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Call of Duty: Ghosts is this year’s CoD entry, headed to 360, PS3, PC and ‘next-gen consoles’ on November 5 (video)

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Like Punxsutawney Phil’s shadowgazing, we can rightfully expect a new Call of Duty game to be announced annually and available at the holidays. Also like our groundhog friend, the only annual questions we must ask are in the details — what is thi…


Machinima launch for Xbox 360 has us watching more games than we play

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When Microsoft piled on the Xbox media channels last year, we didn’t realize just how long it would take for some of those channels to come to fruition. We’re quite possibly on the cusp of new hardware, and Machinima’s app is just now making its X…


Portal co-creator unveils OUYA-exclusive game Soul Fjord (video)

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It’s no secret that Portal co-creator Kim Swift has been developing an OUYA-exclusive game, but details regarding it had been kept under wraps until today. Dubbed Soul Fjord, the Airtight Games-developed title fuses Norse mythology with ’70s Funk …


Nintendo now selling refurbished DSi XL and 3DS units for $100 and up

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It’s easy for us to go shopping for a refurbished Nintendo handheld at stores and auction houses, but not if we’re looking for a huge bargain: small discounts and dodgy quality often make it wiser to buy new instead. Nintendo has just offered us s…


The After Math: Exploring Glass, Apple’s cash and Nintendo’s no-go keynote

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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages We’ve been getting our first unfiltered experiences with Google Glass this week, which makes it the perfect time to go o…


EVE Online dev reveals Oculus Rift-based space dogfighting ‘experience’ (update: video!)

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It’s not clear if Icelandic game studio CCP is extending its crazy MMO, EVE Online, into the world of virtual reality, but the company is working on some form of EVE-based VR application using the Oculus Rift. CCP teased the concept during the key…


Nintendo’s digital game sales hit an all-time high

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Nintendo’s hardware sales may be in a bit of a stupor, but its downloadable games are a different story. During today’s financial results briefing, the company’s president, Satoru Iwata, announced that digital sales for the 2013 fiscal year, which…


NBC plans ‘The Million Second Quiz,’ a twelve-day, 24 / 7 game show

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Second screen experiences connected to TV shows haven’t exactly set the world on fire, but NBC will give it another try with a new game show this fall. The Million Second Quiz is being promoted as a non-stop, twelve day trivia game with an “unprec…


Strategy Analytics: Microsoft’s share of tablet market quadrupled after Windows 8

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Say what you like about Windows 8, but before it arrived Microsoft’s presence in the tablet sphere was as small as it was stagnant. By the reckoning of number-crunchers at Strategy Analytics, just 400,000 Windows-running slates were shipped global…


Xing puts a Wii U at the heart of its costly karaoke machine

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Sure, we’ve seen game consoles modified for use beyond their original purpose, but this apparatus turns things up a notch. Pictured above is the Joysound Festa, a mobile entertainment system powered by the Wii U’s hardware and software. Built by J…