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Sleeping Dogs Won't Let True Crime Die

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
A tweet by Future Shop Game revealed artwork for a game called Sleeping Dogs, saying this will be available for preorder "soon," and that the game's release is expected for Windows PC and consoles in...
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Unscheduled Ubisoft Downtime

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
The Ubisoft Forums has a post about a user unable to play Driver: San Francisco because the driving action sequel was unable to authenticate itself over the internet. This seems to be a result of the...
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Seropian Leaving Disney

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Alex Seropian, the New York Giants have just won the Super Bowl! What are you going to do? I'm going to leave DisneyWorld! Okay, that's probably not how it played out, but GameInformer does report...
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Naval War: Arctic Circle Live Stream Today

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Paradox Interactive is holding a live streaming demo today to show off Naval War: Arctic Circle, Turbo Tape Games' upcoming naval combat real-time strategy game. This will take place on their...
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War in the Pacific – Admiral’s Edition Patch

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Matrix Games now offers a new patch for War in the Pacific – Admiral’s Edition, updating the seafaring World War II strategy game to version 1.01.08r9, which they describe as comprehensive (which one...
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Op Ed

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Bitmob.com - Publishers must stop pass-locking multiplayer modes. And while I'm here, allow me to challenge the notion that publishers pass-lock content for anything other than commercial gain, as...
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Morning Previews

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action on RPGWatch. Thanks Acleacius. Syndicate on Computer and Video Games.
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Morning Screenshots

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Skyrim High Resolution DLC Comparisons on GamesDot.org.
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Morning Consolidation

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Thanks Ant. Xbox Live's Major Nelson » A Letter from Alex Garden: Your Security. PS3 Firmware Update 4.10 Now Available. Date set for new MW3 DLC. Gotham City Imposters on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Shank 2...
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Morning Mobilization

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Xbox Creator's New Mobile Team Is Ready To Impress. Thanks Acleacius. Google reportedly developing Android-powered smart glasses. Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android. 4G Phones Are Fast...
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Morning Metaverse

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Thanks Acleacius. Yahoo board shake-up as chairman and others leave. Facebook drinking posts teacher Elizabeth Scarlett reprimanded. You, me, and "science" makes three: the state of online dating.
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Morning Tech Bits

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Researchers boost processor performance by getting CPU and GPU to collaborate. AMD Named to Top 20 of Clean Capitalism Ranking. Thanks HARDOCP. Google 'Solve for X' meetings target tech 'moonshots'....
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Morning Safety Dance

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
Crypto crack makes satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping. Not enough done to tackle cyberbullying, warns NSPCC. Thanks Acleacius. Anonymous exposes e-mails of Syrian presidential aides.
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Morning Legal Briefs

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
The three patents Microsoft is hammering the Nook with—and why they may be invalid. Twitter sued by Brazil over drink-driving trap alerts. Thanks Acleacius.
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Game Reviews

Blue's News - 9 min 26 sec ago
The Darkness II on Computer and Video Games and GameSpy. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning on Computer and Video Games. Postal 3 on Player Attack.
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U.S. Navy Receives First Industry Built Railgun Prototype

Slashdot - 11 min 27 sec ago


Zothecula writes "Two years after BAE Systems was awarded a US$21 million contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop an advanced Electromagnetic Railgun for the U.S. Navy, the company has delivered the first industry-built prototype demonstrator to the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren. The prototype launcher is now being prepared for testing which is scheduled to take place in the coming weeks."

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ReactOS 0.3.14 Released With Improved Networking Stack

Slashdot - 29 min 27 sec ago


An anonymous reader wrote in with news of the latest release of ReactOS, a project to create a complete reimplementation of Windows. The highlights of this release are the integration of a new network stack based upon lwIP, the ability to build using Microsoft's C compiler, and Wifi support. There are a few options for trying it out (emulator image and a livecd amongst others) and source code over at Sourceforge.

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Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking

Slashdot - 49 min 27 sec ago


An anonymous reader writes "Former Google executive Stafford Masie believes that traditional search is dying because users are choosing to query their friends and followers on services like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Here's the quote from the video: 'The pie of search query volumes in the world – that business is shrinking. Why? Because people are going and doing search queries – search query volumes are moving towards social containers. They're moving away from static pages being searched and they're moving more towards dynamic real-time stream content. Like Twitter. Like Tumblr. Like Facebook. Those things have a better result because the penetration, the personalization associated with it, and the constant freshness of the content. So I believe that Google's search volume – the business Google is in on the search side – that business is shrinking. And they've got to do something about it.'"

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[EU] Aftermath: Crown of the Heavens Expansion for WoW TCG

World of WarCraft - 1 hour 2 min ago
[Blue Topic] The monsters continue their path of destruction in the latest expansion to the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Aftermath: Crown of the Heavens follows up on Throne of the Tides, introducing a completely new set of Monster hero races and cl...
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Azza Fusion 3000 Full Tower Chassis

[H]ardOCP - 1 hour 7 min ago
Need a new case for your next computer build? OCIA says the Azza Fusion 3000 is a full tower case worthy of your consideration. In reading up on their history, I discovered that at one time Azza offered mainboards in addition to their PSU line. They aren't in the mainboard market anymore but have a variety of chassis and PSU offerings such as the Fusion 3000 that we will be taking a look at here today. Comments
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