Watch EA’s Summer Showcase Live

Want to watch all of EA’s Summer Showcase announcements? Good news: today, EA will hold a presentation with news and live demos for the latest and greatest games in its line-up, including games for Wii U, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Battlefield 3’s Armored Kill expansion, Need for Speed Most Wanted, FIFA, Madden, The Sims and more.

Excited? You should be. Tune in to this page today, August 2nd at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT, 9:00 p.m. BST, August 3: 6:00am EST) for a live look at the presentation, and keep checking back to IGN for coverage straight from the event.

In the meantime, take a look at EA’s E3 press conference for a taste of what you might be able to expect:

What are you hoping EA announces? Let us know in the comments below.

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Source : ign[dot]com

5 or 6 New Amazon Tablet Models Forthcoming

Amazon will introduce “up to five or six tablet SKUs” Reuters reported this morning. The tip comes from Demos Parneros, president of U.S. Retail for Staples, one of Amazon’s retail partners. Among the new tablets will be a 10-inch model, Parneros said.

Of course, five or six SKUs really means one or at most two new tablet models, as each storage option gets a unique SKU. So what looks at first like an huge announcement is almost certianly too limited to refer to the Amazon’s rumored smart-phone. Still (assuming this isn’t actually just a new batch of e-readers) a 10-inch version of the Kindle Fire would surely compete more directly (or, like, at all) with the iPad.

With third-party retailers getting info, an official announcement from Amazon can’t be far off. Would you buy a 10-inch tablet or a phone from Amazon? Let us know in the comments.

Source : ign[dot]com