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Company of Heroes Online gets new trailer, open beta starts next week

Posted by admin at 29 August 2010

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If you didn’t get in on the first wave of closed beta invites for THQ and Relic’s Company of Heroes Online, you’re guaranteed to get your chance in the coming days. A new trailer for the online strategy title sent to us by THQ included the announcement that the game’s open beta testing will kick off some time this week. An exact time and date for the relaunch wasn’t announced, but an update on the title’s official site promises more details are coming soon.

In the mean time, check out the new trailer after the jump, and think about which of the three Doctrines your strategy will be built around. Wait, you’re adopting a policy of pacifism? Yeah, that’s going to work out really well for you, we think.

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JoystiqCompany of Heroes Online gets new trailer, open beta starts next week originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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UK gets first all-gaming television channel, Ginx TV

Posted by admin at 27 August 2010

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Ginx TV, a media company responsible for the production of the casual-oriented Gameface program, announced earlier today that it would soon have its own video game-centric television station in the UK. Ginx CEO Michiel Bakker explained during the Edinburgh Interactive conference, “video gaming is the only massively mainstream entertainment genre without a dedicated channel. My ambition here, is to do for gaming what MTV did for music.”

If we understand Bakker’s sentiment correctly, then that means we can look forward to a few good years of video game coverage, and then an endless parade of terrible reality shows starring terrible people doing terrible things. Wonderful!

JoystiqUK gets first all-gaming television channel, Ginx TV originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kinect beta Dashboard update gets leaked as soon as it arrives, hardware kits are ‘being packed’

Posted by admin at 27 August 2010

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Man, leakers don’t sleep! That hush-hush Kinect beta program is indeed in full effect, and while hardware is en route to giddy testers, the accompanying Xbox 360 Dashboard update has already been distributed — and promptly leaked. Joystiq has a gallery of screenshots from the new interface, including a revamped Avatar editor and some navigational alterations to account for using your body as the controller. We like this just for the humor value, including the note above instructing you to take a break if you get “sore” and the full-page list of prohibitions against talking about or showing the beta program’s interface. Ah well.

Kinect beta Dashboard update gets leaked as soon as it arrives, hardware kits are ‘being packed’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Planet Minigolf gets patched for PlayStation Move on Sept. 19

Posted by admin at 26 August 2010

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The fact that PS3’s Planet Minigolf is getting PlayStation Move support has been known for a while — now we know the game will be patched for precision putting on September 19, just after Sony’s newest peripheral launches. Keep reading for a video of the Move-enabled game in motion.

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JoystiqPlanet Minigolf gets patched for PlayStation Move on Sept. 19 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’

Posted by admin at 25 August 2010

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The upcoming C7’s been well-leaked at this point, but one thing it hasn’t undergone is the famously exhaustive Mobile-review once-over that takes weeks to read and even longer to digest. Actually, this isn’t so much a review as a “first look” based on prototype hardware — and as such, it’s quite a bit shorter — but it still gives by far the best, clearest, and most in-depth glance at Nokia’s second Symbiam^3 device to date. Unlike the over-the-top N8, Mobile-review comes away concluding that the C7 is an exceptionally well-balanced device for a Nokia — solid specs at a more aggressive price than its Nseries cousin — but acknowledges that it’s still outclassed by the competition and isn’t likely to draw any non-Nokia loyalists into the fold. MeeGo, where art thou?

Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’

Posted by admin at 25 August 2010

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The upcoming C7’s been well-leaked at this point, but one thing it hasn’t undergone is the famously exhaustive Mobile-review once-over that takes weeks to read and even longer to digest. Actually, this isn’t so much a review as a “first look” based on prototype hardware — and as such, it’s quite a bit shorter — but it still gives by far the best, clearest, and most in-depth glance at Nokia’s second Symbiam^3 device to date. Unlike the over-the-top N8, Mobile-review comes away concluding that the C7 is an exceptionally well-balanced device for a Nokia — solid specs at a more aggressive price than its Nseries cousin — but acknowledges that it’s still outclassed by the competition and isn’t likely to draw any non-Nokia loyalists into the fold. MeeGo, where art thou?

Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset for AT&T gets FCC approval

Posted by admin at 24 August 2010

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If you wade through LG’s alphabet soup of upcoming WinPho 7 goodies, you might recall that several of them seem to be headed directly for AT&T later this year. Evidence for one of them in particular — the C900 landscape slider — just got a little stronger this evening on news that a phone by the very same model code has just been hooked up with FCC approval in the past few hours. Indeed, a quick look at the SAR report shows that we’ve got WCDMA bands II and V here, which means it’ll work like a champ on AT&T; unfortunately LG is (and always has been) particularly awesome at making its ID label documents useless for identifying phones, so there isn’t much other evidence to go on from this. Needless to say, though, we’re convinced it’s going to be a very interesting fourth quarter of the year for the Microsoft camp.

LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset for AT&T gets FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Naturespace gets a welcome update for iOS 4

Posted by admin at 23 August 2010

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We looked at Naturespace Holographic Audio back in May of 2009. I liked it then, and I like it more now. Naturespace is a free iPhone app that plays back carefully recorded natural environments designed for listening on headphones.

The recordings are created using the binaural technique, where two closely spaced microphones approximate the distance between your ears. When you put headphones on, the results can be dramatic and hyper-realistic.

The free app has no ads, and comes with six audio environments which are very relaxing and can simply transport you to another place. With good headphones (I use the B&W P5) you get a 3D illusion, at times even hearing things that appear to be above or behind you.

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TUAWNaturespace gets a welcome update for iOS 4 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gmail’s undo send feature finally gets multiple delay options

Posted by admin at 22 August 2010

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Undo send is one Gmail Labs feature I don’t think I’d ever disable. The brief delay has never caused me any grief, and I can’t recall how many times I’ve noticed something that really needed changing after I’d already clicked the send button. The only downside: you’re locked into Google’s time delay.

At least, you were. Head to your Gmail settings tab and you can now choose 5,10, 20, or 30 seconds as your undo window. 30 seconds should be more than enough time for even the most gut-wrenching email trigger pulls — like telling your boss off or breaking up with a significant other.

If 30 seconds doesn’t seem long enough, you’ll probably best off leaving messages to ferment in the drafts folder anyway. Dang, I’ve got some in there from three years ago… I wonder why I started writing them…

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Gmail’s undo send feature finally gets multiple delay options originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No fair: Gizmodo editor leaves his phone in a restaurant, gets it back right away

Posted by admin at 22 August 2010

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a geek leaves his phone in a bar, and… oh, you have heard that one? It turns out that Brian Lam, the Gizmodo editor involved in the iPhone 4 “bar heist” saga and one of the biggest tech scandals of 2010, left his cell phone in a restaurant the other day. How did the aftermath play out? Lam, apparently blind to the irony, posted about it on Twitter: “left my phone at lunch, lady turned it in. good thing we were nice, earlier, and gave her the chair she asked for #karma”

Lam couldn’t have been blind to the irony for long, because he’s now locked his Twitter account. And apparently, he also doesn’t understand how karma works.

This would have been real karma: the lady who found his phone would have realized what she’d got her hands on, then offered his phone to the highest-bidding (and least scrupulous) media outlet willing to pay for it.

After the transaction, whoever paid out the most for Lam’s phone would have dissected it, then posted photos and videos of the aftermath online. Next, they would have posted all of Lam’s contact info on their site, opening him to ridicule and jeopardizing his career. As a final indignity, they then would have sent a letter to Lam’s lawyer assuring that he’d get the (now broken) phone back as long as he publicly admitted it was his phone.

That would have been karma.

P.S. I know at least one person will be tempted to call me out on my use of the word “irony.” Please read this Oatmeal comic on irony first, then we’ll talk.

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TUAWNo fair: Gizmodo editor leaves his phone in a restaurant, gets it back right away originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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