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Monster Hunter Portable 3rd gets top honors at PlayStation Awards

By GameSpot, published 12-06-2011

Capcom's monster-killing game for PSP and PS3 nabs Sony Japan's highest awards; Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 also top winners in User's Choice category. As the year of 2011 reaches to a close, Sony Entertainment Japan held the annual PlayStation Awards on December 6 to honor developers for their hard work and high sales. According to the official website (via ), the awards covered games released between November 1, 2010, and October 31, 2011. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd sold a lot of copies; therefore, it won the highest award in Sony's event. The top winner as the game with the best sales number was Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. The game's development staff at Capcom received 4 million yen ($51,425). The rest of the winners who were awarded the ...

GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #223

By GameInformer, published 28-10-2011

The Game Informer monthly staff page is a forum where we all come together and talk about what's cool right now. We'll get the ball rolling and would love to hear everyone's current interests, dislikes, and favorite games. Andy McNamara Profile E-mail Editor Interests: The Walking Dead (Though I Do Groan Every Time They Talk About Family), Ready Player One (Amazing Book That You Should Read If You Love Classic Video Games), Bon Iver, Going To Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives Restaurants When I Visit A New City, Born To Run By Christopher McDougall, The Christian Ponder Era Dislikes: The Lack Of People On Google Plus, The Fact That The NBA Players Union Doesn’t Understand That There Is No Easy Way Out Of Being One Of the Have-Nots And Without Change And...

Sony showing 18 unannounced PS Vita games at TGS

By GameSpot, published 09-01-2011

Publisher's booth will have 31 titles for upcoming portable in total at show; The Last Guardian MIA from 21-game PS3 lineup. Sony has made it official that the PlayStation Vita will be confined to Japan in 2011, with the North American and European rollouts not expected until early 2012. Japan will also be the site of a major update to the PS Vita library, as Andria Sang reports today that Sony confirmed that this month's Tokyo Game Show will play host to the announcement of 18 new titles for the device. Dynasty Warriors Next will be among 31 PS Vita games shown at TGS 2011. Sony did not provide a breakdown of who will be publishing the games that it plans to show at its PlayStation Vita Zone booth. However, the publisher did confirm by name 13 other...

Sony showing 18 unannounced PS Vita games at TGS

By GameSpot, published 09-01-2011

Publisher's booth will have 31 titles for upcoming portable in total at show; The Last Guardian MIA from 21-game PS3 lineup. Sony has made it official that the PlayStation Vita will be confined to Japan in 2011, with the North American and European rollouts not expected until early 2012. Japan will also be the site of a major update to the PS Vita library, as Andria Sang reports today that Sony confirmed that this month's Tokyo Game Show will play host to the announcement of 18 new titles for the device. Dynasty Warriors Next will be among 31 PS Vita games shown at TGS 2011. Sony did not provide a breakdown of who will be publishing the games that it plans to show at its PlayStation Vita Zone booth. However, the publisher did confirm by name 13 other games...

Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini

By TechRadar, published 18-08-2011

Before the arrival of Sony's Ericsson's new Xperia Mini, the X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro were an odd little couple, launching in mid-2010 with Android 1.6 and a bespoke and heavily-customised user interface on top.They weren't amazingly powerful phones and their 2.55" screens were shockingly small - but Sony Ericsson did a good job of maximising the available space with its corner-based interface. The same system has returned in 2011's updates, albeit improved thanks to Sony Ericsson's developers having another year to fiddle with the interface and add more new layers of social integration. We've got some real-life footage of ACTUAL people using the phone - check it out if these grouped-together letters are too much:The new Xperia Mini is available SIM-free for just over the £200 mark, with...

Review Roundup: This week's hottest reviews on TechRadar

By TechRadar, published 23-07-2011

This week we've taken a first look at the new webOS HP Veer smartphone as well as Apple's brand-new MacBook Air featuring blistering performance from Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors.We've also reviewed Nokia's latest X7 smartphone as well as the Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Pro. Check all our reviews out below. HP Veer reviewIn the beginning, there was Palm. The company created the handheld/smartphone category with the original personal digital assistants in 1996. Now, following an HP acquisition about a year ago, it's emerged with a new super-tiny model, the HP Veer.The smartphone is priced at $99 with a two-year contract in the US, with costs yet to be announced in the UK. It's so light, at 103g, and small, at 84x54x15.1mm, that it almost seems like a toy phone – something you...

