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Next week THQ is Auctioning off their Assessts, including The WWE License, What if GTA V developer Rockstar Games picked it up?. Here is a small fan-made video footage showing just a glimpse of how WWE 14 will look if develop by GTA V developer Rockstar Games.

THQ's assests are up for sale on Tuesday to the highest bidder, so we should find out by Wednesday if THQ will keep the license for WWE '14 or another company will be picking it up.
If THQ indeed decide to sell WWE franchise license, which studio should pick it up, Rockstar Games, EA Sports, Ubisoft or any other?. Let us know your views to us in the comment section below.
Enjoy the fan-made footage below:






Source: Gamepur

These are one of the many creative and beautiful tech accessories in the wild last week at the 2013 International CES conference in Las Vegas. hope you like it.

1. The Case Purse

2. Memorex Speaker

3. The Karl Case

4. Fashionable Stickers

Design and build
While we didn’t get a whole lot of time with the phone, what we had was good enough to formulate a solid first impression. Starting with the build and design, Nokia hasn’t deviated too much from the first-gen Lumias. The basic form factor remains pretty much the same as the 920 is carved out of a single block of polycarbonate. This unibody approach makes it durable as there’s less chance of anything snapping off if it falls. It is extremely well-built and sturdy in your hands, albeit a bit chunky. This extra bit of heft could be attributed to the image stabilisation used in the camera, so we guess there was no avoiding it. At 185g, it’s very much manageable in your hands, although it might get uncomfortable in your pocket. The size is not a big deal either.

The 4.5-inch IPS display is nothing short of amazing. Due to the high pixel per inch count (332ppi), it is ‘Retina-grade’ and images and text look sharp and vivid. The display is also super sensitive, more than usual, so even the slightest gestures are easily picked up. The buttons are all placed where they should be and are within reach of your thumb. It’s good that Nokia decided to place the power button on the side as placing it on top would have been uncomfortable.

  The phone is powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm SoC (MSM8960) which doesn’t do much for the UI but helps in image and video processing. The interface is smooth for the most part, but the stutter bug will pay you a visit occasionally. This could just be an issue with the pre-sale unit or WP8 itself; we’ll know for sure once the phone is officially launched here. The 920 does not have expandable storage, so you’ll have to make do with the 32GB onboard memory.


The Camera
Next, let’s dive straight into the one feature that everyone’s raving about – the PureView camera. This time, the PureView title refers to the optical image stabilisation onboard rather than the 41MP sensor. Nokia calls it floating lens technology, where the camera lens actually balances on a bunch of springs so it can compensate for user movement. That coupled with a large aperture value of f/2.0 and we’re looking at some pretty god low-light shots. Let’s head straight to the samples.


This was taken in the corner of our labs with very low ambient light. Even with the flash off, the Lumia 920 will fire it while focussing and then capture the image. The result is pretty remarkable as you can see, however, there was this minute blur that we simply couldn’t get rid of, no matter how steady our hands were.

Has huge potential
After spending about an hour with the handset, we must say that the Lumia 920 has huge potential when it launches in India next month. Nokia is still tight lipped about the pricing, but we'd guess it would be anything between Rs 35,000 to Rs 40,000. The device is built like a tank and the finish and choice of materials easily rivals the top dogs like the One X and even the iPhone 5. The hardware is all there and now all that’s left is for the software platform to mature, and fast. Apps are always going to be the deciding factor between platforms, which could offset the sales of the 920 in the start. But even without apps, the Lumia 920 is a good phone and has some powerful imaging capabilities. There are plenty of features in the 920 that we still need to put to the test once we get our hands on a retail unit, but for now, we feel that the Lumia 920 has potential for greatness.

Source: Tech2

At present Rockstar Games has only announced Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) for PS3 and Xbox 360. The firm is keeping quiet on PC version of most anticipated game of 2013 (GTA V). However this hasn't stopped one eager GTA series fan from rounding up 10 separate bits of evidence suggesting GTA V for PC will happen indeed sometime in near future.

Here is what GTA Forums user "S1LV3R_W0LF" said about his finding, "Ok first of all I wanna make clear that I know there are some threads about GTAV PC, and also there was a lot of topics about rumors. But the purpose of my thread is not to talk about rumors or to talk about if there is or not a version or to be transformed in another useless debate/ flame war with consoles.

These are all facts, that I mentioned before but that people miss, because they hardly read the whole threads and this time I'll post all the sources of these informations, instead of just listing them. So I think once and for all I should make this thread that originated a few articles on the Internet on websites I didn't even knew with the list I made but that many people questioned because there were no facts to support it, ok here we go:"

Check out HERE, a total of 10 Evidence which confirms that GTA V PC will indeed happen in near future.

