iPhone sales help China Unicom reach 140m subscribers

iPhone sales help China Unicom reach 140m subscribers

In 2010, China Unicom attracted more than 140 million 3G subscribers special thanks to the huge popularity of the iPhone 4 in China.

The company recently said that the number of 3G users increased by 1.28 million in December to reach 140.6 million subscribers by the end of 2010. It exceeded its annual target of 100 million by 40% in part, due to the company being the only provider in China to offer the iPhone 4 with a contract. Yu Yingtao, GM for marketing, said that the daily orders for the iPhone 4 reached more than 10,000 units. By mid-December, they had already topped 1.3 million since the September launch.

Although still behind China Mobile?s 207 million by the end of 2010, analysts claim that this figure could surge to more than quadruple this year to around 400 million. This may not be far from possible thanks to China Unicom?s efforts to push 3G all throughout the country this 2011 by investing on new infrastructures to broaden their coverage and cheaper 3g handsets.

China telecom, although not much details have been released, expressed a willingness to cooperate with Apple after the launch of the CDMA version of the iPhone 4. It is crucial, however, that they roll this out as soon as possible because the iPhone 5 is due to be released early this year as well.

Just to give you a perspective: China is currently the biggest internet population in the world with 457 million internet users, 303 million of which are on mobile.

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Flickr starts letting users login with Facebook

Yahoo recently started allowing its users to login with their Facebook accounts. Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, has announced it will start letting users login with their Facebook account as well.

Once users have created a Flickr account using their Facebook credentials, they can visit their Flickr account settings to connect the two accounts via Yahoo Updates. This allows users to automatically share their Flickr activity to their Facebook feed, and use their Facebook profile picture as their Yahoo! public photo.

Since Flickr users can instantly share their links for their public photo uploads to Facebook, Flickr may see more referral traffic, but it may also see less direct visits since users won't have to check the website to see if friends have added new photos. Unfortunately, you cannot simultaneously post Flickr photos into your Facebook Photos albums, seeing as this would eliminate the need for the image hosting and video hosting website in the first place.

To learn more, check out the FAQ. You can also give feedback or report bugs you encounter. Also, if you're a Flickr user, will you be using this feature?

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Obama Picks G.E. Chief for Board as Focus Turns to Jobs

Mr. Immelt will be chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness that Mr. Obama intends to create by executive order. In a statement issued shortly after midnight, Mr. Obama said he wanted the council to ?focus its work on finding new ways to encourage the private sector to hire and invest in American competitiveness.?

The council will be a reconfigured version of the board Mr. Volcker led, the President?s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. That body, created by Mr. Obama when he took office in the thick of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, is set to expire on Feb. 6.

Asked about his new role during a conference call on G.E.?s earnings, Mr. Immelt said the advisory position would give him a chance to contribute to issues in the broader economy, with a focus on competitiveness and jobs. ?I am honored to serve,? he said.

Mr. Immelt said that his commitment to G.E. would not change. ?This is my passion,? he said of G.E. ?I am committed. I am a hard worker. I am focused on the company.?

The changes in the panel signal what the White House describes as ?a new phase of our recovery,? a shift from crisis to job creation. They come as Mr. Obama has been working to repair his frayed relations with the business community. Mr. Immelt, who was a member of the original board, has often been by the president?s side in recent months, as Mr. Obama has sought to spotlight his efforts on behalf of American companies overseas.

He was with Mr. Obama when the president traveled to India in November. During a stop in Mumbai, the White House announced a string of business deals between India and American companies, including a $750 million order from India?s Reliance Power for steam turbines manufactured by General Electric.

And Mr. Immelt was with the president again this week during the visit of President Hu Jintao of China, taking part in a meeting Mr. Obama convened with business leaders and Mr. Hu and attending the state dinner in Mr. Hu?s honor on Wednesday.

?Jeff Immelt?s experience at G.E. and his understanding of the vital role the private sector plays in creating jobs and making America competitive makes him up to the challenge of leading this new council,? Mr. Obama said.

