Hold on to your hats, gamers, because there are some pretty juicy rumors floating around out there about the next generation Xbox, or the “Xbox 720,” as the press has dubbed it.
According to Kotaku’s “games industry sources,” …
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Only One-Third of TV-Watching in the U.S. Is Realtime
Cord-cutting may be an unproven myth, but new research suggests that people’s television habits are changing in a way you wouldn’t expect: Only a third of all television viewing nowadays happens “live,” without the Internet, TiVo …
Social Networking Meets Television with MySpace TV
Web TV has a new face today, and it’s not Google, Apple or any of the other brands we’ve been hearing might launch a television service. No, the new future of Web TV apparently belongs to MySpace. (Really!)
Launching this …
Digital Music Sales Finally Surpassed Physical Sales in 2011
Last year, for the first time in history, digital music sales exceeded physical sales, according to a newly released Nielsen/Billboard report cited by CNNMoney.
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MARRIAGE for 13 Points: Words With Friends Game Leads to Love
For some of us, the best we can hope to get out of playing Words With Friends is a respectable score. Megan Lawless and Jasper Jasperse, however, fared just a bit better.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/
Sweden Recognizes File Sharing as an Official Religion
Attention all obsessive internet pirates: If SOPA has you worried about your ability to continue to perform your pixelated perfidy, there’s one clear and unexpected solution to your problem: Move to Sweden, which has just …
‘Napster’ Is No More
After being bought out in October by eternal archrival Rhapsody, music subscription service “Napster” has shut down. Heading to Napster.com now gets you an explanation of what happened and a Rhapsody sales pitch.
I put “Napster” in quotation marks–-a practice I’ve followed, albeit inconsistently, for years–-because the …
Super Mario’s Raccoon Suit Has PETA Crying Foul
“You should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.”
Next Xbox Rumor: Will Run Windows 9 and ARM
Smaller, less expensive and running Windows 9 on an ARM processor—that may just be Microsoft’s next Xbox, according to a rumormonger known for getting predictions like this right.
Blogger MSNerd allots most of his “Clarity” …
Sony’s PlayStation 3D TV: Gorgeous with One Glaring Problem
Imagine my surprise when, last week, the UPS guy dropped off a package from Sony containing a brand new flatscreen TV—not just any flatscreen, mind you, but Sony’s new PlayStation 3D TV! Remember when they announced it back in June at E3 2011? I’d forgotten all about it until it appeared on my doorstep, as if by subconscious …
Best Buy, Indeed: Buy Modern Warfare 3, Get a Free HTC Phone
Provided you aren’t one of those people who paid $1,725 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on eBay, you’re probably eagerly awaiting the game’s release on Tuesday. Those who buy it at Best Buy get a nice little bonus—a free HTC smartphone.
The catch? You’ll need to sign a two-year contract. Still, if you happen to need a phone …