Few of these evidence are pretty weak, but taking into consideration all the facts mention, this indeed makes a pretty compelling case.

Do you agree with all these evidence listed by "S1LV3R_W0LF"?. Let us know your views to us in the comment section below.

source: Gamepur

Fallout 4 details are FAKE, the reddit user (GNR_Informant) himself admitted. According to the recent update posted by the user on Reddit, he has not proof (about all the Fallout 4 details leaked) because it was all LIE.
Check out below what false details user GNR_Informant leaked about Fallout 4.

• First and foremost, the game will take place in Boston, and be kind of a direct sequel to Fallout 3 with a few groups returning.
  
  
• From what it sounds like, “The
  Institute” is pretty much the downtown DC or New Vegas of this game.
  Boston is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen in a Fallout game
  before, with buildings more on par with cyberpunk and retro-futurism.
• Androids play a big part in this
  game. The railroad from Fallout 3 is a faction. The enemies of the
  railroad is “the Plantation” — a group who force Androids to farm so
  that Humans can get food. The Institute is highly advanced and probably
  obtained or built their own GECK to start a farm.
• Due to complaints about using Super
  Mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel in Fallout 3 excessively and going
  against the lore too much, Bethesda has decided to avoid using these
  groups. Bethesda wants to make a new “race” (think Ghoul, Super Mutant)
  which will be central to Boston. Bethesda is currently looking at
  Lovecraftian fiction since Boston is around “Lovecraft Country”.
• Bethesda has no plans to reinvent
  the leveling up system to make it more like Skyrim and want to make
  Fallout 4 more distinct from Skyrim since of the complaints that
  Oblivion and Fallout 3 were too similar. Bethesda is thinking about
  introducing a system, similar to Skyrim, where your skills can level up
  if you perform certain tasks.

source: Gamepur 

Rockstar Games has released some brand new screenshots of the most awaited game of 2013, "Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V)". The game is schedule to arrive in Spring 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360, PC port of the game is not yet officially announced.

                               
Trouble taps on your window again with this next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto universe, set in the city of Los Santos and its surrounding hills, countryside and beaches.
A bold new direction in open-world freedom, storytelling, mission-based gameplay and online multiplayer, Grand Theft Auto V focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present-day Southern California.

Check out brand new screenshots below.

You’re bored at home asking “What should I do?” Meanwhile people nearby are shooting Instagrams of the fun events they’re at. Now is a free iOS app that uses Instagram’s API to sort through photos in real-time, organize those from the same time and place into events, and show you the events as a feed. Now harnesses the powerful Instagram API to help you discover parties, concerts, bar nights, and share them too.
French developer Ben Broca bootstrapped Now into existence last year, and it’s been gaining steam with its recent 2.0 update that made it accessible worldwide. Now employs an intelligent combination of programmatic photo processing and human curation to give users an accurate look at what’s going on around them.
                   
First Now uses Instagram’s API to suck in all the photos taken nearby and clumps them together by time and location. Now super users then read the photo captions, choose the best shots, and organize them into categorized and titled events. This lets Now determine that 20 people posting photos of a musician with the caption “Shuggie Otis” at West 16th and 9th Ave in New York is actually a concert for Shuggie Otis at the Highline Ballroom.
                           
Events with the most photos and likes bubble to the top of your feed. Click through one to check out all the photos shot there. You can also filter the Now feed to see only music, art, parties, food, outdoors, or other types of events. And if you’re feeling some wanderlust, you can drag the map to anywhere in the world and search to see what’s going on in Tokyo, Rio, or rural Slovakia.
Now also lets you share experiences with the app’s community and your social networks. Just select a nearby place, choose to include photos taken their by other people or insert your own, add a description, and post away. You can follow other Now’ers to keep up with their adventures.
In the future, Broca hopes Now can make sure you don’t miss cool things in your neighborhood. It’s considering notifications of especially popular events nearby, and it has an email newsletter highlighting top venues. A clear route to monetization that Broca is considering would let even promoters pay for sponsored placement in the Now feed.
                           
For the moment, though, Broca is just happy Instagram is so generous with its photos, “I think a lot of people underestimate the Instagram API. We were surprised at how powerful it is.” He says most apps built on it just recreate the Instagram experience on the web, and don’t actually do anything unique, but Now focuses on “the real-time photos API that gives you every photo in a geographic area. We use it in a smarter way to show you interesting information about those photos.”
Instagram itself is doing some innovative things with its data set, like beefing up its “trending tab”, adding a photo map, and creating galleries of popular hashtags. But Broca doesn’t think the company will ever get too serious about events, leaving room for Now.
And as for Instagram’s owner Facebook’s influence on the future of its sweet API? Broca simply says, “I hope they don’t change it too much.”

Source: TechCrunch