Turtle Beach is announcing a new two-year partnership agreement with Activision Publishing, Inc. involving the blockbuster Call of Duty? video game franchise. As part of the agreement, Turtle Beach is unveiling a new line of limited edition ...
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LEGO City teams up with Chat magazine for special competition. LEGO City has partnered with women's magazine Chat offering readers the chance to nominate a 'real life hero' to be made into a life-size LEGO statue. For example, the hero ...
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Microsoft is making a big play for the living room with a new Xbox console that marries games with live TV, Internet browsing, music and Skype. The Xbox One could considerably expand Microsoft's presence in consumer electronics but is ...
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At an event today called, appropriately, Xbox Reveal, Microsoft announced the next generation of the Xbox, the first new version in eight years: It's an "all-in-one" entertainment system called the Xbox One. Not only has the console's ...
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Skylanders has generated more than $500 million in US retail sales in just over a year. This includes sales of accessory packs and figures. GfK data also puts Skylanders at number three in the highest selling video games franchises in ...
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Turtle Beach, pioneer and market-leader of the gaming headset category, announces its full line of exclusively licensed, limited edition Call of Duty: Black Ops II Ear Force headsets are now available from retailers. Custom designed and ...
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It's clear that millions of gamers across the US will be spending some quality time with PlayStation during the holidays following sales results for the week of Black Friday. PlayStation®3 (PS3®) Black Friday bundle sales increased ...
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Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc., today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, the Call of Duty® franchise has delivered the biggest entertainment launch of the year. The ...
IDG News Service - Nvidia is taking video games into the cloud with a new rack server optimized for computer graphics. The server works in combination with software in a client device and holds the promise of delivering high-quality ...
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Researchers have found a serious vulnerability in the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," and another in the CryEngine 3 graphics platform on which many games run. Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante of security consultancy ReVuln ...
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IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
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IDG News Service - Violence in video games and other aspects of pop culture in the U.S. will be among the areas examined as part of an investigation aimed at reducing gun violence in the country. The investigation, headed by U.S. Vice ...
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Colorado Republican congressman Mike Coffman managed to tie together a popular video game, US President Barack Obama and rare earth mining in an op-ed published in The Washington Times last week. Even by the not very high standards of ...
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IT professionals in the UK, EU and the US agree that BI users are a deep source of exasperation. A survey commissioned by BI dashboards supplier LogiXML found an IT pro population united in grief across the Atlantic. According to the ...
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U.S. Army to present the "Army What Makes You Strong Music & Leadership Event" at the Memphis Hip-Hop Expo 2012 featuring high-tech simulators, prize giveaways, performance by multi-platinum music producer Drumma Boy and more. MEMPHIS, ...
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