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The Microsoft Zune media player’s online music store will accept Microsoft Points, the same currency used on Xbox Live Marketplace.
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Today, Intel announced some significant upgrades to their Centrino platform, and they also spelled out the larger direction that they’d like to take the portable computer.

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mytrip writes to mention a News.com article outlining HP’s acquisition of Voodoo PC, the high-end gaming computer maker. Following Dell’s purchase of Alienware this past March, it would seem that the big computer assemblers are gearing up for a gaming skirmish. “In the weeks prior to that acquisition, Rahul Sood predicted the looming deal after [...]

In case you were worried that Cryptic would be ditching it’s City of Heroes series of superpowered massively multiplayer games in favor of the newly announced Marvel Superheroes themed mmog series, a new letter from the Producer has been posted on the CoH site (thanks MastemaDeicide) assuring folks that is not the case:
By now you [...]

TheRaindog writes “The Tech Report has an in-depth look at Maxtor’s DiamondMax 11 hard drive that provides some interesting insight on how Seagate’s recent acquisition can improve deficiencies in its own drives. More valuable, however, is the fact that the review offers a detailed comparison of 17 different Serial ATA drives from Hitachi, Maxtor, Samsung, [...]

Priced at $249.99, the Zune will ship on November 14. Microsoft will lose money on each player sold, but the company is also banking on the Microsoft Points system in an interesting way.

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Ain’t-It-Cool-News reports that Robert Downey Jr. has been cast to play Iron Man for director Jon Favreau at Marvel Studios! The movie will be distributed by Paramount Pictures on May 2, 2008.
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Microsoft announced a landmark partnership today between Academy Award-winning writer, director and producer Peter Jackson, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Fran Walsh, and Microsoft Game Studios.
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God bless Cliffy B. Over at Rewiredmind.com, their man in Barcelona has apparently confirmed with Cliffy that Gears of War is full co-op. Not tacked on co-op missions, but the entire game, playable co-operatively with beer and your buddies.
You know, I’m really glad to see that companies are starting to get co-op again. How [...]

This comic book / mini trade paperback reprints the stories from X-Men #1, X-Men #4 and X-Men #9 along with an original story from Stan Lee

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