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Midnight Club Los Angeles Add-On Debuts March 12

Xbox - Mon, 09/03/2020 - 00:00

Rockstar Games has released full details on a South Central map expansion and premium upgrade add-on for the game Midnight Club Los Angeles to be available March 12.

Categories: Games

Google Buzz survey: Yeah, no one's using it

Crave at CNET - 1 hour 57 min ago

We asked our exquisitely discerning readers what they think of Gmail's status-updates feature and the results are in

Categories: Gadgets

Vlingo on the iPhone: Speak and spell

Crave at CNET - 2 hours 4 min ago

A new version of Vlingo for the iPhone lets you update Twitter and Facebook and send emails just by talking to your phone like a crazy person

Categories: Gadgets

Google Street View to cover 96 per cent of UK roads from tomorrow

Crave at CNET - 2 hours 39 min ago

Google's adding 210,000 miles of UK roads to its current Street View coverage, enabling users to view almost all of this sceptred isle's leafy thoroughfares. And Blackpool

Categories: Gadgets

<em>Rock Band 3</em> Officially Announced For Holiday 2010

Slashdot - 3 hours 38 min ago

An anonymous reader writes "Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, due for release Holiday 2010. 'The company is pursuing the game in spite of an industry-weakening decline in the once-booming genre of peripheral-equipped music games. Although the franchise has generated over $1 billion to date, the category in general saw sales contract by as much as half throughout 2009. MTV Games parent Viacom also saw Rock Band declines drag on its balance sheet in its last fiscal quarter, and expressed a need to refocus away from pricey peripherals in favor of software. It also said that due to royalties it would need to be more "selective" about track listings, and that it needs more support from the music industry in that department.'"

US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly

Slashdot - 12 hours 33 min ago

eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopefully that will fund some developer budgets for bigger and better MMOs yet to come. The study also found that roughly a quarter of the US population plays some form of MMO. Surely MMOs are shaping up to be a juicy industry, and a market that can satisfy people of all walks of life."