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by Published on October 24th, 2012 21:04- Categories:
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Toy manufacturer LEGO says that video games have helped the firm beat the economic downturn.
Traveller’s Tales’ games – which have included LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones, LEGO Harry Potter, LEGO Batman and LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean – have been regular best sellers since 2005.
LEGO’s VP and general manager for UK and Ireland Drew Brazer said: “If I go back to 2008 and 2009, that’s when our business really started to take off. And we weren’t exactly sure why, so we did some consumer research to understand this. What’s really explaining this meteoric rise in sales?
“One of the key factors was the synergy between the LEGO video games and the products. Boys were playing these games, engaged in LEGO, seeing LEGO products come to life in the video game, and it created tremendous interest for them to go out and buy the physical product. So it’s been great.”
LEGO Lord of the Rings is due on November 23rd. LEGO City Undercover is set for release exclusively on Wii U and 3DS.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/how-g...e-lego/0105138 ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 20:25- Categories:
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Nintendo has posted a net loss of $350million for the six months ending September 30th in its latest financial results.
Whilst a staggering number, the loss is actually down significantly for the same period last year, in which the console giant reported a loss of $880m.
Net sales of software and hardware were down to $2.5 billion from $2.7 billion in 2011.
Net income and sales also failed to meet expected forecasts set on April 26th earlier this year, with the company’s net loss expected to be cut down to $250 million, a target missed by $100m.
The 3DS sold 5.06m units worldwide by the end of September, whilst Wii hardware sales reached 1.32m for the same period. Lifetime 3DS hardware sales now stand at 22m, with Wii sales at an impressive 97.2m.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...nances-improve ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 20:21- Categories:
- Apple iPad
The new iPad Mini was launched last night – a device which, according to Apple's senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ives, is a ‘concentrated version’ of the iPad.
Since doing such a sterling job at the launch of the original iPad, Ives seems to be the post-Jobs era stand-in for the great man. Apple calls upon Ives to wax lyrical about magic while CEO Tim Cook talks about how quickly their undersupplied retail partners sell out of stock. And then they wheel out the new product.
It’s a shame, then, that Apple has not been able to apply the magic of its launch events to the design process. With the iPad Mini, Apple is following the pack in every way.
There are already other players in the small screen tablet market and they’re all offering a far more compelling price point than Apple. This launch looks like Apple’s management had a meeting where they saw these form factors doing well and said “we need to get the top-end of this market”. That’s fine, but is it innovative? No.
The hardware is pretty much what was found in the iPad 2, only this time it’s in a much smaller packaging. Diminutive dimensions seemed to be the focus of this launch, and not just for the iPad. The new iMac and the new MacBook are super thin too. Shame Intel got there first.
Even the much vaunted ‘sharper’ screen is more of a workaround than an innovation. The display resolution is the same but the panel is smaller. That’s not a credit to Apple, it’s a credit to the manufacturers of Apple’s screens – Samsung.
Of course you can give them some credit for managing to get it out there ahead of the launch of Microsoft’s touch-specific operating system, Windows 8, and its flagship product, the Surface. But this perhaps indicates a new kind of cynicism within Apple. This coupled with the litigious activity lately, makes it look like a company that’s out of ideas.
I have no doubt that there are those who will disagree with me. But I don’t think anyone can really call this the kind of innovation that we’ve come to expect from a company like Apple.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...inative/029448 ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 20:18- Categories:
- Apple iPad
Revealing the iPad mini wasn't enough for Apple, as the firm has also unveiled a 'fourth generation' iPad.
Why release another when there was a new iPad released back in March, you ask?
Well, Amazon souped up its original Kindle Fire at the Fire HD launch and Apple seems to have followed suit.
There's no difference in terms of size – it still measures at 9.7-inches – but this time comes with an A6X chip which is designed to double the graphics and processing performance of the A5X found in the iPad 3.
As with the iPad mini and iPhone 5, the fourth generation iPad sports Lightning connector support, while it has wi-fi only and wi-fi and cellular connectivity options.
