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It’s been a day of crazy speculation thus far, and the latest is a good one as far as Apple fans are concerned. According to DigiTimes, Apple’s iPad 3 will ship in March and even more amazing is that the iPad 4 is penciled in for October. The publication, which covers the semiconductor, electronics and …

Sony and Microsoft are BOTH set to show off next generation consoles at E3 2012 in June, and give details of the console release dates. That’s according to reports by MCV, which is reporting that PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 will make their debuts at the show, as Nintendo details its Wii U launch line-up. …

Yes, that title says it all, and it’s definitely a Star Wars The Old Republic news day today. Unfortunately, the Daily Mail couldn’t make it a week into 2012 before it posted up its latest tirade against those mind-corrupting video games. This year’s debut target is BioWare’s The Old Republic. You know, that game set …

Australian gamers have not shied away from importing Star Wars: The Old Republic online. Now local retailer EB Games has done the same and are selling it two months ahead of schedule. EB Games sells SWTOR early Star Wars: The Old Republic has yet to be launched officially in Australia, with the expected launch date …

BioWare’s released the latest patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic, fixing various mission and UI bugs but overlooking yesterday’s insane dance exploit. In case you missed the rather large bug, it basically involves dancing during a gunfight to render player characters totally invincible to enemy damage. Though the current patch doesn’t sort the trick, …

BioWare has released a couple of Mass Effect 3 movies showing off some of the upcoming title’s pre-order bonuses. The official word states: Shrug off enemy fire with the N7 Defender Armor and its amplified shields then drop the opposition with high caliber fire from the N7 Valkyrie Assault Rifle. When the enemy has overwhelming …

EA has released a new trailer for the Starbreeze developed Syndicate reimagining. The trailer, which is titled ‘Deep Dive’, features some of the deadly Syndicate agents playable in the game’s co-op missions gunning down fodder and completing objectives. Naturally, it looks like each character has a particular set of skills that make him or her …

BioWare has been forced in to action this morning by the emergence of a potentially game-breaking exploit discovered in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The trick, which essentially renders players invincible to all enemy damage, basically involves dancing during a gunfight. Yes, nobody thought to try this out during the beta sessions. BioWare’s removed all …

DICE core gameplay designer, Alan Kertz, is tweaking and overhauling several of the weapon attachments in Battlefield 3 after posting details of his proposed changes and receiving feedback from the community. The bipod in particular will be getting some ‘love’, but among the other attachments being tweaked are the foregrip, suppressor, heavy barrel, and flash …

One of the big questions that’s been dogging Star Wars: The Old Republic since its December 20th is ‘where is the Mac version?’ And while BioWare doesn’t have solid answer for you yet, but company founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk confirm it’s definitely something that fits into the game’s long-term plans. “We know there’s …

Okay, so it’s not a confirmation per se, but Timothy Williams, a composer that has created music for the recent Conan the Barbarian film, Rise of the Argonauts, and Valve’s DOTA 2 has listed God of War 4 as one of the project he’s worked on, providing another indication that Sony is working on a …

BioWare has today confirmed it’s temporarily banned Star Wars: The Old Republic players for “exploiting” an end-game world. The issue resolves around players visiting the high-end Ilum planet before their character has reached the recommended level of 40, and somehow managing to make it to the chests and boxes containing all the rare loot. The …

Rift publisher Trion Worlds’ account database has been hacked, potentially compromising information including user names, encrypted passwords, dates of birth, email addresses, billing addresses, and the first and last four digits and expiration dates of customer credit cards. The firm said in a statement that “there is no evidence, and we have no reason to …

Star Wars: The Old Republic is the fastest-growing subscription MMO in history, EA have claimed. More than one million players registered for the online game in its first few days of release, says the publisher, with the first wave of players posting impressive play-time feats, including: • Logged 28 million in-game hours – roughly equivalent …

According to research by TorrentFreak, Crysis 2 was the most pirated game of 2011 with nearly four million illegal downloads. EA’s sci-fi shooter was downloaded 3,920,000 times between its release in March 2011 and the end of the year, though we’re unsure whether the numbers include the build that leaked a full month before release …