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While the United States sees dozens of new cities getting upgraded to 4G networks each month, on the other side of the Atlantic, things are proceeding at a more glacial pace. In the United Kingdom, for example, the auction of 4G licences on the 800MHz and 2600MHz bands to network operators still hasn’t taken place, and has been pushed back until next year. While UK operators have been ...read more
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Another shift has come to the world of Command & Conquer: Generals 2, with BioWare Victory General Manager John Van Caneghem announcing the free-to-play game will not include a single-player campaign. Speaking with PC Gamer, Van Caneghem said the focus for BioWare Victory was to develop "co-operative and competitive" skirmishes as the core of the latest game to carry the C&C insignia. More ...read more
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PopCap Games announced a sequel to Plants vs. Zombies this morning, with the casually epic battle of flora vs undead returning next year. The game is expected to see the sun in the "first half of 2013," with a narrower window of "late spring" also mentioned. As one would expect from a sequel, it will include new "features, settings, and situations," but there are no specific details at this ...read more
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OnLive let go "at least 50 percent" of its staff today, Engadget learned, and the company was purchased by an unknown third-party. A former employee confirmed layoff reports that popped up earlier this afternoon and recounted the events that led to today's firings. A meeting held this morning by CEO Steve Perlman informed employees that "at least 50 percent of the staff" were to be cut, ...read more
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Thieves have made off with two PCs belonging to developer Larian, which contained early versions of two upcoming games. The developer says the machines stored early builds of Divinity: Dragon Commander and Divinity: Original Sin, and is offering a $5000 reward to anyone who helps lead them to the culprits and the recovery of the PCs. "If you have any information about the culprits, head to ...read more
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Minecraft sales continue unabated. Daniel Kaplan, business developer at Mojang, revealed today that the PC version of Minecraft has exceeded sales of seven million units; comparatively, the Xbox Live Arcade version has sold three million. The seven millionth sale comes a week after Minecraft's 1.31 patch, which adds trading functionality and combines both single-player and multiplayer into one ...read more
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When an attempt to buy 4.7 billion RuneScape coins with counterfeit money didn't work, 19 year old Humza Bajwa pulled a fake gun on the seller and demanded he transfer the coins. David Emani and Jonathan Dokler of Fordham University agreed to sell their RuneScape coins for $3,300 to fellow student Humza Bajwa. Bajwa thought he'd fool Emani with counterfeit money, but when Emani didn't fall for ...read more
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"We've been blown away the whole time," Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said this afternoon, just 10 hours ahead of her company's Kickstarter project reaching its end. It's an understandable reaction considering the Android-based open-source console aimed to gather just $950K in total – the project lept over $1 million in its first eight hours, and crested over $8 million this afternoon. The final number ...read more
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In a statement posted on the Blizzard website, Mike Morhaime said: "This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard". Email addresses for global Battle.net users outside of China have been illegally acquired, the CEO revealed. Answers to users' personal security questions, as well as information relating to mobile and dial-in ...read more
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A couple of months ago, Apple announced it would have its own mobile map app for iOS 6, dumping its previous support for Google Maps. Now yet another well known Google made app won't be available out of the box for iOS 6-based devices when Apple launches the next update for its OS later this year. Bloomberg reports that, according to a spokesperson from Apple, the iOS YouTube app won't be ...read more
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