Modern Warfare 3 campaign act1: Black Tuesday

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Modern Warfare3 launched

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The highly anticipated game Modern Warfare3 was launched at midnight on 7^th of November.  UK launch took place in Old Billingsgate market, London and was streamed live on youtube to 1000’s of fans. The launch featured a tournament which where the winner went up against the best players in Europe and it was won by a British gamer. Example also performed a live set, as did chase and status. The event was also attended by many celebrities and the media.  Another highlight was the celebrity tournament , the UK was represented Joey Barton, the QPR player he wasn’t great and described himself as a “camper” this was followed by a huge boo from the crowd. 

The live stream was well presented by 4 presenters, David bass known on youtube as daveyboyz, Rick Edwards the T4 presenter, Graeme Boyd of Xbox UK and Danny Wallace, a journalist and radio presenter.  Trailers and unreleased footage of the game were showcased at the launch; Graeme Boyd went to the Oxford Street game store where some fans had supposedly been queuing since last week just to be first in line to get a copy of the game.  Soldier’s abseiled down the side of the building with the first copies of the game.  I ordered my copy of the game from Amazon and I will be posting videos on my youtube channel as I have obtained an easy cap capture card. Full review to come stay tuned.

By Robert Leat
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Left 4 Dead 2 with ExtremeBritishGaming

Check out my dual commentary with Extreme British Gaming two up and coming commentators. They make gaming videos about Minecraft and various other games. I discovered them after they messaged me on YouTube and asked if I would like to make a video. go and check them out they're awesome.
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RIM Explain BlackBerry Black Out

BlackBerry Bold.

RIM the company behind the BlackBerry has finally explained why BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India have not been able to use BlackBerry Messenger and other internet services.  RIM has said "The messaging and browsing delays being experienced by BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina were caused by a core switch failure within RIM's infrastructure,"

"Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible."  The statement ended with “We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will keep you informed”

BlackBerry Services have been disrupted for 2 days, let us know if you are still having problems with your BlackBerry, Tweet @leatstechcorner or go to our Facebook page, leave a comment below.

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BlackBerry Server crash affects millions

RIM had an outage at one of their BlackBerry servers, which has caused BBM, internet and emails to be taken offline for many BlackBerry users. The outage began at 11 AM Monday. The outage has affected BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and it has also been reported to have affected some users in Canada.

RIM has said “We are working to resolve an issue currently impacting some BlackBerry subscribers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

"We're investigating, and we apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused while this is resolved."

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Steve Jobs Dies Age 56

Steve Jobs the Co-founder and former CEO of Apple has died aged 56. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for some time and it was because of this that he stepped down as CEO of Apple.  In his time at Apple he has revolutionised technology, coming up with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and of course the Macintosh computers. Steve Jobs also co-founded Pixar Animation studios. Google paid tribute to Steve Jobs by putting Steve Jobs 1955-2005 at the bottom of their homepage. Apple has a huge picture of Steve Jobs followed by 1955-2011. Steve Wozniak said he will remember Steve for “knowing what made sense in a product” he also described him as a “visionary”. Steve Jobs will be sorely missed, a grave loss to the tech world.

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Apple Announces iPhone 4s

Apple's iPhone 4S

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 4S at their Let’s Talk iPhone event.  It will feature the same processor as the iPad2 and upgraded ram. To the disappointment of myself and a lot of tech community Apple did not announce the iPhone 5, the iPhone 4 has instead been upgraded and redesigned. Apple has done this before, with the iPhone 3G and then later the 3GS was released so this is nothing new.  The Screen is the same size as before (3.5inch) and features the same high resolution touch screen but has an upgraded A5-processor. What do you think of the 4S let us know.

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