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Microsoft has finally announced that two more titles will be added to the Xbox Originals service today May 19th.

The two titles will be Aspyr’s Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel without a Pulse and Midway’s Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. The Xbox Originals service allows gamers to purchase original Xbox games online and play them through the Xbox 360.

Stubbs the Zombie is a third-person zombie game which released on the Xbox in October 2005 in North America and February 2006 in Europe. Unlike most zombie games, Stubbs the Zombie lets the player take control of a zombie who is unable to use weapons such as guns due to his zombie state and is instead armed with improvised weapons like his hand, pancreas, and even his head.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is a resurrection of the old arcade classic Gauntlet that came out on Microsoft’s first console in December 2005. The game combines the elements of fantasy fighting action and strategic role playing and customization that gives players the choice of teaming up with their friends for some multiplayer action.

Both games can be downloaded for 1200 Microsoft points.

A quick look at the HTC Touch Diamond coming soon. Looks like iPhone got a competition. And all I can say was WOW!

HTC Corp says it will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June; later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East; and in North America and Latin America it will be available in the second half of 2008. No pricing info available yet.

It’s in the news that Sony has been ordered this week by a US court to stop selling its PlayStation game consoles in the American market and to pay around £48 million in damages to technology company Immersion.

Immersion, a California-based developer of digital touch products, claimed that Sony infringed on their technology that makes game controllers vibrate simultaneously with the actions in gaming consoles. But Sony’s gaming division, Sony Computer Entertainment, quickly responded and said it would appeal this decision by a California federal court in the patent infringement case.

For now, Sony will keep selling PlayStations, which covers the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles, two game controllers and 47 software titles, while they take the order on appeal. Sony is said to be paying compulsory license fees to Immersion.

The Gaming Division has been Sony’s profit driver in recent years, gaining around 44 per cent of Sony’s operating profits in last year. Sony has been struggling in its bottom line with dropping prices of its electronics division from stiff competition and declining market share.

The amount ordered to be paid by Sony is more than triple Immersion’s total revenues in 2004 and confirmed a ruling by a California jury last year that ordered Sony to pay around the same amount.

What would you do if Sony is stopped from selling its Playstations? I am sure you will not be happy about it like me.

Rumour has it that Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind Blackberry, will be launching a new flip-phone named “Kickstart” in the market within weeks from now. This sweet news reportedly boosted the shares of RIM to its all-time high today.

The buzz came flying around all over the internet after The Boy Genius Report blog has released the rumour sometime late last week complete with pictures from a source.

The phone looks nice and shiny and with the Blackberry brand behind it, Kickstart is expected to widen the market for RIM and become a big hit soon. [Read the entire blog here →]

Nokia has announced the release of its 2 brand new phones sharing the same name – the Nokia 6600. The only difference between the two is that one folds and the other one slides.

Nokia has been known to brand each of their mobile phones using 4 digit names (until the N series of course came along). Now, this giant mobile phone company has broken this trend by naming two phones with one in slight variations. Depending on how clear you order these phones with the saleslady, you may end up getting the other one instead.

Welcome Nokia 6600 Fold and Nokia 6600 Slide. Scheduled for release by Q3 2008, these new phones has been characterized in the press with words like “Beauty”, “Glossy”, “Shiny”, “Smooth” and “Elegant”.

Nokia 6600 Fold, as the name suggests, is the [Read the entire blog here →]

Ubisoft has announced that a new Prince of Persia game is scheduled to be released towards the end of 2008 on PC, Xbox and PS3 platforms.

The next installment will mark the popular series’ debut on next-generation consoles and is now being developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio - the same team that created the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy.

With the new chapter in the Prince of Persia franchise, the game will feature new game play, a new art style and is expected to to rejuvenate the action-adventure gaming genre.

Furthermore, Ubisoft is also set to release a new Prince of Persia game designed specifically for the Nintendo DS. This version will feature a new storyline and new characters with Ubisoft promising to deliver more details in the future.

The long wait is over for Nokia fanatics in Canada. Rogers Wireless has decided to embrace the Nokia’s flagship phone the N95 series into their phone line up. Making them the first North American carrier to support this Nokia model.

N95 is Nokia’s most highly regarded phone that comes with a built in 5 Megapixel camera, HSDPA capability, a second camera for video calling and a sleek slide design feature. It also comes with a MP3 player, an FM radio, built in GPS and WiFi connectivity. Truly a marvelous phone of its kind.

Unfortunately, the N95 phone is heard to be available at Rogers for $399 with a gripping 3-year contract deal. This may not be palatable to many but forthose who have been waiting for a carrier to support this phone, it’s just “the-hell-with-the-plan-attitude” that’s gonna prevail. You can get the phone without contract though at around $699 a piece.

Looks like I am going to defer my plans for WD’s Velociraptor now that Verbatim®, a leading brand in digital storage solutions, announced that it will launch this Q2 2008 the world’s first half-Terabyte 2.5” Portable Hard Disk Drive (HDD) on a 9.5mm Z-height drive.

The demand for higher-capacity portable storage devices at both the consumer and corporate levels seems to be never ending. Thanks to internet where there is a growing number of users who are uploading and downloading huge volumes of digital content (porn or otherwise). (Ok don’t sulk. I have my share. I am sure you do as well.).

Going back to this baby disk with a smart attitude… [Read the entire blog here →]

Grand Theft Auto IV finally went on sale last Tuesday, with a huge line up of fans as early as midnight to grab the first copies of the criminal action game hailed as the most significant release in the video game history to break all records. GTA 4 is also expected to be the biggest entertainment event of the year for Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360.

The fourth installment to the Grant Theft auto series, it is a lucrative franchise that already enjoys an impressive history with sales totaling more than 66 million worldwide. The new game, however, is expected to reset and break all previous sales records to a staggering $400 million in just one week beating last year’s feat by Halo 3 from Microsoft!

Retailers took advance orders for the game (some even have oversold even before the launch date) and are forced opened their doors to customers at midnight to quench the thirst of gamers who wanted to be the first to play. The anticipation has grown to unprecedented heights that game temperatures started to rise as Tuesday approaches.

Based on buzzes and early reviews in the gaming blogosphere, Grand Theft Auto 4, seems to be [Read the entire blog here →]

There are only a few puzzle games developed that really create a mark in our lives and stand the test of time.

One of which is the popular Rubik’s cube, a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik. Now there is a new threat to the most favorite puzzle cube from Rubik.

Enter the Neocubes Puzzle Game from TheNeoCube.com.

The new Neocube puzzle game has 216 spherical neodymium magnets that connect and make a cube, a sphere, or any other obscene shape that you can imagine. Unlike Rubik’s Cube which leads you to a one solution, NeoCube has many

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