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Pandora, which is about to face a big competitor when Apple irons out its remaining snags with iRadio, has just announced a new feature – Pandora Premieres. This station is unlike the rest, allowing users to listen to early album releases before they’re available for purchase. While not much is available via it right now, Read The Full Story

This week's PlayStation Store update brings the release of Techland's first-person shooter Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, along with an upgraded, HD version of Insomniac Games' PlayStation 2 platformer Ratchet: Deadlocked. PS Vita owners can opt for the budget-priced janitor sim Men's Room Mayhem or the Cross-Buy enabled tower defense game Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault, which includes a free copy of the PlayStation 3 version with purchase. Reminder: Ratchet: Deadlocked is available as a free download for players who purchased the retail PlayStation 3 version of Full Frontal Assault. Pinball Arcade and Germinator headline this week's PlayStation Plus update, and subscribers also have access to discounts for ten DLC-bundled Ultimate Edition titles. The full list of this week's store additions is available on the PlayStation Blog.PSN Tuesday - Ratchet: Deadlocked, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments More...

The Xbox One's 500GB HDD is non-removable. But that's OK. The console's USB 3.0 ports will take external storage, reports Engadget, and you can put anything on there you would on the internal drive, including games.

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Amazon is bundling together three of Firaxis Games' most recent at a really low price. For $20, you can snag PC download codes of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Civilization 5: Gold Edition - a definitive version with Gods and Kings and a bunch of other DLC - and Civilization 4: The Complete Edition, also including a host of DLC and extra goodies. The Firaxis bundle headlines Amazon's Digital Mayhem promotion, with other discounts spanning Telltale's The Walking Dead, Battlefield 3, BioShock, Mark of the Ninja and many more. The sale ends on May 31, so feel free to take your time perusing the hundreds of eligible discounts.Cheap Firaxis bundle headlines Amazon Digital Mayhem sale originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Information about the Xbox One continues to trickle in after its official unveiling earlier today. The constant stream of rumors stating that the next Xbox would require an always online connection appear to have been off-base, but according to Kotaku, the console will need to access the internet at least once every 24 hours (for singleplayer titles) and an undetermined amount of time for other features. Microsoft vice president Phil Harrison spoke to Kotaku after the presentation and responded to their questions about the subject: "There are many devices in your life that require the Internet to function," he said. "Xbox One is no different in that it requires, at some point in the beginning and at various times through its on state, to connect to our cloud and to our Internet. That is to deliver Xbox Live functionality, that is to deliver download content to you, that is to deliver some of the innovations around TV and entertainment that we showed today. But it doesn’t require it to be online all the time." "For single-player games that don’t require connectivity to Xbox Live, you should be able to play those without interruption should your Internet connection go down. Blu-ray movies and other downloaded entertainment should be accessible when your Internet connection may be interrupted. But the device is fundamentally designed to be expanded and extended by the Internet as many devices are today."This is an excerpt from the full story which was originally featured on gamrReview, read the full version here - [UPDATE] Xbox One Needs Internet Connection In Various Scenarios - News

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Live Arcade and indie games categories abolished. Xbox One's online marketplace will not file games into discrete categories such as 'Xbox Live Arcade' or 'Indie Games', it has been confirmed.Click here to read the full articleRelated StoriesXbox One will require an internet connection 'once every day'Xbox One announcement triggers GameStop shares fallXbox One: E3 showcase will feature 'historic IP' from RareMicrosoft: Xbox One pre-owned plans 'consistent with way the world works'Star Wars plans to be detailed at E3 - EA exec

Achievements are one of the defining elements of the Xbox experience. Naturally, Microsoft will include them in the Xbox One. But they’re not going to work like you remembered them, not exactly. There’s more to them now. More »      

The Pebble is arguably the most popular smartwatch to come out of Kickstarter, but it certainly isn’t the last, and now it has a competitor. The AGENT smartwatch is a square watch similar in appearance to the aforementioned device, and it has already reached its funding goal of $100,000, exceeding it by about 30-percent, with Read The Full Story