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By Terence Huynh on September 14th, 2011

All is not lost, Nintendo announces more 3DS games (in Japan)

Screenshot of TEKKEN 3D PRIME EDITION (Image: Nintendo/Bandai Namco)

Nintendo 3DS fans/owners/haters, don’t fret. Nintendo has announced some new titles – and some of them aren’t remakes. However, most of the dates we have now are only for Japan, but give or take a month or two and then you should get an European/US release date.

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By Terence Huynh on March 14th, 2011

Why the Internet can be useful and cruel at the same time

Image by: Tom Solari/TECHGEEK.com.au

OPINION: The Internet is a marvellous place where we can all communicate instantly without waiting several weeks to communicate internationally, or when we need something instant. But the true power of the internet is always in a major breaking story – such as a natural disaster.

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By Terence Huynh on December 21st, 2010

Zuckerberg to partner with Baidu to open Facebook China?

Image: Sina (via guardian.co.uk)

Founder of Facebook and recent inductee to Time’s Person of the Year, Mark Zuckerberg, has been spotted in China taking a tour around Baidu; and now, speculation is rising of a possible Facebook in China, with the help of Baidu’s power in one of the largest markets in terms of users on the Internet.

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By Terence Huynh on November 16th, 2010

Kinect sells one million units in 10 days

Think the Kinect is a passing fad, with the fact that it just happens to be a camera that manages to track almost every move you make and could have potential gaming applications to it? Well, it might not be as Microsoft has announced that the Kinect has sold one million units just in the past ten days.

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By Terence Huynh on August 4th, 2010

Sharp to have 3D smartphone this year, no glasses required

Thought 3D would be dead? It has infected movies, televisions and gaming, and the most logical step has to be mobile phones. Right? Sharp is said to be releasing a 3D-capable smartphone sometime in the year. However, you will not need to wear any glasses, a la the Nintendo 3DS. A spokesperson for the company, telling Reuters, said that it will likely have a 3D capable camera.

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By Terence Huynh on August 3rd, 2010

USB hub lets you control your ports like a power board

Ever got tired of pulling the port of an external hard drive for a few minutes but realise you have just messed up your configuration? Me neither, yet it is such a problem that Japanese electronics manufacturer Elecom has tapped into to make a USB hub that allows you to simply switch off the device from being connected to your computer, rather than pulling it out – just like a power board.

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By Terence Huynh on July 6th, 2010

Microsoft to make small name change in Japan

According to the Japanese website MyCom (in Japanese with Google Translate), Microsoft is making a small, but sentimental change to its corporate name.

In celebrating its 25th year in Japan, Microsoft will be – on February 1st of next year – changing its company name from “Microsoft Co. Ltd.” to “Microsoft Japan Co. Ltd”. Like I said, small change; but it puts more emphasis on the country where the company has some of its roots.

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By Terence Huynh on June 20th, 2010

Can you decypher the time on this watch?

Believe it or not, this is actually a watch. No joke. Called the Zonal – and yes, I don’t even know what that means exactly – it is essentially a watch that depicts time in red segments of a squircle, or a rounded square. The top right one tells the hours, while the bottom left tells the time in increments of five. The bottom right tells the one minute increments of that five minutes.

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By Terence Huynh on June 19th, 2010

Rumour: Nintendo 3DS to have software install?

RUMOUR MILL: Other than the 3D gaming experience without wearing those hideous (and possibly unhygienic) glasses, there might be another feature that was not revealed when Nintendo showed off the 3DS. According to Nikkei, the new console may allow users to install Nintendo 3DS games right onto the onboard storage – allowing users not to carry those games with them on the go.

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By Adrian Cajili on June 1st, 2010

Pokemon Black and White: Starters & Trainers

Pokemon Black and White: Starters

It is never too early to start picking out your kick-ass team of Pokémon for the new Pokemon games, even if it’s still quite a ways away from being released. Of course, the most important decision to build up a Pokemon team is two choose which of the 3 Starter Pokemons you begin your journey with.

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