Wi-fi models will be available from Friday, November 2nd priced at £399 for 16GB, £479 for 32GB and £559 for the 64GB.
Wi-fi and cellular models will ship a couple weeks after the wi-fi only, with pricing at £499 for the 16GB, £579 for the 32GB, £659 for the 64GB.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...pad-too/019672 ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 20:14- Categories:
- Apple iPhone
MobileInsurance.co.uk has provided some interesting insight to the claims they tolerate each day, compiling a list of the strangest phone claims they've had over the past year.
Prepare yourself, this goes beyond basic water damage or having it stolen from a sticky-fingered rapscallion...
1. A farmer in Devon claimed his iPhone disappeared into a cow's back passage when he used the torch during a calving.
2. A lady in her early 40s from Nottingham baked her Nokia 6303i into a Victoria Sponge she'd been making for her daughter's birthday, suffering a heat of gas mark 5.
3. A lady in her 30s claimed she'd been walking her dog in Wales, when a seagull swooped down and took her Samsung Galaxy from her hand.
4. A woman in her late 20s from Bristol claimed the vibration function on her BlackBerry Bold 9900 phone stopped working while she used it as an adult toy.
5. A 40 year old construction worker said his iPhone 4S had fallen out of his back pocket when he pulled his jeans down before sitting on the toilet. Not realising, he went about his business and flushed the chain.
6. A man in his 30s claimed he'd been filming monkeys from the car window in Longleat Safari Park with his HTC One X when a monkey climbed on the roof and snatched it.
7. A couple re-enacting the "I'm King of the World!" scene from Titanic lost their phone over the side of their cruise ship, whilst trying to take a photo of themselves.
8. A pyrotechnician was setting up a show for the National Fireworks Championships in Plymouth, and having left his iPhone 3GS within the "blast zone", it was nowhere to be found when he returned post-show, having been fired 3,000 feet into the air before exploding.
9. A lady in her 20s from Liverpool admitted she'd thrown her HTC Desire X at her boyfriend, whom she'd discovered was cheating, but it missed him and hit a wall; breaking the handset.
10. Rather than pay £60 for a ticket to see Blur at their sell-out Hyde Park shows, one customer tried to film the event on his iPhone from up a nearby tree - he got a little too excited as the band came on stage though, and dropped his phone onto the ground below.
An additional stat shows 64 per cent of claimants say they've walked into an object while texting.
John Lamerton, MD, MobileInsurance.co.uk, said: "I must say, we tend to see a lot of weird and wonderful claims coming in from customers, but these 10 had to be the most bizarre.
"I'm not sure how some of them even came about, particularly in the case of the farmer and the cow."
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...ackside/019678 ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 00:22- Categories:
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Amazon are releasing the Kindle Fire HD in 1 days time, heres some info regarding it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...rd_i=341677031 ...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 22:22- Categories:
- PS3 News
Sony is waking up to a new PlayStation 3 security nightmare after a day in which a brand new, PSN-enabled custom firmware was released for hacked consoles, swiftly followed up by publication of the console's LV0 decryption keys - which some say blows the system wide open.We've been here before of course. Over two years ago, the first piracy-enabling firmware and USB dongle combo - PSJailbreak was released, which exploited a weakness in the PS3's USB protocols, allowing for the system software to be patched in order to run copied software running from hard disk. This was followed up some time later by the release of tools from hacker group fail0verflow, which allowed users to encrypt files for the system in the same way that Sony does, allowing for a new wave of piracy. Geohot's public release of the "metldr" root key also added to the challenges facing Sony, resulting in a messy legal battle.The firm's response - firmware 3.60 - plugged many of the holes, neatly working around the entire root key problem, and even with the release of the new custom firmware, any console running system software 3.60 or higher is effectively locked out. Only hacked consoles, or those still running 3.55 or lower can run the new code unless expensive, difficult-to-install hardware downgrade devices are utilised on older hardware.Despite the effectiveness of firmware 3.60, PS3 has still had to contend with piracy issues, notably the JB2/TrueBlue dongle, but this hack still locked consoles to 3.55 and stopped compromised consoles gaining access to PSN - until recently at least, where the "passphrase" security protocol protecting PSN was leaked, giving hacked consoles full access to the service.The release of the new custom firmware - and the LV0 decryption keys in particular - poses serious issues. While Sony will almost certainly change the