May 9th, 2014
We anticipated that Black Ops 3 would be the next installment of the Call of Duty first person shooter game but we were wrong. Sledgehammer Games and Activision have officially unveiled Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. Although COD Ghost is a great game with an amazing plot for it’s campaign mode, in our opinion Treyarch (the developers of Black ops and Black ops 2) make a better game, or maybe we’re just fans of Zombies. But enough of the past, Advanced Warfare continues the futuristic progression of COD Ghost, the previews look a little Halo-ish but hey we won’t know until we actually play the game. The trailer reveals that the game will star Kevin Spacey of House of Cards, as the leader of a private military organization that has turned on the United States government. The game is set to release, as advertised on the video, on November 4, 2014. Good news if you don’t own a PS4 or an Xbox One, the game will also be released for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC as well. Enough talking lets take a look at the trailer.
Monday May 5, 2014 7:44 pm PDT by Husain Sumra
Apple is planning to hold an iPhone upgrade event at its stores this week in an effort to boost sales, a source told 9to5Mac. Starting this week, Apple will be emailing owners of older iPhone models who are upgrade eligible about the new event, and will apparently separate from Apple’s current iPhone trade-in program.
This event will be held in multiple states across the United States, and Apple is said to be preparing for an influx of visitors to its stores on the levels of traffic driven to stores for new product debuts. Apple will brief Apple Retail management on the initiative tomorrow, according to the source.
Apple will be launching other new marketing and sales initiatives to help increase iPhone sales as well. There’s no word on what types of marketing and initiatives Apple could use, but they will be tied to Apple’s retail stores.
New Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts, who officially joined the company on May 1 and began her first full week today, will oversee the program.
Apple once again noted that iPhone sales hit another record for Q2 2014, making up 57 percent of Apple’s sales for the quarter for all products. CEO Tim Cook also noted in the conference call that Apple has started selling iPhone 4’s in the “very, very low single digit percentage” and last year said he wanted to sell more iPhones in stores.