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Lady Gaga first to reach 1 Billion Online views

March 25th, 2010

Lady GagaAnother milestone in internet history, Lady Gaga is the first ever artist to reach over a billion views.

According to video analytics company Visible Measures, Lady Gaga’s videos have been viewed online more than a billion times. The numbers were accumulated from online video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, and the totals are as follows: Just Dance (272,941,674), Poker Face (374,606,128), and Bad Romance (360,020,327). Close contenders are The Twilight Saga with 980 million views and Soulja Boy with 860 million views are both close to the 1 Billion mark as well.

I’m not really a fan of her music videos, but this isn’t a surprise for me either considering her out of the ordinary Music videos.

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Leadtek’s GTX 480 and 470 looks awesome

March 25th, 2010

With the hype of NVIDIA’s Fermi card retail release is closing by, Third Party Graphics card manufacturers like Leadtek is showing off their tweaked designs for both the GTX 480 and 470. I’m not really a fan of huge dual slot coolers but these cards from Leadtek are beautiful looking cards. I liked the GTX 470 much better with its Gold Highlights, though plus points for the heatpipes in the GTX 480 cooler.

Leadtek's GTX 480Leadtek's GTX 470

There are rumor’s that the retail release date has been push back to April 6th, 2010 though I doubt the delay considering the cards are all ready for the March 26 release date. All we need now is the benchmark to prove that this card will truly “mark a milestone in the history of gaming” as NVIDIA boldy stated.

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Starcraft II Beta Invite a Friend

March 21st, 2010

As if Beta testers weren’t lucky enough to get invited for an Multiplayer Beta account for Starcraft II, Blizzard is letting them invite their “Friends” for another Beta account via their Invite a Friend program. According to Kotaku, Blizzard is sending out e-mails with extra StarCraft II beta keys to share with a friend. The one-time use invite may be part of Blizzard’s efforts to further test the new Battle.net “Real ID” feature, as the invites encourage beta testers and friends of beta testers to buddy up.

Starcraft II Multiplayer test Beta Invite a friend

If you are one of the lucky guys who have a Beta Account and you told you’re gamer friends that you got one, they will be begging you for that invite after they knew about this. Some Beta account holders will surely take advantage of this and probably sell one of their keys online via Ebay for some cash. BTW, Lucky Beta account gamers, I can be your friend :D

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Google Tablet is Here!

March 18th, 2010

At first, the Apple Company launched its new Ipad tablet device that every loyal Apple user’s anticipate it. Then came the other companies produce their own kind of version of tablets, Dell has its 5 incher, Microsoft-HP Duo has their Tabula Lasa and lo. But if someone like Google would add, it will be much different from other competitors. Google has some trick right of their sleeves. They now in the concept of making the Google Tablet. Yes, Google’s very own tablet. After announcing the upcoming Chrome OS which is about to release this year with the Chrome OS netbooks. Browsing to the internet, providing quick boot times and easy access to Google’s array of online services are the highlights of the said OS which is they’ll include on the Google Tablet.

Then again it seems Steve Jobs and Bill Gates has a new rival with regards to this matter. Giving Apple taste its own medicine, Google is now working with selected hardware partners to ensure that it runs on devices that are up to its specifications.

Google Tablet’s Interface may have these sections below :

  • Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
  • Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
  • Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
  • Zooming UI for multiple tabs
  • Tabs presented along the side of the screen (see Side tabs)
  • Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher

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God of War III out on 3.16.10

March 13th, 2010

The end of the Epic Playstation Exclusive is almost here. Yes, you read it right, the third installment of the series is the end of the Trilogy though plans for some other God of War game will be on works especially this is a hit series.The game picks up where it left in God of War II, Kratos with the help of the Titans climbing Mount Olympus to exact revenge to the Gods and Zeus himself. Gameplay is similar to its predecessors, with new confirmed weapons under Kratos’ arsenal: Blades of Athena, the Blades of Exile, the Claws of Hades, the Nemesis Whip, the Blade of Olympus, Apollo’s Bow, and the Cestus,the pair of fist gauntlets with lion heads that is seen in the first trailer of the game. Watch this great review from IGN.com:

God of War III is due to hit the shelves this coming March 16. Reviews are already out and reception of the game are almost perfect across different Gaming Review sites. God of War III is one of the most graphically gorgeous game taking advantage of the hardware capabilities of the PS3. Don’t dare to miss this game especially if you own a PS3, Action Adventure fanatics and fans of the series this is a MUST PLAY game.

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