EA Acquires Chillingo For $20mm; Angry Birds Now Angrier Than Ever
Electronic Arts confirmed today that it will acquire Angry Birds publisher Chillingo in a deal rumored to be worth just under $20 million. Unfortunately the…
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Microsoft Shows Off First Wave Of Windows Phone 7 Games
Late yesterday, Microsoft decided to shed a little light on exactly what the Windows Phone 7 gaming scene would look like at launch time. And…
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Electronic Arts Announces The Sims Medieval
The Sims are about to get all medieval on you, literally. Today, EA announced that it would be releasing The Sims Medieval for Mac and PC in…
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Valve Apologizes For Accidentally Dropping Ban Hammer On 12,000 Modern Warfare 2 Users
Oh DRM, how we love thee. Valve, the company responsible for the lifestyle game Modern Warfare 2, recently issued an apology to over 12,000 legitimate MW2 users who were accidentally banned…
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Microsoft Kinect $150, Xbox 360 4GB $199
A Microsoft press release has just made official what many of us already knew: the Kinect sensor will retail for $149.99. However, our friends in…
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Throwback Thursday: Sega Game Gear
In the previous installment of Throwback Thursday, we flipped the calendar all the way back to 1977 and took a look at the Atari 2600.…
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Xbox Live Gold Family Pack: $100 A Year For 4 People
At $49.99 per year, a subscription to Xbox Live Gold isn't all that bad of a deal -- unless you compare it to the newly…
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Throwback Thursday: Atari 2600
In honor of E3 week, we thought we would dedicate this week's Throwback Thursday to a gaming device from the past: the Atari 2600. The…
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OnLive Gaming Service Launches With A Free One Year Subscription
OnLive, the much ballyhooed online gaming service, has finally made its official debut. Having been in beta and available for select users since September 2009,…
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Rumors Heat Up That Sony Will Introduce Paid PSN+ Service
According to Joystiq's sources, this year's E3 will see Sony introduce a premium subscription service to the PlayStation Network. Dubbed PSN+, the service is said…
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Video Game Sales Plummet In April
April saw the video game industry suffer through its worst month in nearly 10 years, as both hardware and software sales tumbled for a combined…
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Nintendo CEO Says 3DS Will Have New Anti-Piracy Measures, 2D Switch
Speaking to the Associated Press on Friday, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed that his company's upcoming Nintendo 3DS will in fact gamers the choice of…
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Google Jumps Into The Casual Gaming Market By Acquiring Labpixies
Google went shopping recently and added Labpixies to its repertoire of acquired properties. For those unfamiliar with the small start-up out of Israel, Labpixies is…
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Apple Planning To Shake-Up Textbooks, Newspapers, TV And Gaming With Its Rumored Tablet?
The Wall Street Journal has chimed in with its assessment of the Apple tablet and has described the many ways Steve Jobs is supposedly aiming…
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WebOS To Get 3D Gaming And Native Application Support In 2010?
WebOS 1.3.5 was released to the masses last week and its inner workings were promptly picked apart by eager webOS hackers. One of the most…
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Microsoft's Project Natal Gets Detailed And Tests Our Patience With Launch Date
When we first heard of Microsoft's Project Natal, our immediate thoughts were about public availability. Sadly, it looks like this hot new hardware is going…
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RIM's New Loves: OpenGL ES, Java GUI Builder, Advertising And Push Services
We've already talked about some of the news from the first day of the 2009 BlackBerry Developers Conference, but another blast of PR from RIM…
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Samsung Unveils New And Lustworthy Mobile Technology
Everyone here at BGR HQ is pretty grumpy this morning as a string of late night press releases issued by Samsung got us too worked…
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Sony Ericsson Announces Three New Phones - Yari, Aino And Satio (Idou)
At a London press conference yesterday, Sony Ericsson announced three new entertainment-oriented phones slated for release in Q4 2009. First up, the Yari -- a…
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Gameloft Releases Terminator Salvation For iPhone Trailer
Screenshots of Gameloft's upcoming Terminator Salvation title for the iPhone first slipped out about a month ago and since then, some early coverage from testers…
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Wii Sales Continue To Defy Gravity As Gaming Industry Grows 10 Percent In February
We suppose the continuing upward trend in the video game industry shouldn't be a surprise to us anymore but we can't help it... Will someone…
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EA Sports Active: EA's Competitor To Wii Fit Due On May 19th
Electronic Arts made it known earlier this month that it would be looking to the Nintendo Wii to help propel its lackluster performance of late,…
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EA Looks To Wii For Salvation
Electronic Arts reported its earnings yesterday and while things are hardly as catastrophic as, say, a company like Sony, EA did manage to fall short…
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Street Fighter IV Gameplay Vid Reminds Us: SFIV Almost Here
Every time new images or video comes along featuring highlights from the upcoming and long overdue Street Fighter IV franchise-reviver, our mouth starts watering incessantly.…
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Metal Gear Solid Coming To The Xbox 360 Soon?
Konami sure knows how to cause a stir. An update to the official Konami's Kojima Productions website seems to suggest that Metal Gear Solid may…
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IcePhone: An Upcoming Triple-Flip With Windows Mobile
The concept is interesting to say the least; a triple-flip 3G smartphone with a touchscreen, full QWERTY keypad and third function panel that can flip…
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Videogame Sales Soar In October, Wii Still Dominating
Maybe it's an escape from the reality of these tumultuous times, maybe it's a result of the higher unemployment rate freeing up schedules or perhaps…
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