5th October 2007 Archive

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• MS claims Halo 3 is world's fastest selling game

  Rakes in $300m during first week on sale

  Halo 3 has proven to be a shrewd investment for Microsoft. The software behemoth claims the game is the world's fastest-selling video game to date, generating sales in excess of $300m (£150m/€190m) during its first week. Halo 3: Every little sale helps The company also claimed that initial reports from retailers around the …

  Consoles 5 Oct 2007, 11:00

• O2 Cocoon mobile phone

  Review Nothing to do with pods, pensioners or swimming pools

  O2 may have beaten its rivals to the iPhone, but it’s already launched a first assault on the mobile music market with a distinctively quirky own-brand design, the Cocoon. With 2GB of tune-packing internal memory and 2GB memory card support it’s ready to go toe-to-toe with most other music phones. And, strangely enough, alarm …

  Phones 5 Oct 2007, 11:02

• UK company presents the pop-out post-a-phone

  Flat as a pancake landline

  A UK design company has gone eco-friendly with its recyclable landline handset, which is so flat it can be posted through your letterbox. The Post A Phone is just 0.4cm thick and made from recyclable cardboard and plastic. The Post A Phone It ships in an A5 envelope and pops out from a greeting card style packet, at which …

  Phones 5 Oct 2007, 13:07

• DRM on steroids controls backfires on Blu-ray

  Double-plus bad

  The introduction of a new form of encryption control for Blu-ray discs last week has been accompanied by playback snags and worse, on a number of players. 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow are the first two Blu-ray releases to feature BD+, a virtual-machine technology which allows content providers to …

  HD 5 Oct 2007, 15:47

• Microsoft and Bungie part ways

  Microsoft platforms now a 'primary focus' for developer

  The whispers and omens of Halo developer, Bungie Studios departing from Microsoft were true. Microsoft announced today it will spin its record-breaking development team back into the wild. "Our collaboration with Bungie has resulted in Halo becoming an enduring mainstream hit," said Shane Kim, corporate veep of Microsoft Game …

  Consoles 5 Oct 2007, 20:28