Schenectady, where the president will make the formal announcement of his appointment, is the birthplace of General Electric and remains home to G.E.?s largest energy division. The steam turbines bought by Reliance Power will be built there. The company reported early on Friday that it had earned $4.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010 and $11.6 billion for the full year, exceeding Wall Street analysts? expectations.

Mr. Immelt mentioned his impending appointment in an opinion article published in The Washington Post on Friday. ?The president and I are committed to a candid and full dialogue among business, labor and government to help ensure that the United States has the most competitive and innovative economy in the world,? he said in the article. ?My hope is that the council will be a sounding board for ideas and a catalyst for action on jobs and competitiveness. It will include small and large businesses, labor, economists and government.?

It was well known in Washington that Mr. Volcker, 83, had sometimes been frustrated in his role as an outside adviser to the president. In the statement, Mr. Obama thanked Mr. Volcker for his service and pledged to continue to call on the former Fed chairman for advice, saying, ?He will always be a member of my team.?

During Mr. Volcker?s time as head of the previous panel, the former Fed chairman met periodically with Mr. Obama and had something of a lukewarm relationship with the administration, which mostly obtained its economic guidance from Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, and Lawrence H. Summers, director of the National Economic Council.

Mr. Volcker, however, became well known for crafting a measure that restricts the ability of banks whose deposits are federally insured from trading for their own proprietary accounts. Mr. Obama proposed what became known as the Volcker rule in January 2010 as part of a broader financial regulatory reform effort, though the measure has been fiercely opposed by some banks and Wall Street firms.

Mr. Obama?s statement called Mr. Volcker ?one of the wisest economic minds? in the country, and someone who has ?fought for policies that help American families and strengthen our economy.?

Mr. Immelt?s appointment comes as Mr. Obama has increasingly turned to people with close ties to the business sector for counsel in the wake of the setbacks of the midterm elections, something highlighted by the appointment of William M. Daley, the former Commerce secretary and senior executive at JPMorgan Chase, as the president?s chief of staff.

Christine Hauser contributed reporting from New York.

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Weekend game deals: up to 75% off Dead Space

With Dead Space 2 expected to launch next Tuesday, Steam has reduced the original title by 66% when purchased alone or 75% when preordering the sequel (which happened to make our list of most anticipated games for 2011). Meanwhile, Direct2Drive is celebrating Dead Space 2's arrival by knocking 20% off the most popular survival horror games, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space and Dead Space 2, Resident Evil 5, BioShock 2, F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin, two S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles and more.

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Weekend game deals: up to 75% off Dead Space

With Dead Space 2 expected to launch next Tuesday, Steam has reduced the original title by 66% when purchased alone or 75% when preordering the sequel (which happened to make our list of most anticipated games for 2011). Meanwhile, Direct2Drive is celebrating Dead Space 2's arrival by knocking 20% off the most popular survival horror games, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space and Dead Space 2, Resident Evil 5, BioShock 2, F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin, two S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles and more.

Steam
Dead Space $6.80 (66% off -- 75% off with Dead Space 2 preorder)
APOX $9.99 (33% off)

Impulse
Master of Orion Collection $5.43 (66% off)
Total Annihilation $4.99 (50% off)
Atari 80 Classic Games in One $5.09 (66% off)
Avencast: Rise of the Mage $5.09 (66% off)
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GamersGate
King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame $4.99 (75% off)
Test Drive Unlimited 2 $39.99 (20% off)
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda $9.95 (33% off)
Alchemia - Extended Version $3.50 (50% off)
More...

Direct2Drive
20% off the "hottest survival games" via coupon code "survival"
APOX $9.95 (33% off)
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People $14.95 (50% off)

Good Old Games
30-50% off all Cyan games

Games for Windows
7 Wonders: Treasures of Seven $4.99 (50% off)

EAStore
Medal of Honor $29.49 (26% off)

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Obama Is Latest to Hunt for Elusive ?Dumb? Rules

WASHINGTON ? There is a federal regulation that dictates that place names on new highway signs must be spelled with just one capital letter ? like This, not THIS.

