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After locking himself away in the studio for the past year, Phrase is back with a brand new single from his upcoming album Burn It Down. Working with long-time collaborator/producer J-Skub (of Jackson Jackson fame), Phrase has created a stomping track that combines the elements of both rock and hip-hop to forge a new sound [...]

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Microsoft on Tuesday began US sales of a scaled-down Xbox 360 model billed by some analysts as a doomed bid to unseat Nintendo’s Wii console as ruler of the casual video game market. “It is squarely targeted at the Wii,” Directions on Microsoft analyst Matt Rosoff told AFP. Xbox 360 Arcade comes with five family-oriented [...]

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Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season. The Xbox 360 console will sell in Japan for 34,800 yen (US$304; euro213) from Nov. 1, down from 39,795 yen (US$348; euro244), the [...]

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Australia’s draconian classification regime for video games has taken yet another scalp, with local retailers banned from selling the upcoming shooter title Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back. The highly anticipated game, which was to be released on PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, was refused classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification for [...]

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Maybe Sony should start watching one of television’s many home makeover shows. When those groups redo a house, there’s rarely anything left of the original by the show’s heartwarming conclusion. Sony seems to have taken the easy way out with its latest PlayStation Portable. Its revision adds a few nifty features but leaves most things [...]

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Chalk another one up for the hackers – the iPhoneSimFree team has come out with a way to breathe new life into iPhones that were “bricked” by Apple’s latest software update. It’s likely future updates from Apple will again disable iPhones that were hacked to support third-party applications and non-AT&T mobile carriers, but the iPhoneSimFree [...]

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An action-adventure game, “Assassin’s Creed,” that lets players control a Crusades-era hitman stalking and killing his targets, is gearing up to be one of the biggest titles this holiday. With “Halo 3″ now in stores, players and developers alike are keeping a close eye on November, the month during which Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed” and some [...]

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Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it would start selling its “Wii Fit” home fitness game in Japan in time for the critical year-end shopping season, sending its shares to a record high. Nintendo’s announcement comes just a day after Sony Corp said it would cut the price of its PlayStation 3 by 10 percent [...]

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