Review: Kimber 4PR

By TechRadar, published 19-07-2011

Outwardly, there's not a huge amount of difference between many of Kimber's speaker cables. They tend to use multiple, individually insulated conductors twisted together in a special weave, with low-loss insulation. In the case of the 4PR reviewed here, there are four conductors per side and insulation is simply polythene – a recipe apparently unchanged since the earliest days of Hi-Fi Choice back in the 1970s! This is the cheapest of Kimber's speaker cables and dearer models have fancier materials, including 'vari-strand' conductors and Teflon insulation. The basic electrical characteristics are very similar, though and one might expect performance not to vary vastly. Termination is a tiresome job and distributor Russ Andrews tends to sell preterminated cable sets, fitted with simple, b...

Buying Guide: Top 10 creative apps for Mac OS X

By TechRadar, published 30-06-2011

The Mac App store holds loads of top apps to boost creativity. Here are 10 of the best.Aperture - £45 Apple Aperture is a real steal, especially for iPhoto users wanting to upgrade to something more powerful. It boasts top photo-management tools, including the ability to upload to and manage albums on Flickr, Facebook and MobileMe and manage images by Places and Faces. It also boasts intuitive RAW-editing features and a top-notch interface, making Aperture an essential buy. CameraBag Desktop - £8.99 Nevercenter Ltd The Mac version of this iPhone's photo app, CameraBag Desktop is about adding old-school effects to your photos. The app is simple: open it up, load in an image and you can start applying the effects, including cross-processing, silver, instant and Helga. All the filters are h...

This Lady Loves To Farm

By GameInformer, published 05-11-2011

Pop diva Lady GaGa and Zynga are teaming up again, this time to promote her new album Born This Way on Farmville. The unlikely duo previously worked together to raise nearly $3 million for Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami. This time, it's all about shameless self promotion! “I want to celebrate and share Born This Way with my little monsters in a special way that’s never been done before,” Lady Gaga said in a press statement . “Zynga has created a magical place in FarmVille where my fans can come play and be the first to listen to the album.” The centerpiece of this collaboration is a Lady Gaga-inspired farm that features pop star riders like unicorns, sheep on motorcycles, and crystals. Tend to this needy plot of land prop...

Plastic Bags into Fuel via Carbon-Negative Device

By SlashGear, published 21-02-2011

Welcome to the modern consumer landscape, one where our everyday environment is literally littered with plastic bags. We cannot escape them, we cannot stop using them. What’s to be done? An inventor in Japan by the name of Akinori Ito has offered up an invention that takes these bags and turns them into fuel. How could this possibly be done? Consider the makeup of the bags: oil and ink. Is it possible to revert these bags back down to their elements, elements that can be reused for all manner of fuel-sucking machines. All it takes is heat! What Ito’s invention does is hold an amount of bags inside itself, head them up to great temperatures, trap the vapors that result, and channels the vapors through a system of pipes and water chambers. Once these vapors are channeled, they&...

Float Like Rocky, Sting Like Ali In Fight Night's New Story Mode

By GameInformer, published 17-02-2011

In 2003, ESPN debuted Playmakers, a gridiron soap opera about a fictitious professional football team that dealt with many of the dirty off-the-field issues commonly seen in the world of sports. Critics and viewers alike gravitated to the show, making it the third-most popular program on ESPN. Not everyone was happy with the success. The NFL disliked the show due to its portrayal of professional players as drug addicts, wife beaters, and closeted homosexuals. With the renewal of the Sunday Night Football contract on the horizon, ESPN caved to pressure from the overbearing league and cancelled the show. Sports game developers are all too familiar with this kind of league pressure. Many leagues review the content that goes into each game, which might keep, for example, EA Tiburon from addin...