Samsung reveils Galaxy Tab 2

Samsung has shown recently their response to Apple's next incursion in the tablet's market, the iPad 2. Named Galaxy Tab 2, only a few details are known about it, so far it's known to have a 10,1 inches screen, with 1280x800, a 8MP camera with HD recording, surround sound and comes with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Sadly no price has been reveiled y...

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Darkspore Beta testing

Seems like Maxis' new title, Darkspore, has started it's beta testing phase. For the moment the participants are selected from the registered users of the game's website. It's still possible to try and enter the Beta testing with a simple registry over at the site. This phase is scheduled to run for five weeks. A reminder that Darkspore is a RTS with a feel of Spore, where you can costumize your creatures and engage in ferocious combat with other races....

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Another Guild Wars 2 video released

Guild Wars 2 release is still to come but the company behind it, ArenaNet, continues to amaze us with each new video they release. This time it focuses on the human race and their respective homeland Kryta. This game never ceases to amaze us with each new detail, see for yourselves the beauty of it, in the video below. As a reminder, GW2 is to be release later this year. Enjoy the video....

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Nokia and Microsoft collaboration

this came as a huge surprise on the Smartphones market, Nokia and Microsft have agreed on a extensive collaboration making the WP7(Windows Phone 7) the main OS for Nokia's smartphones. However, this doesn't mean MeeGo and Symbian will be dropped, only that they will be less relevant. This collaboration will be at different levels, Microsoft and Nokia will work to bring WP7 to a broader range of consumers since as of now WP7 is only avaliable at a high-end price. Nokia will also help in the development of Microsoft's OS since they have expertise in the hardware and software optmimization. There will also be a deep connection between both companies...

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Sony reveals the PSP successor

Although a little late for the show we couldn't start a games and technology blog without mentioning the recent announcement from Sony of their next handheld. Sony unveiled the NGP, Next Generation Portable(working title), in an event held on January 27th in Tokyo, Japan. Still on a prototype phase Sony's new handheld is quite impressive already with a similar look to the PSP only slightly bigger. It seems Sony listened to their consumer base, who had been asking for another analog stick on their consoles since the first PSP model, the PSP-1000. For what we can see from the videos of the demos shown, it's a pretty powerful machine boasting PS3-like...

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Welcome to Games and Tech

In the past few years the entertainment and consumables technology has been evolving in a fast pace every year. Break troughs in the display of images and video, increasing processing power and miniaturization of certain components made possible the appearance of new and exciting ways of communication, playing, watching movies and listening to music.This space will try to follow the latest news in the various markets, may them be videogames, smartphones, televisions or compute...

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