No word on whether Steve Jobs will present the new tablet

The official iPad 2 unveiling will take place on March 2, it has been confirmed.
There is good evidence to suggest the iPad 2 will be lighter and thinner, with a front-facing camera and a Qualcomm chip.
Thanks to Apple fanatics around the globe we know about host of features which iPad 2 mighthave, ranging from retina display to an ultra-fast ‘thunderbolt’ data transfer port.
A Reuters source has also rubbished claims the forthcoming tablet was experiencing production problems. The Apple insider told the media agency that the Taiwanese research company was wrong. The iPad 2 is expected to reach retail by April.
Apple have released a teaser image with date and the tagline “come see what 2011 will be the year of” – an upfront response to industry theory that the new iPad will lose sales to other tablets due for launch this year.


Apple have sold around 15 million iPads to date.
The launch will take place at the Yerba Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10:00am Pacific time.
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In taking what some see as the brave decision to help the long overdue Duke Nukem Forever come to market, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has stated that he feels committed to realise the vision that 3D Realms was unable itself to complete.
When asked by Eurogamer if Duke Nukem Forever mirrors his own vision for the title, Pitchford responded: "No, it's not my game. My commitment is to make sure that I and you and we all finally get to play the game we've been waiting for all this time. So the commitment that I've made with my studio is to make sure 3D Realms' vision is realised.

"I was at 3D Realms at the very beginning of the project, so the influence that persisted from that point forward is very high level – the top-line story of how Duke is enjoying the rewards of his successes, and some time has passed since he saved the world, and it's this world that the aliens come back into, and he once again has to rise and be the one."
Later in the interview, Pitchford seemingly becomes quite irritated when Eurogamer suggests that the title's visuals reflect the game's long development cycle.
"That's incorrect. That's actually incorrect," Pitchford interjects. "The game pushes the system to its absolute maximum. The thing we're struggling with now is actually performance and memory constraints.



"If you play a game that doesn't have anything and it's just a shell focused on the scene, yeah you can get higher fidelity, but when you want to put in more simulation, more things to do in the environment, you have to trade off those resources somewhat.
"If this exact game had come out earlier in the cycle, when everyone else hadn't picked their angles and maximised the hardware, there'd be nothing that looked as good. The game absolutely looks better than the first generation Xbox 360 and PS3 games. In this world, today, there are games that look worse than it and there's games that look better than it."
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Says it's aware of complaints that in-app payments can allow children to spend money

The US Federal Trade Commission is looking into reports of children blowing their parents' credit cards on mobile social games.
The FTC says it's aware of complaints that in-app payments can allow children to spend money within mobile social games without their parents' permission, and is looking into the issue.




In a letter to Democrat congressman Ed Markey, who had asked about the problems, FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz reveals that the matter is firmly on its radar.

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'Children will always find a way to access adult content' study says

Net security firm BitDefender interviewed 1,570 parents from five countries to find out their children’s browsing habits. Using monitoring software, 95 per cent of parents found their children had looked up porn.
Porn access was popular during homework time, with kids accessing porn for the first time at an average age of 11.
A high 97 per cent of parents used programs to block porn sites and monitor their kid’s computer usage, but 12 per cent of teenagers managed to uninstall or circumvent the software.
87 per cent of Mums and Dads claimed they would let their children look for porn on the web once they were 19 years old, while only 62 per cent of parents owned up to accessing adult content themselves.
“BitDefender believes this sends a clear message to parents - it’s more important than ever to take steps to protect children from exposure to sexually explicit materials found on the internet" said BitDefender's Sabina Dactu, author of the study.
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News via http://psx-scene.com/forums/f6/n64-e...st-look-81605/

Our friends over at PS3News are reporting that a Nintendo 64 (N64) is in development for the PS3. While nothing has been released yet, demonstration videos have been posted.


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We are a team of 3 guys who have been working on a Nintendo 64 emulator for quite some time now, and we have decided to go out with the news since now our N64 emulator is officially working on the PS3.

We still have a huge load of things to work on, but it's playable and N64 is finally working on the PS3.

What we have done so far:

* 1 player (keyboard only)
* We have succeeded to enable gameshark codes
* Graphics works excellent on most games we have tried; Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Ridge Racer 64, Diddy Kong Racer, Mario Kart 64, Banjo Kazooie and 1080 Snowboard.
* Games we have tried that are jerky (so far): Duke Nukem 64, Doom 64, Hexen 64 and WCW Smackdown 64.


Issues (we are working on):

* Audio is not working yet.
* A user interface and the ability to edit and change files such as controller settings, cheat codes, etc. (We do all this over FTP now).
* Game menu (we now have to upload one game at the time).
* PS3 controller, (we now have to use a USB keyboard).
* Multiplayer.


We have decided to use ps3news and youtube to communicate with you guys, and if you want to help us out, feel free to either email us at [email protected] or PM us on youtube.

Here's the youtube video we just uploaded:


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It's said that the first launch machines will be available in colors known as "Cosmo Black" and "Aqua Blue".






3DS Feature :

• Backward compatible with DS and DSi games (including downloadables).
• Customizable 3D depth and 2D mode.
• SD Memory card slot, with a 2Gb card included.
• Familiar controls to DS users.
• Added analog circle pad.
• Accelerometer and Gyroscope allow for motion sensing.
• 3DS is packaged with a battery charging cradle.
• User interface has a Home button which allows for suspending gameplay and reentering at any time.
• Street Pass enhanced local wireless features.
• 3 cameras - one is forward facing for self shots. The other two allow for 3D photography.

3DS Available News :
1.It's said that old DS-only flash carts (e.g. Acekard 2.1, CycloDS Evolution, R4 DS...) that were not DSi compatible, aren't 3DS compatible either.

2. the 3DS Will only use one universal friend code. that's to say, Once you add someone as a friend in the 3DS, you don't need to add him again in a game you both have.What's more, it will make WIFI games easier to set-up.

3.the Nintendo 3DS will be region coded, that's to say the right of playing games from different regions on the system was lost.

Source :

Nitendo offical website
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Sony's PlayStation Home is two years old. That's a success in itself, but perhaps the service's biggest accomplishment is how successfully it has overcome the initial cynicism and flourished into a money making business.
"From a business point of view, virtual items and microtransactions… it just works," Home’s platform director Peter Edward told Develop.

"We have tens of thousands of items, and they are making money. There are some developers solely working on Home now, which speaks a lot to the success we can create. There are developers making money from virtual items in Home, simple as that.
"But you’ve also got the free to play and freemium model. Sodium, the game by Lockwood, is a great example of that. They offer the first five levels of their game for free, but to get the other 45 you have to buy an item of clothing for your avatar to wear that unlocks that access. They’ve had a massive conversion rate – 25 per cent of players pay up."
However, there is still one obstacle Home is yet to completely overcome – the perception from some that the serif has been a flop. Fortunately it's not a mindset that's widely shared amongst the industry itself.



"I think a lot of the industry understands it – and I think there are a lot of people in the industry who don’t realise how much the others understand it," Edward added.
"So, there are 120 studios using the HDK and making content with it. That’s a huge community already using the platform. Having said that, there is a section of the development community that doesn’t realise. That’s why we’re trying to get the news out there.
"Everybody knows that current-gen flagship console development is not cheap – that’s why mobile and handheld development is so popular right now, the barriers to entry are so much lower. But Home offers an opportunity to get on a console when you have a web/mobile budget. That appeals to indie developers because they can get something on a console for a realistic response and in a good timescale."
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