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Latest News - August 2013
- LG Developing Firefox Phone For Release Sometime in 2014
- NVIDIA and Ubisoft Form Gaming Alliance To Enhance Top Titles
- Microsoft And Gameloft Agree To Launch Flagship Titles Simultaneously On Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
- Google Overhauls Keep Notes Service To Hit Evernote Where It Hurts
- Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Expansion Promises Crusader Class, New Lands, And Tweaked Gameplay
- EA Unveils “The Sims 4” Gameplay Trailer
- Google Helpouts Lets You Connect with Experts To Fix Things, Solve Problems, and More
- Vine Short Video Sharing App Swings to 40 Million Users
- HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks 8/21/13: Superphone Round-Up, Dell and HP AIO PCs, Samsung SSD 840 EVO, Zotac Sneak Peek and More
- It's Okay to Jump the Gun, Upgrading Call of Duty: Ghosts From PS3 to PS4 Will Cost Just $10
- Microsoft Rolls Out Ad Free Bing Search for the Classroom
- League of Legends Transactions Database Breached, 120,000 Records Affected
- Sony’s PS4 ‘Launch Window’ Game Titles Announced, COD: Ghosts, Knack, Need for Speed: Rivals and More
- Oculus Rift EVE-VR Demo Announced as CCP Games EVE Valkyrie Space Combat Game
- Pixel Overload: LG Showcases World’s First 2560x1440 5.5-Inch QHD Smartphone Display
- Sony PlayStation 4 Ships to US and Canada on 11/15, Europe and Latin America on 11/29
- Sony Slashes PS Vita Pricing To $199.99, Adds "Remote Play" Feature With PS4
- Lenovo Brings a Low-Cost Workstation to Market With ThinkStation E32 PCs
- Google Chrome 29 Released With Omnibox Suggestions and Profile Resets
- Games For Windows Live Shuts Down Next July -- What Happens To Your Games?
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All News for August 2013
Mozilla may have found an ally in LG, a major player in the smartphone market. During an interview with Bulgarian online outlet Dnevnik.bg, LG's mobile communications boss in Bulgaria, Dimitar Valev, spoke about his company's future endeavors, including plans to launch a mobile handset based...
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Hot on the heels of Microsoft and Gameloft's partnership comes this: an alliance between NVIDIA and Ubisoft. Announced at Gamescom this week, the two mainstays have decided to partner up in order to bolster Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag...
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With the mobile phone sector stealing its fair share of gaming dollars from the traditional handheld market, Microsoft has decided to do something pretty smart: team up with a major publisher of games in order to shape titles up for launch onto...
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At launch, Google Keep showed a lot of promise. There's Google's epic cloud infrastructure, excellent syncing across the Google ecosystem, and a drop-deal simple interface. Plus, it seems that mobile users at large are howling for a fantastic...
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At Gamescon 2013 in Germany, Blizzard Entertainment unveiled the next chapter in Diablo 3, dubbed Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. The expansion picks up where the original game left off, in what should have been a time of peace and prosperity. The...
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EA’s The Sims social gaming franchise is launching a new chapter with The Sims 4, and the company put out a gameplay trailer showing off all the new features, including increased sophistication across the board, new ways to interact with other characters, and more. First, creating a Sim is more powerful and offers impressive fine-tuning...
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Google Hangouts is a nifty communication tool, allowing people to connect via video and chat, and now Google is building another (even more compelling) service on top of Hangouts called Google Helpouts. Simply put, Google Helpouts lets users...
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Vine, the Twitter owned video sharing app that allows users to post 6-second video clips of whatever they want, is now home to over 40 million users, the company announced in a Twitter post. That's not bad for a service that launched around 7 months ago. "We've said this before and we'll say...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks Webcast, Iyaz, Dave and Marco discuss HotHardware's Superphone round-up with the Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, LG Optimus G Pro, Moto X, and Nokia's Lumia 1020. We also talk about the...
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Infinity Ward's highly anticipated Call of Duty: Ghosts comes out on November 5, 2013, which is 10 days before Sony's PlayStation 4 (PS4) console will be available in the U.S. and Canada. If the thought of waiting a week and a half to play...
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Microsoft believes its Bing search engine is better than what Google has to offer, and while it's not surprising the Redmond giant prefers its own offering over the competition, the company is willing to put its money where its mouth is at. Well, kind of. As part of a free program called "Bing...
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The game's acronym may inspire laughter, but a recent hacking targeting it is as serious as a heart-attack (alright, maybe not that serious). Riot Games, LoL's developer, posted on its website this week that 120,000 transaction records from...
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As we reported earlier today, Sony will officially throw its hat into the next generation console ring on November 15, 2013, which is when the PlayStation 4 (PS4) will start shipping in the U.S. and Canada, followed by a November 29, 2013...
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When the Oculus Rift Kickstarter project dropped last fall, I admit that I was a little slow to buy into it. Maybe it's just the old fuddy duddy in me, or maybe it's the fact that VR products have been done before, and none to my recollection...
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If you think today's crop of smartphones feature fine looking displays, wait until you see what LG Display is cooking up. The South Korean display maker announced that it has developed the world's first Quad HD AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones...
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Sony's PlayStation 4 may well have won the next-generation console wars before they've officially begun, with the base model selling for $399 -- $100 less than Microsoft's impending Xbox One. Pricing aside, there's something that gamers far and...
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Sony's handheld sales haven't exactly been mind-blowing, but then again, the handheld game in general has been massively disrupted by the advent of iOS and Android gaming. With all of that said, Sony's hoping to toss in a surge to its bottom...
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Lenovo announced its latest workstation, the ThinkStation E32, and despite very solid specs, the machines cost far less than you might expect. Available in both traditional tower and SFF form factors, the ThinkStation E32 starts at a mere $729...
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A web browser, getting smarter? That's what happening with Google's Chrome, as Chrome 29 hits the public portal today. While we knew these changes were en route due to the beta release a couple of weeks back, the masses will now be facing a...
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According to a now-pulled update pushed to Age of Empires Online, Microsoft's Games for Windows Live will shut down altogether by July 1, 2014. That unofficial announcement follows official word that the Games for Windows Live marketplace would...
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Although we prefer to wait until we have a chance to run our own benchmark tests before determining the performance capabilities of any hardware for certain, new scores on Rightware's Power Board page indicate that Google’s impending Moto...
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Few things are more frustrating than dropping a wad of hard earned cash on a video game only be to disappointed by the crappy graphics, botched controls, uninteresting storyline, or any other shortcoming. In most cases, you're stuck with the...
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