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Windows Phone 7 RTM

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Archive for December 1st, 2009

iPhone: itsy bitsy Spider

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
iPhone: itsy bitsy Spider

To understand any gaming system, you should ferret out the games best suited to the system. This is true of any platform, but it's particularly true of innovative approaches finding their way, such as the DS and the Wii. And, yes, the iPhone »

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Microsoft Partners with Live Nation on Section 7 Online Community

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

From Microsoft: Windows and Live Nation announced they have teamed up to offer a new and simple way of connecting music fans with the music and artists they love most – a new online community know as Section 7. »

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Section 8 adds salt, hornets, and hydroelectric power

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Section 8 adds salt, hornets, and hydroelectric power

Timegate Studios just released the first round of downloadable content for Section 8 . The "Seek & Destroy" map pack includes three new maps. Players will be able to fight for control of a geothermal energy plant on the salt flats of New Madrid in "Devil's Backbone" and battle in the narrow confines... »

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"Videogames" pwn Operation Christmas Child at Chick-Fil-A

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
"Videogames" pwn Operation Christmas Child at Chick-Fil-A

If you walk into a couple of select Chick-Fil-A restaurants in California, you might see the following: ...four laptops are set up; three with the Charlie Church Mouse Games and one with Keys of the Kingdom. Customers are given a flyer with a coupon which offers a 20% discount when they purchase one... »

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The latest Duke Nukem can’t shoot straight

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
The latest Duke Nukem can’t shoot straight

Who knows what's going on at this Facebook page , which teases some sort of Duke Nukem related "project" called D-Day? I mean, seriously, what sort of game developer uses Facebook or Twitter to make cryptic announcements? Anyway, whatever the heck is going on in that screenshot up there is presumably related to... »

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Four new heroes to embark on Puzzle Quest 2

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Four new heroes to embark on Puzzle Quest 2

Have a look at the just-released screenshots for Puzzle Quest 2 (plus some concept art of a lighthouse). Do you see all the cool new stuff Infinite Interactive is doing in this sequel to the game that busted match-3s out of the match-3 ghetto »

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Office 2010 Scheduled for June Release

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Office 2010 Scheduled for June Release

Neowin reports that Microsoft will deliver Office 2010 in June, which is just slightly more information than what the software giant has already provided ("by the end of the first half of 2010"). Here's the news... Microsoft is set to launch an entirely new updated wave of Office applications for Windows in June... »

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December 1, 2009: wallet threat level yellow

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
December 1, 2009: wallet threat level yellow

This must be what it's like if you stick around at the finish line of a marathon after everyone else goes home. A few stragglers, huffing and puffing and maybe a little pathetic and desperate to see if anyone has waited up for them, plod across the finish line. So it is with... »

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