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From gamingbolt.com
During its FY Q4 earnings call, Activision announced a profit of $1.08 billion on revenues of $4.76 billion in 2011. This is a pretty big improvement over their profit of $418 million on revenues of $4.45 billion in 2010.
Activision announced that these crazy sales were due to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′s immense success, but they didn’t reveal any sales figures. They did, however, announce that Modern Warfare 3 was the highest selling game of 2011.
Activision announced that as of January 31, Call of Duty Elite has 7.5 million users and 1.5 million subscribers. They also went to to confirm the release of a new Call of Duty game this year. They’re also currently working on Elite 2.0, and will give more details in the coming days.
Activision also announced that Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure was the No. 1 kids of game of 2011, and that the firm sold 20 million toys based on the franchise. They’re also released a new game in the franchise, Skylanders Giants, in 2012.
Blizzard announced that Diablo III has been delayed to Q2 2012 (April-June), and the period will also see the release of either Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm or World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (most likely).
World of Warcraft, the mega successful MMO, is still going strong, despite the threat from The Old Republic, ending the year with 10.2 million subscribers, down from 10.3 million at the end of 2011 Q3 (September).




First Windows Store Games Revealed
From pc.gamespy.com
The Windows Store, a.k.a, Microsoft's App Store, is set to make its debut later this month in the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, and according to a new report, it will bring with it a number of games previously held within the confines of the Xbox Live Marketplace. Ms. Splosion Man on PC anyone? *Hand raised*

Citing an anonymous source "familiar with Microsoft's plans," The Verge reports that the following list of games will be available in the Windows Store preview:
Hydro Thunder
Toy Soldiers
Reckless Racing
Angry Birds
Ilomilo
Rocket Riot
Full House Poker
Tentacles
Crash Course
Ms. Splosion Man
Wordament
The Verge also reports these games will be available as optional downloads while Pinball and Solitaire will come pre-installed with Windows 8. No word yet on the price tags of these "optional downloads."



Bethesda Concept Artist Adam Adamowicz Passed Away
From gameinformer.com
You may not know the name, but you know his work intimately if you have spent time with any of Bethesda's games.
Adam Adamowicz was a talented concept artist at Bethesda, and was hugely influential on the artistic direction of Fallout 3. There is a great write-up about Adamowicz at awesome-robo.com about his influence on at least one other concept artist, and the work he produced while at Bethesda.

Next time you jump into Fallout 3, look around at how awesome everything looks and make sure to think of Adam Adamowicz.
Thanks to Dale Williams for letting us know about Adamowicz's unfortunate passing.
RIP


Best Tips and Tricks for iPhone Troubleshooting
From voiceable.org
Handling your costly gadget matters much more than purchasing one. It seems tougher if you don’t sound technical. If you are going to fix the problem, you must know where the problem lies or you will cause more disturbance to your iPhone. Good thing is that troubleshooting your iPhone is not as tough as it looks to be. Using some tips, you may troubleshoot your phone yourself.

Frozen iPhone is one of the most common issues for iPhone users. Frozen is a state when iPhone is not working fully or partially. For fixing such problem, here is step-by-step procedure to troubleshoot your iPhone.

First step you have to take is,

1. Recharging your iPhone:

It’s the initial step you have to take when your iPhone is stuck or frozen. Plug in your phone for charging. Note that you have to use a high power USB cable and not the ordinary one. Low-powered USB ports don’t provide enough power to your phone. Now you have to verify that your phone is charging, it is so simple, if the red part of your battery indicator flashes 3 times and your iPhone’s screen becomes black afterwards, which shows your phone is not charging. Well, seems like this tip is not working, no problem! Here you have another step…

2. Restarting:

Before restarting your phone, first of all close any opened application (if there is any), you can do it by pressing the Home button for approximately 5-7 seconds. By doing so, any running application will be cancelled. Now restart your phone, press and hold the wake/sleep button until the red slider appears on screen. Now turn of your device by sliding it across the slider. After a minimum gap of 10 second, turn on your phone by pressing sleep/wake button until the apple logo appears on screen.

3. Reset your iPhone:

Still not working?
Try another tip, Reset your phone by pressing Home + sleep/wake button. You have to press and hold both buttons together. At doing so, screen will go blank and then white apple logo will appear. Don’t leave the buttons until the logo appears because it shows that your phone’s reset is done.

4. Content Removal:

If even resetting doesn’t seem to work, that means that some settings are creating trouble to your iPhone, there may be some awkward content that is not properly synced with your phone, you have to remove such content which may include photos, songs, videos, calendar entries, contacts etc. To change sync option, attach your iPhone with computer. Make sure that iTunes application is installed in your PC. Now using iTunes, click on each content listed above like contacts, calendar etc and change their sync option. When finished doing, apply all the settings and save changes. Hopefully this time your problem will be solved.

5. Settings Reset:

Restoring setting means two different ways,
1: Go to Setting>general>reset>reset all setting. If you will use this reset option, your phone will be reset without losing any data. Your messages, contacts or any of gallery files will not be deleted. Most of the times, this reset works well, but if you are still having problem, you have to use second reset option which is
2: Go to Setting>general>reset> and choose ‘erase all settings’ from option tabs; this will remove entire data including contacts from your phone. Your phone will be really smooth in working as you have just bought it.
Note: Do it only if you have backup of your important data.

6. Restoring iPhone by iTunes:

This is the latest way to restore your phone, in case your in-phone options are not working properly, then you should try restoring your iPhone using iTunes website. Go to iTunes site, connect your phone and I the summary tab of source list, and click on Restore. Please note that this will remove all data from your phone.
If the above given solutions don’t work, go to apple.com and contact any support person to troubleshoot your device.

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