Tonight live from Redmond WA, USA Microsoft delved into the new generation. Xbox One was revealed as the new consoles official title quashing the 720 and Infinity rumours. Rather than tease gameplay like Sony viewers were treated to the hardware straight off the bat along with the new systems architecture which has to be said looks impressive. Xbox One- Architecture 8-Core CPU 8GB memory 500GB har...
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According to Paul Thurrott, Windows blogger, and a report from The Verge, Microsoft will formally announce the Xbox’s successor on May 21st. In an interview with the video blog “What the Tech” on Friday, Thurrott said that Microsoft had planned to announce the new console on April 24 but then rescheduled the event for May 21. In the video clip of the show, Thurrott’s commen...
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The Electronic Sports League (ESL) and Activision Publishing, Inc. have partnered to reward the most skilled Call of Duty Black Ops II multiplayer teams on the Xbox 360® by giving them a chance to compete in the inaugural Call of Duty Championship, presented by Xbox 360®. Taking place April 5th-7th in star studded Hollywood, CA, Activision and Microsoft will bring together thirty-two teams from a...
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Gamescom 2013 isn’t for another 6 months, but preparations are already underway. The organizers and the board of the trade fair have introduced a novelty for the Gamescom’s most loyal fans: the “Wild Card”. For the first time, ever, private visitors can purchase a strictly limited number of afternoon tickets for the Trade Visitors and Media Day. These Wild Card tickets are ...
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The release date of Grand Theft Auto V has stirred up a bit of controversy in the gaming community. Having pushed it back from the spring until September; Take-Two appears to be aiming at a next generation console release. I have been looking forward to this game ever since I heard about it a few months ago and if that means waiting until the next generation consoles come out then I am fine with t...
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The best original computer games created from scratch during a 48 hour, non-stop design session will feature in a Games@Derby public exhibition at the University of Derby’s ‘Games Jam’ event. Around 60 students from all years of the University’s BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming (CGP) and BA (Hons) Computer Games Modelling and Animation (CGMA) degree courses will compete in t...
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I would like to start this post by saying I am not that informed about this but what I do know is that this website uses dropbox, so yeah it is the best. “Well, you’ve got to remember, 100 million sounds like a pretty small number to me, actually,” Ballmer told BusinessWeek. “We’ve got a lot more Office users. And actually if you even want to go to the cloud, we have ...
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Microsoft has announced its quarterly revenue ending December 31st 2012. They made a total of $21.46 billion, with 76-cents-a-share. Wall Street estimated a revenue of 77-cents-a-share at 21.53 billion, so quite a bit out if you look carefully at how much a billion actually equates to… Still, it still earned $6.38 billion dollars which isn’t anything to be crying over, even with its no...
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Indie Developer 17 Bit has announced that Skulls of the Shogun will be released world wide January 30th, 2013 and will be at a discounted price for a limited time on Windows 8, Windows Surface and Windows Phone. The Windows 8 and Windows Surface version are set to launch at $9.99 (reduced from $14.99) via the Microsoft Store. Accompanied by the Windows Phone version set to launch at a credible ...
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Lenovo is to produce a Chromebook set for school use called the ThinkPad X131e. A Chromebook is a laptop running on Google’s operating system Chrome. The Chrome OS is a browser-based operating system, but like Android (also made by Google), runs Linux in the background. The software all runs in the cloud of the web, with websites, and web apps. It won’t run PC games, Photoshop, or even...
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