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Video game sales fall off a ledge in October
Nov 13th
With total industry sales down 19 percent from a year earlier, things are looking bleak as the holiday season gets under way.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 said to break sales records
Nov 13th
According to Activision, its new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has broken the single-day sales record for an entertainment launch. In the first 24 hours, the new game earned $310 million.
Craigslist brimming with banned, ‘modded’ Xboxes
Nov 12th
In the wake of a decision by Microsoft to ban up to 1 million Xbox Live members for illegally modifying their consoles, Craigslist is now flooded with sales for the devices.
Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players
Nov 11th
Players who were caught modifying their consoles to play pirated games have been booted from the popular service, InformationWeek says.
Singularity University seasons executives for the future
Nov 11th
During the institution's inaugural executive program, 20 students are getting an intense education in the exponential technologies that could shape their companies and industries for decades to come.
Esquire’s Augmented Reality issue goes on sale, and we have video to prove it
Nov 10th
The Augmented Reality issue of Esquire has hit the newsstands, and our fears have come true: when this magazine comes in contact with your webcam, Robert Downey Jr. is unleashed! Aside from dangerous levels of the Academy Award-winning actor, however, the video (after the break) really highlights how silly the whole affair is: While AR has been implemented to great effect for a number of different applications, delivering video content that could just as easily been delivered without waving a magazine in front of your computer definitely crosses the line into gimmick territory. Still, the magazine's design team did pull all the stops -- so if you're curious to see what you'd get for your hard-earned dollar, check out that video walkthrough after the break.
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Esquire's Augmented Reality issue goes on sale, and we have video to prove it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsMusic industry bows to point-and-shoot cameras
Nov 10th
As cheap, powerful automatic cameras and camera phones proliferate, the music industry--and its sports counterpart--have had to realize they can't control fans' ability to take pictures.
Q&A: Bringing back Mickey Mouse’s dark side
Nov 4th
Well-known video game designer will get a chance to show the world the mischievous side of the world-famous cartoon icon in Disney's Epic Mickey, a game for the Wii scheduled for a fall 2010 release.
Bad PDF formatting reveals Google Voice numbers
Oct 30th
Service has 1.419 million users, a number that was meant to be redacted in documents filed with regulators, according to BusinessWeek.
Esquire hopes augmented reality will trick people into reading
Oct 30th
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Esquire hopes augmented reality will trick people into reading originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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