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Tim Schafer, the leader of the Double Fine studio, says that indie developers have many ways to promote and publish their titles at the moment and do not need to work with big platform holders to launch their games on the new Xbox One or PlayStation 4.He tells Edge that, “There are just too many options right now for indies...

A source close to videogame publisher Capcom says that the company has no plans to reveal Resident Evil 7 during the coming E3 2013 trade show, despite the leak of a promotion poster for the game during May.Geimaku cites an anonymous report as saying that the leak was premature and that Capcom is not willing to talk about the...

Google is expanding its interior photo program, dubbed Business Photos, to several more countries in Europe. The program, as the name implies, enables businesses to provide interior photos for Google Maps and search. The catch is that the interior photos span 360 degrees and cover the entire shop or restaurant. These photos...

Microsoft has issued a statement concerning a recent leak of a project named Halo Bootcamp, which is apparently on online game for the PC, confirming that the experience is in development and that it will be officially revealed in the near future.Microsoft's recent efforts have focused on the Xbox One next gen console but a...

A man has been arrested for murder in California after his dogs viciously attacked and killed a senior out on a jog.The owner will be charged with possession of drugs with intent to sell, negligence and felony murder, Daily Mail writes. Police found eight dogs in the home of 29-year-old Alex Jackson of Antelope Valley. Marijuana...

Strauss Zelnick, the chief executive officer of video game publisher Take Two, says that he expects impressive sales from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, better than those for any previous titles in the series.Speaking during the Cowen Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference the executive is quoted by Gamespot as saying that...

For most users it does not happen too often to feel the need for more than one desktop screen, especially if the monitor is large enough to accommodate all the necessary application windows. Those looking for a solution that offers multiple virtual desktops...

Google Chrome 29 has finally arrived in the dev channel for Chrome OS, bringing with it a few new features and plenty of improvements. According to Google, the notable updates are a new Google Talk plugin, useful in Hangouts, and a new Flash 11.7.700.202. Thankfully, there's actually more than that, though the changes are...

The following tutorial will teach Arch Linux users how to install third-party packages on their newly installed Arch Linux operating system. This is for Arch Linux beginners only, of course. So, now that you've installed the Arch Linux distribution, we...

The team at Mad Catz and Microsoft announced that they are collaborating in order to create a range of new accessories for the coming Xbox One home console that will be launched later in 2013.Darren Richardson, the president and chief executive officer of Mad Catz Interactive, says that his team is interesting in creating innovative...

Today, XOLO made the XOLO Q1000 smartphone official in India, as part of its QCORE series of devices, which already includes the Q800 and Q700. The new mobile phone was spotted online a few weeks ago, and was even listed at retailers in the country, as...

Just a short while ago, a video of Matt Kemp giving his jersey and hat to a fan in San Francisco emerged online and went viral shortly afterwards. The other day, Kemp flew the fan out of Los Angeles for an amazing visit to Dodger Stadium. The fan’s name is Joshua Jones and he is a terminally ill cancer patient. USA Today Sports...

The latest episode of the new E! reality series “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?,” starring Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, proved that one of the cons of being on a reality show is that, sometimes, certain things you might want to keep private. Like for instance, getting dumped over the phone. Check out the video below to see Ryan...

The team at Wargaming announces that it is getting ready to reveal the its first console based video game during the coming E3 2013 trade show, with development duties handled by its new West studio, previously known as Day One Studios.Those who go to E3 will be able to get exclusive hands-on with the new title and the company...

Harmonix has confirmed that all the different downloadable songs and song packs for Dance Central 3 have received massive price cuts until June 3, allowing all owners of the game to enhance their library on the cheap. Dance Central 3 appeared last year for the Xbox 360, and Harmonix has delivered a variety of impressive songs...

Discovery has launched TestTube, a new channel that will only be available online. The channel, which was produced in partnership with Revision3, is a digital video network that was designed to “ignite online audiences who are incurably curious about the world around them,” Broadband TV News reports. There are already 15...

