Tomb Raider: Underworld Gets Downloadable Content

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Eidos announced that Tomb Raider: Underworld will get downloadable chapters adding six hours of additional gameplay to the game. The catch is that despite the game coming to multiple consoles including the Xbox, Wii, and PS3, the downloadable chapters are Xbox exclusives.

The chapters will include Tomb Raider: Underworld - Beneath the Ashes and Tomb Raider: Underworld - Laura's Shadow. The Ashes chapter takes place after Underworld is finished and adds a new environment to explore with more enemies and secrets. Lara's Shadow adds a new kind of playable character. Beneath the Ashes will be available this Christmas and Shadow will follow in 2009. There is no word on pricing for the chapters. Read more

Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:30:30 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Shazam iPhone App Downloaded 1.5M Times

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Shazam is a mobile music discovery provider. It announced today that the Shazam application for the iPhone has been downloaded over 1.5 million times in the last six weeks. Shazam says that the application is one of the most popular for the iPhone.

iPhone users have used the application to identify more than 20 million music tracks in the last 2 months. Using the application iPhone owners can identify music tracks, watch the video on YouTube, and buy the track on iTunes via the iPhone. Read more

Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Google Chrome Download available now

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The Google Chrome Browser is available for download now. The extremely hyped new web browser is in beta now and is based on the same rendering engine as Apple Safari.
The Google Chrome Press conference is still going on, but the Chrome download pages are live now. You can download Chrome on the Google Gears site.
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Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:50:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Google Chrome Download supposed to start in about 2hours

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Google is holding a press-conference at 11am PDT in their Mountain View headquarters. The download of the Google Chrome Browser should begin around that time.
The Google Chrome announcement yesterday is still driving most tech news today. Henry Blodget already calls the Chrome Browser the Cloud Operating System and sees Google launching a major weapon against the Microsoft Windows OS domination. Read more

Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:12:19 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iPhone 3G User sues Apple over Download Speed

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Jessica Alena Smith from Birmingham, Alabama is suing Apple over false advertising about the iPhone 3G download speed. She pins her lawsuit on the statement from Apple that the iPhone 3G download speed is twice as fast as the original iPhone.
The woman is also seeking an unspecified amount of damages, an order from the judge that Apple is fixing the problems, and that the suit become a class action lawsuit. Read more

Posted on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:20:42 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Drillbit Taylor is top Movie Download on Sony Playstation Store

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Sony published last week's top movie downloads on the Playstation Video Store. Owen Wilson's Drillbit Taylor is holding the top spot.
The Drillbit Taylor movie has been available since July 1st.
Two weeks ago we also looked at the Playstation Video Store download charts and back then the movie 21 was on top. 21 is now in 13th place.
Interestingly the Meet the Spartans movie is still under the top 3 like two weeks ago and even improved to 2nd place. Read more

Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:05:20 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Burnout Paradise Download Version for $29.99 this Fall

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Criterion Games announced today that its platinum selling game Burnout Paradise would be available to download on the PlayStation network in the US directly from the PlayStation store for $29.99 this fall. Criterion says that the downloadable version of Burnout Paradise will incorporate all recent changes and updates the studio has made to the game.

Criterion also says that the first free download is available now for Burnout Paradise and adds three new game modes, new cars, and 70 new multi-part challenges. The free updated is said to add hours of new gameplay and introduces a new live news page for players who can track their game progress and get news on upcoming online events. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:36:05 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

iPhone App Store stands at 60m Downloads and $30m in Sales

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We already reported that some iPhone App developers already made a surprising amount of money with their software on the iTunes App Store. Now Steve Jobs told the WSJ in an interview that the iPhone App store already served up 60 million downloads translating in $30 million in sales in the first month.
Steve Jobs already talks about the App Store becoming a billion dollar a year market place. I think he is not even exaggerating here, because at the current rate the store would already turnover $360m per year and the new iPhone 2 OS is just in its first month. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PwnageTool 2.0.2 ready for Download

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After some minor delays triggered by the inclusion of Installer 4 beta the new PwnageTool 2.0.2 is available for download from iPhone Dev Team.
The new PwnageTool 2.0.2 release jailbreaks again the new iPhone OS 2.0.1 released last week.
Unlocking the iPhone 3G is still promised by the iPhone Dev Team in a future release. Read more

Posted on Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:57:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

21 tops Video Downloads on Sony PS3

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The Sony Playstation Video Store on the PS3 has been open for a couple of weeks. Sony published on their official blog new additions to the catalog and also the top 20 video downloads.

The poker movie 21 leads the charts in front of 10,000BC and Meet the Spartans. The Sony Playstation Video Store download charts are very different from the top TV and movie purchases on Amazon.com. Read more

Posted on Sat, 2 Aug 2008 01:48:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

EA Announces Free Downloadable Mass Effect Content for PC

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After a long wait, EA has finally announced that the free downloadable content for Mass Effect called "Bring Down the Sky" is now available for PC users. This is the first downloadable content for the PC version to be offered.

EA says that the download adds 90 minutes of new gameplay to Mass Effect and adds a new uncharted world. The story starts as Batarian's have captured a mobile asteroid station and set it on a collision course with a colony world. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:04:45 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Europe gets PlayTV for PS3 instead of Movie Downloads

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Sony launched at the E3 2008 a video download store on the Playstation network that is only available in the United States. Sony will start rolling out PlayTV in Europe starting September 10th. With PlayTV you can record TV programming yourself on the PS3 - better than nothing.

Sony announced PlayTV one year ago at the GC 2007 in Lepzig. PlayTV will therefore launch over one year after the announcement. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Watchmen Motion Comics available as free iTunes Download

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Warner premieres so called Motion Comics with highly anticipated debut Episodes of "Watchmen" and "Batman: Mad Love".

Motion Comics use subtle movements, voice-overs, sweeping music scores and stunning comic book artwork to bring comic books to life and enjoy them as video shorts. Read more

Posted on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:01:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony launches Playstation Store Video Download and Rental Service on PS3

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Sony counters the Xbox 360 Netflix offering with their own movie rental and sale service on the Playstation Network store.

The Sony Playstation Video Store offers videos in SD and HD and you can choose to either just rent them or buy them. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Firefox 3 Download Guinness World Record official

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Mozilla announced it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.
The record-setting 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3 on download day have now been officially declared a Guinness World Record.

"The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was instrumental in achieving this record," said Paul Kim, VP of Marketing at Mozilla. "Our community members came together and not only spread the word, but also took the initiative to help mobilize millions of people to demonstrate their belief that Firefox gives people the best possible online experience." Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Firefox 3 sets new Download World Record

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The Download Day is over! Mozilla set a new Guinness World Record with the most downloads in 24 hours. Since the record did not exist before, 1 download would have been enough, but the final download number is very impressive.

As almost expected the servers got overloaded in the beginning yesterday but they recovered and 8,249,092 downloads world-wide have been delivered. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:20:14 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Firefox 3 Downloads over 6m already [Update]

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The Firefox 3 Download Day is still going on and so is the world record attempt. Update: Firefox 3 World Record is set.

The Firefox 3 download counter currently states 4.6m downloads and keeps going strong. Update: 7:20am EST The download counter is now over 6m. The U.S. accounted for almost half of these downloads. Read more