This year’s Game Developers Conference has two new tracks for the new kids in town: the Social & Online Games Summit and the iPhone Games Summit. Facebook’s Gareth Davis delivered the keynote for the former this morning, titled “How Friends Change Everything.” With 400 million users, 200 million of whom are playing games on the service, it’s pretty hard to argue with Facebook’s bona fides as a seriously huge gaming platform. With components like Facebook Connect, we’re even seeing Facebook functionality penetrate the historically isolated game consoles, like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and even DSi.
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With the estate of Philip K. Dick up in arms over the slightest commercial reference to his published works, we may come to regret the above headline
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Does Android dream of DIY cushions?
As Microsoft prepares to pull the plug on online gaming for the original Xbox, it’s decided to act benevolently toward the undoubtedly grief-stricken Halo 2 loyalists and has rewarded them all with some consolation prizes. A free three-month Xbox Live membership awaits, accompanied by 400 MS points and a place on the Halo: Reach beta, should you wish to accept it. For a console that’s nearly a decade old, it’s understandable that online gaming support would’ve had to end at some point, so you might as well just transfer all your energies into being a good guinea pig / tester for Microsoft’s latest cash cow
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LG’s £500 ($800) GD910 Watch Phone made quite an impression when we reviewed it late last year, but part of that impression was of a bulky, blocky thing that feels decidedly substantial on the wrist. A subtly redesigned version was spotted recently at the LG Digital Experience in Brazil, sporting a slightly more curvaceous shape and a new logo placement — up top rather than below the screen
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Redesigned LG Watch Phone caught showing off shapely figure in Brazil
The US will wake up to a fine howdy do from Nokia’s 5230 Nuron now that it’s officially announced for T-Mobile.
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Nokia 5230 Nuron excites the T-Mobile nervous system
Ah, Ruslan Kogan — we can’t help but want to see this starry-eyed dreamer succeed, even if we still haven’t got our Android handset. According to Australia’s APC , the man’s gunning for the iPad market with an as yet unnamed tablet of his own.
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Kogan announces $200 HD tablet, with networked TVs, Agora handset, and leprechauns to follow
Sony’s PlayStation Motion Controller has gone through a few different names during its development, but “Arc” has cropped up far more than any other over the past few months, and it’s now looking increasingly like a sure thing. While any official announcement will likely have to wait until GDC next week, the folks at Siliconera have discovered that Sony recently filed to trademark the name “PlayStation Arc” in Japan, which is just the latest form of confirmation of the name following a domain registration, and some noticeable name-dropping from gaming CEOs seemingly in-the-know
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Sony files for ‘PlayStation Arc’ trademark in Japan — all but a done deal?
Eternal archrivals-to-the-death Samsung and LG have a tendency to match one another tit for tat in virtually every consumer electronic category, but for whatever reason, LG’s been far less interested in going for broke with Android over the past year — though a preoccupation with Windows Phone 7 Series is a solid guess at this point. Things may be changing, though, now that we’ve got news out of Telecoms Korea that they’re prepping a more brutal assault than the weakling GW620 could ever provide in the form of a so-called LU2300 for the domestic market (we’re assuming the actual thing will be a little more..
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LG’s LU2300 set to challenge Samsung’s M100S for Korean Android dominance?
After so many delays, we’ve nearly given up hope on the EeeKeyboard PC ever actually hitting retail. Having missed the February launch , ASUS chairman Jonney Shih just told us during a post press event Q&A that the mythical, magical EeeKeyboard will now arrive in April.
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ASUS EeeKeyboard PC delayed again, now shipping in April
Piezoelectrics are nothing new — though most applications, they’ve proven to be far more theoretically useful than practical. Still, the technology is starting to move in a direction that could prove more applicable to everyday situations — and a new piezo material recently developed could really get the ball moving
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Scientists to bring piezoelectrics and rubber together to form flexible, wearable energy harvester