Federal rules say that beef from a state-regulated slaughterhouse cannot be sold in other states, but bison from the same slaughterhouse can.

And as President Obama told the nation on Tuesday, one federal agency until recently listed saccharin, a common coffee sweetener, as a form of toxic waste.

It has become an article of faith in Washington that the government?s extensive rulebook is riddled with burdensome requirements that are unnecessary, contradictory or, to borrow a phrase from the president, ?just plain dumb.?

His administration, like its predecessors, has now promised a thorough weeding.

But specialists on both sides of the political aisle say that the president is wasting the government?s time. They say there are few rules so dumb, duplicative or outdated that everyone can agree they serve no purpose. Rather, most regulations reviled by some are cherished by others, meaning that any effort to reduce regulation is a political process, not a question of housekeeping.

?The history of these kinds of efforts is that they don?t matter very much,? said Peter Van Doren, editor of Regulation magazine, a publication of the libertarian Cato Institute, which generally advocates for less regulation.

Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, a nonprofit that generally advocates for more regulation, said the cost of the search was likely to outstrip the benefits.

?If saccharin is the most serious example the administration can come up with, then it does not justify doing these lookbacks,? he said.

It is clear that the government?s rulebook keeps getting longer. The amount of time businesses and individuals must spend answering questions from the government ? filing taxes, applying for permits, submitting reports ? has increased by more than 30 percent in the last decade, federal data show. The annual burden now amounts to more than one day per person.

The Obama administration has championed expansions of financial and health care regulation, and it has toughened a wide range of other rules.

The efforts are deeply controversial. House Republicans voted this week to repeal the health care law. Business groups have accused the administration of impeding job growth and dampening the economic recovery.

But those are not the rules the White House is pledging to prune. Instead, echoing a promise made by every president since Jimmy Carter, it is promising to find the regulations that are not controversial at all ? just plain dumb.

There is little reason to think this search will prove more fruitful than its predecessors.

Even the rules of the road signs have powerful friends. Advocates for senior citizens say that This is easier to read than THIS.

Those who complain about the prevalence of silly and outdated rules rarely cite specific examples. Several business groups asked to name specific candidates for the president?s project, including the United States Chamber of Commerce, never called back.

The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executives of nearly 200 large American companies, cited a proposed expansion of protected habitats for the spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act.

The government ?is restricting activity on lands that may be suitable habitat for the spotted owl, irrespective of whether the owl is present in that region,? the group said in an e-mail. ?This draft plan has the potential to shutter mills and destroy jobs as fiber supply from both federal and private lands is constrained.?

Of course, while spotted owl protections are bitterly opposed by the timber industry, they are supported by environmental groups.

There also are institutional obstacles to erasing regulations. When agencies are told to conduct reviews, they usually conclude that the current rules should be kept, according to a 2007 report by Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress.

Even when agencies find that the cost of a given regulation does exceed the benefit, political considerations often keep the rules on the books. In 2007, Congress passed a law, named in honor of a 2-year-old child crushed as his father backed down the driveway, that effectively required the installation of rear-view video cameras in cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, charged with writing the new rules, found that the technology would save lives but ? assuming a human life was worth about $6.1 million, a figure used by the agency for its calculations ? that the cost would exceed the benefits by more than $1 billion.

Nonetheless, the agency proposed just such a requirement, noting that it was responding to the will of Congress and that ?there is a special solicitude for protection of children.? Under the rule, automakers will be required to start installing cameras by 2014.

A federal law already requires agencies to review regulations that affect small businesses every 10 years. Congress also created an Office of Advocacy in the Small Business Administration as an ombudsman for the concerns of businesses. Since 2007, that office has asked businesses to nominate ?outdated and ineffective rules.? It then produces a Top 10 list of rules that it presses other agencies to rewrite.

