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It may not solve some of the problems involved with actually running Android on an iPhone, but the recently released Bootlace 2.1 application for jailbroken iPhones does at least make the installation process easier than ever. Unfortunately, it only works with the iPhone 2G and 3G at the moment, but it will let you install Android 2.2 (a.k.a Froyo) directly on the device without the need for a computer. Hit up the source link below for the complete installation instructions -- and insert your own joke here about the iPhone running Froyo while your Android phone is still stuck at 2.1.

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It may not solve some of the problems involved with actually running Android on an iPhone, but the recently released Bootlace 2.1 application for jailbroken iPhones does at least make the installation process easier than ever. Unfortunately, it only works with the iPhone 2G and 3G at the moment, but it will let you install Android 2.2 (a.k.a Froyo) directly on the device without the need for a computer. Hit up the source link below for the complete installation instructions -- and insert your own joke here about the iPhone running Froyo while your Android phone is still stuck at 2.1.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/b...out-a-compute/ ...

Nintendo remains the largest publisher in Japan, outselling its nearest competitor by 8.3 million units.

Japanese site Oolongtea compiled released figures for the publishers active in the territory, with domestic firms perhaps unsurprisingly topping the list.

Nintendo mustered 12.9 million sales, followed by Square Enix at 4.6 million. Take Two was the best-performing Western Publisher, at 278,000 units.

The DS was the most popular platform, constituting 56 per cent of all Nintendo games and 63 per cent of Square Enix's sales.

The full list is as follows:

Nintendo, 12.9 million games sold
Square Enix, 4.6 million
Namco Bandai, 3.9 million
Konami, 3.2 million
Capcom, 2.8 million
Sega, 2.1 million
Level Five, 1.1 million
Koei Tecmo, 918,000
Sony, 895,000
Marvelous Entertainment, 358,000
Spike, 308,000
Hudson, 287,000
Take Two Interactive, 278,000
EA, 220,000
Atlus, 206,000
Idea Factory, 200,000
Nihon Falcom, 172,000
D3 Publisher, 160,000
Microsoft, 130,000
Arc System Works, 115,000

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Call of Duty Black Ops looks to have been a sales success on its launch day, following fears that it may not outsell Modern Warfare 2.

A tweet by Treyarch community manager Josh Olin revealed that just shy of one million gamers were shown as playing the game on Xbox Live yesterday.

"Am I getting solid intel? Is there really almost 1,000,000 players on Xbox LIVE right now?" he exclaimed.

Meanwhile, Steam stats reveal that a peak of 77,609 people were playing the PC version's multiplayer mode concurrently over the last day, and 64,267 its singleplayer. This is a significantly higher amount than those playing perennial Steam multiplayer hits such as Counter-Strike and Modern Warfare 2 over the same period.

None of these figures represent the game's total sales, as in both instances they reveal just the number of owners of the game playing at a given time, and in the 360's case just those online and logged into Live.

In addition, Black Ops' unlocking on Steam was delayed in a number of territories until 10AM EST (3PM UK time). Furthermore, no data for PS3 is available as yet.

Twitter trends also highlighted Black Ops' dominance of gamers' attention, accruing a total of 104,830 tweets over the last 24 hours - with Microsoft's Kinect, which launched last night, mustering a mere 28,495 by comparison. Those figures refer only to Tweets using the relevant hashtags.

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With Kinect going on sale across Europe today amid concerns over hardware shortages, Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson last night insisted new stock would be coming in "more or less every week".

Thompson, speaking to GamesIndustry.biz at the official London launch event, added that the company was in the process of hiring more planes to ensure units could be delivered in greater numbers.

The exec's words were backed by Xbox marketing head Stephen McGill, who said: "Our responsibility and our plan is to keep on replenishing our stock. The team are working 24/7 to build it, ship it, get it on the planes, and get it on the trucks.

"We'll have regular replenishments and we expect hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people in the UK to be having it for Christmas."

The London launch event, held in the grounds of the Natural History Museum, featured performances from boyband The Wanted and former X Factor champion Leona Lewis, with an official midnight opening held at GAME's flagship Oxford Store.

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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - the one what did multiplayer - arrives next week, and Ubisoft is banging its drums by discounting AC2 downloadable content.

Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities have been squashed to £2 apiece, and the Secret Locations-plus-Bonfire of the Vanities double-pack costs just over three quid.

New games on the European PlayStation Store this week are Crescent Pale Mist and side-scrolling shmup bundle Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype & The Last Chapter, according to the European PlayStation blog.

Other things you may like: the Morpheus skin for God of War III - no not the one from The Matrix - and Bon Jovi songs for Rock Band 3.

Things you may not like: paying £32 for the PSP version of WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2011.

Special Offers (available until 24th November)

TMNT: Turtle in Time Re-Shelled (was £7.99/€9.99 now £5.49/€6.99)
Cell Factor: Psychokinetic Wars (was £7.99/€9.99 now £5.49/€6.99)
Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 12 Battle of Forli (was £3.19/€3.99 now £1.99/€2.49)
Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 13 Bonfire of the Vanities (was £3.19/€3.99 now £1.99/€2.49)
Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 13 Bonfire of the Vanities & Secret Locations (was £5.49/€6.99 now £3.19/€3.99)
PSP: Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (was £23.99/€29.99 now £15.99/€19.99)
PSP: Tom Clancy's EndWar (was £15.99/€19.99 now £7.99/€9.99)
PSP: ChessMaster: The Art of Learning (was £15.99/€19.99 now £7.99/€9.99)
Mini: Mystery of the Crystal Portal (was £3.99/€4.99 now £2.49/€2.99)
Permanent: Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley (now £19.99/€24.99)
PS3 Games

Crescent Pale Mist (£3.99/€4.99)
Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype & The Last Chapter Bundle (£11.99/€14.99)
PS3 Game Content

EyePet: Dinosaur Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99), Hoodie Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
Front Mission: Evolved - Weapons Pack 02 (£2.39/€2.99)
God of War III Morpheus Character Skin (£0.79/€0.99)
Hustle Kings - Carom and UK Billiards Pack (£1.59/€1.99)
Just Cause 2 Chaos Parachute (free)
ModNation Racers: Ratchet & Clank Pack (£1.39/€1.75), Stunt Pack (free)
My Aquarium Big Fish Set (£0.79/€0.99)
PAIN Maxine Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock 1 Track Pack (£13.99/€17.99), "Red Barchetta" by Rush (£1.59/€1.99), "Tom Sawyer" by Rush (£1.59/€1.99)
Rock Band 3: Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: Rock Band Edition (£9.99/€14.99)
Rock Band Network: "A Drug Against War" by KMFDM (£0.99/€1.49), "Blood Red Rock" by Bang Camaro (£0.59/€0.79), "Dethroned' by Death Angel (£0.99/€1.49), "Scavengers Of The Damned" by Aiden (£0.99/€1.49), "You Ain't No Family" by iwrestledabearonce (£0.99/€1.49)
PSP Games

WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 (£31.99/€39.99)
NBA 2K11 (£23.99/€29.99)
Street Cricket Champions (£6.99)
PSOne Games

Grandia (£6.29/€7.99)
Minis

3, 2, 1... Supercrash! (£2.39/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Fort Commander II: Counterattack (£3.49/€3.99) Rating: PEGI 7
Jewel Keepers: Easter Island (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...eed-ii-add-ons ...

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - the one what did multiplayer - arrives next week, and Ubisoft is banging its drums by discounting AC2 downloadable content.

Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities have been squashed to £2 apiece, and the Secret Locations-plus-Bonfire of the Vanities double-pack costs just over three quid.

New games on the European PlayStation Store this week are Crescent Pale Mist and side-scrolling shmup bundle Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype & The Last Chapter, according to the European PlayStation blog.

Other things you may like: the Morpheus skin for God of War III - no not the one from The Matrix - and Bon Jovi songs for Rock Band 3.

Things you may not like: paying £32 for the PSP version of WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2011.

