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  • Steve Jobs’ D8 interview: the video highlights

    Steve Jobs’ D8 interview: the video highlights

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Sure, you read our liveblog of Steve Jobs' D8 conference -- and believe us, it's heavily quotable -- but don't you want to see and hear the Apple CEO claim HyperCard was huge in its day? Or perhaps you're more interested in his thoughts on Flash, market cap, and the iPad origins -- either way, videos are after the break, with presumably more to come from All Things D.

    Update: Four new videos have been added!

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    Steve Jobs' D8 interview: the video highlights originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Prima strategy guides now on Steam. Yup, Prima still makes strategy guides!

    Prima strategy guides now on Steam. Yup, Prima still makes strategy guides!

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Got an e-mail from the good folks at Steam a few moments ago detailing a new feature y'all might be interested in. I mean, the only thing anyone is going to care about today is Google TV, but I'll do what I can to distract you from that for a moment. The deal is that Prima Guides are now available for use in-game. You know, via that shift+tab overlay thing.

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  • New iPhone in Vietnam spotted running iPhone OS 4? (update: it’s a fake)

    New iPhone in Vietnam spotted running iPhone OS 4? (update: it’s a fake)

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    This is a bit of a confusing one, but we just got tipped an additional shot of this 4th generation iPhone that leaked out in Vietnam, but this time with a big twist: it appears to be running iPhone OS 4. Or at least displaying a screenshot of the new OS, with that telltale wallpaper in the background. We have no idea how this crew might've circumvented Apple's lockdown of the device, and there's always the chance this is some sort of Photoshop or other trickery. Still, a source has confirmed to us that the markings "N90 PRO2" indicate an older prototype N90 (the Apple codename for the new iPhone), which refers to "Working Prototype 2" and might possibly be easier to enable than the newer, lock tight model Gizmodo obtained. Also, despite the photo's out-of-focus nature, the display (or at least its contents) doesn't appear nearly as sharp as those previous shots we saw of the "fireball" screen. We're digging for more info as we speak, but unfortunately the original source site, Taoviet, is down right now. We'll keep you posted if we hear anything else about this image's origins.

    [Thanks, ITKINGDOM]

    Update: The source link is loading for us sporadically. The translated text above the shot reads: "Iphone 4G VN is distributed by the network not it? Maybe not then, we'll be the first use:" It's all so clear now!

    Update 2: Woah, do these things just grow on trees? French site Be Geek has just received photos of what looks to be a third iPhone 4th gen floating around in the wild. Chances are it's of a similar build generation as the Vietnam device, since it's lacking those screws at the bottom, but it does seem to a separate device, since it's rocking a different SIM.

    Update 3: Turns out this new set of photos was pulled from the same Vietnamese forum, so it seems to be the same phone. Makes sense, but we're still puzzling over that different SIM.

    Update 4: Sorry, it's a Photoshop kids. This phone can't boot past DFU.

    New iPhone in Vietnam spotted running iPhone OS 4? (update: it's a fake) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 12:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Meizu M8 app store to become reality this month?

    Meizu M8 app store to become reality this month?

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Now that Meizu is setting the M8 up with some new firmware and further turning its back on the handset's KIRFish origins, how about an app store? Apparently that's exactly what's happening, as the following video will attest. Not too many details here -- it's called MyStore, and the company is planning to split revenue with developers 30 / 70. The store is currently being tested internally, and with any luck it should see the light of day as a part of the new firmware release later this month. If you've been dying for a chance to play a Chinese knockoff of BubbleWrap, that day is finally drawing near! See for yourself after the break.

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    Meizu M8 app store to become reality this month? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Zero Punctuation on Dragon Age: Origins

    Zero Punctuation on Dragon Age: Origins

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Spoiler: Dragon Age: Origins is classic fantasy game where you’re an asshole if you play as a human.

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  • GameStop details in-store DLC service, to be launched in 2010

    GameStop details in-store DLC service, to be launched in 2010

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems the Internet doesn't like GameStop too much, so I'm not sure how this story will be received. The retailer announced at a conference in New York yesterday that it will launch some sort of in-store DLC service next year. That is, let's say you buy Game, then immediately buy related DLC from inside the store via a special interface. (GameStop worked with both Sony and Microsoft to figure all this out.) Then, when you get home, the DLC is ready to be added to your game.

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  • Hooray!: Don’t expect crappy movie games from Marvel anymore

    Hooray!: Don’t expect crappy movie games from Marvel anymore

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Praise jeebus! Marvel’s Executive Vice President of Global Digital Media Group, Ira Rubenstein, said Marvel is done making crap games based on movies. We are not doing movie-based games anymore,” Rubenstein said following yesterday’s announcement of Digital Comics for PSN at Sony’s GamesCom press conference. “Actually, wait … we are not doing crappy movie-based games [...]

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  • Nasty Clamp: DIY Flash-Stand Goes Commercial

    Nasty Clamp: DIY Flash-Stand Goes Commercial

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Here at the Lab, its certainly no secret that we like DIY solutions to gadget puzzles. Which is why we’re so pleased about the Nasty Clamp. The flash stand was originally a home-made project, but the maker, Matthew G. Monroe, was so inundated with requests from other photographers that he decided to go ahead and [...]

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  • Kodak wishes to reunite Megan Fox and the boy with the yellow rose

    Kodak wishes to reunite Megan Fox and the boy with the yellow rose

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    I’d imagine by now you’ve seen this picture of Megan Fox snubbing this poor little portly boy at the London premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. If you haven’t then you need to get out from under the rock or watch The Soup or something.

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  • LIVE: EA E3 2009 press conference

    LIVE: EA E3 2009 press conference

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments
    We’re live at EA’s press conference here at E3 in Los Angeles… 4:42 PM: Devin Coldewey Yo. We’re Live at EA’s press conf. Still a while before it goes live. Looped animations, Clif bars and an asset drive full of stuff we’ve already seen. Get ready for some Mass Effect 2 footage though, we’ll get it [...]

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