South Korean mobile phone maker Pantech appears set to bring to the market a new high-end device in the not too distant future, one that sports the model number IM-A880X, and which has just emerged in the AnTuTu benchmarking application. The device is said to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor inside, and appears to...

God of Blades, a side-scrolling 2D action game developed by the White Whale Games studio, has arrived on the Linux platform.God of Blades has been released on a lot of other platforms, before Linux, including App Store and Google Play.According to the developers,...

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is planning on delivering enhanced imaging capabilities inside its future Windows Phone-based Lumia handsets, moving beyond the simple inclusion of larger camera sensors. Apparently, the addition of a 41-megapixel photo...

There are loads of tablets up for sale or on the way, and Samsung is responsible for a fair number of them. The Galaxy Tab 3 alone can be mixed up with itself quite easily. Which is to say, it comes in three different sizes. There is a 7-inch device (which got priced earlier at $199.99 / 199.99 EUR), and the 8-inch and 10.1-inch...

Some of us can only dream of looking this good at Barbara Eden’s age. The actress, who starred in the popular sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie” with Larry Hagman back in the ‘60s, slipped back into the Jeannie costume the other day at a charity event. The photo above (click to enlarge) was then posted on her Twitter feed. She’s 78...

The Legacy of Kain series might soon get an official sequel reveal as a new game called War for Nosgoth is being mentioned via a new AMD driver and by the official Steam database.It's unclear what development team might be working on the game or how it might be linked to the core narrative of the series, according to AllGamesBeta.Nosgoth...

Empathy, a messaging program that supports text, voice and video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols, is now at version 3.8.3.Empathy 3.8.3 uses Telepathy for protocol and the user interface is based on Gossip. The Empathy messenger is also...

The KDE 4.10 branch is one of the most successful releases in their history, and the developers have decided to release the 4.11 branch as an LTS.Aaron Seigo, a developers for Plasma workspaces, has shared with the community some of the future plans of...

This May 24, Russia's Far East was hit by an earthquake whose magnitude was reportedly one of 8.3. Several specialists now say that, all things considered, the shake could be the biggest deep temblor thus far recorded by science. Information shared with...

Brain surgeries can be quite tedious, especially if you're the patient and you find yourself with nothing else to do but sit on your back while doctors are busy trying to fit a pacemaker implant inside your skull. So why not pass the time playing the guitar? As the video above shows, this was precisely what one guy did when...

XWiki Enterprise, a professional wiki that has powerful extensibility features such as scripting in pages, plugins and a highly modular architecture, has reached version 5.0.2.Highlights of XWiki Enterprise 5.0.2:• hibernate.cfg.xml has been properly generated...

Google has released several demo videos and trailers of the Google Glass augmented reality headset. One would think that everything worth knowing about the gadget has already been disclosed, but this is not really the case. It turns out that there is a Functional Chrome browser in there somewhere, and that there is a feature...

Gmail Touch has again received an important update on Windows 8, so all users who have already installed this particular Metro app are recommended to open the Store and get the new version. Unfortunately, the developer behind the project hasn’t provided the release notes of this new build, so it’s hard to spot any difference...

VLC for Android is moving steadily towards a stable release, as a new flavor of the app has been pushed out in beta, namely version 0.1.1. The new app iteration was meant to resolve some of the issues that version 0.1.0 was bound to be affected by, though no specific details on the matter have been provided. Available with...

Bing has announced that it will officially launch the Bing XML Sitemap Plugin to the public. While a preview was released a few months ago, the company has only now given everyone the green light to use it. The sitemap plugin has been designed to allow webmasters from all over the world to easily create XML sitemap files...

The last of a string of tidbits coming from Japan’s Macotakara, the iPad 5 will reportedly employ a number of alterations that are taking their toll on the microphone hole, and the SIM card module. According to a source with alleged knowledge of the device,...

