initiatives to break into the social gaming market. MSN Games will allow social messaging clients to access social games through the Windows Live Messenger. They also intend to expand on their Bing Games facility into international markets. Microsoft has entered into a partnership with [...]

Kinect System Hacked Shortly After Release

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It comes as no surprise to those in the tech industry that the Kinect system for Xbox360 has been hacked. The news came this morning that the new controller has been opened up for use on other systems and has also been used to capture 3D images using reverse engineering. However, the biggest surprise is [...]

Cubans unhappy at latest (online) Castro assassination attempt

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Many have tried and all have failed, but now gamers playing Call of Duty: Black Ops get a chance to assassinate Cuba’s elderly leader, Fidel Castro, a development that has drawn criticism from the communist regime. “I think I hold the dubious record of having been the target of more assassination attempts than any politician, [...]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Breaks Sales Record

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Activision knew they had a hit on their hands with Call of Duty: Black Ops when fans were lining up at doors around the world to get a copy. However, they had no idea that the newest edition in the Call of Duty franchise would break the all time sales record. As of today the [...]

Early reviews give Black Ops the thumbs up

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Metacritic, a compiler of games reviews, has given Call of Duty: Black Ops an average score of 90% based on 37 Xbox reviews as gamers get a sense of the newly-released shooter. On the PS3, it averaged 89% across 21 reviews. PC gamers, who traditionally have enjoyed the most processing power, give Black Ops 92%, [...]

'Fair use' defense may be used in Xbox 'modding' case'

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An Xbox user who ‘modded’ his console – modifying it so that unlicensed games could be played on it – is hoping to use a defence of ‘fair use’ in the upcoming trial. Defense attorneys for 28-year-old Matthew Crippen, of Anaheim in southern California, are arguing that the installation of a mod chip on an [...]