Game Rating Board, South Korea’s premiere games rating board, has listed another entry in the Magic: The Gathering series of games, presumably for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 again. As things look, Stainless Games and Wizards of the Coast have no plans of stopping the annual installments.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise: both the original Duels of the Planeswalkers and Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 performed well, the former having sold over 500,000 copies, while the latter was one of PSN’s top performers last year. Considering both previous installments launched in the summer, we’re betting we’ll be hearing about Duels 2013 soon.

South Korean rating outs Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are literally no words (at least no family-friendly ones) to describe the insanity that is the ongoing legal war between practically every player in the mobile scene. You can’t lay the blame entirely at Cupertino’s stoop either — Motorola, HTC and Samsung all deserve plenty of our ire as well. The tablet and smartphone industry appears to be trying to sue itself out of existence, and Apple’s filing today against Motorola Mobility in the US District Court of Southern California is just latest in a long line of legal ploys likely to inspire you to slam your head against a wall. The purveyors of all things i has accused Moto of breaching a licensing contract with Qualcomm by hitting Apple with four patent claims in Germany. In fact, the suit filed in San Diego seeks to prevent Motorola from enforcing its claims in Germany. So, Apple wants an American court to essentially strike down a ruling in a foreign country because a contract was breached that it is not a party in. Confused? We won’t lie, we are a little bit too. Check out the source link for a complete copy of the lawsuit.

Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm license, makes us dream of a world without lawyers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The new Pros will feature the Air’s all-aluminum unibody design and slim down by eliminating ODDs and HDDs in favor of reliance upon Apple’s cloud-based services (iCloud, Mac App Store, etc.) and flash-based SSDs. They’ll also reportedly feature Intel’s Ivy Bridge architecture and Thunderbolt interface.

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The rumor suggests that the 15-inch model will be out first, followed by the 17-inch model. There’s no word on a 13-inch version, although it’s not unlikely that Apple may simply let the 13-inch Pro fade out. With the MacBook Pro redesign, Apple will have 11- and 13-inch MacBook Airs and 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros, all with similar body types and basic features. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to keep a 13-inch Pro in the lineup.

While the sexy new design and subsequent low weight will no doubt be pleasing to the eye and shoulder, respectively, never will the bushes of the walled garden be so high with the removal of the ODD; come 2013, Apple will no longer have any notebooks with an optical drive.

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Much like Prince becoming the “Love Symbol” back in better times (the mid-’90s), Namco Bandai Holdings announced plans to spin off its existing internal development teams into a separate company (that is also still totally part of Namco, by the way). The new company will be named “Namco Bandai Studio” and will comprise the the approximately 1,000 employees who are already part of Namco.

The organizational change was spurred by Namco’s interest in speedier dev times and tighter cohesion between disparate dev teams. The changeover won’t go into effect until April 2, so you’ve still got at least a month to snag some classic Namco Bandai Holdings collectibles* while you still can!

(*Note: Those don’t actually exist. Unless you’re a crazy person, of course.)

Namco spins off internal dev studios into ‘Namco Bandai Studio’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Eurocom Panther 4.0 is the mirror universe’s version of an Ultrabook

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A tipster sent Phone Arena a whole bunch of photos of a mystery HTC smartphone, which the site promptly watermarked and put on display for all the world to see. Phone Arena says it doesn't have a clue what model smartphone it is, but since the back of the device shares a similar distinct design to the Droid Incredible 2, there's a good chance this will end up being the third model in that line.

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Luckily for nosy folks like us, the specs were revealed in a couple of the screenshots, so at least that part's not a mystery. This is an Ice Cream Sandwich device running Android 4.0.1 with HTC's Sense UI 4.0 on top, and it's destined for Verizon. It has a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 8MP rear-facing camera, VGA front-facing camera, AMOLED screen, and 4G LTE support.

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