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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Bioshock Archive
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BioShock 2 DRM madness: Once again, publishers make pirating a game more attractive than buying it legitimately
Posted on January 22, 2010 | No CommentsLooks like we have ourselves yet another DRM-related controversy for your amusement. The star this time is BioShock 2, the upcoming FPS developed by various 2K studios. The usual suspects abound: SecurROM, limited installations, and Games for Windows Live.
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CrunchDeals: Buy two, get one free Xbox 360 Platinum Hits at Best Buy
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
Fresh off the Twitter… um… trolley. Sphere? Obelisk? River? Whatever it is that carries twats around. Best Buy is running a buy two, get one free deal on Xbox 360 Platinum Hits games.
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CrunchDeals: Free BioShock with BioShock 2 pre-order, plus 10% off
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsOkay you guys, we’re in the home stretch of winter. To help us get through the kick in the nuts known as “February,” BioShock 2 will be released in a few weeks. If you pre-order the game through Steam you can get it for $44.99, plus you’ll also get the first BioShock for free. If [...] -
Don’t forget Steam’s indie games are on sale too
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsSteam has been running a huge sale the last few days, (Bioshock for $5, oh yes) but a Reddit user is urging gamers to look past the six headline titles and to indie games. He’s right. There are a bunch of games I’ve never heard of for only a few dollars right now. If you’re like me [...] -
Video: Epic demos Unreal Engine 3 running on the iPhone
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsThe iPhone is already touted for its gaming prowess almost endlessly, but it looks like things are about to take a pretty big leap forward. Epic Games has been crackin’ away at an iPhone port of their Unreal Engine 3 — the engine that powers such jaw-droppingly beautiful games as BioShock, Mirror’s Edge, Gears of [...] -
Study: Nobody pays attention to video game scores (especially Metacritic ones)
Posted on November 25, 2009 | No CommentsI've never hidden my disdain for Metacritic (and GameRankings, but mostly Metacritic), the Web site that aggregates review scores for video games (and movies and so forth). It's an insane concept: let's round up all of these ostensibly separate opinions, throw 'em in a blender, and come up with a single, solitary number that conveys a game's entire worth. Balderdash, I say. Review scores aren't a standardized measurement—a 9.2 over at IGN doesn't mean a 9.2 at Edge, or an A over at 1UP.
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Bioshock 2 coming in a special edition
Posted on November 20, 2009 | No CommentsSo it’s official: there will be a Bioshock 2 special edition. With the upcoming release of Bioshock 2 there’s been much speculation and guesswork about if there would be a special edition, and more importantly, what would be in it. Well, the wait is over. The official announcement came out today on The Cult of Rapture. [...] -
The American Library Association declares this Saturday, Nov. 14, to be National Game Day
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsMan alive, there's been a lot of gaming news these past few days. Continuing the trend: this Saturday, November 14, is to be hereby referred to as National Gaming Day. Thus decided the American Library Association. The day has been created in order to promote the idea that video games can be used to sharpen one's reading ability, and to promote critical thinking.
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Wherein tenuous links are made between BioShock and two new Ayn Rand biographies
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsWorking under the assumption that many of you have played BioShock, I point you in the direction of this week's issue of The New Yorker, which has a quick review of two Ayn Rand biographies that may interest you. It's pretty funny because while the game's story, which is unreservedly great, is in part inspired by the Rand novel “Atlas Shrugged,” the New Yorker review doesn't miss a beat in calling the author, well, a hack.
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Bioshock 2 video preview
Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments
I've been told that I need to play the original Bioshock. I missed out on it when it first came out, but picked it up on Steam a while back and just never played it. I've been told it's a great game, but I haven't had the time to check it out yet. Guess I should get to it, since the hands-on videos are already coming out for the sequel.
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Can we blame Nintendo’s profit drop on the lack of gamer’s games?
Posted on October 29, 2009 | No CommentsIt hasn't been the best couple of months for Nintendo. Profits were down for the six months leading up to September, which the company blames on the strong yen and the Wii's price cut. Net sales, too, were down, some 34.5 percent. Fair enough, and those reasons are likely to explain Nintendo's situation, but is there something else going on? I know Pat Buchanan, the older gentlemen that he is, always uses the phrase “the chickens have come home to roost,” and I think it's applicable here. Perhaps Nintendo's strategy of selling the Wii to the “casual” crowd (housewives and the like, to simplify this) has finally run out of gas?
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BioShock 2: February 9, 2010
Posted on September 18, 2009 | No CommentsQuick, grab something—anything, it doesn't matter! Now drop everything! 2K Games has just announced the release date of BioShock 2: February 9, 2010. That's the same day Zeno was crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire!
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Direct2Drive offering $5 game downloads
Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
Whoa-ho-ho there, will you look at this? Game downloading service Direct2Drive (like Steam, sort of) has now been around for five years and to celebrate, they’re giving away various games for $5. Good ones, too. A new bunch gets made available every Monday.
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BioShock movie drops Pirates of the Caribbean director
Posted on August 24, 2009 | No CommentsAny hope you had of the BioShock movie not being a total piece of garbage can now safely be thrown out the window, onto a pile of pointy things that hurt a lot. The movie has a new director in the form of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, of 28 Weeks Later fame. He replaces Gore Verbinski, the guy who directed the fun-for-the-first-time Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
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BioShock 2 won’t be launching in Q1 of 2010 [Update]
Posted on August 20, 2009 | No CommentsJoytiq is reporting out of GamesCom that 2K will not be releasing BioShock 2 in Q1 of 2010. According to an unnamed 2K rep, a new trailer for the hottest game of 2010 will be shown at PAX East, which runs the last week of March. That makes me sad. Oh well. Update: Bloops. Update: Call [...]