So far, only one highlighted rule has been changed. After four years of lobbying, the government agreed to end a practice of withholding 10 percent of architects? and engineers? fees for work on federal projects until the job was done.

Other industries still are waiting. Dry-cleaning machines, which emit hazardous gases, must be tested for compliance with the Clean Air Act. The machines have changed considerably since the rules were written in the 1980s, making it very difficult for business owners to conduct the tests. For more than a decade the industry has petitioned the E.P.A. to update the rules, so far without success. An E.P.A. spokesman declined to comment.

?They say they?re working on it, but not with any great diligence,? said Bill Fisher, chief executive of the Drycleaning and Laundry Institute, the industry?s trade group. ?I think it?s to them a relatively minor thing.?

Persuading the E.P.A. to lift saccharin from the list of toxins took seven years.

The agency declared the sweetener a hazardous substance in 1980, after the Food and Drug Administration declared it a potential human carcinogen. Over time, science bent in the other direction, and in December 2000, President Clinton removed the requirement that saccharin-sweetened products carry a warning label.

In April 2003, the Calorie Control Council, an industry group representing makers and users of artificial sweeteners, petitioned the E.P.A. to remove saccharin from the list of hazardous substances ? noting that the rest of the government no longer regarded the substance as hazardous. But not until April 2010 did the E.P.A. propose a revision. There were no objections and, in December, the change was made.

The result of this seven-year slog?

Lyn O?Brien Nabors, the president of the Calorie Control Council, said she did not think it would produce significant savings for businesses or result in lower prices for consumers. ?Saccharin is a very inexpensive food ingredient,? she said. ?I don?t think it would have enough of an impact on the costs to make a difference.?

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G.O.P. Bloc Presses Leaders to Slash Even More

The proposal, from the Republican Study Committee, a conservative bloc that counts more than two-thirds of House Republicans as members, calls for immediate reductions of at least $100 billion, compared with cuts in the current fiscal year of up to $80 billion being sought by party leaders.

?We want more,? said Representative Mick Mulvaney, a freshman from South Carolina.

The $2.5 trillion in cuts would exclude the military, and would not touch the big entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security. As a result, its effect on the entire array of government programs, among them education, domestic security, transportation, law enforcement and medical research, would be nothing short of drastic.

Committee leaders said this was appropriate and necessary, given the government?s $14 trillion debt and annual deficits at their highest levels since the years just after World War II.

The cuts would require the agreement of the Democratic-controlled Senate and the White House, which is highly unlikely.

The study committee proposed generally reducing agency budgets to their levels in 2006 ? the last time Congressional Republicans controlled the budget process ? and then freezing them, with no annual inflation adjustments. It also recommended slashing the federal workforce by 15 percent and canceling pay raises for five years, for a total of $2.29 trillion in savings.

It did not specify how each agency would carry out the reductions.

The study committee?s proposal includes an additional $330 billion in cuts to specific programs, including Amtrak, foreign aid and even the Washington subway system.

The proposal, while not specifically endorsed by the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, or other leaders, offers the clearest picture yet of the cuts envisioned by Republicans as they seek to rein in spending, which they view as a mandate given to them by voters in November.

?I have never seen the American people more receptive, more ready for the tough-love measures that need to be taken to help fix the country,? said Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chairman of the study committee.

Some fiscal experts said the proposal was untenable, because it would cut much of the federal government nearly in half by 2020, including agencies like the Education Department. Some targets, like Amtrak, would potentially be put out of existence, they said.

The fight over federal spending levels is the highest priority for the new Republican majority other than repeal of the Democrats? health care overhaul.

And while party leaders said they welcomed all proposals for cuts, the pressure from the right ? including Tea Party-backed members and other new lawmakers elected on a platform of fiscal restraint ? threatened to complicate the battle with the Obama administration and to set unrealistic expectations among grass-roots conservatives eager to scale back government.

Even before the midterm elections, party leaders issued a ?Pledge to America,? promising, without providing details of which programs would be cut, to reduce nonsecurity discretionary spending to 2008 levels, a cut that Mr. Boehner had initially pegged at about $100 billion for this fiscal year.

