Rising food prices shatter hope of taming inflation Business Day | PRICES at SA’s factories, mines and farms rose more slowly than expected last month, but hope that inflation would remain in check has been dashed by rising food prices. | Producer inflation rose 9,8% compared with December 2010, official data showed yesterday, well below forecasts for a 10,1% i...
Internet addiction changes your brain: Study Toronto Sun | Internet addicts experience the same brain changes as drug addicts and alcoholics, new research suggests. | Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science scanned 34 people's brains, 17 of whom showed signs of Internet addiction disorder (IAD), which the scientists diagnosed based on participants r...
Summary Box: Nintendo chief hopeful on Wii U debut Sydney Morning Herald | LESSONS LEARNED: Nintendo is determined to launch its next game machine, Wii U, properly and learn from mistakes selling its 3DS handheld. | ROUGH TIMES AHEAD: Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata warns that earnings for the next fiscal year, which ...
Zombie Slayer Diox rocking out on 3DS eShop Joystiq | Imagine Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, but with a guitar-wielding rocker slicing zombies apart instead of cutely rendered Final Fantasy characters meandering through peaceful meadows. This isn't just a psychotic thought exercise -- it's the premise of...
Kingdoms of Amalur's "Online Pass" continues a slippery slope for used games Ars Technica | Review copies of Electronic Arts's Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are starting to reach critics, who have made a surprising collective discovery: an insert containing a code to download a "House of Valor" content pack featuring "seven additiona...
Remembering the best JRPG ever Joystiq This is a column by Jason Schreier dedicated to the analysis (and occasional mocking) of his favorite genre, the Japanese role-playing game. Whether it's because they're too antiquated or just too niche, he believes JRPGs don't get enough attention i...
Google Earth update offers smoother graphics, Google+ integration Venture Beat | Google rolled out a new version of its Google Earth software that replaces the patchy, quilt-like mapping graphics with a smoother, more cohesive update. | “The Google Earth globe is made from a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs take...
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement rapporteur Kader Arif resigns Digital Spy EU official Kader Arif has resigned as rapporteur of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). | The French MEP said that negotiations over the controversial anti-piracy agreement "lacked transparency", and claimed that the European parliament ...
Nintendo Looks to Online as It Reports Its First Loss Newsfactor It's been a tough year for game giant Nintendo. Sales of its 3DS portable gaming platform were disappointing and its top-selling but flagging Wii console is now caught between the groundbreaking, motion-sensing version introduced in 2006 and the refr...
Upstart Singapore outstrips Las Vegas Asia Times | Jan 5, 2012 | Upstart Singapore outstrips Las Vegas | By Muhammad Cohen | SINGAPORE - The current exhibition at Marina Bay Sands' ArtScience Museum commemorates this year's centennial of the Titanic's fateful voyage. When Singapore began its journey to create the world's two most expensive casino resorts, many experts exp...
Sehwag's cameo was not what India needed Sydney Morning Herald | INDIA won an hour, but Australia won another day. Increasingly, that is how it has been in this unexpectedly one-sided series. Today, only a washout can save India from its second whitewash in less than six months. Throughout, the team has given the impression of scarcely caring. It is probably a defensive mechanism, but it stands against them. S...
