EA's long-standing plan to transition from selling game products to selling game services is apparently coming to a head in a fairly surprising way. In what seemed like fairly innocuous news at the time, EA's Peter Moore has recently announced the company was pondering a persistent profile for its … [Read more...] about EA’s Persistent Profile Rumored To Be Subscription Based
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Chrono Trigger Gracing PSP & PS3
When a game is still news sixteen years after release, you can probably surmise it was kind of awesome. Either that, or it was involved in a massive subliminal rick-rolling incident that only came to light years too late for anyone to do anything about it. Chrono Trigger does both, but only one of … [Read more...] about Chrono Trigger Gracing PSP & PS3
Gamestop Stopping DS Lite Sales After Current Stock Runs Out
We'd say it's had a good run, but we'd be lying. Seeing how probably more than half the hundred million DS units sold so far are Lites, it's had an eye-wateringly spectacular run. And despite Nintendo's promise to keep it on hand alongside the 3DS and the fact that stripping the GBA slot out of the … [Read more...] about Gamestop Stopping DS Lite Sales After Current Stock Runs Out
Google Chrome Notebooks Coming This Summer as Subscription Items
If you liked the idea of the open source Google Chrome notebooks that were sent out a while back to show off the Chrome OS, you will like this. Google is going to be offering those notebooks to consumers this summer, but you won't just be able to walk in and buy the thing. Subscription-Based … [Read more...] about Google Chrome Notebooks Coming This Summer as Subscription Items
Hulu Service Blocked On BlackBerry PlayBook Tablets
Reports are coming through that Hulu has now added the new BlackBerry PlayBook to its blacklist of devices. The Hulu service was originally available on the BlackBerry PlayBook, allowing users to view TV shows and movies, but now brings up the message pictured below. The History of Hulu Blocking … [Read more...] about Hulu Service Blocked On BlackBerry PlayBook Tablets
Sarcos Robot Is Self-Balancing, Almost Human
Benjamin Stephens, a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has created a robot that is eerily human. The Sarcos bipedal robot can maintain its own balance while moving, lifting objects, or generally frolicking about. It even resembles a human body with the webcam … [Read more...] about Sarcos Robot Is Self-Balancing, Almost Human
Amazon EC2 Crashes, Drags Down Several Sites With It
A few of the most popular websites experienced some sudden downtime when . The servers host the retailer's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Service which is used as the backend of many popular sites such as Reddit, Foursquare and Quora. UPDATE: It seems to also affect the Cydia Store as well. It's … [Read more...] about Amazon EC2 Crashes, Drags Down Several Sites With It
Amazon Updates Its Kindle App For Honeycomb
Amazon has just announced that their new Android update to their Kindle App has been tailored for tablets, including tablets running Android Honeycomb, such as the Motorola Xoom. The latest version of Kindle for Android includes a newly designed shopping user interface which is tailored for … [Read more...] about Amazon Updates Its Kindle App For Honeycomb
Samsung Hits Back At Apple, By Counter-suing With 10 Patent Infringement Cases
Samsung has hit back at Apple in the latest round of Apple vs Samsung, with Samsung counter-suing Apple with 10 patent infringement cases over the resemblance of their smartphones. According to the company’s Samsung Tomorrow blog, five were submitted in Korea, two in Japan, and a final three in … [Read more...] about Samsung Hits Back At Apple, By Counter-suing With 10 Patent Infringement Cases
PSP Go Production Continuing In US
News of the PSP Go's demise... is not exaggerated at all, but Sony has decided to let it shamble across the Earth for a while longer. In the US at least, as that's the only territory where they will still be making the thing. It's hard not to feel at least a bit happy for the little feller, because … [Read more...] about PSP Go Production Continuing In US
Mario 3DS To Combine Mario 64 & Super Mario Galaxy
In a recent interview with Edge, Shigeru Miyamoto discussed further details of the upcoming Super Mario 3DS. And if this were any other developer, we could swear he was just telling us what we wanted to hear. But this is Shigeru Miyamoto, he is so far beyond having anything to prove at this point … [Read more...] about Mario 3DS To Combine Mario 64 & Super Mario Galaxy
PSN May Be Down For Up To 48 Hours
Well, Sony, at least you can console yourself that it wasn't an attack by Anonymous that put your PSN out of business. Or at least, not that anyone knows of yet. Because the truth is Sony doesn't really have any clue what is causing the outage at the moment. Which also means they sort of pulled that … [Read more...] about PSN May Be Down For Up To 48 Hours
