We are coming close to our 2nd birthday here at IGX and our way of saying thanks for the support is hearing what you have to say about us! Over at our Facebook page we are asking everyone to submit one thing you like about our site and one thing you dislike and in return we are going to choose a random winner on Monday (May 14th) and send them a $5 Amazon gift card!
So, head over to the fan page and tell us your thoughts!
With companies pushing digital games over physical copies of games they actively control when can and can not play games which they were previously unable to do with physical copies of games. However,Electronic Arts is making an unclear move now by shutting down their Rock Band game for iOS but that is not stopping them from continuing to sell it until the last day on the App Store.
With a read speed of up to 520MB/s and a write speed of 400MB/s, Samsung’s 256GB Solid State Drive 830 Series (desktop) is a perfect desktop hard drive replacement. Weighing in at only 0.14 lbs with a thickness of 7mm it is a 2.5” SSD that is engineered to be compatible with most desktops on the market. The case is made of a brushed metal that blocks dust and corrosion. The entire package includes the SSD, a bracket, SATA cable, power cable and recommended software such as Norton Ghost 15 and SSD Magician 3.0 with user guides. In order to save power the 830 series uses 0.12W power consumption and maintains an operating temperature of 32 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
Heard of Hemisphere Games’ Osmos? It’s been available for several platforms since 2009, but just recently released for Android. The premise may sound rather familiar: Float around eating things that are smaller than you, causing you to grow larger and therefore capable of eating more things. It’s certainly a gameplay style most of us have seen before in games like Flow, but Osmos has a few distinguishing features that make it stand out as one of the best games currently available on the Android OS.
Earlier we reported Double Fine, a start up company which recently posted it’s listing on kickstarter.com had gotten over $300,000 in funding. Now they are breaking the all time record for the crowd-source funding site (according to Joystiq) and is now coming close to doubling said record.
During a keynote yesterday at DICE, Todd Howard director of Bethesda Game Studios proudly revealed that the average playtime for players of Skyrim on PC was 75 hours. But did not reveal any stats for console versions of the game.
Clearly everyone is addicted to Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. How many hours have you put into Skyrim? Don’t hate me, but I haven’t even played the game yet myself..
The Internet has been for the most part an anonymous place, where users can go about their business without fear of repercussion. Arguments often take place with the participants physically unscathed. It seems that those days are falling by the wayside, for favor of a responsible Internet, in which users are tied directly to their actual identities and will be held accountable for the things they say or do. Google took the lead with this and decided that each of the user profiles would have to be an actual name and not a nickname or the like. Google is also taking steps to let users verify their own identities as soon as they present the proper information.
Gone are the days of Blackberry being business only.
With the rise of a new CEO who wants to stay on track with the leading markets, Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), is going for a complete overhaul of the company. RIM has recently missed new product deadlines and targets for sales, while at the same time all of their competitors in the smartphone market eagerly took their customers from them, while promising a more user-friendly experience.
Last week during CES, we got to meet with the excellent people at Aftershokz to try out their first ever headphones which use bone conduction technology. What that means for us and you is that when you are out running or even just walking down the street you can hear the sounds around you as well your music. They accomplish this by requiring the headphone resting in front of your ears instead of in them, so you’re ears are open to hear your surroundings, yet the music is still there. This technology is not new, it’s what the military have been using to make sure they can hear everything around them as well as get directions. So, you knows it’s already awesome.
If you have been looking to purchase BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend and currently only have the original version on pre-order then this could be useful news to you. Recently, a limited edition was announced that will only be on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and unfortunately for those future PS Vita owners you are left out of the special edition.
The package will feature a 40-page art book, a soundtrack CD and a calendar (so you can schedule your fights). You will be able to pick this up at your local GameStop/EBgames or Amazon on February 14,2012 for $59.99. It could be the perfect Valentine’s gift for your fight-loving sweetheart.
Recently, it was said that the successors to both Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 were going to be announced during E3 this year. However, Sony has different thoughts, in a recent interview done with Kaz Hirai from Sony he said that they intend on keeping with their original plans of a 10 year life span for the PS3 which will mean that the successor will not come until 2016.
I have not been able to find the robots that are able to serve me drinks or play ping pong yet.Though, I have found two other companies which are showing off their smaller robots and both have some skills.
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