After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.
In a statement on its website Friday, the company said “customer feedback” prompted the decision to drop the “convenience fee” it wanted to introduce on Jan. 15.
SEGA announces this afternoon, the development of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II. The continuation of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I, which will be on sale during the next year as a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Android, IOS and Windows Phone.
Bethesda has today released the first demo for RAGE onto Xbox Live. PS3 owners will be able to download the demo on December 6th. Bethesda’s launched a RAGE taster on Xbox Live Marketplace, nearly two months after the full game released. According to the demo description on the download, which is 2.03 gigabytes by the way, Rage will be discounted to just $29.99 between November 25th and November 27th at GameStop and other participating retailers.
Rockstar Games unveil the first details of the Max Payne 3 Special Edition for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC. Max Payne 3 Special Edition will retail for $99.99 in North America and is available for pre-order from now until January 15, 2012 while supplies last.
After many, many months of hard work, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the Starhawk Private Beta will be live on PSN beginning Tuesday, November 22nd! According to Sony, the Private beta invites will be rolled out over a number of weeks leading up to Christmas and the New year, so if you miss the first round it is likely you will still get in before the year is out.
Electronic Arts and BioWare has revealed the official Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector’s Edition. This is a special edition of the game that features exclusive bonus content and unlockable items.
The Lenovo LePad K2, based on Nvidia’s Tegra platform 3, was tested using GLBenchmark. The result was surprising. It looks like someone’s been running benchmarks on the next-generation Lenovo tablet. When you run the GL Benchmark using the free edition the results are submitted to a public community database for the world to see.
City Interactive has revealed the first details for Enemy Front, a FPS currently in works with ex-Codemasters developer Stuart Black as lead designer. The company’s ambitious new game project being developed on the CryENGINE 3 game engine for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
The Vital Signs Camera App of Philips measures your heart rate and breathing rate remotely, simply using the iPad 2 camera. This breakthrough technology allows you to measure your vital signs in an easy and unobtrusive way. The App can be downloaded from the App Store.
Google Inc unveiled its online music-download store on Wednesday, in a move to challenge the dominance of market leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc. Google’s online music store was expected to have a fully functional, more advanced cloud based service, which has left Google’s new music partners disappointed who have also gone ahead and called the online music store to be unexciting.
