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Like clockwork, Rockstar has released another round of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots. The developer has been slowly releasing these screenshots throughout the week, starting with three on Monday and another three on Wednesday. By the time Wednesday’s screenshots had hit, we assumed that Rockstar would release another batch today, and it turns out we were right.

This time around, however, there are four screenshots instead of just three. Pretty awesome, right? Monday’s screenshot gave us a look at transportation, Wednesday’s offered a glimpse at leisure activities, but today it’s all business baby. As with the screenshots from earlier in the week, these ones don’t give much away, but you should be used to nondescript teases by now if you’re a fan of Rockstar.

In the images, we have a police officer chasing what appears to be a person stealing a car from the back of a semi truck, a small plane flying over a rather scenic river, the necessary and inevitable car chase (complete with an extremely low-flying helicopter) and finally, in what might just be the most detailed GTA V screenshot yet, we have an image of a man aiming his gun at a police helicopter that has him in the spotlight. This brings the total number of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots to 10 for the week, though as stated above, we still don’t know all that much about the game itself.

Rockstar has obviously planned it that way, wanting us to guess at what we’ll be getting with Grand Theft Auto V as it slow lets new details trickle out. Sadly, it looks like this is the end of the new Grand Theft Auto V media for a while, but Rockstar does say that it will be back in a few weeks with more. Whatever Rockstar will be revealing next, we’ll have it for you right here at SlashGear, so be sure to keep checking back.

Even more Grand Theft Auto V screenshots released by Rockstar is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Can’t get enough coverage of the US presidential race even with YouTube in the mix? Microsoft’s Election 2012 Hub for Xbox Live may be able to satisfy your inner political junkie. Redmond’s initiative will provide video of town hall events at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, daily content from NBC and full coverage of results as ballots are cast and counted on November 6th. Throughout live streams of the debates, users will be able to rate the performances of public office hopefuls and see what marks other viewers give them in real-time. Information on voter registration, politicians and their take on issues will also be included. According to Microsoft, roughly 40 percent of Xbox-owning voters surveyed aren’t concretely committed to a candidate running for the Oval Office, placing them in the highly-prized swing voter category. The service won’t launch until the Grand Old Party’s powwow kicks off on August 27th, but we hear there’s plenty of relevant reading to keep you busy until then.

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Welcome to Thursday folks – just one more work day to go and another weekend will be here. Today a new video gave us a look at reported iPhone 5 parts, and it seems that the iPhone will be sporting a new look with the next iteration. Recent whispers are saying that Nokia will reveal a total of three new Windows Phone devices during its September 5 event in New York City, and today Microsoft updated its logo for the first time in a whopping 25 years.

Twitter has taken away Tumblr Friend Finder functionality, and the inexpensive T-Mobile Concord has launched to bring 4G to budget-minded consumers. It was recently discovered that the SMS security hole known to plague iPhones doesn’t affect other devices running a different OS like Android or BlackBerry, and LG has apparently started working on the screen that may end up gracing the iPhone 5. Speaking of the iPhone, it seems that production on the next model has slowed thanks to a shortage of supplies.

The FCC has approved Verizon’s bid to buy up additional 4G LTE spectrum, and the Xbox 360 will be offering users election coverage starting next week, complete with live streams of the three debates that are planned. A large percentage of consumers are saying that they don’t need 4G LTE service, despite the fact that carriers are advertising it like mad. There’s a new OS X Mountain Lion update on the scene, and it’s bringing some software fixes with it, while today we received word that Facebook’s storage requirements grow by 500TB each and every day.

Sony Mobile has announced that it will be laying off 1,000 employees by March 2014, and the jury that is deciding the Apple and Samsung patent case decided to put in a little bit of overtime today. Paypal will be teaming up with Discover to bring its service to a ton of retail locations, Nissan will be giving prospective buyers of its 2013 Pathfinder a virtual tour of the car with a little help from Kinect, and Amazon has a new event coming up next month, where we’re thinking it will announce a brand new Kindle Fire. It just so happens that we’ll be at that event, so if there is a new Kindle Fire announced, you’ll be able to read all about it here at SlashGear.

Finally tonight, we have a brand new hands-on with the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. Enjoy the rest of your evening everyone, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow night for Friday’s edition of the Wrap-Up!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 23, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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There’s still a few months left before Halo 4 is released to the eager masses, but while we wait, why not peruse the list of achievements we have posted after the jump? 343 Industries has released the entire line-up of cheevos for the highly-anticipated game, complete with a Gamerscore value for each. Be warned though: the list contains spoilers, so if you read further than this sentence and ruin the story, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself.

Writing on the Halo Waypoint blog, community manager Jessica Shea says that 343′s goal in creating the achievements for Halo 4 was to “reward milestones and increase replay value while balancing both difficulty and the breadth of game modes.” She also says that a secondary priority was to come up with ridiculous names for the achievements, and as you can see from the list below, the studio appears to have accomplished that. Have a look:

