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[Robin Chung]

For aspiring game developers there’re a lot of resources out there that will guide and improve the quality of your game or app. One often overlooked feature is, what I call, the bing. The power of the bing is impossible to put in context and connects to our inner strongest desires and needs as a [...]

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[Robin Chung]

LucasArts has announced the arrival of a new Star Wars game that will first present itself at next week’s E3 conference. Not a lot is known about the game apart from wild speculations and guesses– some say Boba Fett will become a featured character. Lucas Arts announced the game during Star Wars’ 35th birthday on [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Bethesda has released a patch for The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim adding mounted combat to its popular role-playing adventure. The patch is labelled 1.6 and is currently available for PC, consoles will have to wait a few days/weeks extra because console patched require approval from Sony or Microsoft respectively. Mounted combat was one of the major [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Sony has announced a white version of its budget handheld the PSP-E1000. The new handheld is a cost-reduced sibling of the former high-end handheld PSP, which knew three versions in its long-lasting lifetime. The white version of the E1000 will launch in July for the same price of €99.99. Sony calls the color “Ice White” [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Today Sony released Resistance: Burning Skies for the Vita. This is the fourth shooter in the Resistance series but breaks away from the chronological approach on the PS3. Sony calls it the first dual analog stick controlled first-person shooter for a handheld device, earlier the company published Uncharted, a third-person shooter confirming to us that [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Community user Goffik turned out attention to a video made by one RushFreak2, posted on YouTube just a couple of days ago. In the 5-minute animation viewers see the release of one War Zombies 4 HD and the response of the general public. Before we link the video though, we’d like to let everyone know [...]

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[Robin Chung]

A lot of gamers have been waiting for this particular gaming laptop by Maingear and it’s finally here: the Maingear Pulse II. The starting price is set at just $999, but customizing will shoot the price up north. In its most basic form you will get a Core i5 2.5Ghz (3320m) tied to a GeForce [...]

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[Robin Chung]

LucasArts has revealed the existence of the game titled Star Wars 1313. The announcement comes just before E3 and was accompanied with a single screenshot. Star Wars 1313 puts you in the shoes of a yet named storm trooper on the planet Coruscant (home of the Jedi counsel). Earlier we reported the connection between 1313 [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Microsoft kicked off E3 earlier today with a trailer of the highly anticipated sequel to the Halo series – number four. The game will appear this November for Xbox 360. Halo 4 was arguably the centerpiece of Microsoft’s E3 press conference, showing the official trailer and a short live gameplay session with the devs. The [...]

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[Robin Chung]

FIFA developer and publisher EA have revealed who they think will win Euro 2012 this season. The game maker simulated the tournament using the teams in its DLC package for FIFA 12. Germany (3rd, world cup 10) is said to beat the Netherlands (runner up, world cup) in a tight final on July 1st. The [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Naughty Dog demoed their new franchise The Last of Us, consequently closing the Sony E3 press conference in style. The Last of Us can be described as a story-driven game with lots of survival and action elements. Naughty Dog is known for pioneering highly successful franchises such as the Bandicoot series and Uncharted. The Last [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Sony has introduced a steering wheel peripheral for the PlayStation Move controller. The wheel shaped accessory connects seamlessly to the controller and turns it into a motion sensitive steering wheel. The add-on for Playstation Move is designed to make racing games more engaging using the wireless Motion controller. Gamers can place the controller in the [...]

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[Robin Chung]

At the introduction of the Wii U, Nintendo revealed that the console would only support one gamepad at the same time, now that tally is upped by one. This cures a deficit for potential buyers of the platform and should improve on the local multiplayer experience. Exactly one year ago Nintendo showed the Wii U [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Microsoft is bringing Internet Explorer to the Xbox 360 this fall. The popular browser has been completely redesigned and works using Kinect or Xbox Smart Glass – enabling the use of smartphones or tablets to control the page. The base of IE is a smarthub where users get a broad overview of their favorites, recently [...]

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