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Tomorrow marks the launch of Modern Warfare 3 across the U.S. and Europe, but gamers in France, and in particular the capital city of Paris, may be disappointed to find the game missing off store shelves come the morning (or midnight launches). That’s because $1 million worth of copies of the game have been stolen […]

Back in September, AT&T announced the (then) latest additions to its 4G line-up: the HTC Titan, Samsung Focus S, and the Samsung Focus Flash. All four run Windows Phone 7.5, and the humble Focus Flash has been aimed squarely at new smartphone users with a $50 price tag. It’s not the biggest or most jaw-dropping […]

Halo: Reach fan and Lego hobbyist Nick Jensen has created something that can be admired whether you play the popular FPS or not. Pictured above is the life-sized replica of the Sniper Rifle System 99 Anti-Matériel that he created almost entirely out of Lego bricks. Taking four months of trial and error, Jensen ended up with […]

Sony only recently took full control of Sony Ericsson, putting to end a tumultuous 10-year relationship that many industry experts held Sony back — and not just in the mobile arena, but company-wide. Now that all that nastiness is behind them, it’s time to push the Xperia line ahead and out some new handsets like the […]

The beauty of using a cellphone as a flashlight is that you always have it on you. The same can’t be said for something like a Mag-Lite as it just isn’t practical to carry something so large around all the time. There are multiple downsides to phone-based light though, the foremost being that they just […]

You may have caught our coverage last week of Microsoft’s vision of the future. It’s full of paper-thin smartphones and tablets, holograms on taxi windows, and Metro-style tiles on refrigerators. But what about Apple’s vision of the future? That’s locked safe under maximum security in Cupertino, but what we can do is rewind back to […]

Games in the Call of Duty and Battlefield series have a pretty hardcore following. Maybe not as hardcore as World of Warcraft players, but they will still line up waiting for a midnight opening to get the latest game in each series. We reported earlier today that Kmart messed up and started selling copies of […]

After the presentation by Samsung and Google that showed us Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus, just about everything was crystal clear, except for one important detail. Release dates and availability were left fuzzy and vague. Though the US is still waiting on official release info, UK customers now know that they can get their hands […]

Earlier this year Commodore USA made a grab for your dollars by re-releasing the Commodore 64. The C64x had the same external look as the 1982 original, but the internals had been replaced with a mini-ITX motherboard and an Intel Atom processor. Prices started at $595, which was a bit steep for the PC being […]

All the major consoles have motion controllers now, but all three companies (Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft) took different approaches to solve the same problem. The end results were the Wii Remote, the PS Move, and Kinect. It looks like the same might end up being true of biometric input for games. So far Nintendo is […]