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• Why 49% Of Gamers Won't Buy Downloadable Content
  Concerns over the security of their personal data are the overwhelming factor that keeps console gamers from purchasing downloadable content on their Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s, according to a report released today. In the company's annual "Deconstructing Downloadable Content" report released on Wednesday, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research released the results of an extensive survey ...
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• Broke in Tokyo: Retro Game Shopping on a Weak Dollar
  All photos: Jim Merithew/Wired.com See Also:Classic Game|Death: The $10 Pile of Tokyo ShameBroke in Tokyo: Excavating 10 Weird Games for $10Broke in Tokyo: Scavenging 24 Old Games for $24The 12 Most Expensive Videogames in TokyoJapan¿s Gamers Take the $10 Retro Shopping Challenge
  10.19.11

• Sony Will Release Vita February 22 in U.S., Europe
  Sony will release its upcoming PlayStation Vita portable system on February 22 in the United States and Europe. Gamasutra reported Tuesday that Sony Computer Entertainment of America president and CEO Jack Tretton made the announcement at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. Two versions will be available at launch: one with Wi-Fi for $250, and ...
  10.18.11

• Sony Will Release Vita February 22 in U.S., Europe
  Sony will release its upcoming PlayStation Vita portable system on February 22 in the United States and Europe. Gamasutra reported Tuesday that Sony Computer Entertainment of America president and CEO Jack Tretton made the announcement at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. Two versions will be available at launch: one with Wi-Fi for $250, and ...
  10.18.11

• Sony Offers Subscription Plan For Uncharted 3 DLC
  Gamers looking forward to the PlayStation 3 action-adventure game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception can now spend $25 to gain instant access to the game's first seven bits of downloadable content, publisher Sony said on Tuesday. This subscription plan, which Sony is calling the Fortune Hunters' Club, includes four map packs for the game's multiplayer mode as ...
  10.18.11

• How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
  If you listen to the pundits, Yahoo isn't a technology company. And yet it spawned one of the most important software technologies of the last five years: Hadoop, an open source platform designed to crunch epic amounts of data using an army of dirt-cheap servers.
  10.18.11

• Cookie Monster Makes a PSA about Parental Controls for Game Consoles
  Cookie Monster isn't just googly-eyed, fuzzy, blue, and a lover of his namesake food item. He's also a responsible, upstanding citizen who recorded a public service announcement (PSA) with Microsoft, to make sure people are aware of what would happen if there were a global cookie shortage. Oh, and also how to use use parental controls ...
  10.18.11

• Cookie Monster Makes a PSA about Parental Controls for Game Consoles
  Cookie Monster isn't just googly-eyed, fuzzy, blue, and a lover of his namesake food item. He's also a responsible, upstanding citizen who recorded a public service announcement (PSA) with Microsoft, to make sure people are aware of what would happen if there were a global cookie shortage. Oh, and also how to use use parental controls ...
  10.18.11

• Nokia N9 Smartphone Is Heavy on Quirkiness, Light on Substance
  It's all very nice to look at, but it seems the N9 smartphone's lofty design goals may have preempted key features in Nokia's quest for a less busy exterior.
  10.18.11

• Christina Hendricks Feels The Need For Speed
  Familiar voices and sort-of-familiar faces will bring a human touch to Need For Speed: The Run, Electronic Arts said on Tuesday. Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Sean Faris (The King of Fighters) will play the main characters of the new racing game, to be released on November 15. Faris will play Jack Rourke, a race car ...
  10.18.11

• Family Gamer TV Tackles Limbo and Flower
  This week we meet new family on Family Gamer TV. Tobi, Mary and their three kids have never owned a videogame console. As the sun sets on our San Francisco trip Tobi talks about playing Limbo, Flower and Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. I also take some time to look ahead to Super Mario 3D Land and ...
  10.18.11

• Rocking Out With Rocksmith (Bring Your Own Guitar)
  I'll be the first to admit, I'm not that great a guitar player. Sure, I felt like some sort of demi-god playing the plastic button slapping guitars of Guitar Hero and Rock Band but in the back of my head I knew that playing a plastic guitar did not make me a guitar player. I've ...
  10.18.11

• Microsoft Continues 'Critical Shift' to the Cloud with Windows Intune 2.0
  Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Intune -- its fledgling online service for managing PCs -- continuing its push into the brave new world of "cloud computing". "Our vision for Windows Intune is big," Eric Main of Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday. "We want to take the best of the ...
  10.18.11

