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Modern Warfare 2 has gone on to become the biggest entertainment launch in history with it making around half of a billion dollars in it's first week. Millions of people bought copies on all 3 platforms, including the controversial PC version, and with it receiving extremely favourable reviews (T3CH H3LP review), has made the game legendary in it's first few days on the market.

However, according to TorrentFreak, around 4.1 million people downloaded the torrent on the PC alone, almost doubling the amount last year's "winner", Spore, had. Considering Modern Warfare 2 has been out for only 2 months this year, it's pretty surprising that it has had that many torrented copies. This also means that Activision has lost an extremely large amount of profit because of this.

The Top 5 Most Pirated Games for all platforms after the jump

Alex Tretrop

Dec 30, 2009

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Need for Speed Shift - HD gameplay video

Dec 30, 2009

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I love this game, love love love this game, thats why I spend 2 hours recording and editing this 720p gameplay video. The last 3 NFS's sucked and now Need for Speed gets rid of the low rider, arcade style, open world game style and brings it to a whole new level. You are in the effing drivers seat and I cannot get enough of it. I'm rockin' a Lamborghini Murcielago, with the works and I love it.

The twist they put on race car driving is finominal with the addition of motion blur, impact camera shakes and it goes B&W when you hit something hard, or if you hit a wall at like 60mph, your vision goes all blurry and the sound is muffled. It is the most intense racing game I have ever played and you MUST go play it now.

Dec 30, 2009

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Leaked video: Half Life 2 running on Project Natal

Dec 30, 2009

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Here is a leaked clip of project Natal, Microsoft's upcoming motion system, handling Half Life 2 which may seem a little odd that you would need Motion tech to play an FPS. Look at the way that guy just has to move his hand to turn the entire camera. Its pretty cool that they can take an (barely) retro game and turn it into something completely original. We have to tell you though, this comes from an unknown source, but this does appear to be Natal "running a title in early beta".

[via Gizmodo]

Dec 30, 2009

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What is going to be in the next Macbooks?

Dec 30, 2009

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Intel is introducing new high power, low cost chips soon. The thing is, we will probably not see them in a Macbook for a while. One possibility in terms of graphics power is we could see some kind of discrete or maybe even separate graphics card for all MacBook Pros, probably from Nvidia. Another possibility is a customized set of hardware from Intel either on the processor or chipset level that would allow for un-damaged battery consumption while giving a little boost in graphics capabilities. Thats a little summary of all the goodies over at Gizmodo.

Continue Reading - Drilldown over at Gizmodo

Dec 30, 2009

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iPhone reception issue plagues O2 too!

Nick Mahar

Dec 30, 2009

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It seems that AT&T isn't the only cell network struggling to control the iPhones heavy use. During an interview with the Financial Times, O2 head Ronan Dunne apologized to customers for the poor performance the network has been experiencing since the introduction of the iPhone 3GS to its air waves this summer. It seems that other networks around the words (Not just AT&T) are unable to manage the intense use of the data network experienced by iPhone users. I argue the case that AT&T's network is great but because the iPhone users use so much, it kills the system. I even argue if the iPhone was on say Verizon, that it would be the same as AT&T or possible even worse.

Dunne states:

Where we haven't met our own high standards then there's no question, we apologise to customers for that fact.

Also adding that the carrier had fixes at the ready and that the issues would be "more than addressed" shortly. I don't believe I have ever received an apology from AT&T but hopefully AT&T does the same and tries to fix their system as well.

-NM

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Dec 30, 2009

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Nexus One T-Mobile plans and prices detailed - Purchase page leaked

Dec 30, 2009

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Hey guess what, Gizmodo got their hands on some screenshots of the "store" site for the Nexus One and we have all the details.

Pricing and Package details - According to the pages, the phone will be available in two ways: as a $529.99 unsubsidized and unlocked device, and as a $179.99 T-Mobile device locked to a two year contract (This sounds a lot like the iPhone packadge). It appears there is only one package type listed -- 500 minutes of talk time, unlimited text, data, and mobile to mobile for $79.99 (sounds epic) also Google says if you have an existing plan, you will have to switch to the Nexus plan.

Download PDF -- T-Mobile Nexus Terms of Service/Sale

Ten years of Blackberry- Looking back

Dec 29, 2009

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In 1999 Research in Motion (RIM) took a leap of faith and released something called the Blackberry. Blackberry was the device that everybody wanted. It was the smartphone of its early days, able to do email and other tasks, and its only limits it had was itself. Gosh, back in 1999 it was nothing more than a pager that looked like a chunky, laptop with fingerprints all over it. Of course it had lots of worries, like the release of the Palm VII which fell flat on its face. Then the arrival of the Apple Newton which also became a novelty item on Ebay 10 years later. But why did RIM have such a legendary success with the Blackberry, and in just 10 years. Engadget takes you back in time -- Ten years of Blackberry.

Continue Reading -- Engadget Editorial by Chris Ziegler

Dec 29, 2009

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