Heartbeat sensors took center stage in Electronic Arts’ preview of its sports game line-up this evening at the Game Developers Conference .
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EA Sports Active 2.0 to get heartbeat sensors and online sharing (video)
Re-entering the highly competitive “sandbox” crime genre made famous by Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, Activision today showed live gameplay footage of its reboot entrée, True Crime, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Many thought the series dead after a disappointing critical and fiscal second effort in 2006 with the second in the series, True Crime: New York
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Activision shows off footage from True Crime reboot
In a coup for a German online game company, Bigpoint is announcing today that it will make a Battlestar Galactica online game for the SyFy Channel . The deal is part of an ambitious expansion by Bigpoint into the U.S. market.
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Germany’s Bigpoint lines up Battlestar Galactica online game
Consumers redeemed nearly 3.3 billion coupons in 2009, according to a recent report from research group Inmar, up from 2.6 billion in 2008. Looking to take advantage of the growing market, and to help struggling news publishers do the same, Analog Analytics today launched its digital coupon platform. Though the company is claiming today as its official launch, the digital coupon platform has been up and running since mid-2009
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Analog Analytics brings digital coupons to your local newspaper
Square Enix knows how to do epic video games and big parties. Tonight, the Japanese company threw its launch party for Final Fantasy XIII, a huge release for the U.S. console game market that goes on sale Tuesday
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Square Enix launches its epic Final Fantasy XIII with an epic party
Filed under: Apple App Store clutter remains an ongoing issue. In addition to “business card” applications that offer little or no functionality beyond a simple web page [1] , there are lite editions, demo editions, full editions, and even in the case of Tweetie 2, completely new applications providing upgraded functionality . Each of those applications must be registered with a unique app identifier, each one takes up a separate slot when installed on your iPhone’s home screen, each application occupies a separate App Store listing, complete with its own screen shots, marketing material, reviews, and so forth
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iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery
Intel’s current generation of Xeon processors already represents some of the fastest silicon you can buy, and yet the company’s forthcoming Nehalem-Ex -based Xeons are being touted as the single greatest generational jump in its history. To achieve that, Intel has strapped eight cores into each CPU, with a pair of threads per core and 24MB of shared cache, along with integrated quad-channel memory controllers, Turbo Boost , and the pretty awesome ability to scale up to eight sockets — meaning you could have 64 processing cores in the same rig. Don’t even ask whether these chips can run Crysis 2 , they’ll probably be showing up in the machines that are making the game..
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Intel readies 8-core Nehalem-Ex processors for a March launch
Filed under: Gaming , Software Valve announced on Monday that several of its popular titles and Steam will be coming to the Mac in April . We anticipated this, based on the upcoming Gameinformer issue report , but now it’s official! Game titles we can expect to see include Left 4 Dead 2 , Team Fortress 2 , Counter-Strike , Portal , and the Half Life series
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Valve: Steam, games coming to Mac in April
