The new Ashton Kutcher movie based on the biography of Steve Jobs, Jobs is headed to theaters tomorrow. Sadly, Japan won't be getting the movie until November. But, in the meantime, Japan has a new manga about the black turtleneck-wearing genius.
[As a youth, Steve realized that he may be smarter than his own…As previously reported, Japanese manga artist Mari Yamazaki of Thermae Romae fame is doing a biographical manga series on Steve Jobs.
Famed manga artist Mari Yamazaki is doing a biographical manga series on Steve Jobs (via ANN).
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The photo was apparently taken on September 26 in the city of Xi'an. A figure that…
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When I say Apple is more Japanese than Japan, I'm not talking about the…
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That's because the folks at Chinese playing card company HCG churn out an array of cards featuring, not only the movers and shakers of modern history, but also those who move and shake in Japanese skin flicks.
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Impressed with…
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If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake's "Star Strike" offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage.
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At least, that's what around 1,000 games industry employees reckon, as the results of a survey for the London Games Conference show.
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It's a scourge of junior high school students everywhere: Mononucleosis. The highly infectious disease is colloquially dubbed the "kissing disease". But that's not how Steve Jobs got it. He got it making a video game.
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At his talk at GDC Online in Austin, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell talked about a wide variety of things, among which was Apple founder Steve Jobs, who he hired back in 1974. (For a complete story, see this great article at Gamasutra. "I gave Steve Jobs his first job," Bushnell said, "That's an interesting resume line."
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News of the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs spread quickly today via Twitter, with video game developers, designers and executives mourning the loss of the software and hardware visionary. They offered brief, somber reactions to Jobs' passing showing the breadth of his influence and impact.
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During the iPhone 4 leak, I somehow, through no real grift of my own, found myself in possession of Steve Job's phone number. It went directly to his desk phone.
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Popularly regarded as a distant runner-up to the Windows PC, Apple nonetheless played key and even dominant roles in shaping the history of video games over the past 35 years, emerging from an utterly marginalized brand in home computer gaming to a force almost unilaterally shaping the course of mobile gaming today.
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Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, passed away today, according to a statement from the company. He was 56.
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Between May 2008 and August 2009, workers at China's Suzhou industrial park slaved away, cleaning touch screens for Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The chemical used, hexyl hydride or "n-hexane", made workers ill.
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Handed out at the local Apple store during a night of mall trick or treating in lieu of candy. Shouldn't Apple be handing out King Sized Snickers bars, not patches, by now?
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Some gamers may not consider Apple's iPhone and iPod touch platform a viable video game device, but the company's CEO sure does, calling it "the number one portable game player" on the market, just before introducing the iPod's latest iteration.
