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The first trailer for the upcoming crossover RPG, Project X Zone, was released yesterday on YouTube. The trailer for the new game, which features popular characters from Sega, Namco and Capcom classic games, reveals more information on which characters will be playable, and gives fans their first glimpse of what gameplay will look like.

Samsung's highly anticipated new Android smartphone was spotted on Amazon.de as available for pre-order on Saturday, April 21. Although the listing did not include a release date, the post provides a few clues as to what we can expect from the new smartphone on May 3, when Samsung shows it to the world at a press conference in London.

The ending to Mass Effect 3, which in the eyes of many gamers failed to provide an acceptable conclusion to the Mass Effect space epic trilogy, has had gamers up in arms for months while Bioware's parent company Electronic Arts (EA) has done its best to appease its consumer base without admitting any sort of fault. However, it looks like the Retake Mass Effect movement may finally get through to EA. Best Buy and Amazon recently slashed the game's price tag from $59....

A viral video called We're Not Young currently sweeping the internet and created by Yahoo portrays a sobering image of life as a 30-something as a counter-point to the hit song We Are Young, by Fun (and featuring Janelle Monae), which portrays 20-something life as free-wheeling and fun. Check out the spoof and the original video here.

Hillary Clinton is the star of a new internet meme in which the she's shown wearing a pair of dark sunglasses looking at her blackberry. Beneath the photo of her looking at her blackberry is a caption of Clinton responding to someone on her phone.

Apple iPhone 5 rumors mill were in action since last year when people speculated the fifth generation iPhone to be iPhone 5, but instead Apple fanboys had to be satisfied with iPhone 4S, which is a mere update over iPhone 4. And, though iPhone 5's debut is not expected until at least June, if not later, it hasn't stopped people from continuing to speculate what features it will carry. And guess what? The latest rumor claims that the sixth generation iPhone will boast of 3D camera.

April Fool'sDay is finally here, putting everyone on edge to play pranks on others and also be the victim of a prank. In today's tech-driven world, what easier way to pull a prank than using your smartphone? There are tons of apps out there, both for Apple and Android phones, which can make your day - and your victim's - memorable.

The Girls Around Me iPhone app, developed by Moscow-based company iFree, is a stalker's dream, and should be a wake-up call for appropriate privacy settings on Facebook. The app has been around since December, but it's avoided the radar so far, buried in the hundreds of thousands of apps in Apple's App Store, until Cult of Mac brought it to light.

The great success of Double Fine Adventure seems to be catching on to other crowd-funded video game projects as well, according to a post on the company's Kickstarter blog. Now, thanks to the rocketing success of the adventure game, many other Kickstarter projects are benefiting, and it's not just games.

Anticipation is already building up ahead of the Nokia Lumia 900 launch, intended to be the breakout device for Windows Phone. Starting Friday, March 30, the phone went on sale for pre-orders, and there are some amazing deals available. In fact, if you hurry, you might just be able to grab Lumia 900 for free even!

Hardly 7 months have passed when Tim Cook took the post of CEO at Apple Inc. and now he has gained the top spot on top 25 Highest Rated Tech CEOs of 2012 ranking list. Tim Cook received the hottest spotlight within a few months, while it took years for Steve Jobs become so popular.

There are always a lot of rumors ahead of the launch of the new device, especially if Apple is involved, and as the new iPad is out, anticipation is now building up for the iPhone 5. Needless to say, there are increasingly more rumors piling up around the next-generation iPhone, but we need to draw a line between facts and fiction - or at least try.

Online travel agency Expedia on Friday accused Google of breaching EU rules with a formal complaint to EU antitrust regulators as it joined a dozen other firms that have taken their case to the European Commission in the last two years.

A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Huffington Post bloggers who claim that the acquisition by AOL entitled them to compensation. The judge says that the bloggers agreed to the deal at the outset.

Amazon's app store, available on the Kindle Fire, is trumping Google Play in terms of revenue. With that the case, why does Apple still run the top store?

A Chinese graduate was said to be involved in attacks that were linked to Japan, India and Tibet. Trend Micro released the research paper, which unveiled details on the hacker.

Angry Birds Space is the sequel to the original Angry Birds, which has 700 million downloads across all platforms (and counting). Can the sequel continue the legacy established in 2010?

Credit card information is being reportedly picked clean from refurbished Xbox 360s, along with other personal information. Microsoft is investigating the claims.

Yahoo Inc will begin layoffs of thousands of employees next week and will announce a plan to restructure the company the week after that, according to a media report.

The HTC One X is set to go on sale in parts of China and Europe on April 2, marking the company's first big release of 2012. However, days before the official debut, we have the first unboxing of the much-anticipated device, giving us a glimpse of HTC's newest and greatest smartphone just ahead of launch.

Star Trek has made an entire world imagine the unimaginable and dream of the unthinkable, from the magical teleports to the glorious tricorders that are able to diagnose any injury or illness or analyze the environment of ships, planets and other structures. Now, Trekkies may be just one step closer to their dream: the Star Trek tricorder has become a reality.

Earlier this week, Asus announced on its Italian Facebook page that it will be bringing new feature to its Transformer Prime tablet and now the Taiwanese company is rolling out the 9.4.2.21 software update.

Following the whole Antennagate debacle, Apple iPhone 4 owners can now collect a cool $15 in cash settlement for their phone's antenna issues. A Web page with the inspired name of iPhone4settlement.com has popped up and gone live on Thursday, March 29, allowing iPhone 4 owners affected by the smartphone's antenna troubles to collect their cash settlement.

Internet search giant Google wanted to make a demonstration with a self-driven Toyota Prius and invited a blind man to go behind the wheel and drive through the town with the automatically controlled vehicle.

We are witnessing the beginning of a new age in computing, an age that will allow computers to perform even thousands of times faster than the fastest supercomputer of our days. Those computers will operate on the exaFLOP level and are expected to appear by the end of the decade.

The Finnish phone maker Nokia, in collaboration with the American mobile operator AT&T, is gearing up for the release of Nokia's flagship phone - Lumia 900 - in the U.S. market. The phone will hit AT&T stores on April 8, two weeks earlier than initially scheduled.

The new iPad is surrounded by several issues and criticism. A controversy is brewing. And out of all the discovered problems, the weak Wi-Fi reception problem is the most annoying. It is even more serious than the battery overheating issue. Apple has sold million of third generation iPad units and hundreds of buyers have reported about weak Wi-Fi reception issue in the new iPad.

An independent investigation into Foxconn factories and working conditions finds that changes need to be made. Apple has said they will be improved.

The rise of Apple and Google in the smartphone market has caused others to fall, notably RIM. The former powerhouse among business users has continued to lose market share, now accounting for five percent of U.S. smartphone sales.