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May, 2009
Techie Breakie: new Sony DSLR, the next BlackBerry Curve, Amazon Kindle refresh and Palm Pre priced?
BitTorrent pirates of the videogame Zeno Clash are being asked nicely “purchase the game if you enjoy it”. Innovative approach, or just a bit naive?
Carlos Bordeu of the Chilean independent developers said ACE Team took the unusual step of on one hand not implementing unpopular “restrictive” digital rights management, and on the other, playing nice with the pirates.
The new Amazon Kindle might be just a few months old (and not yet released in the UK), but already it seems Amazon has a new version. What’s more, the latest reports suggest it’ll launch within weeks, packing a monster screen for more comfortable reading.
The Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox 3 (or 720, or whatever) are due in the “next few years” according to Yves Guillemot, CEO of French videogames publisher Ubisoft. But how soon will those “next few” years come? Not before 2013, according to controversial analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan.
The Palm Pre isn’t even on sale yet, but it’s already dashing the hopes of prospective buyers. The latest Palm Pre rumours suggest the all-singing smartphone will cost a whopping $1000, or around £670, without a two year contract. Ouch.
Microsoft may be about to reveal its rival vision of motion-sensing gaming to the Nintendo Wii. The rumour is that Microsoft will showcase a full-body sensing peripheral for its Xbox 360 console at E3, the world’s largest videogame trade show, in June, in Los Angeles.
The new BlackBerry Curve 8520, codenamed the BlackBerry Gemini, has leaked online, and thanks to these spy shots we can see it’s packing tons of new features. Most notably, the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 says goodbye to the trackball in favour of a swanky optical trackpad.