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Yes they do.
And they will get right back to you as soon as they’ve figured it out themselves!

about 6 hours ago on Xbox One games will require internet 'spot checks', but Microsoft won't charge to authenticate used games

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Hows this HTC?
Do this, and you have yourself a brand new customer…

about 8 hours ago on HTC One 'Google Edition' with stock Android reportedly in the works

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No. COD runs at 60fps, PC, 360 and PS3

2 days ago on 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' tech demo reveals what next-gen soldiers (and dogs) will look like 1 reply

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Are you doing like for like comparisons of platforms?
Because BF3 on 360 looked like utter shit.

2 days ago on 'Call of Duty: Ghosts' tech demo reveals what next-gen soldiers (and dogs) will look like 1 reply

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HTC very successfully produced many OEM branded devices before HTC became a brand.
This Facebook phone might be struggling, but the HTC One is doing pretty well.

2 days ago on Facebook puts HTC First launch on hold in the UK to 'focus on making Home better'

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They haven’t asked EE and Orange. They’ve asked EE, as Orange (and T-Mobile UK) are simply the legacy branding for 3G and below connections, and 4G onwards its just EE.

2 days ago on Facebook puts HTC First launch on hold in the UK to 'focus on making Home better' 1 reply

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MMS doesn’t use your data plan with your mobile phone company, but it certainly DOES require some kind of data connection.

8 days ago on Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess 1 reply

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Broadcast antenna is exactly how this service works though. They’d need a decent OTA service to operate.

If you can’t get a good OTA aerial picture, Aereo won’t help.

11 days ago on Aereo streaming TV service coming to Atlanta on June 17th

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So you still need a cable sub to use it?
Even though you can pick it up OTA without a second thought?

Still not getting it, are they?

11 days ago on ABC brings live TV to iOS app: can networks cut Aereo off at the pass?

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Separate Google Play and YouTube services? Rather can having one combined service? Sounds daft!

11 days ago on Exclusive: Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board

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I’ll support the projects I want to see. I have no interest in funding a woman like Amanda Palmer, who decides to try and get her fans to be her band and pay them in beer instead of using the million+ she raised to pay actual professionals.

Nor do I have an interest in funding Veronica Mars and allowing WB to use Kickstarter as a crowd funded opinion poll.

Zach Braff’s feature? I think that’s different. He doesn’t appear to be screwing anyone for “art”, or using it as a presages system.

16 days ago on Should famous people use Kickstarter? Kickstarter says 'yes'

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Well in your example of Watch Dogs, Ubisoft claimed the demo we saw at E3 was running on PC.

In the UK at least, and therefore I assume the EU, they’re required to label trailers (as apposed to demos at trade shows) with the platform they’re running on, or if its not in-game footage.

I think you have a point, but its a question we could’ve raised during any generation too.
Also add in the fact that many games when released on PC as well as the consoles are cheaper than their PC counterparts, but are (potentially) vastly superior graphically. Look at Battlefield 3. It looked a mess on the 360 and PS3 compared to the PC version, but it cost less.

17 days ago on 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' announced for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and next-gen consoles

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Oh yes. Totally.
Developing for each machine should be relatively easy. Ports should take very little time compared. It’ll be interesting what console becomes the lead development device this time round!

17 days ago on 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' announced for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and next-gen consoles 1 recommend

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Way, way more fun.
Take that as the basis of a new X-Wing and TIE Fighter game?
Why yes, yes I would.

17 days ago on EA takes helm from LucasArts, will exclusively develop future 'Star Wars' games

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And before anyone says its later in the article… the point is that it should really be higher up when they mention him leaving the first time.

17 days ago on Original 'SimCity' creator Will Wright calls EA's botched game launch 'inexcusable'

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“Designed the original SimCity and co founded the studio Maxis before moving on to other projects”

Which makes it sound like he got out as soon as possible because of the evils of EA. Except he didn’t. Did he?

He sold Maxis in 1997, also created The SIMS and didn’t leave till 2009 after doing his best Molyneux impression by over promising and under delivering with Spore, which fell on its arse miserably.

