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Nintendo Wii to Get a Price Cut Just in Time for Christmas?

Variety reports that Nintendo is intending a price cut of $50 by next week. This is to spike the sales of the popular video game consoles which have seen a slow decrease in sales over the past couple of months. This may also be seen as a reaction to the pricing moves of its video [...]

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Yahoo and Microsoft Finally Sign Deal

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. For Web users and advertisers, this deal [...]

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Natal Possibilities for New Halo: Reach Game

So we’ve talked about Microsoft’s latest brain child announced in E3 2009 – Project Natal. If you have not heard of this new hands free gaming peripheral, then you can check the previous article here of our 3D animation studio Mediafreaks here. But the latest development around the video gaming stratosphere is that the new [...]

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Disney Interactive Pioneers 3-D Video Games for G-Force and Toy Story Mania

Three-dimensional experiences are taking over the 3D cartoon animation full-length feature experience at movie theaters in 2009 and Disney Interactive Studios is leading the way in video games by introducing innovative stereoscopic 3-D features in two of its premier video games this summer. G-FORCE and TOY STORY MANIA! both feature revolutionary innovative experiences using 3-D [...]

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Project Natal – the Advent of Self-Aware 3D Animation?

The premise of the successful science fiction Terminator by James Cameron revolves around the battle between humans and a self-aware computer system Skynet which deemed humans as an extreme threat and thus eliminated them through a nuclear blast. When the idea was pitched in movie theaters in 1984, it seemed a very long shot possibility. [...]

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The Nitty-Gritty on Grand Theft Auto IV

Breaking gaming industry records during the first day of release, Grand Theft Auto IV, or fondly called GTA4 by a loyal global fan base, is the sixth game to come from the controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise through the work of the 3D animation studio game developer, Rockstar Games. Set in the fictional milieu of Liberty [...]

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Microsoft releases first beta of flash-killer Silverlight 3

During the MIX09 Conference last March 17, 2009, Microsoft releases the first beta of Silverlight 3, a programmable web browser plugin which is hyped to be the end of the era of flash animation. This release adds 50 new features, including the capability to run applications outside of a browser and more high definition  video features. [...]

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