Apple
has today rolled out support within its App Store for eight more
currencies, which includes the Russian Ruble, Turkey’s Lire, India’s
Rupee, Indonesia’s Rupiah, Israel’s New Shekel, Saudi Arabia’s Riyal,
South Africa’s Rand, and United Arab Emirates’ Dirham.
Previously these unsupported currencies would have had to
make payments in US dollars rather than their local currency, download
free applications or jailbreak their devices to acquire apps by illegal
means.
With the addition of the new support currencies within the Apple App Store, developers will now be able to create and benefit from localised apps created for the specific countries listed.
Apple also explained that payment reports via recently updated iTunes Connect
will now also include individual re
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Its Friday again and the fourth instalment of the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
live-action action series has been released to help you through the
day.
The new instalment adds another 15 minutes of live-action to the
story and can be viewed after the jump together with the first three
episodes if you haven’t had the chance to see any.
The official Halo
4 game currently in development by 343 Industries will be launching
worldwide on November 6th 2012, with both regular and limited editions
of the Halo 4 game being available on launch day. You can watch the Halo 4 official launch trailer in our previous post. Enjoy!
"While Corbulo Academy is being destroyed by the Covenant invasion, the surviving cadets fight brave
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The new Assassin’s Creed III game is set before, during and after the
American Revolution from 1753 to 1783, and will feature a new
protagonist, Ratonhnhaké:ton.
Ubisoft has today released a new
interactive trailer for their upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 game, which
allows you to select which direction and actions Ratonhnhaké:ton carries
out within the movie.
The trailer below gives you a glimpse of what to expect from the interactive game trailer,
which can be played over on the Ubisoft website, and includes the
interactive components. Allowing you to enjoy a glimpse of what you can
expect from the gameplay within the new game once it is officially released. Jump over to the Ubisoft website to start interacting.
The latest and highly anticipated Assass
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A new TV trailer for the upcoming premier of The Hobbit movie,
currently in production and arriving in theatres on 14th December 2012
has been released this week.
Providing fans with a little more to
whet their appetites on before the big premier of the trilogy later this
year, and will star Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug.
The
Hobbit trilogy is being co-written and produced by Peter Jackson, and
is based on the awesome Hobbti book created by fantasy master writer J.
R. R. Tolkien. "Gandalf recruits Bilbo and helps to arrange the quest to rec
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If you are in the market for a new gaming keyboard you might be interested in a new creation from Mad Catz which is called the STRIKE 5, which has gone up for pre-order today.
The
Mad Catz STRIKE 5 gaming keyboard will set you back a $200, but comes
equipped with a wealth of features designed specifically for gamers to
enjoy.
The
STRIKE 5 gaming keyboard consists of five separate modules, which can
be combined and arranged to suit your requirements, and is equipped with
a Control Module with E.Y.E. OLED Display.
The Control Module
enables gamers to program advanced macros, adjust backlighting, monitor
respawn timers, and easily control your media. Mad Catz explains:
"Our range of S.T.R.I.K.E. keyboards has captured the imagination of passiona
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Halo fans will be pleased to know a new Halo
4 gameplay trailer has been released this week, which shows a minutes
worth of action for you to enjoy, during the build up to the launch of
the new Halo 4 game being developed by 343 Industries.
Halo 4 will
be officially launching on November 6th 2012, with both regular and
limited editions of the game being available on launch day. 343
Industries have packed the action into the 1 minute
trailer, providing you with a glimpse of what you can expect once the
new Halo 4 game is launched.
"The Master Chief
returns to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation.
Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, Master Chief is faced with new
enemies and a powerful new Forerunner menace.”
We already know that Bethesda’s Skyrim is an amazing success. Many of
us have logged countless hours in the game. But did you know that it is
so popular that Rice University in Houston, Texas, has launched a
one-time course based on it? It is called the "Scandanavian Fantasy
World: Old Norse Sagas and Skyrim” and it is a one-time course that will
run for one semester, offered by the Department of English.
Here is the course description:
This
course has two goals. First, it introduces students to fantasy as both
psychological concept and driving force in gamer culture; and second,
using these paradigms, it considers how and why medieval Scandinavia
serves as a locus of modern Anglo-American fantasy. To these ends,
students will read select
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Electronic developers and hobbyists who are fond of using the Arduino Uno development board
for projects, might be pleased to learn that a new more powerful 32-bit
development board has been created in the form of the Arduino Due.
The
new Arduino Due is based on a Cortex M3 ARM processor, and has been
designed to provide increased performance and faster connectivity at an
affordable $49 price, and is available from today.
Features
of the new Arduino Due development board include, a SAM3X8E processor
from Atmel, based on the 32 bit ARM Cortex M3 architecture running at
84MHz, USB 2.0 interface that can be used as a USB Host, 12 x analog inputs, 4 x high-speed serial communication ports and 70 input/output pins to name juts a few.
With the launch of Nintendo’s Wii U console edging closer, the
company has now started rolling out TV advertising, and has released its
first Wii U TV advert over the weekend, in the UK.
The new Nintendo
Wii U advertisement seems to be targeted at a certain gaming market,
and announces in the first few seconds that the Wii U is a "brand new console with a brand new controller.”
During
the minute long TV commercial Nintendo unveils what is possible using
their new Wii U controller, which isn’t available on other gaming
consoles, and provides a glimpse at some of the games that will be
available when it arrives later this year.
When the Wii U launches
on November 18th games console will be available to two bundles: the
Basic set with 8GB of mem
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Rovio will release the next installment in their Angry Birds series next month, Angry Birds Star Wars, we have already seen one teaser trailer for Angry Birds Star Wars and now Rovio has released another.
This
one features an Angry Birds themed Stormtrooper, have a look at the
video below, the game will be released on the 8th of November, and will
be available on Android and iOS.
As soon as we get some actual game play of Angry Birds Star Wars we will let you guys know.
