Droid Takes a Breather in the Hardware Arms Race

How do you know when the launch of a new device will focus on features and functions? When the company introducing the device doesn’t even provide a hardware specification sheet at the launch event.

Smartwatches From Samsung and Other Big Names Are Coming. Does That Matter?

We’ve heard rumors about smartwatches from the likes of Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930:KS) for most of 2013, and it sounds like they’re finally almost here. Bloomberg News reported today that on Sept. 4, Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Gear, a wristwatch-like device that can be used for phone calls, surfing the Web, and handling e-mail. Apple is trying to get its own smartwatch on shelves by the end of the year, according to the report.

Dead Space 3 review

The Dead Space series has been known for prioritising terror over the more base thrills of explosive gaming blockbusters. The first games' love-letter to sci-fi horror movies like Event Horizon, The Thing and Alien delivered EA a cult hit from an audience demanding nerve-shredding tension.

But with success inevitably comes escalation and, as EA announced Dead Space 3, complete with co-op multiplayer, swearing military types, giant tentacled beasties and booming weaponry, fans of the first two games wondered just where the terror had gone. And sure enough, there's little of it to be found in Dead Space 3.

New Microsoft Xbox 'will require Kinect'

The existence of the new Xbox has not even been confirmed by Microsoft but leaks have emerged 
from an industry source who claims to have been briefed on the capabilities of the console.

The new Xbox, codenamed "Durango", will apparently be able to run more than one game at a time, suspending one while a player switches to another and then letting them continue from the same point when they switch back.

Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer revealed

As excited as everyone rightly was about the addition of a dog to the Call of Duty family of gruff angry soldier men, having the reveal of Call of Duty: Ghosts focus on the single player is only ever going to address at most the casual half of the Call of Duty audience. The part they really care about, where they can repeatedly blast each other in the face with ballistic weaponry, that has been kept under wraps until today.