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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
These are the remains of a giant land turtle on a Pacific Island. The turtle was thought to have gone extinct 50000 years ago but recent remains were found on a 3000 year old site, and it seems that humans hunted them to extinction. This particular one is around 5 ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
For those of you that haven't been paying much attention to gaming news lately, the next big thing from Nintendo is going to be the 3DS, and it is going to be pretty big. Featuring a display capable of showing 3D, it is going to be the first console built ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
There was recently released information regarding a patent for Microsoft's motion-sensing camera Kinect which suggested that the device could understand American Sign Language. Unfortunately, as many speculated, the version of Kinect we will be seeing can't.
Responding to the claims made in the patent, Microsoft has now told Kotaku ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Capcom and Namco have teamed up for a surprising announcement. The two developers are collaborating to produce "Street Fighter X Tekken" and "Tekken X Street Fighter". It is exactly what it sounds like: a fighting game that pits the characters from Street Fighter against those of Tekken. The fighters will ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
SEGA has announced the release date for its upcoming action-shooter Vanquish for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Apparently running on a modified version of the engine used earlier this year in Bayonetta, Vanquish handles its busy battlefield smoothly with impressive visuals. Russian robots skitter across the field while giant combat ...
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Sony has now announced the arrival of a new model - a sleek "Classic White" Playstation 3 with a larger hard drive. It will be arriving in Japan on July 29th and will come in a 160GB version to replace the old 120GB units. Retailing at 29980 yen (Around £225), ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
The Electronic Sports World Cup will be held in Disneyland Paris this July. The Finals will be from the 1st to the 4th of July, with their usual selection of games:
Counter Strike
Counter Strike Women
Warcraft 3: Frozen throne
Trackmania ESWC
Need for speed Shift
Street Fighter 4
Fifa 2010
Quake Live
Guitar Hero
DotA
Fighting for a prize fund ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Any Xbox 360 fan will know about the red ring that plagues the console. Dubbed the "Red Ring of Death" or RROD, the general cause of this is the Xbox 360 overheating and causing one of the components inside it to fail. With the release of the newer redesigned Xbox ...
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