The Nintendo 3DS is selling like 3D-enabled hotcakes and the 3DS hacks are beginning to appear. At MIT, a giant Nintendo 3DS augmented reality card appeared in the main lobby…
April, 2011
The Kinect hack-ification of the world continues. This one comes from the brilliantly-named BlablabLAB which pulled together three Kinect sensors and a RepRap machine to take pictures of passers by on Barcelona’s La Rambla street and render a miniature model of them right there and then…
Bioware is celebrating. Dragon Age 2 has sold more than one million copies in the two weeks its been out in the world. To thank fans of Dragon Age 2, its offering a free copy of Mass Effect 2 for PC to all Dragon Age 2 owners. All you need to do is enter the code for the online pass that you god with the game (The Black Emporium DLC) at the Bioware site and it’ll show you the way to your free Mass Effect 2.
If you’ve previously registered on Bioware Social but have now lost the card with your code, just log in to the site and hit the “Lost my code” link. That’ll automatically activate it. Hit the headline and head for the comments to let us know how you’re finding Dragon Age 2.
Out now | £free | Bioware
Valve has outed a new Portal 2 trailer video. This one’s in an informercial style and attempts to flog us the Aperture Science turrent.
It’s a great video and left us eager to get our hands on not just Portal 2 but on a turret of our very own. If only the darn things were real. Check out the new Portal 2 trailer after the break and let us know whether you’re going to snap up a copy of Portal 2 when it hits the UK on April 21…
The Sony NGP could face a serious delay and fail to hit its global launch date later this year. That news comes not from some whispering busybody but Sony Computer Entertainment of America president Jack Tretton.
He told Bloomberg that the Sony NGP may arrive in just one region this year rather than Asia, Europe and the US simultaneously. The issue is the result of disruption following the March 11 Japanese earthquake.
Your serving of tech news, squeezed fresh daily, is back again. In today’s US Update we kick things off with news from Fring who just released a limited beta of their messaging application for iOS and Android with group video calling. Next we drop the scoop on the latest iPhone 5 release date rumors. Then we take a look at the fresh new Nokia concept phones. This and more on today’s US Update.
According to Forbes and Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette, “sell-through trends” of the Motorola Xoom and Atrix “have been disappointing”. As the first two dual-core Android devices by Motorola for their respective segments, today’s news comes as an overwhelming shock. The combination of these two devices practically stole the show at CES earlier this year, so what gives?
A match made in heaven is far from the first my first thought as I got wind of the Microsoft Nokia alliance. Smartphones designed and built by Nokia running Windows Phone? To date we have not seen this strategic partnership manifest itself into any official devices, but low and behold Nokia’s N Series blog has given us the first glimmer of hope — the Nokia Kinetic Concept.