Tesco has launched its game trade-in scheme across the UK, with over 60 Tesco stores across the country now accepting and selling used games. Could this spell trouble for traditional games retailers?
August, 2010
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New iPod touch, new iPad and mystery iOS device details have been spotted lurking in the code of the latest iOS 4.1 beta. With Apple’s annual iPod refresh due next month, the timing is pretty interesting especially with rumours of an iPad mini rattling around the web and renewed talk about an iOS-powered Apple TV. Could that be the mystery iOS device?
The Blackberry BlackPad sadly didn’t break cover when the Blackberry Torch 9800 was unveiled but hey, that means the intriguing rumours can continue. The latest comes truly from left-field: a new report says the Blackpad won’t run the Blackberry 6 OS but instead turn to QNX, the software maker that powers Porsche navigation systems and US Army Crusher tanks. Is RIM really turning away from its own OS for the tablet?
The arrival of Facebook Places hasn’t rocked Foursquare. In fact, the “one location service to rule them all” seems to have thrown some more light on Foursquare, sending floods of new users to check it out. Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has revealed that the service has broken its record for sign ups and is being pretty bullish about the threat from Facebook Places…
An Italian-American group has accused Take Two’s crime sandbox Mafia II of perpetuating the worst racial stereotypes and portraying Italian-Amnericans as criminals.
Unico National is a non-profit organisation which has campaigned against negative portrayals of Italian Americans in the media. Unico’s president Andre DiMino wrote to Take Two’s chairman Strauss Zelnick to complain that the game will “indoctrinate a new generation into directly associating Italians and Italian-Americans with violent, murderous organised crime, to the exclusion of all of the other ‘mafias’ run by other ethnic and racial groups”.
Since HP gobbled up Palm, there’s been constant talk about when the HP webOS tablet (aka the Palmpad) will make an appearance. After coyly dropping hints for months, HP execs have finally confirmed that it will be arriving in early 2011 in the wake of the Windows 7-powered HP Slate. Read on for the word from HP and what we know so far…
The HTC Desire Froyo Android 2.2 update has slowly but surely been trickling out nationwide. The HTC Desire wowed us when we first got hold of the top end Android 2.1 smartphone back in the Spring, but now HTC’s begun pushing out its big update for it, incorporating the same Sense UI. Froyo was a revelation on the identically specced Google Nexus One, so does it hold up well here? And should you be hammering the update button to get your upgrade? Read on and find out in our HTC Desire Froyo review.