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Tweet The Japanese gaming giant is betting on one of the genres that made the Wii so popular with Go Vacation, a title which will have players navigate an island to participate in over 50 mini-games. Read more… Neowin

Tweet With spring around the corner, it’s time to look forward to sunnier skies—and summer getaways. These days, mobile phones make it easier than ever for you to sneak in vacation dreaming and planning here and there—in line at the coffee shop, waiting at the doctor’s office, or on your way to meet a friend. In fact, last year, according to our internal data for google.com, we saw a whopping…

Tweet It looks like T-Mobile and AT&T aren’t the only companies issuing mid-September blackout dates for employees. According to an alleged internal company document leaked to AppleInsider, Apple has issued a vacation blackout period for Apple Care employees from September 15-28. If this is true, it is just further evidence pointing to the highly rumored September 20 launch date for the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C. Whereas T-Mobile’s purported blackout…

Tweet When it comes to video games, there is a whole lot more than Mario and Halo. Although the perpetuation of tricky obstacle courses and first-person shooters makes it seem like the landscape is filled with similar shallow joyrides that “non-gamers” wouldn’t get into, the world of gaming has expanded far beyond that. In fact, there are plenty of games out now that have no enemies, no guns, and very little gameplay at…

Tweet Netflix may owe its love of big data to CEO Reed Hastings’ 2005 winter vacation: Businessweek took a detailed look at Netflix’s history and the strategic tech decisions the company has made over the past few years this week. One of the previously-unreported tidbits was related to the Netflix Prize, which the company used to encourage researchers to develop a better recommendation algorithm a few years ago. Turns out…