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by Published on March 18th, 2013 23:43- Categories:
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It looks as though Canon will have a new DSLR to announce very shortly, if a listing on Best Buy's website is any indicator. The page offers us no images to ogle, but it betrays an unannounced 18-megapixel shooter dubbed the EOS-b, accompanied by an 18-55m lens kit and an $800 price tag. Canon Rumors notes a smaller footprint, trimming five ounces of fat and bulk off the T4i's measurements. The camera specs are identical to the T4i and EOS M, too, but an optical viewfinder and pop-up flash make us wonder if it isn't a pint-sized follow up to the T4i. You can look forward to a Digic 5 image processor, nine-point autofocus system, 3-inch 1.04K dot TFT-LCD touchscreen, four frames-per-second burst shooting, an ISO range from 100 to 12,800 with a high setting of 25,600 and HD video capture. There's no word on when this APS-C shooter will officially be announced, but you can try your luck at placing a pre-order by clicking the Best Buy source link.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....egories&ks=960 ...by Published on March 18th, 2013 20:48- Categories:
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The average selling price of video games last year was £26.45, a rise of 3.2 per cent year-on-year.
Chart-Track data published by ERA shows another year of game price rises. Supermarkets are now the cheapest games retailer, with an average selling price of £25.50, an increase of two pence over 2011.
They have overtaken online retailers, who have seen their prices rise by almost £2 from £23.56 to £25.52. This is driven by the closure of the Channel Island Tax loophole in April last year. The loophole had allowed etailers to avoid VAT on games under £15.
Specialist and independent outlets remain the most expensive for video game software, with an average selling price of £27.82. That is an 81 pence increase over 2011’s number of £27.01.
Supermarkets and online retailers make slight gains in 2012
The market share between UK games retailers only changed slightly last year, despite the loss of major specialist stores.
According to Chart-Track figures published by ERA, the over-the-counter market – which includes all High Street retailers from Argos to GAME – took a 42.5 per cent market share of software revenue last year. That’s a drop of around 4.5 per cent year-on-year. It follows the loss of a number of specialist stores, including 277 GAME outlets.
Supermarkets and online retailers both increased their market by just over 2.5 per cent as a result.
Supermarkets is the second largest sector with 29.5 per cent of the market, while online retailers hold a 28 per cent share of the sector.
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http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/index.jsp ...by Published on March 18th, 2013 19:42- Categories:
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Tomb Raider is this week’s UK number one despite a 72% week-on-week drop in sales and a strong challenge from Sony Santa Monica’s God Of War Ascension, the highest new entry this week at number two.Ascension has posted the series’ second biggest week one sales behind God Of War III, which sold more than double when it arrived at number one back in 2010.StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm and Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 are also new this week at three and four respectively.The Ukie all formats top ten for the week ending March 16th, compiled by ChartTrack, is as follows, with week-on-week sales differences in brackets where given.1. Tomb Raider (-72%)...
