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Sony Unleashes PSP2 codenamed NGP

January 27th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Sony had a nice little surprise yesterday as the company showed off the NGP, the followup to their successful PSP handheld console. We gathered all the news from the net to give you the full specs of this little beast.

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Apple Launches App Store Twitter Account

January 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple launched a new Twitter account for consumers that like to receive the latest news about sweet deals and promotions for their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

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Playboy’s Uncensored iPad App Isn’t an App

January 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Adult Games, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We had a big surprise a couple of days ago as Playboy’s Hugh Heffner announced to release an uncensored app on Apple’s App Store. The outcome of the story however is a bit less surprising.

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Nvidia to Present Tegra-2 3D CPU

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

It looks like Nvidia has big plans for Spring 2011 as the company is likely to début a new version of the Tegra-2 processor with native support for 3D screens.

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Zynga Acquires Area/Code

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has acquired Area/Code, a developer well known for it’s Drop 7 game. Zynga didn’t announce the sum of the acquisition but did say it will rebrand the studio into Zynga New York.

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PSP 2 To Get Amoled and 3G

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

While we are still waiting for the Xperia Play to launch, new rumours on the PSP 2 surface. Remember, the arrival of the PSP2 will be this year as developers are already creating games for it.

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App Store Passed 10.000.000.000 Downloads

January 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last Saturday, Apple’s App Store passed ten billion downloads. The App Store currently holds over 300.000 apps and was launched in July 2008 following the release of the first iPhone.

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Larry Page to Replace Google CEO Eric Schmidt

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Eric Schmidt has announced to step back at Google. Co-founder Larry Page will become the new CEO of the search and mobile giant. Schmidt made the announcement on the Google blog.

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Kongregate Launches Flash Based Android App Store

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Kongregate recently announced the launch of Kongregate Arcade, a new app store for Android devices that allow playback of apps based on Flash 10.x.

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Microsoft to Offer Operator Billing in Windows Marketplace

January 20th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has closed an agreement with Mach to facilitate operator billing for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. As you could read this morning, Operator billing is highly popular in countries like The Netherlands.