Neowin News Feed for: Play

Google will deactivate Glasses if you loan them to friends

Ben Buffone — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:54:20 +0100

Google's terms of service reveal you won't be able to sell or lend your precious early specs once they arrive or the company will deactivate them. At $1,500, is it just too much to ask? Read more...

Google sends app buyer personal data to developers

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:29:28 +0000

Google has made a bit of a boob(le) and the sent personal information of users who purchased an app to the developer of that app; and it's enough for the dev to contact the users directly. Read more...

Microsoft launches new Play brand for Windows 8 games ... or not? [Update]

John Callaham — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:09:45 +0000

Microsoft has announced a new brand for its own Windows 8 published games called Play, which includes games like Solitaire, Pinball FX 2 and the upcoming Skulls of the Shogun. Read more...

Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.5.635

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:21:44 +0100

The Shockwave Player allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser. Read more...

K-Lite Codec Pack Standard 8.7.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:43:59 +0100

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. Read more...

Over half of adults play video games

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:02:39 +0000

According to a survey released on Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, over half of American adults play video games of some kind. The survey shows that age is the biggest factor,... Read more...

PS3 Play TV gets price and date

Dudda — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:23:07 +0000

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Play TV, the PVR & digital tuner add-on for the PS3 has been given a release date and price. Play.com have it available for pre-order. They list a Â£99.99 price tag with a release date... Read more...

Unreal Engine 3 Licenses GameSpy: PC-PS3 Cross-Platform Play

Slimy — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:48:21 +0100

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Epic Games has agreed to incorporate GameSpy's suite of online technology into Unreal Engine 3, under the terms that the technology will be immediately available to any publishers or developers that license the engine. PlayStation... Read more...

Teach XP and Vista to play nice on networks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:49:21 +0100

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On small office and home office networks, Windows XP and Windows Vista cooperate about as well as cats and dogs. But you can teach them to get along. When you combine Windows XP and Windows... Read more...

Cabal Online to go free to play in June

Todd Tanner — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:16:09 +0100

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For those of you who may not know, Cabal Online is an MMORPG that is purely action based, and one of the usual "Grinders" as it were. Either way, it is a fun game, and... Read more...

NPD: 62% of US gamers play online (mostly on PC!)

Todd Tanner — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:58:12 +0100

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In a sign of the increasing importance of online gaming in today's video game market, The NPD Group's annual study on the online gaming landscape in the U.S. reveals that out of all gamers, 62... Read more...

ITV unveils on-demand play again service

Tom Warren — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:54:21 +0100

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TV chairman Michael Grade yesterday admitted the broadcaster had fallen behind its rivals in adapting to the online world but promised to leapfrog them with its ambitious new broadband portal. A video on demand service... Read more...

Sony DVD's won't play on Sony DVD players

Steven Parker — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:37:18 +0100

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Having recently settled various lawsuits over their use of invasive DRM in CD's, Sony has decided to try their luck with pushing more DRM into DVD's which has caused some recent issues in Sony's own... Read more...

HP is ready to play in the gaming market

Slimy — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:13:42 +0100

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In hopes of stealing a piece of the online gaming industry, Hewlett-Packard's gaming unit "Game On" (part of the company's Technology Solutions Group) is currently developing a gaming technology in its research centers. The company... Read more...

Mythos details, free to play MMORPG goodness

Todd Tanner — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:16:26 +0000

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Gamers on a budget who want to get their massively multiplayer online role-playing game fix will have another option later this year with Mythos. The MMORPG is being developed by Flagship Studios Seattle, the Pacific... Read more...

Adult Films to Play on Blu-ray

Croquant — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:04:59 +0000

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Vivid Entertainment Group will become the first adult filmmaker to put out a movie in Blu-ray Disc when it releases "Debbie Does Dallas...Again" in late March, but it's not saying who is helping it make... Read more...

3Com Takes on Cisco with Open Source Play

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:28:24 +0000

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3Com Monday unveiled its strategy to combat the all-in-one networking approach espoused by rival Cisco Systems via a new Linux-based networking module it will use to integrate a variety of applications with its routers and... Read more...

Everquest II: Play The Fae Trial

Todd Tanner — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:41:25 +0000

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That's right, that other big MMORPG Everquest II is still going strong. As you guys may know, SOE just launched the newest expansion for Everquest II a couple of weeks ago - aptly named... Read more...

ArchLord Goes Free To Play (With a catch though)

Todd Tanner — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:29:33 +0000

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Thanks to Bluesnews for the scoop. ArchLord, the MMORPG from Codemasters which almost across the board got horrible reviews, will go "Free To Play" starting January 4th, 2007. But there is a catch -... Read more...

Anarchy Online Free Play Extended Until 2008 + Expansion

Todd Tanner — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:40:54 +0000

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Sorry for not posting this before today, I took a couple days off from posting news as I was getting a bit burnt out doing near 60 stories in about a week, but I'm back... Read more...