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Minecraft updates to v1.1, game now attracts over 20 million registered users

January 16th, 2012 12:50pm No comments

Minecraft updates to v1.1, game now attracts over 20 million registered users

The hugely popular world-building game Minecraft has just received an upgrade to version 1.1 has, with developer Markus Persson (AKA Notch) announcing on Twitter that registered users have just passed the 20 million mark.

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Amazon announces their big gaming hits of 2011. Call of Duty and Deus Ex head the charts

January 16th, 2012 11:21am No comments

Amazon announces their biggest game sellers of 2011

The stat-collecting folks at Amazon have finished counting and worked out the biggest sellers for their video games sales chart for 2011.

Not surprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sat at the top of the physical sales charts, followed by Just Dance 3 and the fast growing Skyrim.

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Google shows off its Google Maps 3D maze challenge [video]

January 15th, 2012 1:44pm No comments

Google shows off its Google Maps maze challenge

Google has  slipped out a promotional video showing off a Google Maps-driven game for the Google+ Games platform.

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Grand Theft Auto III awaits your playing pleasure on Android and iOS

December 15th, 2011 11:36am No comments

Grand Theft Auto III awaits your playing pleasure on Android and iOS

Developers Rockstar are offering mobile gamers a welcome distraction from duff Christmas TV with the release of an Android version of Grand Theft Auto III joining the iOS version.

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Astonishing NVIDIA Tegra 3 gaming graphics shown off on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet

December 5th, 2011 12:55pm No comments

NVidia has shown off some of the jaw-dropping graphics that will be available on Android tablets using their new quad core CPU, courtesy of some incredible video clips from their upcoming Glowball game.

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Best laptop picks for Christmas: budget, family and gaming

November 29th, 2011 2:20pm No comments

Best laptop picks for Christmas: budget, business, gaming and high end

With Christmas looming perilously close, the panic is already setting in for folks looking to buy their loved ones shiny new gadgets.

With laptops being on more than a few Santa lists, here’s three top choices, compiled from the esteemed folks at What Laptop Tablet & Smartphone.

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T3 Gadget Awards 2011 – Kindle, Galaxy S2 and Kinect in the winners

October 11th, 2011 1:00pm No comments

T3 Gadget Awards 2011 - Kindle, Galaxy S2 and Kinect in the winners

Tech magazine T3 has announced the winners of the 2011 Gadget awards and there’s a few surprises in store.

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Apple iPad – a selection of some of the very best games available

October 3rd, 2011 2:30pm No comments

Apple iPad - a selection of some of the very best games available

There’s no question that the iPad is proving to be one of the best gaming platforms out there, and our resident iPad expert Mrs Quoad has compiled a listing of the very best games available.

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Humongous Samsung Series 7 700G7A gaming laptop cranks up the frag power

August 18th, 2011 11:51am No comments

Humongous Samsung Series 7 700G7A gaming laptops cranks up the fragging power

For gamers craving the big desktop experience, Samsung has released, nay unleashed, a veritable beast of a laptop with its new Series 7 number sporting a hefty 17.3-inch screen.

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Google+ gets social games and puts the heat on Facebook

August 12th, 2011 10:25am No comments

Google+ gets social games to put the heat on Facebook

In its quest to serve up a more compelling alternative to the all-conquering Facebook, Google has added games to its Google+ social networking project.

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Mobile gaming by numbers: 81% of all downloads are free, Angry Birds rake it in [infographic]

August 3rd, 2011 3:30pm No comments

The busy folks at Geekaphone – an online resource for the mobile industry – have been ticking boxes, totting up totals and compiling lists, with the results being slapped together in a neat infographic.

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Sony parades the next-gen PlayStation Vita – yours for around £150

June 7th, 2011 3:02pm 1 comment

Sony parades the next-gen PlayStation Vita - yours for around £150

Sony’s next-gen PlayStation has been officially released and regales under the name PlayStation Vita. Or PS Vita if you like your words short.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play arrives in the UK, piggy banks prepare to be liberated

June 1st, 2011 9:30am No comments

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play in white for o2 exclusive

First announced back in February, the long launch delay has had gamers nervously twitching into their consoles for months, but now the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is finally being made available in the UK.

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Wordfeud comes to the iPhone – Android vs Fanboy word-offs anticipated

May 23rd, 2011 3:02pm No comments

Wordfeud comes to the iPhone - Android vs Fanboy word-offs anticipated

Android users feeling a little smug that one of the best mobile games around was only available on their platform may be a little disheartened to learn that the multiplayer word game Wordfeud is now available for iPhones too.

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Anonymous statement: Sony hacking allegations are lies

May 5th, 2011 3:12pm 1 comment

Anonymous statement: Sony hacking allegations are lies

The Anonymous hacker collective have hit back at Sony who accused them of being responsible for the company’s recent calamitous leaks of the personal details of up to 100m users of the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Online Entertainment (SOE) systems.

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