Tablets will be the big-ticket item this holiday season, and perhaps none will be bigger than the Amazon Kindle Fire. In a recent statement about company performance, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Amazon is building “millions more” Kindle Fires than previously planned based on pre-orders alone. He also indicated that orders for the three new […]
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Say what you will about the original Kinect Sports being a Wii Sports knockoff, the game was still a hit with Xbox Kinect owners. Now its sequel, Kinect Sports: Season Two, has headed to retail in the hope of turning your living room once again into a world-class sports arena. In Kinect Sports: Season Two,
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The top-selling franchise for Xbox Kinect, Dance Central, has sashayed onto the stage for an encore performance, as Dance Central 2 is now available at retail. Dance Central 2 expands on the original with more full-body dance routines, the new ability to issue voice commands and new multiplayer gameplay. Yet as with any music- and
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The PS3 is a Blu-ray playing powerhouse, but for U.S. PS3 owners who lean more toward the digital-delivery side of things, Sony today launched CinemaNow on the console. CinemaNow is Best Buy’s digital movie service that features more than 15,000 movies and TV episodes from all major studios and many independent distributors. CinemaNow offers new-release
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An all-new behind-the-scenes trailer for Call of Duty Elite has surfaced today that highlights the “Improve” features designed to help gamers be better Call of Duty players. We’ve got the video below, complete with in-game footage (hence the age gate), for your viewing pleasure. Call of Duty Elite is a new digital service built to
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The second round of Portal 2 DLC is on the way, although its release will come a bit later than many folks may like: early 2012. The Portal 2 DLC will feature an easy-to-use in-game map editor. Using the Portal 2 map editor, players will be able to design, build and share their own single-player
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Battlefield 3 has shipped to retail today for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, although judging by the 3 million pre-orders EA logged, you probably didn’t need this news item to let you know. Based on that pre-order number, Battlefield 3 is set to be the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history. Battlefield 3 goes
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Atari’s taken a whole new spin on the arcade-classic Centipede franchise, shipping today a shooter called Centipede: Infestation for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo 3DS. In the game, which features more than 21 weapons, players must try to hold off a never-ending onslaught of killer bugs using flamethrowers, goofy grenade launchers, laser guns, messy machine
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Disney Universe, a new game featuring characters and worlds from animated and live-action films by Disney Animation, Pixar and Disney Pictures, has shipped today for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. A PC version is also available. Disney Universe offers four-person multiplayer with gameplay that’s appropriate for kids but compelling enough for adults as well.
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The Xbox Kinect is specimen of motion-tracking and voice-recognition technology, its awesomeness undermined only by an apparent inability to support no play space other than professionally-lit studios. Apartments, dorms, small game rooms … all have fallen victim to the Kinect’s warehouse-only space requirements. Enter Nyko’s Kinect Zoom, a magnifying glass of sorts that slips over
