Is this a sign that DRM is on its way out?
Apple announced today that all music purchased from iTunes will now be DRM-free (digital rights management free), meaning that a track purchased from iTunes can be played on any music device regardless of manufacturer or owner. In the same announcement, Apple also indicated three [...]
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Internet usage monitoring firm comScore announced today that online video viewership was up 34% in November 2008 as compared with the same time period last year. Google’s sites, which include YouTube and Google Video, account for 40.3% of all online video viewings, or somewhere around 5 billion video views (yes, that is 5,000,000,000) for [...]
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Everyone who’s owned an Xbox 360 for a period of time is probably at least somewhat familiar, perhaps even intimately familiar, with the dreaded red ring of death, or RRoD as it’s more commonly known. My first two Xbox 360s experienced that fate. The first one died after 6 months, but thankfully Costco’s liberal [...]
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Sony’s SingStar upcoming Christmas music list includes a real gem. Although I think that depends on how you define “gem.”
For those in need of some festive tunes to compliment holiday entertaining, a Christmas song pack will be released mid-December on the SingStore. The pack will be available for $6.99 and will include the following:
Toni Braxton [...]
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Review:
The Saints Row series is a clone of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto. Nonetheless, THQ did a great job making a fun game with the first Saints Row, and Saints Row 2 is a complete re-build of the entire game.
The first Saints Row was pretty glitch-y. You’d be driving along in a car, minding your [...]
Microsoft’s sales of Xbox 360 consoles beat Sony’s PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one margin during the Black Friday holiday shopping opener. Microsoft credited its low price point ($199.99 USD) and broad range of game titles as the reason for surge in Black Friday sales.
According to Microsoft:
Strong game sales rounded out a historic Black Friday [...]
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Review:
I never played the original Midnight Club Racing for the PS2, but I did play Need for Speed: Underground on the original XBOX. Anyone that’s played NFSU will recognize the similarities right away. I’m not sure which came first, the original Midnight Club or NFSU, but it seems to me that NFSU was the blueprint [...]