Special Offers (available until 24th November)

TMNT: Turtle in Time Re-Shelled (was £7.99/€9.99 now £5.49/€6.99)
Cell Factor: Psychokinetic Wars (was £7.99/€9.99 now £5.49/€6.99)
Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 12 Battle of Forli (was £3.19/€3.99 now £1.99/€2.49)
Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 13 Bonfire of the Vanities (was £3.19/€3.99 now £1.99/€2.49)
Assassin's Creed II: Sequence 13 Bonfire of the Vanities & Secret Locations (was £5.49/€6.99 now £3.19/€3.99)
PSP: Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (was £23.99/€29.99 now £15.99/€19.99)
PSP: Tom Clancy's EndWar (was £15.99/€19.99 now £7.99/€9.99)
PSP: ChessMaster: The Art of Learning (was £15.99/€19.99 now £7.99/€9.99)
Mini: Mystery of the Crystal Portal (was £3.99/€4.99 now £2.49/€2.99)
Permanent: Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley (now £19.99/€24.99)
PS3 Games

Crescent Pale Mist (£3.99/€4.99)
Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype & The Last Chapter Bundle (£11.99/€14.99)
PS3 Game Content

EyePet: Dinosaur Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99), Hoodie Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
Front Mission: Evolved - Weapons Pack 02 (£2.39/€2.99)
God of War III Morpheus Character Skin (£0.79/€0.99)
Hustle Kings - Carom and UK Billiards Pack (£1.59/€1.99)
Just Cause 2 Chaos Parachute (free)
ModNation Racers: Ratchet & Clank Pack (£1.39/€1.75), Stunt Pack (free)
My Aquarium Big Fish Set (£0.79/€0.99)
PAIN Maxine Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock 1 Track Pack (£13.99/€17.99), "Red Barchetta" by Rush (£1.59/€1.99), "Tom Sawyer" by Rush (£1.59/€1.99)
Rock Band 3: Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: Rock Band Edition (£9.99/€14.99)
Rock Band Network: "A Drug Against War" by KMFDM (£0.99/€1.49), "Blood Red Rock" by Bang Camaro (£0.59/€0.79), "Dethroned' by Death Angel (£0.99/€1.49), "Scavengers Of The Damned" by Aiden (£0.99/€1.49), "You Ain't No Family" by iwrestledabearonce (£0.99/€1.49)
PSP Games

WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 (£31.99/€39.99)
NBA 2K11 (£23.99/€29.99)
Street Cricket Champions (£6.99)
PSOne Games

Grandia (£6.29/€7.99)
Minis

3, 2, 1... Supercrash! (£2.39/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Fort Commander II: Counterattack (£3.49/€3.99) Rating: PEGI 7
Jewel Keepers: Easter Island (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...eed-ii-add-ons ...

Microsoft's motion sensor Kinect is "incredibly liberating" for women.

That's according to Belinda Parmar of ladygeek.com, who was interviewed as part of a piece on Channel 4 News to coincide with the launch of the Xbox 360 add-on.

"For women, that's incredibly liberating," she said. "Why it's important that it appeals to women is women control the living room. There's a real battle going on for the living room. Women are the gatekeepers of that. They decide what's coming in, what's coming out."

Microsoft hopes Kinect, which enables controller-free gaming, will broaden the appeal of the Xbox 360 as well as extend the life of the console.

"The key thing is it's something for everybody - Kinect appeals to all different types of people, casual and core gamers," Stephen McGill, head of the UK Xbox business, told Eurogamer in an interview published today.

"We announced some core games at Tokyo Game Show and we'll be showing more of them in the months ahead, but I think the games we've got for Kinect for launch and through Christmas will surprise people. Core gamers may not have expected some of these games to be as appealing as I know they're going to find them."

"Microsoft Kinect, this is a great opportunity to get inside the living room," Parmar added. "Traditionally consoles have been relegated to the bedroom or the attic or the boy's den."

Tell us about your boy's den, readers.

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Nickelodeon Fit has arrived in the US, giving kids the chance to leap around with the likes of Dora the Explorer.
The title, from 2K Play and Nickelodeon, features 30 games developed in collaboration with physical education and expert science expert Dr Jacqueline Goodway PhD. Activities use either the Wii Remote or the Wii Balance Board and include trampolining with Dora, skateboarding with Diego, running with Kai-lan and jumping rope with The Backyardigans.
"We know from research that in their early years, children learn the exercise patterns that will carry over to their adult lives," said Dr Goodway. "We hope that regular participation with Nickelodeon Fit will empower children to start on the road to an active and healthy lifestyle."

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