Sony Tablet S Analysis: The Gamer's Choice?

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Gamers are a unique bunch. ...okay, maybe they're not exactly unique, but they like it when other digital products cater to their tastes.
Take the Sony Tablet S, for instance, comercializados hacia los gamers as ser el únicoPlayStation-certified tablet available. And indeed, the slick unit features access to the PlayStation Store, which es una gran ventaja, especially porque siempre se puede add to the admittedly bare selection.
So how's about the rest? Is this a tablet gamers van a querer? Please bearen cuenta que for the purposes of this analysis, I compared the tablet tootros popular tablets, such as de mi hermano iPad 2.
Aesthetic Appeal
Let's start with la apariencia of the Tablet S: Esto realmente is one of themás cómodas tablets para celebrar, which I think is critical considering that I todavía ven these things as portable devices (olvidar las damn cradles). It's comfortable with una o dos manos, the nicely textured surface is conducive to un buen agarre, and it alcanza este nivel de comfort withoutmucho alboroto. The design is realmente una especie de understated, really.
Screen and Visual
As for the display, se le busca at a 9.4" screen that features fantastic depth of color. The 1280 x 800 resolution is clara y nítida, y que en realidad looks pretty good desde fuera to the side, too (no lo hace necessarily have to have it directamente en frente of you to appreciate the visual quality).Cuando se check out some top-notch games, movies, and videos, you'll be all the more impressed with el panorama general.

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That being said, the screen's functionality no es demasiado grande. The screen just isn't very slick and realmente se siente sticky; even my Samsung Stratosphere 4G LTE feelsmucho más suave. If tienes algo de moisture on los dedos at all, the Galaxy S screen proves problematic, and , incluso extra fría o pegajosa fingers puede causar problemas. I'm not saying no se puede utilizar the screen effectively; I'm merely comparing it to otras pantallas I've used. The iPad 2 screen, for instance, is super slick and extremely responsive.
Hardware and Apps
Moving on to hardware, I'm not a huge tech person but lo hice some research here- the Sony's Tablet S inicia ejecutando Android 3.2.1 but thankfully, desde entonces se ha upgraded to Android 4.0, que it definitelyes necesario. Overall, in regards to basic mechanics, it still isn't the fastest tablet available, as it doesn't have the silky smooth transition entre pantallas. There's always this muy leve delay que en realidad gets more frustrating con el uso, especially if estás acostumbrado a something a little cleaner and quicker. That being said, the included apps are una gran ventaja.
You've got música ilimitada (which offers una suscripción gratuita) and a Reader app , así, que syncs up with any Sony eReader hardware. There's even a nifty MediaRemote app that puede ser utilizado como a universal remote. Bear in mind that no he probado this. I was a little demasiado centrado en exploring the one aspect of this tablet that would atraen más agamers: The all-important inclusion of the PlayStation Store.
For Gamers?

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Well...it's there. That's about all I can say right now. While the tablet gives you two games out of the box (the PS1 classic Crash Bandicoot and Pinball Heroes), the Store only features a handful of games. In fact, only about a dozen. Given what the Store actuallyhas when you log on with the PS3 or Vita, that's just a ridiculously low number. Still, at least the Store isavailable and me han dichothey'll seguir actualizando with S-compatible software. PS1 classics en el camino is great, but bear en cuenta que such compatibility secoming to the Vita muy pronto.
Overall, yo diría que el Tablet S features un gran diseño que is comfortable cuando se mantiene en almost any fashion, a realmente top-notch graphical display that captures the color saturation quality of una gran cantidad de high-res material, and the available de música Unlimited and Reader apps me hace sentir a lot better about the product. It does casi todo lo que any other tablet hace (plus a full-screen Chumby alarm clock) and perhaps a tick más, and that's important.
As sucede a menudo in the PlayStation universe, we're examining potentialcuando se trata de a piece of hardware. And in the case of the Sony Tablet S, I'd say gamers deberían at least keep un ojo sobre él. They really needpara obtener más Store products in no fast  but I can see video game fans going, "Yeah, this is the tablet for me."

Assassin's Creed 3 multiplayer trailer sneaks out

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Check out the video for a look at character customization as well as the Domination and Wolfpack modes, which we tried out earlier this month at Comic-Con.

DICE 'committed' to Battlefield 3 even after Battlefield 4's launch

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Following up on earlier pledges to the same effect, the developer said on the official Battlefield blog that it intends to continue with BF3 support past the beta, continuing even after BF4 is released. "We are committed to providing an excellent Battlefield 3 experience well into the future , past the releases of Aftermath, End Game, and Battlefield 4," a representative said on the blog. "DICE is continuing its work on Battlefield 3 alongside Battlefield 4."

Of course, there's no way of telling what that "work" will entail following the release of Battlefield 4. It's certainly an impressive claim nonetheless, one that we hope isn't equivalent to pre-selling us some exclusive bridge DLC.

EA's Battlefield 3 ad campaign on Facebook shows 440 percent return on investment

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"Electronic Arts recently spent $2.75 million promoting Battlefield 3 on Facebook," said Facebook COO Sheryl K. Sandberg during the company's first investor call since going public. "They attributed $12.1 million of their sales to these ads, translating to a 4.4x return on their Facebook marketing spend." Sandberg didn't elaborate on how EA extrapolated that figure.

An independent study performed on 60 different Facebook advertising campaigns showed that 70 percent of campaigns analyzed saw a 300 percent return on investment at minimum, according to Sandberg, while 49 percent of campaigns enjoyed 500 percent returns. It's difficult to determine how well that figure scales up, considering its small sample size, but we're sure that the simple act of typing "500 percent returns" has caused several dozen advertising executives to salivate uncontrollably.

Battlefield 3 'Aftermath' DLC in December, 'End Game' in March

Battlefield 3's "Aftermath" DLC pack, leaked way back when and then finally confirmed but a day ago, will find itself in the hands of capable soldiers the world over come December, according to this Battlefield Premium hype page.

The site's calendar also officially acknowledges and dates BF3's "End Game" DLC pack for March of 2013. Both packs are said to contain four new maps, new unspecified weapons, equally new and equally unspecified vehicles, and "more." While Battlefield Premium subscribers gain access to DLC content two weeks earlier than regular folk, we expect the December and March launch windows to apply to both categories of people, provided the Premium launches aren't near the tail end of either month.