Nintendo confirms Wii U will not have used-game ban

It’s one of the things that has sparked the most controversy when it comes to rumors about the next generation of consoles. But for Nintendo, it won’t be an issue. We’re talking about new technologies that could prevent gamers from using pre-owned game discs on their consoles. There

Nintendo Wii U hopes to be preferred Black Ops II platform

Can you imagine a world where the best experience for the newest Call of Duty game exists on a Nintendo console? It may be possible that such a world exists after the Wii U is released, making it the most current console on the market, surpassing the Xbox 360 and PS3 in its timeliness and Read The Full

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Windows Phone 8 Is A Great Big, Crazy, Beautiful Mess

The Lumia 900 sold me on Windows Phone. The 900 is a marriage of fresh hardware with a fun operating system. I dig the Start Screen with the Live Tiles. There are some shortcomings. The camera sucks, to be sure, and the phone isn’t yet available on Verizon. Plus, after using the phone for several weeks,

Google to pay $0 in damages to Oracle, wait for appeal

After watching Judge Alsup strike down its patent and Java API infringement claims, Oracle seems to be cutting its losses, agreeing to accept $0 in damages from Google. Confused? So was the Judge, who reportedly responded to the proposal by asking, "is there a catch I need to be aware of?" No catch,

The Future Of Microsoft Is Sunny With A Chance Of Thunderstorms

The past few years haven’t been kind to Microsoft. (There’s no need to walk down memory lane. We all know what’s happened.) But somehow that’s all changed in the past few days. Surface and Windows Phone 8, along with Windows 8 and Xbox prove there’s still some fight left in the old dog. It’s a bit premature

Redbox video game stats shown in infographic

So in case you weren’t aware, DVD rental kiosk magnate Redbox decided to step into the world of video game rentals a while back, and the service has now revealed some interesting statistics about how far it has come in its short time in this space. For starters, about 18 million games have been

Facebook Adds Emoticons To Chat, Including A Special “Like-moticon”

Attention teens and the adults that act like them: Facebook has added emoticons to Chat on the web. While before you could use text like to create a smile or even :putnam: to show a picture of an early Facebook engineer, now there’s little menu of the most common emoticons in the bottom right of any

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Huawei brings out Ascend P1 2600 mAh XL for battery junkies, throws in E5151 hotspot

Huawei’s presence at Mobile Asia Expo this year has a distinct flavor of RAZR Maxx about it. The Ascend P1 is getting a fresh 2600 mAh XL variant that does exactly what it says on the tin: throw almost 56 percent more battery power at the previously skinny Android 4.0 device. Along with this and a TD-SCDMA