Killzone 3 to be released in 2010?

Has The Official PlayStation Magazine revealed something they did not intend to? A recent article in December 2009′s edition of the popular magazine has seemed to of caught many people’s eyes!

The article, titled “The Secret Games of 2010?, mentions many big games but one in particular has grabbed the most attention. Killzone 3! The article in question says:

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Upcoming Xbox Live Marketplace release dates!

Thanks to Major Nelson from Xbox Live for releasing the latest dates for content on the Xbox Live Marketplace!

The current schedule is as follows:

Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:

March 1: Gears of War Avatar COG Armor (male) (female) 240 points & Helmet (male) (female) 80 points

March 8: Call of Duty: WaW: Map Pack Bundle, 1600 Points

Xbox LIVE Games on Demand:

March 2: Fallout 3, North America and Asia (except Japan, Korea and India)
March 2: Street Fighter IV, Europe, Australia and New Zealand

Xbox LIVE Arcade:

As part of the Block Party promotion, here is the Arcade schedule for March.

March 3: Toy Soldiers -1200 points
March 10: Scrap Metal – 1200 points

March 17: Perfect Dark – 800 points

March 24: Game Room – Free to download. Individual games will cost 240 to 400 points

Xbox Avatar Marketplace:

These are just a few of the collections scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace.

March 2: Street Fighter IV
March 4: Major League Baseball 2K10

Also, the following Xbox 360 Game Add-Ons are scheduled to be available:

Feb 23: Star Wars The Force Unleashed,  Hoth Bonus Level – 800 Microsoft Points
Feb 25: FIFA 10, Ultimate Team Game Add-on  – 400 Microsoft Points
March 2: Resident Evil 5, Desperate Escape Episode – 400 Microsoft Points

Anything there you’ll be downloading, or perhaps something you wish was coming to the Marketplace but isn’t in the list above. Leave your comments below!

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Series’ 7 Marketplace, Microsoft’s answer to the Appstore

You will have more than likely read our article earlier this week about our first impressions of Windows Series’ 7 however we didn’t really go into much details about Microsoft’s answer to the Apple AppStore.. the “Marketplace“.

Well, as you can see from the image above, the first screen you will see when you enter the Marketplace Hub is a page containing categories for various applications on the marketplace and a selection of featured applications, which at a guess will be used as an advertising space for applications. This may function in a number of ways; for example like the music hub showing your most recent accessed content or perhaps applications similar to that you’ve already downloaded? Read more »

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Download new plugin for IE…

I strongly suspect that the majority of Digilounge users and visitors who are currently interested in sites with HTML5-powered stuff run browsers like Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. Still, if you happen to be saddled with Internet Explorer like me and want to experiment with HTML5 sites, you’re in luck because Christian Adams has created a new plugin that brings this video tag to IE.

Of course, it’s still a preview release at this point (there are no playback controls and you need to specify an attribute within the <video> tag to enable IE playback), but who knows, maybe Microsoft will bolt on support with an IE update at some point in the future. Internet Explorer 9 is a possibility.

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Halo Reach Preview

After a somewhat disappointing Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach is to be Bungie’s last attempt at a game set in the Halo universe. Described as a “darker story of honour and sacrifice on a scale greater than anything we’ve created before.” It’s clear that this Halo title will be one of the most ambitious to date, especially with community leader Brian Jarrard boasting that it will be “Bungie’s greatest game ever” and “the defining Halo title from Bungie.” It will be sad to see Bungie leave Halo behind, but at least they are planning to go out with a bang. Read more »

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Xbox Live Block Party Details

Microsoft recently announced at their X10 event earlier this month that Game Room, Toy Soldiers, Scrap Metal, and Perfect Dark would all be rolled out to the arcade during a promotional event in March they’re calling “Xbox Live Block Party”


Xbox Live’s Director of Programming, Larry Hryb (Known to most as Major Nelson) has updated his blog with the pricing and release schedule of the upcoming event:

March 3rd: Toy Soldiers -1200 points
March 10: Scrap Metal – 1200 points
March 17: Perfect Dark – 800 points
March 24: Game Room – Free to download. Individual games will cost 240 to 400 points.

However, if you decide to purchase all three titles, your account will be credited with a 400 Microsoft Point refund, also if you are an Xbox LIVE Gold Member you will in addition receive a free month of XBL Gold membership.

* Silver Members don’t feel left out, as you will be able to access all of the multiplayer components of all the Block Party titles for free during the “Xbox Live Block Party” weekend.

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Is Apple bringing the iPhone OS to other gadgets?

Recently on Apple’s jobs section of the website, there was a listing which says Apple are looking to recruit:

“a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms.”

Here’s the full listing:

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Apple gets rid of 5,000 apps from the App Store!

Many app developers might be receiving an email from Apple as the company are taking down over 5,000 different applications from the app store!

Quite a few developers may of already had an email from Apple claiming that their App wasn’t following guidelines that the App store and is no longer suitable to be download by iPhone and iPod Touch users!

The creator of the app Wobble iBoobs, Jonathon Atherton, claimed to of recieved the following email from Apple:
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Chinese schools linked to Google attacks?

You may have read recently about the large hack attack that was detected a few days back which internet giant Google we’re a victim of. Well according to the New York times, Security experts have traced the attacks to computers located at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School. Shanghai Jiaotong University is well known for its computer science program and the Lanxiang Vocational School was established with military support to train computer scientists for the military, which leads claims to that both their students could be capable of such hacking attacks.

In response to these accusations, China’s official Xinhua News Agency questioned a representative of the university who stated that the accusations are “baseless” and an official from the vocational school has said that an investigation has been carried out, and as a result no evidence was turned up linking the intrusions with school machines.

Google believe that the attacks were carefully planned as the e-mail accounts belonging to various human rights activists in China were compromised in “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack” probably originating in China. Google also stated that it discovered knowledge of the attacks in mid-December, which now leads to why Google announced around that time that they would be stopping the censoring of search results in China and may possibly be backing out of the Chinese market altogether.

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Microsoft rolling out EU Windows 7 Ballot Screen next week..

Microsoft has revealed the European Web browser choice screen that the European Commission forced it to include as part of its antitrust investigation settlement will start rolling out sometime next week via posting on it’s blog.

Dave Heiner stated that the design and operation of the screen “was worked out in the course of extensive discussions with the Commission and is reflected in the commitment that Microsoft made.”

The UK, Belgium and France will be getting the first tryout of the ballot screen, which will be rolled out sometime next week via Windows update. The rest of Europe will receive the new ballot screen in a phase beginning from the 1st of March. As well as the ballot screen popping up, Internet Explorer will be automatically “unpinned” from the task bar as part of the process.

The web browsers are listed accordingly in random order to comply with the EU agreement, so that favouritism is not shown towards Internet Explorer or other browsers.

If your a Windows 7 user, be sure to see the screen above sometime next week!

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