May 18, 2013

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Verizon offers the Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Smartphone for $199.99; save $50 now

Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Image

Verizon Wireless has just announced the the Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 collector’s set is now only $199.99 after a $100 mail in rebate and new 2 year activation. Back in late September when the handset was launched, the price was $249. A good $50 above the price of most high-end models like the Motorola DROID [...]

Xbox Live Marketplace to Start Holiday Sales Next Week

Xbox Live Marketplace to Start Holiday Sales Next Week

Microsoft is going to reward your fiscal responsibility with a sale on several titles next week. Larry Hyrb (aka Major Nelson) detailed the sale, which starts Tuesday, December 21 and runs through New Year’s Eve on December 31. The discounts range from bigger titles rolling out as games on demand, like Just Cause 2 and [...]

EA iOS(iPhone/iPod touch/iPad) Games Cuts Price to $0.99: Holiday Sales

EA iOS Games Holiday Sale Deals

EA Mobile has cut nearly every game in its iOS catalog to just 99 cents. And that includes a couple noteworthy new titles that just launched today. Electronic Arts is lowering the prices of most of their iPhone/iPad games in the Apple App store to only $.99. Here’s a list: iPhone/iPod touch Games: * Battlefield: [...]

Sony PlayStation App for iOS and Android Coming Soon

Sony PlayStation App Image

Sony officially announced that the official PlayStation App would be released for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms based App Stores soon. Good thing Sony has cleared the air, explaining that this will not be the mobile gaming platform that Sony is rumored to be conjuring, but rather, it allows you to view your collection [...]

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Now Available on the iOS App Store

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Now Available on the iOS App Store

EA Mobile have revealed they have brought Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 over to the App Store. Available on the App Store now for $6.99, the game’s listing mentions that it will feature “13 klassic warriors including Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Sonya Blade.” If that’s to be believed (and why not?), it means this isn’t quite as [...]

SEGA Dreamcast Compilation Coming on PS3 and Xbox 360

Dreamcast Compilation Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360

Sega is new with the old and we redid the shot of the Ultimate Collection Dreamcast side this time. Through an interview with Game Informer, Alan Pritchard confirmed that his company was preparing to release a compilation of some major hits on the Dreamcast console PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The Vice-President of Marketing at [...]

Samsung Integrating Mobage Social Gaming with Android Smartphone

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Shortly after the Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA acquired Ngmoco for $403 million, CEO Tomoko Namba told Inside Social Games that she hoped to quickly quadruple the revenue of her company in about four years, which already tops $1 billion yearly. As unlikely as that ambition sounds, the details of the plan are now emerging. [...]

Call of Duty Online DDoS Cyber Attack in Multiplayer: Teen Arrested in UK

Black Ops Patch 1.04 Coming Today on Xbox 360 and PS3

Gaining an advantage in online multiplayer games using in-game exploits is one thing (cheating, but technically legal), but going so far as to develop malicious software to attack a game’s servers is something else entirely. A teenager in Manchester has been arrested for allegedly interfering with Call of Duty: Black Ops servers, and is currently [...]

Spike Video Game Awards 2010 Review

The Spike Video Game Awards have come once again, and this year’s show blurred the line even more between awards show, a showcase of trailers, and variety act. Neil Patrick Harris riffed at his singing and dancing persona, made a running gag of perverted video game titles, and showed off some “augmented reality” a few [...]

“Mass Effect 3″ Accidently Appeared on Online EA Store

Mass Effect 3 Accidently Appeared on Online EA Store; and Then Gone

The online EA Store accidentally posted the store listing for Mass Effect 3 early. The game is believed to be announced tomorrow at the Spike VGA Awards, and it looks like somebody on the web staff wanted to get their work done early on a Friday night. Though the company confirmed an official release date [...]

Top Zombie Games for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch – Review

Top Zombie Games for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

Zombies are the best antagonists since Nazis went out of fashion. They’re the kind of bullet fodder that even the most just and noble hero doesn’t mind slaying indiscriminately. Whether the walking dead are stumbling around in books, movies, or video games, people just can’t get enough of them. Even on your iPhone, iPad or [...]

Spike TV “Video Game Awards 2010″ Hosting Today

Video Game Awards 2010 by Spike TV Schedule

The 8th edition of the Spike TV Video Game Awards follows, scheduled to air live on Spike TV on Saturday evening, December 11, 2010, from the Los Angeles Convention Center featuring a bevy of stars from the world of video games, Hollywood and pop music. Beginning in 2003, the Spike TV Video Game Awards garnered [...]