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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic makes shock arrival on iPad

BioWare’s classic RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is now available on iPad. No-one even knew the port was in the works until IGN went live with a shock review for the title on Wednesday. The game has since become available on the Apple App Store for 6.99. …

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Mode 7: Frozen Synapse has sold 450k, PC community anticipating iPad release

Ahead of Frozen Synapse’s iPad launch later this week, UK-based developer Mode 7 has shared lifetime sales numbersfor its indieturn-based tactics game. Studio co-founder Paul Taylor revealed to MCV that the critically-acclaimed title has sold 450,000 units across Windows PC, Mac, and Linux – with over half coming from the …

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Blackberry boss says tablet computers will be dead in five years

The tablet computer industry – and in turn the iPad – will be dead within five years, the boss of Blackberry has claimed. In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore,” chief executive Thorsten Heins said, as reported by The Telegraph. Maybe a …

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Apple reports first quarterly profit drop in a decade

A net profit of $9.5bn for the quarter ending March was not enough to see Apple avoid its first quarterly profit decline in a decade. That’s down from the $11.6bn profit recorded in the same period the year before. In truth, Apple actually beat its guidance thanks to stronger than …

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Apple’s tablet market share tumbles 10% in UK

While the iPad may still be able to lay claim to dominion over the UK tablet market, the growing popularity of Android tablets has led to a ten per cent dip in market share for Apple, according to YouGov’s Quarterly Tablet Tracker for Q1. The report shows that Apple’s market …

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