Disney cuts around 700 jobs from Disney Interactive
Disney has decided to get rid of around 700 jobs from their digital media division – Disney Interactive. The layoffs were originally reported by the New York Times and is said that the 700 lost jobs equates to approximately 26 percent of its global staff. What this exodus means to their games department is that […]
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Xbox’s Phil Spencer explains why Games with Gold is different to PS+
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Panasonic and Sony announce their new optical disc format; Archival Disc
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Galaxy S5 Comes With 3 New Battery Saving Features
Galaxy S5 is the latest flagship smartphone by Samsung. It comes with a lot of new features and functions to give it an edge over the competition. However, the battery life, as usual is very limited for Android devices. Equipped with a 2800 mAh battery, the Galaxy S5 doesn’t seem like a big hit for heavy Android users. […]
Disney has decided to get rid of around 700 jobs from their digital media division – Disney Interactive. The layoffs were originally reported by the New York Times and is said that the 700 lost jobs equates to approximately 26 percent of its global staff. What this exodus means to their games department is that […]
At SXSW, Microsoft Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer explained why there is a gulf in quality in the games offered by the two competing services, Games with Gold and PS+. Phil Spencer said at his Q&A panel at SXSW: One of our issues with Games with Gold — not ‘issues,’ but differences between the […]
Panasonic and Sony teamed up last year to create the next big thing in optical media and today they announced what their new attempt at the market will be called; Archival Disc. The Archival Disc is said to be able to store between 300GB and 1TB per disc and is said to be very resistant […]
Galaxy S5 is the latest flagship smartphone by Samsung. It comes with a lot of new features and functions to give it an edge over the competition. However, the battery life, as usual is very limited for Android devices. Equipped with a 2800 mAh battery, the Galaxy S5 doesn’t seem like a big hit for heavy Android users. […]
Samsung Galaxy S4 was the target of online ridicule when users noticed how the smartphone was offering less storage space for saving content while system files took up a large portion of the internal storage. In numbers, the 16GB variant of the Galaxy S4 only offered around 9GB of storage for the user, which is […]
So 2/3 days after South Park: The Stick of Truth released in the UK and Europe respectively Matt Stone co-creator of South Park has spoken out against Ubisoft’s decision to censor the title in Europe on consoles. Matt Stone said in an interview with The Metro: We weren’t going to change the content, so we’ve […]
A new twitter page has emerged with the name of DirectX 12 followed by an announcement that the full reveal will be made at GDC on March 20th. Though thanks to some great detective work from Neogaf it seems there has been some info found on what the presentation will include. Thanks to Neogaf member […]
Microsoft officials were seen plugging targeted advertising at the CPAC (annual conference for conservatives). As midterm elections start to heat up in the US, Microsoft are trying to sell advertising space on Xbox Live, Skype, MSN and other MS platforms. Microsoft are selling themselves as being able to match Microsoft user IDs and other various […]
Privacy groups want US regulators to stop the Whatsapp purchase until Facebook provides more information on what it plans to do with the personal data of WhatsApp’s users. Facebook are adamant in the fact that it will respect the previous user agreements and will be operating Whatsapp as a seperate company. Facebook said in a […]
ASUS are set to release their Chromebox (M004U) to the public on March 14th at $179. ASUS’ description reads: With easy out-of-the-box setup, integrated virus and malware protection and feature-enhancing updates, ASUS Chromebox starts up in seconds to get you to your favorite websites and apps instantly. And why a box? Because with a box […]
Samsung has just launched their free music streaming service, Milk Music to the masses (in the US). The service is currently only available on Galaxy smartphones and only available to those of us that live in the US as of now. Milk Music currently has over 200 radio stations and 13 million songs available to […]
Pebble announced today at SXSW 2014 that it has updated its Android software to 2.0, making its app store available on Google Play. When the Appstore made its debut on iOS at the beginning of February, there were a few highlight partner apps that came along for the ride, including ones from Yelp, Foursquare, Mercedes and GoPro. […]
So Ubisoft finally attached a release date to their much anticipated open world hackathon, Watch Dogs. The date is set to May 27th so we will have to wait almost 3 months for Watch Dogs, for me this is just more time for people to stop caring about what this game actually is. When it […]
In an interview with Gamespot, Hideo Kojima curator and creator of all things Metal Gear Solid said what he thinks on the future of Metal Gear Solid V on PC. In the interview Kojima said: PC, that’s my original background. I originally created PC games… A long time ago I didn’t want to rely on […]
FromSoftware announced yesterday that the console parity of the PC version would cease as soon as the game would release, as us PC gamers have to wait more than a month to get our hands on Dark Souls 2. FromSoftware announced on their facebook page: DARK SOULS II for PC and Steam is coming on […]
Earlier today, Spotify made an official announcement that they are acquiring leading music intelligence firm - The Echo Nest. The Echo Nest platform powers a number of popular web radio and streaming music services, including some of Spotify’s own competitors like Rdio, Sirius XM, VEVO, Twitter Music and iHeartRadio. With this acquisition, Spotify aims to leverage […]
Wake Up & Smell the Bacon app pairs with your iPhone to create an alarm clock of sorts that can wake you up to the sizzling sound of bacon and a perfume of pork that the device puffs out. It’s the first smell-emitting device for the iPhone. Oscar Mayer is only making a limited number of devices, […]
The Ellen DeGeneres Oscars selfie has officially taken on a life of its own. It’s up to 3.2 million retweets and now The Simpsons are the latest to get in on the act. The show ran a selfie parody, where Homer is being literally kicked out of the frame by Bradley Cooper. Matt Groening, creator of The […]
Twitch is one of world’s most popular game streaming service which is used by millions of gamers from all around the Globe. The Twitch app is already available on Sony’s next-gen (Current-Gen) console, PlayStation 4 and it will also be heading onto the Xbox One console in a week. The only things this popular service […]
It was announced yesterday that the Playstation 4 had sold over 13.7 million copies both retail and digital worth of its software. That number was previously at 9.7 million by the end of the year, so as the Playstation 4 steadily grows after the recent Japanese launch that number is set to possibly rocket. Sony […]
Today AMD announced a brand new GPU in the R9 280 and it seems to be essentially a rebranded Radeon HD 7950. We can see here in this chart that AMD released alongside the GPU comparing the differences between the 280 and its bigger brother the 280X. Now what’s interesting is the pricing. The 280X […]