But with a temporary spending measure in place until early March ? more than five months into the fiscal year ? Republican leaders, including the Budget Committee chairman, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, have said that a more realistic goal would be cuts to 2008 levels prorated for the remainder of the fiscal year, or about $60 billion to $80 billion.

Conservative lawmakers, however, said that was not enough.

?Speaking with many of my freshmen colleagues, for us, myself included, the pledge, the $100 billion, was simply a start; it was simply a floor,? Mr. Mulvaney, the South Carolina freshman, said at a news conference to unveil the study committee?s proposal. He added: ?Anybody who is up to speed on budget issues should be scared to death by what?s happening with the debt and the deficit in this country. If you?re not losing sleep over it, then you?re simply not paying attention.?

Some Republicans warned that the country was in danger.

?The greatest threat to the security and prosperity of the United States is our debt,? said Representative John Campbell of California, a member of the study committee. ?We are much closer to the Greece, Ireland, Spain precipice than I think any of us would like to believe.?

A spokesman for Mr. Boehner, Michael Steel, said that Republican leaders were focused on fulfilling the pledge first. ?Our immediate goal is to cut spending to pre-bailout, pre-stimulus levels,? Mr. Steel said. ?That?s what we pledged, and that?s what we?ll fight for. But that will be the beginning, not the end.?

Mr. Boehner was not alone in praising the study committee?s efforts without backing its plan.

?I applaud the Republican Study Committee,? the House majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, said in a statement. ?I look forward to the discussion on reducing spending that our country so desperately needs.?

Mr. Cantor said Republicans would also seek to end the system of financing presidential candidates and national party conventions with federal matching money. He said that the House would vote on the proposal next week and that it would save $520 million over 10 years if enacted.

The formal work on spending issues is scheduled to begin on the House floor next week when Republicans take up a resolution directing Mr. Ryan, the Budget Committee chairman, to set spending parameters at 2008 levels. The vote on that resolution is scheduled for Tuesday, just hours before Mr. Obama is due on Capitol Hill to give his State of the Union address and is intended to put Republicans squarely on offense in the spending fight.

Mr. Ryan has not put forward a specific plan for cuts. He is awaiting updated data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on current spending. He also did not endorse the study committee?s plan.

Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who served with Mr. Ryan on Mr. Obama?s commission on lowering the national debt, said in an interview that the study committee?s plan was ill-conceived and unworkable because it focused only on cuts to discretionary spending and not on overhauling the tax code or addressing entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

?The commission had about a trillion and a half of cuts, which I thought was at the edge of what could be done responsibly,? Mr. Conrad said in an interview. ?They obviously have chosen to go beyond the edge.?

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Intel Sandy Bridge launch was pointless

While the review we published yesterday of Intel's new Sandy Bridge range of CPUs was extremely glowing, the fact remains that launching it at 5am (UK time) on 3 January was pointless.

This is because, more than 33 hours after the so-called 'launch' of Sandy Bridge, you can't still buy one of these new CPUs or an LGA1155 motherboard to put one in.

In short, Sandy Bridge is a paper launch and Intel has joined the ignoble list of companies that 'launches' products you can't buy. There are several reasons why the launch on Monday is such a joke.

First of all, just days before launch, Intel pulled forwards the launch date by a couple of days, throwing the industry into disarray. For example, we had to suddenly get the review prepared earlier than expected; not a whole lot of fun when you're on national holiday and the team is spread around the globe.

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However, while most major review sites managed to scrabble some coverage together, retailers and manufacturers have still yet to catch up. As a result, no major UK or US retailer is listing any Sandy Bridge products as available to ship, let alone pre-order.

It's not just the press and retailers that are confused either - I've yet to receive a single press release from a manufacturer about their Sandy Bridge motherboards, memory or CPU coolers either. Perhaps we'll see some news later on today, when Sandy Bridge was originally meant to launch.

