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Apple iPad 4 Review (A tweak of Apple iPad 3rd Generation)
Apple iPad 4 Review (A tweak of Apple iPad 3rd Generation)
The release of Apple iPad 4 is not a generation of a new idea or something like it in the world of iPad but a way of consoling the angry Apple fan who were in
Dec. 3, 2012
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet costs $999
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet costs $999
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablets will cost up to $999 when they launch in January, nearly double the price of the initial Surface Windows RT versions that launched last month.
Nov. 30, 2012
PS3 Black Friday sales up, but still lagging behind competitors
PS3 Black Friday sales up, but still lagging behind competitors
Although Sony's PlayStation 3 saw a nice spike in U.S. sales over the course of the Black Friday week, it wasn't able to muster up as many sales as rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.
Nov. 30, 2012
Miyamoto wonders: Is story really necessary when gameplay will do?
Miyamoto wonders: Is story really necessary when gameplay will do?
"It's fine without a story, so do we really need one?" - Kensuke Tanabe, software planning for Paper Mario: Sticker Star, recalls how veteran designer Shigeru Miyamoto asked specifically for story elements to be left out.
Nov. 30, 2012
Ouya hits its first milestone: Devkits shipping on time in December
Ouya hits its first milestone: Devkits shipping on time in December
Missing release dates is one way to make Kickstarter backers lose faith in the platform, but luckily video games' highest-profile project is meeting its first milestone right on schedule.
Nov. 30, 2012
Six most important lessons from Kickstarter so far
Six most important lessons from Kickstarter so far
Signs of platform maturation for Kickstarter are on the horizon. We highlight six major lessons from the first wave of funding successes on how to treat your audience (hint: like any other investor).
Nov. 30, 2012
Fallout: New Vegas scribe knows when gameplay trumps writing
Fallout: New Vegas scribe knows when gameplay trumps writing
"There've been so many times where any story I've attempted to tell will get trumped by some action the player can do in the game systems, and it's a better story for that, and I can't argue with it." - Chris Avellone on narrative design.
Nov. 30, 2012
Hewlett Packard’s Autonomy woes deepen
Hewlett Packard’s Autonomy woes deepen
On Tuesday a new shareholder lawsuit claimed audit firms Deloitte and KPMG missed red flags about Autonomy’s accounting, and also named HP's board of directors, officers, and former executives alleging breach of duty and negligence.
Nov. 30, 2012
BPI demands UK Pirate Party shut down its Pirate Bay proxy
BPI demands UK Pirate Party shut down its Pirate Bay proxy
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to the UK Pirate Party, a democratic political party, and demanded that it close the proxy service it provides to allow users to bypass the ISP block on The Pirate Bay.
Nov. 30, 2012
Anti-virus vendors warn users to beware of the ChangeUp worm
Anti-virus vendors warn users to beware of the ChangeUp worm
ChangeUp is the Symantec name for the worm known as W32/VBNA-X by Sophos and W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb by McAfee. All three companies are warning their users about an increase in detections over the last few days.
Nov. 30, 2012
Clickjacking threatens two-thirds of top 20 banking sites
Clickjacking threatens two-thirds of top 20 banking sites
Almost a two-thirds of the top banking sites, one-fifth of popular open-source web app sites and a full 70% of the top 10 websites by number of visitors have absolutely no countermeasures against clickjacking attacks, even if they require a secure environment, such as banks providing online banking services.
Nov. 30, 2012
Hacktivist group targets Syria in wake of internet blackout
Hacktivist group targets Syria in wake of internet blackout
Global hacktivist collective Anonymous is targeting Syrian websites worldwide to protest an internet blackout in that country, which was instituted Thursday in what most think is an attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to cut off communication routes for the opposition.
Nov. 30, 2012