• Capcom Remasters Devil May Cry Series for 2012
  [nggallery id=178 template=carousel] Capcom will release a $40 high-definition collection of all three PlayStation 2 Devil May Cry games for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in early 2012, it said on Monday. Devil May Cry is a hack-and-slash series known for its frenetic and stylish combat, in which players are encouraged to chain together massive combos in ...
  10.17.11

• Capcom Remasters Devil May Cry Series for 2012
  [nggallery id=178 template=carousel] Capcom will release a $40 high-definition collection of all three PlayStation 2 Devil May Cry games for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in early 2012, it said on Monday. Devil May Cry is a hack-and-slash series known for its frenetic and stylish combat, in which players are encouraged to chain together massive combos in ...
  10.17.11

• Capcom Remasters Devil May Cry Series for 2012
  [nggallery id=178 template=carousel] Capcom will release a $40 high-definition collection of all three PlayStation 2 Devil May Cry games for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in early 2012, it said on Monday. Devil May Cry is a hack-and-slash series known for its frenetic and stylish combat, in which players are encouraged to chain together massive combos in ...
  10.17.11

• What Apple's Big Weekend Means in the Global Smartphone Market
  The new iPhone 4S went on sale Friday. In three days, Apple sold over four million of them — half as many iPhone 4S copies as the Xbox Kinect sold in two months. But what do these numbers really mean?
  10.17.11

• Gallery: 10 Coolest Crafts at the New York Anime Festival
  Exhibitors show off some wonderful craft pieces at the New York Anime Festival, part of last weekend's New York Comic Con.
  10.17.11

• Top 4 Skylander Characters Revealed
  Now that Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is out the big debate is which characters are the best to collect. My family each has a different approach to this. The kids want the ones that have the best weapons, I'm after a collection that grants access to all areas in the game and my wife seems to ...
  10.17.11

• Top 4 Skylander Characters Revealed
  Now that Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is out the big debate is which characters are the best to collect. My family each has a different approach to this. The kids want the ones that have the best weapons, I'm after a collection that grants access to all areas in the game and my wife seems to ...
  10.17.11

• Game|Life Podcast: Catwomen For Sale, $10
  On today's episode of the Game|Life Audio Podcast Extravaganza, Chris Baker, Peter Rubin, Marty Cortinas and I discuss the week in news and games: Nintendo's redesigned Wii; Scribblenauts on iOS; Infinity Blade in the arcades; and paying up for Catwoman levels in Batman: Arkham City. The Game|Life Audio podcast, posted every Friday, can be found on iTunes and is embedded ...
  10.14.11

• Final Fantasy XIV Gets Massive Overhaul, PS3 In 2013
  Square Enix will radically overhaul its foundering massively multiplayer online game Final Fantasy XIV in a year's time, it said on Friday. The alterations that Square Enix says it will make to "Version 2.0" are dramatic and extensive: a new graphics engine, redesigned maps, a totally new server system and a redesigned user interface, among other ...
  10.14.11

• Review: Flying Free as a Bat Through Arkham City
  Arkham City is what every lesser open-world videogame wishes it could be, a few important pieces of core gameplay that have been polished to perfection, set in a wide-open city filled to the brim with things to do. And it does all this with narrative panache, spinning a story worthy of one of the world's most famous superheroes.
  10.14.11

• Review: Flying Free as a Bat Through Arkham City
  Arkham City is what every lesser open-world videogame wishes it could be, a few important pieces of core gameplay that have been polished to perfection, set in a wide-open city filled to the brim with things to do. And it does all this with narrative panache, spinning a story worthy of one of the world's most famous superheroes.
  10.14.11

• Does Apple's Patent Win Against Samsung Put More Android Devices at Risk?
  There's been gnashing of teeth between Apple and Samsung in courts across the globe for a while now, but Australia's temporary injunction against the sale of a Samsung tablet is a huge win for Apple, and could be very bad for the Android platform.
  10.13.11

• Three Screens And A Cloud: Xbox, Windows Phone, and the Future of the Personal Computer
  There are plenty of smartphone remote applications. But the Windows Phone 7 does two smart things: It doesn¿t just change the channel on the Xbox, but can pull and identify content from it, context-dependent based on what you¿re already watching.
  10.13.11

• Three Screens And A Cloud: Xbox, Windows Phone, and the Future of the Personal Computer
  There are plenty of smartphone remote applications. But the Windows Phone 7 does two smart things: It doesn¿t just change the channel on the Xbox, but can pull and identify content from it, context-dependent based on what you¿re already watching.
  10.13.11