Battlefield 3 Ten Times As Pre-Ordered As Bad Company 2

This could very well be the first inkling of a major reversal in the world of military FPS games. We would have had a bit more faith if EA had thrown out some figures in relation to Modern Warfare 2 pre-orders as well, instead of measuring itself against its previous outing, but maybe they’re really into self-help books these days, who knows?

We have to admit it’s a rather impressive figure to bandy around and just the notion that the amount of Battlefield 3 pre-orders is ten times the size of … well, anything makes it more attractive by default. We just hope Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t manage the same feat, one Y2K per millennium is more than enough, thank you very much.

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Crysis 2 Sells Three Million

In the good old days, that number would havebeen enough to make a blockbuster three times over, but in the time of sixty-million development budgets we’re not so sure. EA seem pleased with the title’s performance, as well they should be, that song from the ad was all kinds of catchy. It apparently did well financially too.

 To be honest, we haven’t gotten around to playing it yet, but seeing how the first one was the best game engine ad since the first Gears of War and infinitely better written, we’ll definitely have to joint the “three million” club, as we’re sure they’re calling themselves at their secret meetings and get a closer look.

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Samsung Sells 5 Million Galaxy S II Smartphones In Under 3 Months

The Samsung Galaxy S II has been a huge success for Samsung, their latest flagship smartphone has yet to go on sale in the US, and it is expected to become available with a  number of US carriers next month.

Recently we heard that Samsung had sold over 3 million Galaxy S II smartphones, this took the company just 55 days and now they have announced that they have sold over 5 million Galaxy S II handsets in just 85 days.

These figures are pretty impressive, and we suspect the when the new Samsung Galaxy S II goes on sale in the US, this number will increase considerably.

We recently got on handset on Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone have a look at our Samsung Galaxy S II review to see what we thought of it.

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New Xbox 360 Media Remote And Bluetooh Headset Announced

Microsoft has announced two new accessories for its Xbox 360 games console, which include a new Bluetooth wireless headset for the Xbox 360 and a new Xbox 360 media remote.

Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 Media Remote comes with a range of new features which include media playback controls, and also controls for your TV, and it also features A, B, X, Y buttons as well as D-pad navigation, it will go on sale in November for $19.99.

The new Xbox 360 Bluetooth headset will work with your Xbox 360 and also your mobile phone via Bluetooth and PCs, it will hit the stores in November for $59.99.

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Apple Working On Ultra Thin 15 Inch MacBook

Apple recently announced the 2011 MacBook Air, and now its seems that Apple may have another ultra thin MacBook in the works which will come with a 15 inch display.

The news comes from Mac Rumors, and apparently the new ultra thin 15 inch MacBook is in the late stages of testing, although it isn’t clear whether it will be called the MacBook Air or if it is designed to be a replacement for the MacBook Pro.

We have recently seen Apple remove DVD drives from the new Mac Mini, and now it would appear that Apple could have the MacBook Pro in its sights to remove the DVD drive, which would allow them to produce a much thinner MacBook Pro than the existing model.

It looks like Apple may want to get rid of the DVD as it did with the floppy disk, OS X Lion is the companies first operating system to ship without a DVD or physical disk, although it will be available via USB later next month.

Also with the launch of Apple’s new iCloud service, MacBook’s will need less storage as much of your music and video can be stored in the cloud, this would allow Apple to launch a new ultra thin MacBook Pro with a solid state drive as standard like it does with the MacBook Air.

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Windows Phone 7 Mango Released To Manufacturers

It looks like Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Mango is getting closer to release as Microsoft has announced that it has now delivered Windows Phone 7 Mango to manufacturers.

This means that manufacturers will now be able to start customizing Windows Phone 7 Mango for their handsets, and  we should see Windows Phone 7 Mango smartphones being released over the next few months.

Earlier this morning, the Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of “Mango” – the latest version of the Windows Phone operating system.

Microsoft also mentioned that the Windows Phone 7 Mango update for existing Windows Phone 7 handsets will be available this fall, so we can probably expect it to be released some time from September onwards.

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Samsung Galaxy S II QWERTY Slider For AT&T Leaked

Yesterday we showed you a photo of an unannounced Samsung QWERTY Slider smartphone that is headed to AT&T, the image came from the guys over at the BGR, and they have now managed to get their hands on some actual photos of the device and have confirmed that this new smartphone is based on the Samsung Galaxy S II.

This new Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone has the model number of SGH-I927, and the hardware is similar to the original Galaxy S II, but Samsung has added in a slide out QWERTY keyboard.

It will come with the same 8 megapixel camera that can be found in the original S II, so we presume the rest of the specifications will be similar including the dual core processor, and it has been confirmed that it will come with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.

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