Students. PCs. Free Xbox 360. The Redmond team's at it yet again. Similar to last year's deal, Microsoft's hooking students up with a 4GB Xbox 360 if they drop some cash on one of its Windows machines. It's simple: shell out over $699 on a PC, or $599 if you're in Canada, and you'll be walking out with a shiny new console free of charge -- naturally, you'll have to do so at participating shops such as Best Buy, Fry's, Newegg,

Converge is a docking station that can allow up to four devices to be charged and displayed at once. With four USB outlets, the wires can be tucked away out of sight with the “Stash” cable management system.
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Pre-orders are nothing new in the realm of video gaming -- they're the requisite hype before the release day-storm. On the digital download front, however, that anticipatory frenzy hasn't gotten much major industry support, until now. Sony, purveyor of all things PlayStation, has just tossed a bone to its many PSN subscribers, offering the option to purchase unreleased titles in advance of their planned launches.

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Should We Expect Voice Acting In Every Game?

The pros and cons of prose and... is there a voice actor named Khans?

By: Dennis Farrell May 17, 2012




Some people approach games with a checklist of required features. "No multiplayer? Not even a half-hearted mode thrown in for the heck of it? No thanks!" "Where are my arbitrary achievements?" If internet forums are to be trusted -- and in my experience they always should be -- voice acting is increasingly becoming

More than two years after Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella first sued Activision, their case is finally set to head to trial on May 29. But before the case can be heard, documents have been released which shed light on some unsavory moves Activision made prior to firing West and Zampella in March 2010.
Prior to the start of the case, there have been some developments of note. Electronic Arts, the publisher of the game being produced by West and Zampella's new studio, Respawn

With Lost Planet's roots firmly planted on consoles, it comes as a surprise that the series will soon be making a trip to portables in the form of E.X. Troopers for the Nintendo 3DS. Taking an anime-inspired look and featuring gameplay similar to its console brethren, it appears that the franchise will be bringing some familiar elements to Nintendo's smaller screens. As sudden as the announcement is, Capcom seems to be taking an unexpected approach for the franchise on portables.

You can probably relate to the creepy feeling of a spider crawling up your pants. You just go nuts, right? But how about a robot climbing up your pants? Does that sound better? This week at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Minnesota, a team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong introduced a climbing robot named Clothbot. Clothbot is a tiny robot that has the ability to create a wrinkle in a piece of cloth using a pair of opposing gripper wheels.

Basically it has an omnidirectional tail that adjusts the robot’s center of gravity and helps it to change its direction while it navigates its way onto a person’s body. Clothbot weights around 140 grams, so you don’t have to

As we revealed yesterday, Time Warner Cable has finally activated HBO Go streaming to TV connected devices. As seen on the new activation pages for Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players, Xbox 360s and Roku boxes, TWC and Bright House Networks are now among the available options (sorry, still no word on ESPN3 for the Xbox 360). The only bad news? DirecTV and Comcast have not (yet) followed suit, so for those customers HBO Go streaming on the TV

Everyone's favorite purveyor of exceedingly niche shoot-em-ups, Cave, is back again with Akai Katana, a welcome -- and rare -- appearance of one of their console games localized for the West. Not only that, it's a boxed retail game, and crazier yet, it's another horizontal bullet-hell shooter, just like their last Western retail release, Deathsmiles. And if Deathsmiles' gothic lolita stylings sent you running in the opposite direction, Akai Katana is a much more palatable action game, set in a world where young rebels use their warplanes and the power of the mystical Blood Swords to combat the endless hordes of imperial forces. Yeah, no one really plays these for the plots.

As of today, if you were to run a search for ‘Jailbreak’ in the iOS App Store or in iTunes on your computer, the results that will be presented will have more asterisks than you can count unless you have a few hours on hand. In addition to the fact that Apple might still void your warranty if you jailbreak your iOS device, Apple has now taken a step further in that direction by classifying the word ‘jailbreak’ as a “dirty word” which is now represented as “J*******k”.
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Just in case the world forgot which phone was first with 2GB of RAM, LG has pushed out another press release for its Optimus LTE2 which ships this week in Korea, just as promised. The detailed specs reveal this version ships with a 4.7-inch True HD IPS LCD, and while many of its specs (8MP camera,

Ever since Square unveiled the Final Fantasy VII tech demo back in E3 of 2005, fans have been demanding the company bring their 1997 RPG classic to the era of HD consoles. Instead of delivering on the goods, however, Square decided to instead release port after port of their 2D Final Fantasies, along with the 13th (and unfortunately 14th) iteration of the series. With Final Fantasy XIII receiving mixed reviews and Final Fantasy XIV tainting the brand, it seems fans just want a reminder of why they loved the series in the first place. Instead of something new and different, Final Fantasy enthusiasts ultimately crave a prettier

It's certainly not easy to make a game based off a hit televisionseries; one has to only look back at properties like Buffy,TheX-Files, and The Sopranosto find examples of fantastic shows that transitioned into video gamesvia bland and uninspired adaptations. And the less said about the HomeImprovementSNES game featuring dinosaurs, the better. Observing thissad trend makes it all the more surprising that Telltale wasable to create a fantastic openingto their downloadable series based on The Walking Dead.Sadly the success that they had with the AMC hit caused an old wound toopen in the form of us thinking about the potential behind 2008's

Consider the following scenario from the Game of Thrones RPG: you get tasked with infiltrating a secure location, and beforehand you assemble a proper uniform -- gauntlets, boots, cape, and helmet -- to gain access. This sequence conjures up the same sort of tension as watching Tywin Lannister and Littlefinger's conversation at Harrenhal in the current season of the show, or reading the duel between The Red Viper and The Mountain That Rides from A Storm of Swords. There's a lot at stake, and one mistake could turn the whole affair catastrophic; but this time, you're in control of this tense situation. You walk up to a guard at a checkpoint, and he asks if he knows you because you seem familiar to him; to this, you reply that you have a very common face that elicits such a question often. Except, as noted earlier, not only

With this Spring refresh, Sony introduces a new entry-level Sony NEX compact camera. This model should basically retire the previous NEX-C3. As a new comer, the Sony NEX-F3 inherits from technology introduced in higher-end models, such as a 16 Megapixel sensor (same as in NEX-5N) or a built-in pop-up Flash that the C3 lacked. Of course, it is fair to say that the C3 body was smaller, so we can really blame it for not having an built-in Flash.

In terms of features, I think that the video-recording capabilities of the Sony NEX-F3 are quite a step-up from the C3 as it now records in higher quality AVCHD (up to 1080p 24Mbps) or MP4 (up to 1440×1080 12Mbps). In addition to this, the NEX-F3 is also capable of “enhancing” photos with software features like