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Call Of Duty 4 Big Golden Joystick Winner

Call Of Duty 4 Big Golden Joystick Winner

The people at Activision, the publishers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, were very happy on Thursday night. At the annual British Golden Joystick Awards, CoD4 scooped the Nuts All-Nighter Award, ESA PC Game of the Year, GamesRadar.com Online Game of the Year and Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year.

Unlike the other big British game awards, the Baftas, the Golden Joysticks winners are chosen by the public, not experts, and this year 850,000 people voted, according to the BBC.

David Tyler, marketing director at Activision, said:

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TiVo Reveals Ambassador, DirecTV Pact

TiVo was busy making news in the last day or so as it unveiled the winner of its

Dell Unveils New Mobile Workstations

Dell last week unveiled two new high performance laptops which are targeted towards professional workstation users and make use of Intel Core Duo processors. The new Dell Precision M90 and Dell Precision M65 have starting prices of $2,239 and $1,849 respectively and are available now.

The Precision M90 and Precision M65, said Dell, sport a range of features designed to satisfy the needs of engineers, artists, developers and other like minded professionals. The M90’s feature set, depending upon configuration, can include up to 512MB of Nvidia Quadro FX OpenGL graphics, up to 4GB DDR2 memory, a 17” display with up to WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution and DVI/SVGA video outputs.  Read more...

Activision’s Call of Duty 2 Set to Invade

Video game publisher Activision today said they had begun shipping Call of Duty 2, the sequel to the run away WII game Call of Duty. Developed by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 2 is priced at $49.99 and rated T for Teen. It is available for the PC now, with an Xbox 360 version expected Nov. 15.

Call of Duty 2, Activision said, is powered by a new Infinity Ward gaming engine. It is set across three Allied campaigns: Russian, British and American. The game offers a character-driven experience, as gamers can play through each storyline to its completion, or choose to engage the enemy in historic battles chronologically from 1941 through 1945. Players, for example,

IBM, Lenevo Deal Gets Approval

“We were able to get unanimous agreement from the members of the committee,” Stephen Ward, the general manager of IBM’s Personal Systems Division, said in a telephone interview. Ward is to become chief executive of Lenovo, which is headquartered in Beijing, once the deal closes.

The merger of the IBM PC business with China’s biggest PC maker

Star Wars Trilogy To Be Released On DVD

All of the unforgettable heroism, villainy and epic adventure of George Lucas’s STAR WARS trilogy comes to the ultimate home-entertainment format for the very first time around the world this September from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ending the wait for the most-anticipated DVD release ever.

The four-disc collection will be released on Sept. 21 in the U.S. and Canada, with international release dates following closely. “We know how long fans have waited for this release and how much they have been looking forward to it, so everyone has been working overtime to make sure that the STAR WARS TRILOGY on DVD is an awesome experience,” said Jim Ward, Vice President of Marketing and Distribution for Lucasfilm Ltd. and the DVD collection’s Executive Producer.  Read more...

Activision acquires Call of Duty developer

Activision has acquired Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward a week before the firm’s critically acclaimed World War II-based first-person shooter launches for the PC, the publisher has announced.

According to Activision, the company has exercised an option to acquire the remaining 70 per cent of outstanding common stock in Infinity Ward, making them a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision and adding them to a stable of FPS development talent which already includes Raven Software.

Industry veterans Grant Collier, Vince Zampella and Jason West will continue to manage Infinity Ward, having signed long-term contracts with Activision. Other key employees have also signed similarly long-term contracts.  Read more...

New Call of Duty demo

Offering a second sample of Infinity Ward’s imminent World War II shooter that picks up immediately following the events depicted in the first CoD demo (story). Mirrors of the 160 MB file are available on 3D Downloads, 3D Gamers, FileFront, FilePlanet (registration required), Filerush, FileShack (registration required), Gamer’s Hell, GameTab, Pixelrage, and Worthplaying.

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Makers of Kazaa suing record labels

Turning the tables on record labels, makers of the most popular Internet song-swapping network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement.

Sharman Networks Ltd., the company behind the Kazaa file-sharing software, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the entertainment companies of using unauthorized versions of its software in their efforts to root out users. Entertainment companies have offered bogus versions of copyright works and sent online warning messages to users.

Sharman said the companies used Kazaa Lite, an ad-less replica of its software, to get onto the network. The lawsuit also claims efforts to combat piracy on Kazaa violated terms for using the network.

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