• Dawn – Complete Mission 1 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Requiem – Complete Mission 2 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Forerunner – Complete Mission 3 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Infinity – Complete Mission 4 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Reclaimer – Complete Mission 5 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Shutdown – Complete Mission 6 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Composer – Complete Mission 7 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Midnight – Complete Mission 8 on any difficulty (10 points)
• Wake up John – Complete the Campaign on Normal or harder (20 points)
• I Need a Hero – Complete the Campaign on Heroic or harder (40 points)
• The Legend of 117 – Complete the Campaign on Legendary difficulty (70 points)
• Lone Wolf Legend – Complete the Campaign solo on Legendary difficulty (90 points)
• Skullduggery – Complete any Campaign mission with 3 or more Skulls on Heroic or harder (15 points)
• Bropocalypse – Complete any Campaign mission co-operatively on Heroic or harder (10 points)
• Bromageddon – Complete the Campaign co-operatively on Heroic or harder (40 points)
• Contact the Domain – Find a Terminal in the Campaign (10 points)
• Terminus – Find all of the Terminals in the Campaign (50 points)
• Digging up the Past – In Mission 1, find and access Chief’s record (20 points)
• Midnight Launch – In Mission 2, get significant air in the Warthog at midnight (20 points)
• This is my Rifle, this is my Gun – In Mission 3, carry a UNSC weapon all the way through on Heroic or harder (20 points)
• Bros to the Close – Make it through Mission 4 without one preventable Marine death on Heroic or harder (20 points)
• Mortardom – In Mission 5, hijack a Wraith and use it to kill at least four enemy Wraiths on Heroic or harder (20 points)
• Explore the Floor – In Mission 6, trick or force a Hunter to fall to his demise (20 points)
• Give Him the Stick – In Mission 7 in solo Campaign, take out both Hunters using only the Sticky Detonator (20 points)
• Chief, Smash! – In Mission 8, kill 3 Crawlers in one hit with the Gravity Hammer (20 points)
• Not Some Recruit Anymore – Rank up your Spartan-IV to SR-5 (15 points)
• Movin’ on Up – Rank up your Spartan-IV to SR-20 (30 points)
• I <3 Red vs Blue – Win 5 War Games matchmaking matches (10 points)
• The Dongblainer – Win 20 War Games matchmaking matches (30 points)
• Operation Completion – Complete a Spartan Ops Mission on any difficulty (15 points)
• A Legendary Episode – Complete all chapters in Spartan Ops Episode 1 on Legendary difficulty (40 points)
• Dedicated to Crimson – Complete all chapters in the first 5 episodes of Spartan Ops on any difficulty (80 points)
• Crimson Alone – Complete a Spartan Ops chapter solo on Legendary (20 points)
• Roses vs Violets – Find one of the RvB Easter Eggs in Spartan Ops (20 points)
• Rescue Ranger – Save at least one Marine in Chapter 3 of Episode 2 of Spartan Ops on Heroic or harder (20 points)
• Knight in White Assassination – Assassinate a Knight in any Spartan Ops mission (20 points)
• What Power Outage? – Complete Chapter 4, Episode 5 of Spartan Ops without losing a generator on Heroic or harder (20 points)
• No Easy Way Out – In Ch 1, Ep 5 of Spartan Ops survive all enemy waves during the defense on Normal or harder (20 points)
• The Challenged – Complete a Challenge (10 points)
• The Challenger – Complete 25 Challenges (20 points)
• Armorer – Change your Spartan's armor in the Spartan Armor card (5 points)
• Badge – Change your Emblem in the Spartan ID card (5 points)
• PWND – Change your Service Tag in the Spartan ID card (5 points)
• What a Poser! – Change your Spartan's pose in the Spartan ID card (5 points)
• The Cartographer – Create and save a Custom Map in Forge (5 points)
• Game Changer – Create and save a Custom Game type in War Games (5 points)
• Snapshot! – Save a Screenshot from the Theater (5 points)
• The Director – Save a Film Clip from the Theater (5 points)
• Sharing is Caring – Upload a File to your File Share (5 points)

So there you have it folks, 49 achievements in all. There seems to be a healthy balance of single player and multiplayer achievements, but obviously you’ll need to play both modes (and play around in Forge and the Theater a little bit) if you want to snag all of them. Some of them sound quite simple to get, while in true Halo fashion, others will be ridiculously hard. Halo 4 launches on November 6 for Xbox 360. Are you ready?

343 Industries releases list of Halo 4 achievements is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Welcome to Wednesday, folks. This particular hump day saw news that the Department of Justice and the FBI have brought down a trio of websites that dealt in pirated Android apps, while a picture of a mini dock USB cable for the iPhone 5 surfaced as well. Microsoft announced a number of things related to the Xbox 360 today, kicking off a search for people to beta test its new dashboard update, permanently dropping the price of the Kinect by $40, and announcing Xbox 360 Essentials packs, which come packed with accessories to accommodate Xbox 360 owners.

The FTC has ended its investigation of Facebook’s Instagram purchase, though the FTC wrapped things up rather silently. LG has a massive new 4K HDTV available now in South Korea, HP posted less-than-stellar results for quarter 3 of its fiscal year, and today NASA talked about how the Curiosity rover has been getting around on the surface of Mars. Today also brought some new sample shots of the Nikon CoolPix S800c Android camera, along with a new video demo for the device.

We got a closer look at the Archos Gen10 XS tablet line today, and the struggling HTC is planning to cut the price on its One series of phones after the line posted disappointing sales. T-Mobile announced that it will begin offering nationwide unlimited 4G next month, while Rockstar delivered a new round of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots today, and we have a feeling that move screenshots are coming sometime later this week, so keep an eye out for those.

AT&T has reiterated its decision to block FaceTime, and cited an FCC ruling in support of it. Verizon looks be gearing up to offer a Nokia Windows Phone 8 later this year, and sadly, Nintendo confirmed that Nintendo Power magazine will be shutting down in December. NASA has kicked off a simulation meant to test landing on a near-Earth asteroid, and there’s a new iPhone app on the scene that will help you determine which Super PACs are putting out those constant political ads. Black Isle Studios appears to have risen from the dead, but no one seems to know the circumstances surrounding the re-opening.

Finally tonight, we have a review of the new Archos 101 XS tablet by Chris Burns. Enjoy the rest of your evening, everyone!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 22, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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