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The Playstation 4 was announced a few hours ago, and while information is scarce, the direction that Sony is taking is quite clear. With their acquisition of Gaikai back in July 2012, Sony had one of the major leaders of cloud gaming within their portfolio. Gaikai has obviously become a key part of the development of the Playstation 4, which after today's reveal had a heavy focus on cloud features. The notion of cloud gaming revolves around streaming content ...

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Exactly one year ago, the largest file sharing site Megaupload was taken down by US authorities. At its peak, Megaupload held private and corporate files, music and movies and accounted for 4% of internet traffic. Over the past year, there has been significant drama regarding the site and its sudden closure. There was certainly people who used it for piracy, there were plenty of legitimate users that lost their files in the shutdown. While the court system ...

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With the recent announcement of the WiiU's release date and price, pre-orders have been going on strong and interest is stirring. Priced at $299 and $349 (for the regular and deluxe bundles respectively), the console's release date on November 18th puts it in a great position to eat up competition during the holidays. Nintendo has given us some glimpses of their latest console in the past year; mostly focusing on the revolutionary WiiU Gamepad that straps ...

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Club Nintendo North America just announced their elite status prizes for 2012. Club Nintendo is basically a loyalty/rewards program for Nintendo products in which users collect coins to redeem for prizes. Every dollar you spend is roughly equivalent to one coin, but they only let you redeem for specific items such as the latest generation of consoles and first party video games. The elite status is awarded to users that get 300 coins (Gold) or 600 coins (Platinum) and elite members are given ...

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As most Canadians looking for a copy of Skyward Sword knows, the limited edition with the Golden WiiMote Plus bundled inside has long been showing as out of stock EVERYWHERE. There are perhaps some odd shop here and there with copies available for preorder, but the big guns like EB Games, FutureShop, BestBuy, etc are all completely sold out.

Canada may have gotten less stock than the rest of the world, but we got some awesome deals earlier on. ...

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