The company that kicked Mark Hurd to the curb for financial impropriety has today reported it’ll pay $55 million in a settlement with the US Department of Justice relating to some fiscal delinquency of its own. HP was accused of greasing up the wheels of business, as it were, by throwing cash around to companies who would recommend its services to state procurement agencies.
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HP agrees to pay $55 million to settle investigation into illegal kickbacks
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV.
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Screen Grabs: Turtle gets his Kinect on
You know, we thought we couldn’t want need Twisted Pixel’s Comic Jumper any more than we already do, but the announcement that two new levels for ‘Splosion Man will be included with the game is almost too much value for us to handle.
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Comic Jumper packs in free ‘Splosion Man DLC (plus: new trailers!)
No matter how you feel about Serious Sam’s brand of first-person mayhem, you’ve got to admit the marketing behind the HD remakes has been brilliant — and this latest video for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is no different. It’s the second promo to feature the ” House of Sam ,” a place where folks can worship His divine shotgun; where those afflicted with Krundle Blindness — an inability to see things in high-def — can be be cured. Mostly, it’s a place of magic .
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Serious Sam HD promo brings us back to the House of Sam
Browser game developer Quick Hit, Inc. has announced that it has secured the rights to use NFL teams, logos, uniforms and all other trademarks associated with the league during the next “season” of its flagship online sports title, QuickHit Football . The game will also feature current NFL coaches and players, as well as legends, like Barry Sanders
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Browser-based QuickHit Football catches NFL licensing deal
Dell has marked down Super Mario Galaxy 2 to $35. For a high-profile game just released weeks ago, that’s a pittance — less than a pittance . If you gave Dell a pittance, you’d get a trifle back as change
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 on sale for $35 through Dell
If you’ve never experienced the impossible magic of JellyCar , the XNA and iPhone platforming sensation, then you might not get as excited as we are about these two recent ESRB listings for JellyCar 2 . The ratings board recently slapped an E (as in, for Everyone) on the sequel, which is apparently expanding from its current home on the App Store to the WiiWare and DSiWare platforms in the near future
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ESRB rates JellyCar 2 for Wii and DSi
Avalanche Studios is working on a new action game, according to studio head Christofer Sundberg. Rather than another Just Cause , this new game will be the start of a new franchise — a licensed one, in fact. “I can’t talk much about our next project, but it’s definitively within the action genre,” Sundberg told CVG .
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Avalanche Studios working on licensed action game
Click image for a rundown of the pre-order bonuses Anxious to wade through the wastelands of Fallout: New Vegas this fall? It’s already got a plethora of pre-order bonuses available through select retailers
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Fallout: New Vegas gets retailer-specific pre-order items
“I want to go to the baseball stadium, and then the image gallery” As hinted by the ESRB — and predicted on our Xbox E3 Bingo card , Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi , two of Sega’s standout games for its dearly departed Dreamcast , will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Dreamcast Returns on PSN and XBLA this year
