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Detroit Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall was removed from the ice on a stretcher after Colorado Avalanche forward Cody McLeod slammed him into the boards on Thursday night. With the Red Wings and Avalanche scoreless in the first period in Denver, Kronwall chased a puck in the corner only to be rammed from behind by McLeod, who appeared to leave the ice to deliver the crushing hit.

Kronwall goes down hard after a dirty hit to the head by McLeod. Kronwall leaves the ice on a stretcher. More info will come. Hope he’s ok.

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) October 18, 2013

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Earlier this morning, we brought you the possibility of Nokia introducing a smartwatch to the masses in the future, thanks to a patent application which was published by the Patent and Trademark Office, where it described a modular timepiece so that the end user is able to customize it in a variety of ways. Well, before the day is over, how about some bit of interesting news concerning the alleged Nokia smartwatch? This particular update hails from a certain Kent Lyons, who is also one of the minds behind this device. He mentioned that this particular concept has been given the codename “Facet” for obvious reasons, where there is also a video of the prototype in action as you can see above.

It reminds me of one episode in the G-Force cartoon back when I was a kid, and the team of heroes had to battle a particular behemoth from the sea that had four different facets to its head, with the head being able to rotate 360 degrees, each “face” featuring a different energy beam that is shot out from its eyes. What do you think of Nokia’s attempt in making a smartwatch? Will they be able to duke it out with the seemingly almighty Android?

Nokia Facet Is Their Alleged Smartwatch original content from Ubergizmo.

Lenovo has unveiled another one of its upcoming Windows 8.1 tablet, the Miix2. The tablet will feature an 8.0-inch 1280 x 800 IPS 10-point multi-touch display (pen input support), an Intel Bay Trail-T quad-core processor, an integrated Intel HD Graphics (Gen7), up to 128GB of eMMC onboard storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual cameras (2MP front & 5MP rear) and run on Windows 8.1 OS with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 pre-installed. The Miix2 will be available later this month for $299. [Lenovo]

Angry Birds has probably got to be one of the biggest names in mobile gaming at the moment. The developers, Rovio, have since released many variations of the game to tie-in with movies as well as other franchises, such as Star Wars, but overall each variation is essentially the same game with a different look and sometimes slightly different mechanics as well. To that end, former EA CEO, John Riccitiello, revealed during his speech at the Gaming Insiders Summit how he felt about game brands, and cited Angry Birds as an example.

According to Riccitiello, he felt that Rovio needed to innovate the Angry Birds game instead of releasing variations as well as stuffed toys. “Adding a Star Wars brand is not an innovation. It plays pretty much as it did. Maybe tomorrow they will do something so fundamentally innovative that they will prove me wrong, but they haven’t really mastered the microtransaction model. I wish they had put as much innovation and energy into the code as went into all the other stuff. Maybe they wanted to be Disney before they had done enough.” As it stands Rovio has recently announced Angry Birds Go!, a kart-racing game which is a departure from their previous games, but could that be looked at as innovation?

Former EA CEO Thinks Angry Birds Could Use More Innovation original content from Ubergizmo.

Now here is an interesting bit of news for those of you who love Diablo 3 and all things associated with this particular dungeon crawler – especially for those who have played it on the console instead of on a desktop or notebook computer. The folks over at Blizzard has announced a piece of news that will certainly make this weekend sweeter concerning the upcoming Diablo 3 expansion, which is known as Reaper of Souls. It is said that Reaper of Souls has been planned and confirmed for the next generation Sony PS4, with a playable version of the game even being made available for the masses to give it a go over at BlizzCon, which will be happening this coming November 8 to 9, accompanied by DualShock 4 touchpad features to boot.

Needless to say, now that we know all of that, there is one more major question to ask – for the meantime, that is. Does this particular announcement of a PS4 Reaper of Souls expansion imply a non-delayed multi-platform launch date? Only time will be able to tell, but it definitely is a pleasant surprise since Reaper of Souls was originally announced as an PC expansion without any mention of it ending up as a console version.

Diablo 3 Reaper Of Souls Expansion Confirmed For PS4 original content from Ubergizmo.