PSN passphrase once again in the upcoming 4.30 update, the reveal of the LV0 key basically means that any system update released by Sony going forward can be decrypted with little or no effort whatsoever. Options Sony has in battling this leak are limited - every PS3 out there needs to be able to decrypt any firmware download package in order for the console to be updated (a 2006 launch PS3 can still update directly to the latest software). The release of the LV0 key allows for that to be achieved on PC, with the CoreOS and XMB files then re-encrypted using the existing 3.55 keys in order to be run on hacked consoles.So just how did LV0 come to be released at all? The original hackers who first found the master key - calling themselves "The Three Tuskateers" - apparently sat on its discovery for some time. However, the information leaked and ended up being the means by which a new Chinese hacking outfit - dubbed "BlueDiskCFW" planned to charge for and release new custom firmware updates. To stop these people profiteering from their work, the "Muskateers" released the LV0 key and within 24 hours, a free CFW update was released."You can be sure that if it wouldn't have been for this leak, this key would never have seen the light of day, only the fear of our work being used by others to make money out of it has forced us to release this now," a statement from the hacker group says.We have approached Sony for comment....
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...the-final-hackby Published on October 23rd, 2012 21:59- Categories:
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- Android News
One of Amazon's subtler but potentially valuable promises for the Kindle Fire HD was its Kindle FreeTime mode -- a fenced-off world that would give kids a simple place to play and their parents the confidence to step away for a few precious minutes. It wasn't part of the initial launch, but a new update to the 7-inch model is rolling FreeTime into Amazon's latest tablet. The upgrade gives as much flexibility as Amazon promised, letting adults introduce filters as well as cap the time their children spend with different kinds of content. Most of the remaining updates pertain to general fixes; that said, we imagine that most parents won't mind the narrow focus once they know Junior can't watch Kill Bill.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=201016350 ...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 21:13- Categories:
- Wii U News
Pre-ordering online is not sufficient, then?
There are two main facts to consider here. The first is that there’s a man whose actual name, according to Kotaku, is Isaiah-Triforce Johnson. We presume this gentleman changed his name himself and was not given it by his parents.
Though that is not confirmed.
The second fact to consider is that Isaiah-Triforce Johnson is already queuing outside Manhattan’s Nintendo World Store for his Wii U. Just under a month ahead of its launch in the region on November 18th.
Johnson has apparently “made a name for himself as the first person to buy just about every piece of Nintendo hardware in recent history”.
Our favourite thing about him is that in the picture above he’s wearing a Nintendo Power Glove.
We have a further question – does ITJ know that Nintendo employees, their family members, key partners and select press will actually get their hands on the machine before him without queuing outside for a month?
Still, good luck to him. We hope the weather in New York is better than what we’re getting in the UK. A workman told us this morning that there’s a chance of snow later this week.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/a-man...-wii-u/0105040
...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 21:06- Categories:
- Wii U News
When the Wii U version of Assassin's Creed III arrives in stores next month, there won't be much to distinguish it from its Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC counterparts. As the game's creative director Alex Hutchinson told GamesIndustry International at a launch party last week, that's a good thing.
"I'm super excited whenever we demo the Wii U," Hutchinson said. "It is exactly the same game that's on the other platforms. And I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's been a long time since I've shipped a game on more than three platforms where you could say it's all the same. It's not like some radically diminished version, so that's exciting."
The Wii U version of the game will use the system's Game Pad to display the in-game map, or allow players to quickly equip different weapons. While Hutchinson didn't mention the Game Pad specifically, he did speak positively about working with the new Nintendo hardware itself.
"It's always a challenge with new hardware, but it's also exciting," Hutchinson said. "I love the smell of new plastic, that day you get home with your new piece of kit. And it's been a long time since we've had a new piece of kit."
Assassin's Creed III debuts on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC October 30. The Wii U version is expected on shelves at the console's launch November 18.
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