So, even if Sandy Bridge does (on paper) make the whole existing range of LGA1156 CPUs and most LGA1366 processors obselete, in reality it doesn't.

The sad fact is that Intel didn't need to rush out the release of Sandy Bridge in such a slap-dash manner. Its competitor has nothing remotely threatening planned until quite a lot later this year, so it's a baffling decision.

That is, unless you believe its a cynical ploy to drum up demand so that when you finally can buy Sandy Bridge, Intel can mysteriously up the price. In the meantime, don't expect a January Hardware Buyer's Guide anytime soon...

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Duke Nukem Forever coming on May 3, new trailer inside

Duke Nukem Forever, the game that became infamous for being delayed indefinitely, will be arriving on May 3, 2011 in North America and May 6, 2011 in the rest of the world. As previously announced, it will be released on the PC, the Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3.

Gamers have waited over a decade to play the official sequel to Duke Nukem. In addition to a release date, there's also a new trailer available to whet your appetite:

Four months ago, Gearbox confirmed that development on the title was being completed. Given how long the game has been in such a state, there were still many skeptics. Three months ago, the game was demoed live, but there were still those who would not believe. We're sure there are still a few left, but today's news certainly shows that we're almost there.

"The moment fans all over the world have been waiting for is almost here," Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K, said in a statement. "May 6, 2011 marks Duke's return as he unleashes his brash and brutally honest wit on the world. His return is going to be epic and one that will make video gaming history!"

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iPhone Preview: Dead Space

iPhone Preview: Dead Space

Posted on 3rd Jan 2011 at 08:33 by Joe Martin with 15 comments

It?s too easy to use the word ?impressive? to describe some of the new releases hitting the App Store lately; the word is starting to lose meaning and isn?t that useful to start with. We?re talking about games running on a mobile phone ? all they have to do is be even semi-playable and they end up way ahead of expectations.

Dead Space for the iPhone, however, looks very impressive.

The kudos here doesn?t stem just from the graphical detail that?s been ploughed into the game though, but more from the depth of the gameplay. Dead Space on the iPhone is essentially that ? Dead Space for the iPhone, feature complete. It has the same third person perspective, the same sprawling and haunting levels and the same focus on dismembering enemies. Lopping limbs off with your array of mining tools and scavenged weapons is a little bit trickier on a touch screen than on consoles or PC, but it?s still manageable and fun.


Dead Space?s first level didn?t leave a great impression, however. Once more cast as engineer Issac Clarke, the preview opened with a glorified mine cart sequence, with us trying to stop Necromorphs from swarming us. There was only a limited amount of movement and the entire thing felt very ?on rails?, thus negating the glory of the graphics. It was all too easy to yawn through the battles and assume that the entire game would be made of similar sequences.

After the shaky start, however, things quickly improved. The next level drops Isaac into a familiar-looking space station lobby and lets him roam freely. Workbenches and vending machines offer the chance to upgrade weapons and armour, build new weapons and buy extra ammo, just like in the original game. Even the holographic displays that wowed us so much in the original, PC release make a return too and, while we didn?t get a chance to see them first hand, the developers assured us that the zero-gravity sequences would make a return as well.


What?s most amazing about all this, however, is that Dead Space brings all this variety across to the iPhone without losing any of the accessibility. The controls in Dead Space are, with only a few minor exceptions (shooting the special Kinesis power can take some getting used to), so fluid and easy to use that they put other shooters on the iPhone to shame.

Our only concern, in fact, is whether or not the idea of playing Dead Space on our mobile phones is one we?ll actually find all that attractive in real life, as lengthy singleplayer games aren?t an easy fit with the platform. This isn?t the type of thing we can imagine ourselves dropping in to and playing for the 10 minutes it takes for the bus to turn up. Then again, if this iPhone version ? which will apparently help bridge the gap between the original Dead Space and the sequel due in early 2011 ? manages to be as gripping as the first game, then we might make an exception.

Dead Space is being developed by Electronic Arts and will be released for all iDevices in Q1 2011

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