February 5th, 2011

3DS for under £200

One of the UK’s Supermarket leaders Sainsbury’s has just posted that they will be offering the Nintendo 3DS on pre-order for £199.99 (With 1000 free Nectar Points).

The Nintendo 3DS is launching in the UK on the 25th of March, bringing the highly anticipated ??autostereoscopic glasses-less 3D screen to the palm of our hands.

Despite the high price tag of £199.99, which is more or less equal to the current price of the PlayStation 3 and latest Xbox 360 250GB model, the 3DS is expected to be a huge success.

Expect more information and pictures of the 3DS in action tommorow, as Joe and Chris are live at the Nintendo 3DS Pre-Launch Event in Manchester, keep tuned!

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February 4th, 2011

Motorola Xoom Superbowl Ad!

1 day closer to the Superbowl, and yet another advert has been released. This time it’s for the Motorola Xoom, Motorola’s attempt at competing against the Apple iPad. Unlike the Volkswagen advert however, Motorola have only decided to let us see just 15 seconds of their advert!

Despite being short, it still manages to show off some features of the Xoom such as 3D maps with Google Maps.

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February 4th, 2011

Google Chrome 9 Released!

Google announced earlier that they have just released the latest version to their popular Internet browser, Google Chrome! They say that they have added 3 key new features to the browser; WebGL, Chrome Instant and updates to the Chrome Web Store.

WebGL is a new technology which brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser. With WebGL in Chrome, you can experience rich 3D experiences right inside the browser with no need for additional software.

Those of you who have used Google Instant before, shall be familiar with Chrome Instant straight away. As you begin typing addresses into the URL bar, the pages load instantly. AS you continue typing, it’s supposed to make it quicker for you to get to your most used websites. Chrome Instant will need to be enabled in the settings however, once you’ve upgraded to version 9!

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February 3rd, 2011

British Hacker hustles online poker chips

A British hacker named Ashley Mitchell has pleaded guilty to stealing over 400 billion virtual poker chips from hacking a Facebook application.

The 400 billion chips he managed to steal before being caught equal to approximately £7.4 million. So how did he do it?

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February 3rd, 2011

Volkswagen’s Superbowl Ad!

With the 2011 Superbowl just around the corner, seeing the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Green Bay Packers, many big companies are preparing their adverts for perhaps the most anticipated advert break of the year!

A few days before the Superbowl, and a few previews to adverts have been leaked already! One in particular that has become somewhat viral on Youtube, is the Volkswagen Passat advert. I’m sure after watching it, you’ll agree with when I say it’s a rather interesting commercial. I’d never have pictured Volkswagen teaming up with Star Wars to create an advert, it sure makes us wonder about what else we’ll be seeing in other adverts! Enjoy.

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February 3rd, 2011

News Corp wave the white flag and put MySpace up for sale.

Some interesting and long-awaited/already-expected news this morning. According to COO Chase Carey,

The new MySpace has been very well received by the market and we have some very encouraging metrics. But the plan to allow MySpace to reach it’s full potential may be best achieved under a new owner.

Yes, it’s a shame about that errant apostrophe before “full potential” (sorry, but good grammar isn’t much to ask for) and also his misrepresentation of the facts as, according to comScore, Myspace visits and pageviews are down 50% in 3 months since the redesign, but  this statement couldn’t make the facts anymore clearer: they’re wanting to get rid of MySpace.

It’s been well-documented that MySpace has been trying to revamp its image for some time to no avail. After changing its design and then laying off 50% of its staff, Murdoch’s News Corp still isn’t satisfied with the financial picture at MySpace. They are looking at other possible options too, however, including bringing new investors on board, but there’s no doubt that they’ll just want to wash their hands of this as soon as possible.

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February 3rd, 2011

Jawbone Era Bluetooth Headset Preview…

Jawbone has always been on the bleeding edge of bluetooth headset technology, this Era is no exception. The Era has a built in accelerometer which is a first for any bluetooth headset. You can shake it or tap it to make it do a number of tasks.

I will be using this headset for the next week and will post a review mid next week.

You can buy this headset off of Jawbones website. Click Read More for the Unboxing Gallery.

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February 3rd, 2011

Site Update 03/02/11

Just thought i’d write a short post about the current situation regarding the sites improvements.

Thankfully, we’ve finally managed to sort a few issues regarding the database which has resulted in the site running faster and more efficient than ever which should give you a much more pleasurable viewing experience of the site. Read more »

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February 2nd, 2011

Latest PS3 FW contains rootkit?

Recent reports fr0m the PS3 hacking community are suggesting that the latest PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.56 contains a rootkit.

For those of you unaware of the term rootkit, it is basically a means of Sony controlling your PS3 console remotely when connected to the PlayStation Network allowing them to shutdown your PS3 making it useless if they wish. Read more »

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January 30th, 2011

Gaming services

There may be an update soon for the Playstation plus paid service so i thought it would be a good time to compare both services
First of all the price of both of these services, Playstation+ are currently offering 15months for the price of 12, with the 12months costing about £40 whereas Xbox Gold membership Costs £35 (on amazon.co.uk).
Both xbox and playstation paid services offer demo earlier then the free service and discounts on selected games, an addition to this the playstation+ offers a time limit of up to 1hour on selected games without restrictions before given the option to buy or not.
From my experiance Ive found the xbox live gold membership to have faster downloading speeds and more stable connections over the playstations free service, not having used the playstation plus I can not say wether or not it is any better or can match the live membership, However the playstation free membership does offer free mulitplayer which the free xbox membership does not. Furthermore the playstation plus offers a free game every month and it automatically updates the system software as well as games updates without having to launch the game first which was a frequent annoyance I experianced with the free membership, or having to wait on the updating screen before doing anything else.

The update for playstation plus may include a ‘save game cloud’ which is a server which saves your games progress, Currently saved games are stored as small files usually no bigger than 500kb on the hard drive in playstation and the trophies use a cloud server. I think the gaves saved on a server would be a great addition to the service and something I could of benefited from, as I sold my broken ps3 and backed up my saved games on my PC hard drive, Unfortunatly the hard drive failed and I have now lost the back up.
Both of these services are ok, but the best service would have to be steam for PC, they offer a large range of downloadable games and demos, A very stable and easy to use chat system, there offers can not be mathed as they sometimes have discounts up to 90% on a collection of games, in addition to this they already use a game save cloud sync.

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