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Nintendo 3DS costs at least $101 to make, sells for $249

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 25, 2011
1 min

The Nintendo 3DS portable game device costs about $101 to make and will start selling on March 27 in North America for $249. According...

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RIM opens up to Android, but will it be too late?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 24, 2011
2 min

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion had a double dose of news today. It announced that its BlackBerry PlayBook would support Android apps, and it...

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After a long wait, Google starts testing in-app purchases

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 24, 2011
2 min

Google finally said today that it has begun testing in-app billing for the Android Market and it will formally launch it next week. That...

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Startup creates social marketplace for game “mods”

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 24, 2011
3 min

Olympus Games has created a social marketplace for uploading and downloading user-generated modifications to games known as “mods.” Seattle-based Olympus Games says its Gmod...

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PAX East 2011, a lost camera, and two venerable fighting franchises

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 24, 2011
5 min

It's day two of PAX East 2011, and I'm standing in line with my friend Jon waiting to play some brutal action of the...

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A music video made with Rock Band 3

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 24, 2011
1 min

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKomXy6Jmk] This is a music video I made for my friend's band, The Winning Caption. It puts both Rock Band 3 and the...

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Sony says PS 3 hacker Geohot has fled to South America (or not!)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 24, 2011
2 min

Sony says that 21-year-old George Hotz, the hacker who reverse-engineered the security system for the PlayStation 3, has fled the country to South America...