Google has already made it clear enough that it doesn’t plan to release any other Metro apps, so our only hope is that third-party developers would eventually step in and create alternative software tools. gMusic is one of these apps, as it allows adopters of Microsoft’s new OS to access Google Play Music and listen to music...

The latest Chrome beta didn't just bring faster HTML parsing, it also marks the debut of rich notifications. The feature has been available for a few months, but it hasn't been enabled by default in the beta channel, Google has just been experimenting with it.But rich notifications are now ready for a wider release. With this,...

A new flavor of the Google Play Magazines is now available for download for the owners of Android-based devices, namely version 2.0. The new app iteration packs a brand new magazines library UI, as well as a variety of bug fixes, the release notes unveiled. The application was designed to provide users with the possibility...

The shocking attack on a British soldier in broad daylight on the streets in London has been witnessed by many passers-by, some of whom were asked by suspects to tape the killing. *The video contains graphic, disturbing images, therefore user discretion is recommended. As I mentioned before, two men butchered and possibly...

Zakia Clark and Makia Underwood lost their mother to breast cancer after a 4-year fight with the disease. This past weekend, they were kicked out of the King of Prussia Mall for wearing anti-cancer hats, as they were shopping for funeral dresses, ABC 6 reports. The sisters’ hats read “[Expletive] Cancer” in pink sparkly letters,...

Most Linux users are familiar with the Enlightenment desktop environment, but most people don’t know about the conflict between users who say GIF with a soft “j” and the rest of the world. The two aspects are closely related.It’s not every day that someone...

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is reportedly gearing up for enhancing the security of its smartphones, and might include fingerprint protection inside them as part of these plans, rumor has it. Apparently, the company is already testing the feature, as a recently leaked Galaxy S III firmware was found...

VueScan, an easy-to-use replacement for the software that usually comes with scanners and that supports most flatbed scanners, printer/scanners and film scanners, has reached version 9.2.19. VueScan 9.2.19 is a minor release in the series as it doesn’t bring...

Microsoft has recently signed a deal with Janet, the research and education network in the United Kingdom, to provide more than 18 million teachers and students with access to cloud services based on Windows Azure. The deal was signed at the Goldsmiths University of London, with local staff praising Microsoft’s efforts for...

Google continues its Chromebook "for everyone" campaign with a short "For Dads" clip. Since a "For Moms" clip has been around for a couple of months now, racking up more than 12 million views in the process, perhaps it was about time dads got some attention as well. The clip is simple and short, like the previous ones, but...

Neocore Games is a Hungarian indie developer, mostly known for the King Arthur series of games that mixes strategy and RPG elements. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is the studio’s upcoming title, which is set to land on PC on May 22. According to developers, an Xbox version will be available as well, though no release...

A couple of weeks ago, Anonymous vowed to shut down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay which is used to keep suspected terrorists and people involved with terrorist groups, and which has been very controversial. More than half the inmates are now on hunger strike and there have been many reports criticizing the possibly illegal...

Shuffle Party for Windows 8 has just received an update, so adopters of Microsoft’s new operating system should now experience not only enhanced performance, but also faster loading times. This new build now fixes an issue with the cloud storage option, so your saved game should basically move across devices to be able to resume...

The Wii U version of the Ghost Recon Online multiplayer title is at the moment on hold, according to Ubisoft, as the team is focusing on the PC launch, trying to make sure that players get the best experience possible with the game.An official message from the Twitter account states, “The WiiU version of the game is currently...

Even if Windows 8 adoption rate could use some boosting, third-party developers continue to capitalize on the operating system’s lack of a start button for the desktop part. Start Menu Reviver is one of the latest additions to the category and promises...

As expected, Finnish company Jolla has just revealed its first smartphone, which is set to arrive on the market by the end of 2013. According to the handset maker, the availability of its smartphone is subject to demand in local markets. It appears that...