His company/think tank he now runs, Stupid Fun Club is a partnership with him and EA too.

It’s all well and good exonerating him from the disaster of a launch SimCity was, but the article makes it sound like he bolted ASAP.

17 days ago on Original 'SimCity' creator Will Wright calls EA's botched game launch 'inexcusable' 1 reply

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Because they were released within a week, but due to a delay for Kick-Ass 2 they’ve swapped the release windows.

And seeing as most Pixar movies are released on DVD in the US before released in the cinema in the UK, you can just suck this one up I’m afraid ;0)

17 days ago on 'The World's End' trailer reveals the final adventure from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg 1 reply 1 recommend

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You’d be surprised.

17 days ago on 'The World's End' trailer reveals the final adventure from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg 1 reply

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I can assure you anyone in the UK who was 16-35 in the late 90s will also be, mostly due to them finally getting Mark Heap and Michael Smiley into these films!

17 days ago on 'The World's End' trailer reveals the final adventure from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg 1 reply

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40 ish year old having a mid life crisis which is why he is dressed exactly like his younger version as shown in the trailer and trying to recapture his youth…
… Man, that trailer made THAT perfectly clear. Did you blink? For a really long time?!?

17 days ago on 'The World's End' trailer reveals the final adventure from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg 2 replies 11 recommends

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You mean I won’t be able to buy a Crickett gun for kids in the next MOH? Damn there’s my dreams of a child sidekick with a bright blue gun in the next game dashed…

18 days ago on EA will no longer pay gun makers for the right to depict weapons in games

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Fat people are not responsible for killing anyone you dumb prick. Everything you’ve listed above was not designed as a killing machine. Unlike guns.

18 days ago on EA will no longer pay gun makers for the right to depict weapons in games 3 replies 1 recommend

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Nothing human made has been more responsible for the death of humans than the gun.

They’re still depicting weapons, they just won’t license brand them which was NEVER a good idea ever.

18 days ago on EA will no longer pay gun makers for the right to depict weapons in games 8 replies 2 recommends

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Not all Xbox games are hosted via servers. A lot of it, the majority I would suggest – is done peer to peer.

18 days ago on EA's 'Star Wars' games unlikely to appear on Wii U, demanding Frostbite 3 engine to blame

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Depends on your mobile gaming platform. It isn’t great, but Gane Center on iOS has a lot of that functionality.

18 days ago on EA's 'Star Wars' games unlikely to appear on Wii U, demanding Frostbite 3 engine to blame

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If EA are making Star Wars games, and EA are supporting the Wii U, then at some point you will see Star Wars games on Wii U. Inevitable.

It just won’t be these AAA level games running on Frostbite.

18 days ago on EA's 'Star Wars' games unlikely to appear on Wii U, demanding Frostbite 3 engine to blame 1 recommend

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Better not tell them about being able to play back a song on iPad then record with GarageBand by having something like an iRig plugged in then! I found that one out yesterday.

They’ll just have to find a way of encrypting the web player, won’t they?

18 days ago on Spotify's nightmare realized: Chrome extension allows MP3 download of any song 1 reply

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After Battlefield 1943 I’ll take some DICE developed dog fighting action if anyone from EA is listening….

18 days ago on EA takes helm from LucasArts, will exclusively develop future 'Star Wars' games 1 reply

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They won’t have the same graphics. Any existing generation games will be scaled down, have effects removed, lower resolutions etc.

Take a look at Battlefield 3 on the Xbox 360 then compare it to a high end PC running it. That’s the effective difference you’ll see.

The first generation of games may well be held back for a while, but then again the 360 and PS3 didn’t hit their stride graphically till a couple of years in. A lot of first gen 360 titles didn’t look that much better than the original Xbox games!

18 days ago on 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' announced for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and next-gen consoles 1 reply

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Same basic x64 architecture, but the optimisation, and memory architecture will be very different.

18 days ago on 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' announced for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and next-gen consoles 2 replies