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Netflix cans Qwikster, service staying whole
Talk about your qwik turnaround. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced this morning that Netflix won't split into two separate services as planned. The news comes less than a month after the company's stock went into freefall following its announced split into disc-based and streaming entities named Qwikster and Netflix, respectively. "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would ...read more
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Gaze ye upon the map of Skyrim and tremble
We know how you roll. November 11 and, thus, Skyrim, is coming up fast. You've been planning for weeks with Griswoldian fervor, deciding exactly how you will tour the vast countryside offered up by the latest Elder Scrolls. Something, however, was missing ... ... until now, that is! Bethesda has revealed the game's expansive map by way of the Igromir expo in Russia. Lucky attendees walked away ...read more
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MW3 World Exclusive Gameplay Trailer
A world exclusive gameplay trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has debuted at half-time during England's European Championship qualifier against Montenegro tonight, and we have it right here to view at your leisure at TheTechGame. The trailer, focussing on the single-player campaign, was aired at 21:00 (GMT) on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 1 HD - the rest of the world can now take a look ...read more
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Battlefield 3 PC open beta to add 64 player map this weekend
PC gamers who are currently enjoying the open beta test for the upcoming first person shooter Battlefield 3 will soon see that open beta conclude on October 10. But before the beta test ends, the game's developer Digital Illusions has announced that starting today, those players will also be able to check out a second map; the massive 64-player level titled Caspian Border. Eurogamer reports that ...read more
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Team Bondi owed $1 million to staff
Documents show LA Noire developer owed individuals as much as $100,000, including those who had publicly defended it and studio head Brendan McNamara. Team Bondi owed over a million Australian dollars to its own staff, we can reveal, with unpaid wages or bonuses accounting for over 75 per cent of the debt that ultimately brought the LA Noire developer to its knees. According to documents filed ...read more
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Sony to buy Ericsson out of joint venture for over $1 billion - report
Sony is close to buying Ericsson's half of the pair's mobile phone business, Sony Ericsson. That's according to the Wall Street Journal (via Gamasutra), which was told by sources supposedly familiar with matter that Sony plans to integrate its smartphone business with its gaming, tablet and PC units to cut costs and better synchronise its product development strategy. Analysts told the site ...read more
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Flying Monster Coming to Minecraft
Dragons are coming to Minecraft. On his Twitter feed, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson revealed a mysterious set of images that show a dragon flying high above a Minecraft world. "Texturing this dragon is going to be interesting," Notch wrote. "I'll keep working on this way into this weekend, probably." Later, he added that "it's animated and flies around now" and called it "very ...read more
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French Press Kit Outs Halo Movie for 2012 – Spielberg Involved
Sure you’ve heard it before, but this time it’s no rumor. According to a French press release kit for Halo: Cryptum, a Halo movie is planned for 2012 with Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks attached. As clearly stated in the press release: “A film adaptation is set in 2012. It will be conducted jointly by two heavyweights of American cinema: Steven Spielberg and ...read more
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Electronic Arts sues EA (a fitness company) in logo dispute
The logo pictured, for Energy Armor, probably reminds you of the Electronic Arts logo. And according to Electronic Arts, it's a logo "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive consumers as to an affiliation, connection, or association between Energy Armor and Electronic Arts." Because of this, Electronic Arts has filed a complaint with the court of California, Gamasutra ...read more
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Ex-Apple CEO Steve Jobs Has Died
Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died in California. Jobs was 56. The homepage of Apple's website contained a full-page image of Jobs with the text, "Steve Jobs 1955-2011." Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple ...read more
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