Toshiba HDTVs Get Game Streaming

JAN. 13, 2014 • Later this quarter Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. will include the GameNow streaming service in its latest slate of Toshiba HDTVs. The models supporting GameNow include the L7400U, L5400U and the L3400U. The announcement came during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. GameNow is operated by Ubitus Inc. in Taiwan. The company was started in 2007 and launched its first cloud gaming service in Japan during the fall of 2011. .....
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Exceed Launch Unit Sales Expectations

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Exceed Launch Unit Sales Expectations

JAN. 7, 2014 • Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One achieved better than expected launch unit sales through the end of 2013. Using the industry focus on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sony Computer Ent. president and group chief executive Andrew House disclosed that 4.2 million PlayStation 4s had been sold through at retail world between November 15 and December 28. The day be.....

PlayStation 4 India Launch Set

DEC. 19, 2013 • The next market to get a PlayStation 4 launch will be India on Jan. 6. Sony Computer Entertainment’s new console will retail there for Rs 39,990 ($640). The 12GB PlayStation 3 sells in India for Rs 17,000 ($272), and the 500GB model at Rs 22,990 ($368). The optional PlayStation Eye will sell for Rs 4,990 ($80). First-party PlayStation 4 titles are priced at Rs 3,999 ($64). Sony will launch the console in India with a line-up of 22 first- an.....

Dota 2 Officially Launches

DEC. 18, 2013 • Access to Dota 2 is now open to all players. Last July Valve ended the Dota 2 beta and officially launched the game – sort of. The virtual gates to the game servers were not thrown wide open. Instead, Valve launched with a gatekeeping system. Players had to register on a Launch Queue from which Valve would approve batches of registrants to access Dota 2. The reasons given were to better evaluate server capacity, add players into the game in a m.....

Samsung Shifts to Vietnam

DEC. 16, 2013 • Vietnam is becoming the smartphone manufacturing preference for Samsung Electronics Co. The South Korean company currently has 13 manufacturing facilities in China but is leading a wave of Korean firms that are shifting their production to Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese government, South Korean firms had cleared 3,400 investment projects in Vietnam as of August, the fourth highest total. Last March, Samsung started construction on a plant a.....

Strong November Video Game Hardware and Software Sales

DEC. 13, 2013 • With two new console introductions driving consumer demand the month of November turned out to be a robust month for U.S. video game hardware and software sales. Some of that was no surprise as it was already disclosed that PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One had already crossed sales of more than 2 million units each globally. What was something different is that Nintendo o.....

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