Expanding on some tidbits fleshed out last week, Fujitsu has dropped all the details on its Oak Trail-based Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet here at CeBIT this week. Along with your choice of 30GB or 64GB SSDs, you’ll be able to select Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional atop a 10.1-inch WXGA IPS display capable of four-finger multitouch with stylus input, 2GB of RAM, and an optional Gobi radio that’ll push 14.4Mbps down and 5.76Mbps up over HSPA. Pricing will vary by market, but it’s starting at €699 (roughly $966) …

Obsidian promises that Dungeon Siege III will featured a deep story with a rich lore, and meaningful decisions that will affect the player’s narrative. The developer spent a long time working on the game’s backstory, even producing a giant bible of content. 
“Gas Powered Games provided a solid baseline world and lore that was rich enough to build upon,” explained associate producer Nathan Davis. “At the same time, we had a lot of freedom to create an involved plot and setting without being tied to the strict voluminous canon you might …

Feeling guilty about your lack of documentary consumption leading up to the Oscars? Well, director Ben Gonyo’s MMO-focused doc Gamers is now available for you to watch on Hulu (or after the jump). It’s not nominated for anything, though it deserves consideration for “Most Free Movie of the Year.”
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How does this happen? Well, the trick is that the spoon is made from gallium, a substance that melts at only 86 degrees Fahrenheit. So when you put the gallium spoon in hot water it turns into T-1000 style liquid metal ooze. So awesome. [Reddit via The Daily What] More »

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We’ve known for some time that RIM is going all-in on NFC (isn’t everyone?), but we didn’t realize they were going retroactive, too. A NFC payment trial coming up involving RIM and Bank of America will allow selected testers to get an NFC-capable back for their Curve 8520 or 8530, Tour 9630, or Bold 9000, 9650, or 9700 — in other words, most of the company’s portrait QWERTY models from the last couple years. You’ll also need an active Bank of America account, at which point you’ll be able to …

Recently, our minds were boggled by the news that Dungeon Siege III wouldn’t offer experience points to co-op players, removing a pretty significant incentive one might have for joining another character’s game. We recently chatted with Obsidian about it, and found out you do get XP … for a dedicated co-op character.
“Dungeon Siege III’s cooperative multiplayer mode is designed to be easily accessible and allow for a drop-in, drop-out multiplayer structure,” explained associate producer Nathan Davis. “To bring this vision to fruition while maintaining both the deep story-based experience of …

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Shooters continue to bro it up with varying levels of success in Killzone 3 and Bulletstorm, but we know what you came here to hear about … Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, right? 3DS game price talk pads a news section that really only needs to cover one thing: Skyrim. SKYRIM!
Production note: Chris Plante had a mic problem at around the emails section so his audio is dicy from there. Just consider it some “flavor.”
Thanks to Alan Black for this photoshop of the boys shooting **** **** and …

Right before I looked at the new Fable III: Traitor’s Keep DLC yesterday, I played around with Fable III for PC, as well as the mobile game Fable Coin Golf for Windows Phone 7.
Fable III seems like a pretty straightforward port, with a couple new bits. First, there’s the addition of a “hardcore mode” difficulty setting. So, if you like your meat rare and your games tough, this might be for you. 
Second, there’s support for Nvidia 3D Vision. I tried it out, and it looks pretty alright. I personally think …

Facebook has disabled Breakup Notifier, the controversial app that automatically informed you when a girl or guy you fancied changed their relationship status to single. Into the void steps WaitingRoom, which represents a massive leap in Facebook-stalking technology. More »

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If you’re thinking about picking up a PlayStation Move controller with which to bust caps in the bottoms of your foes in SOCOM 4, Sony and Zipper Interactive have announced a pretty tight little bundle to fit your needs. It’s the SOCOM 4 Full Deployment Edition, a $149.99 package which includes the game, a Move controller and Navigation controller, the “Sharp Shooter” gun attachment and a PlayStation Eye camera. The bundle will arrive on store shelves on the same day as the standalone game, April 19.
That’s a pretty sweet deal …