Electronic Arts announced an invitation to participate in a special closed beta at The Sims Carnival, a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims studio. TheSimsCarnival.com empowers members to play, create and share casual games within an online community. With the launch of TheSimsCarnival.com, hundreds of games will be available to play and [...]

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Tom Robertson (Microsoft Corp. General Manager of Interoperability and Standards) describes a set of broad-reaching changes to the company’s technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers, and competitors. Specifically, Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across [...]

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NVIDIA today unveil the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M professional GPU for notebook and laptop workstations. Engineered to deliver high performance and visualization of extensive datasets with extremely high image quality in an ISV-certified, notebook platform, the Quadro FX 3600M is available as a fully qualified MXM v2.1A type-III form factor mobile workstation graphics board with: [...]

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WiiWare, Nintendo’s new downloadable game service, launches May 12 and expands development opportunities for developers the same way Wii expanded the world of video game players. Wii Fit, the upcoming title for Wii, launches May 19 and introduces the Wii Balance Board peripheral. And Super Smash Bros. Brawl draws in fans of all kinds. Through [...]

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Whirlpool brand has teamed up with family organizational software maker Cozi, to provide a free online service for family members to get in sync. Cozi software provides the tools for busy families to share schedules, track shopping and to-do lists, organize household chores and stay in communication. A recent consumer survey about family management found [...]

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Today Microsoft officially announced the launch of “Gears of War 2,” exclusively for Xbox 360 this November. “Gears of War 2″ is the sequel to the 4.5 million-selling blockbuster that redefined the third-person tactical action game genre. “Gears of War 2″ continues the story of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad in an epic saga of [...]

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THQ today announced that Red Faction franchise will make its open-world, next-generation debut with Red Faction: Guerrilla. Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction. Players will take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction [...]

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Logitech announced the Logitech Driving Force GT racing wheel, the official wheel of Gran Turismo. Featuring powerful force feedback and 24-position realtime adjustment dial for on-the-fly control of brake bias, traction and damper settings, the Logitech Driving Force GT gives gamers the most accurate and authentic PLAYSTATION3 (PS3) racing experience. The wheel features a large [...]

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AMD today announced that it has open sourced it’s AMD Performance Library (APL), now referred to as “Framewave version 1.0,” t Framewave helps enable faster development of projects such as media players, codecs, image editors, audio applications and media streaming. Tags: AMD

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Guests at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego were able to get a hands-on experience with Microsoft Surface table. Sheraton Hotels & Resorts will be rolling out Surface by late spring 2008 in its lobbies throughout North America. So, go there and touch it… No tag for this post.

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