2. God Of War Ascension
3. StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm
4. Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
5. SimCity (-50%)
6. FIFA 13 (-14%)
7. Far Cry 3 (-3%)
8. Crysis 3 (-42%)
9. Call Of Duty: Black Ops II (-14%)
10. The Sims 3: University Life (-57%)
http://www.edge-online.com/news/uk-c...at-number-one/by Published on March 18th, 2013 19:38- Categories:
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When cell phone unlocking became illegal last month, it set off a firestorm of debate over what rights people should have for phones they have legally purchased. But this is really just one facet of a much larger problem with property rights in general. 'Silicon permeates and powers almost everything we own. This is a property rights issue, and current copyright law gets it backwards, turning regular people — like students, researchers, and small business owners — into criminals. Fortune 500 telecom manufacturer Avaya, for example, is known for suing service companies, accusing them of violating copyright for simply using a password to log in to their phone systems. That's right: typing in a password is considered "reproducing copyrighted material." Manufacturers have systematically used copyright in this manner over the past 20 years to limit our access to information. Technology has moved too fast for copyright laws to keep pace, so corporations have been exploiting the lag to create information monopolies at our expense and for their profit. After years of extensions and so-called improvements, copyright has turned Mickey Mouse into a monster who can never die.' We need to win the fight for unlocking phones, and then keep pushing until we actually own the objects we own again.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/...rything-we-own ...by Published on March 14th, 2013 23:53- Categories:
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The Xbox 360 reigned supreme in North American hardware sales last month, marking its nineteenth straight victory.According to the February NPD Group report, hardware sales increased in February next to January figures, with the Wii U and PS Vita experiencing significant sales boosts during the period at 40 per cent and 30 per cent respectively.Meanwhile, Dead Space 3 was the highest selling game in February, beating out Black Ops II and Crysis 3 respectively. February marks the end of a three month chart blitz for the Call of Duty franchise.Overall industry sales continue to decline however: the $810 million generated last month amounts to a 25 per cent drop from $1.09 billion in February 2012. Hardware sales dropped 36 per cent year-on-year, while physical software sales experienced a 27 per cent drop.Video game accessories generated $219.7 million in sales last month, a 3 per cent drop on the previous year.February's Top 10 Games:
- Dead Space 3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Crysis 3
- NBA 2k13
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Just Dance 4
- Far Cry 3
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
- Madden NFL 13
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...d-in-february/ ...by Published on March 14th, 2013 23:39- Categories:
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Microsoft's console continues its good adoption rate this late in the cycle
Many of us might be thinking about the next generation already, but consumers in the US continue to buy Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, which topped the competition in February for the 26th straight month, selling a total of 302,000 units.
Microsoft's had an incredible run in America, outselling the competition each month, and it's expected that the company will be unveiling its next-gen Xbox in the coming months (possibly as early as April). Sony, meanwhile, just held a huge press event in New York to start the buzz around PlayStation 4, which the company labelled as "the most open console ever." PS4 is confirmed to launch this upcoming holiday season, and many analysts believe Microsoft will be there as well with its new Xbox.
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...by Published on March 14th, 2013 22:31- Categories:
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BlackBerry has revealed that one of its ‘established partners’ has placed an order for one million BlackBerry 10 devices.
The company claims this is the largest ever single purchase order in the firm’s history.
“An order for one million devices is a tremendous vote of confidence in BlackBerry 10,” said Rick Costanzo, EVP Global Sales, BlackBerry. “Consumers are ready for a new user experience, and BlackBerry 10 delivers. With strong partner support, coupled with this truly re-invented new platform, we have a powerful recipe for success.”
BlackBerry refuses to name who the partner is, but the huge order is a good sign for the smartphone maker, who also reported recently that the German government is adopting the BlackBerry Z10 as its phone of choice.
The firm will be reporting its Q4 and year-end results on March 28th.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...andsets/030501 ...by Published on March 13th, 2013 23:48- Categories:
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Thanks to a drop in Nintendo 3DS sales and the release of Keiji Inafune's exclusive game Soul Sacrifice the PlayStation Vita is still top of the Japanese charts.
- PlayStation Vita - 63,581 (Last week - 62,543)
- 3DS XL - 39,801 (50,265)
- 3DS - 21,207 (27,174)
- PlayStation 3 - 19,567 (25,725)
- PSP - 18,023 (11,171)
- Wii U - 9,454 (10,021)
- Wii - 1,363 (1,383)
- Xbox 360 - 738 (486)
The console jumped to the top spot last week following a price cut in Japan, and has managed to more than hang on, even seeing a slight rise in sales. Its nearest rival, the Nintendo 3DS XL, saw a fall in sales of over 10,000.
On the software chart the top five was packed full of new entries, with two Vita titles, Soul Sacrifice and Tales Of Hearts R, making their first appearance.
- [PS3] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F - 110,229 (New entry)
- [PSV] Soul Sacrifice - 92,396 (New entry)
- [PSP] Uta no Prince-sama All Star - 67,217 (New entry)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 63,285 (Lifetime sales - 2,802,940)
- [PSV] Tales of Hearts R - 55,258 (New entry)
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ill-1-in-japan ...by Published on March 13th, 2013 22:54- Categories:
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The console business – including Steam Box – isn’t sustainable in its current form according to Richard Garriott.The Ultima creator and Portalarium founder told us that he sees consoles as a middleman that’s no longer necessary.“Tablets are becoming so powerful, your television is already connected to the internet and frankly it’spowerful. And there’s a cloud of computing behind there that’s easily accessed, so I’m going, ‘Why in the long run do we need a console? All you really need is a controller’. It’s going to be interesting to see how consoles evolve in the next few iterations to see if they can find some new compelling reason to exist. Because, at least from my perspective, I think their days might be numbered.”So what of Valve’s Steam Box? Garriott admires the technology, but maintains that the idea of an extra box under the TV might be ‘streamlined out’.“Valve’s product is one I only know cursorily,” he says. “But the case I’ll still go back to make is the same. I think digital distribution with things like Steam is great, I actually think that people need to have convenient, ubiquitous access to digital content, and Steam is not only a great way to buy it, but also to stream it. The technology of Steam is fantastic.“But I look at it and go, ‘Steam can be delivered on anything, you don’t need a particular piece of hardware’. It could be on your television, in the cloud, on your phone, on a computer. If I watch Hulu or one of the digital movie services, I can start watching on my phone or my tablet, and flick it up to my TV. When the definition of a controller and the definition of a screen is so freely interchangeable, why do I need another particular piece of hardware? People are going to want to streamline, and consoles seem like they might be streamlined out.”Garriott has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for Ultima’s spiritual successor Shroud Of The Avatar, but while he might question the next PlayStation’s relevance, he hasn’t ruled out a PS4 port.“We’re developing on the Unity platform, and one of the great advantages of that is that we can cross-compiles to basically, everything,” he says. “We can already make a build for PC or Mac or Linux even without difficulty.“As a gamer myself, I spend about half of my time playing on PC, and the other half playing on tablets, so I would really love to see SOTA shoehorn onto a tablet. Currently it does, so I have a tablet build that I test and look at the game on myself. And whenever platforms can run it well, there’s no reason we wouldn’t want to cross-compile onto those platforms.”...
http://www.edge-online.com/news/garr...-are-numbered/by Published on March 13th, 2013 22:23- Categories:
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From Capital of Culture to city of gadget lovers, new research from the Gadget Show Live shows that Liverpool residents own more gadgets than those from any other city in the UK.
They polled 1,000 people and found that Liverpudlians, on average, own 40 gadgets, compared to 39 each in Cardiff and 37 in London.
Maybe you're wondering how on earth you get to 40 gadgets - have a look at the list at the end of this article and you'll see that all it takes is owning everything from a smartphone (no surprise), to a sunbed, treadmill and cupcake maker.
“Is it really that surprising that Liverpool has come out top of the tech list and that Scousers have such a love affair with gadgets?” commented the Gadget Show Live’s Spencer Hidge. “Liverpudlians are renowned for their love of music, football and looking good so it makes sense that top tech like sound bars, wireless speakers, 3D TVs and hair straighteners made it onto their list.”
The top ten tech cities in the UK and the number of gadgets they own on average:
- Liverpool - 40
- Cardiff - 39
- London - 37
- Leeds - 32
- Manchester - 30
- Birmingham - 27
- Belfast - 26
- Glasgow - 23
- Edinburgh -19
- Newcastle - 15
And what is supposedly a 'typical' list of gadgets owned by your average Liverpudlian:
- Smartphone
- Tablet
- Laptop
- MP3 player
- Digital camera
- Digital watch
- Digital radio
- Kindle/e-reader
- Portable games console
- Games console
- 3D TV
- LED TV
- Wireless speakers
- iPod dock
- Jacuzzi
- Digital photo frame
- Home cinema system
- Projector
- Satellite TV
- GPS running watch
- Treadmill
- PowerPlate
- Mobile Fitness Apps
- Nike Fuel Band
- Remote controlled toys
- Electric scooter
- In-car stereo
- Hi-tech car security system
- Sat Nav
- In-car DVD players
- Hair straighteners
- Hairdryer
- Heated eyelash curlers
- Sunbed
- Electric razor
- Juicer
- Breville sandwich maker
- Electric blanket
- DVD player
- Cupcake maker
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