The games hub, for example, incorporates elements of the firm's online gaming network Xbox live, including games and the ability for gamers to access their online profiles.
In addition, the Galaxy S III Mini gives customers access to the Samsung Video and Games Hub, as well as a 50GB Dropbox which is free for two years.
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The company has also partnered with CrowdStar, the second-largest social games developer on Facebook behind Farmville-maker Zynga by monthly active users, to bring its titles to the games hub.
The software conveniently stores all games under one hub, and provides a unique boosting feature that enhances the functions of a PC for maximum game performance.
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East London, where the city's Olympic Games are based, is a hub for street art.
It argued that the UK could be a global hub for the video games and special effects industries - but only if its education system got its act together.
The IdeaCentre Q190, the world's smallest1 full-function desktop PC at just 22mm (0.86 inches) wide, packs multimedia features that can turn any display in your home into an entertainment hub for videos, games, web browsing and more.
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With the inclusion of nongaming apps for the Wii U, the gaming console appears to be positioning itself as a hub for more than just games.
Share premium video content, mobile games and movies and TV shows from Samsung Media Hub wirelessly with Samsung Smart TVs, laptops, tablets and other consumer electronics.
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The gaming company is doing this to promote the 35th anniversary of the 2600's original release, as well as its latest creation, arcade.atari.com, which is an HTML5-driven, multitouch-supported hub that lets you play eight classic Atari games online (including Pong and Centipede).
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Facebook apps transform Facebook into a hub for all kinds of activity, from playing games to setting up a family tree.
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In a few years, it's likely we'll see an all-out battle between the likes of Virgin, Sky, Microsoft, Sony and even the BBC, Apple or Google to own your home's de facto entertainment hub - providing movies, music, television and games via a web connection in your living room.
The digital hub will see BT Sport broadcast 38 Barclays Premier League live games a season for three years from August 2013.
The app works as a game hub too, allowing the user to enter, exit and play games by navigating exclusively with the Atlas controller -- a console front-end, if you will.
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This hub allows the user to easily discover and load the phone with certified applications and games.
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Sony's security breach is particularly embarrassing because it wants to position its PlayStation console as an entertainment hub capable of delivering films and music over the internet, in addition to video games.
Huang showed us a very early (and aesthetically awkward) build of the Arena hub, but all the basic functionality was there, letting us naturally hop into games with the controller's poppy A button, and retreat from an app with the back button.
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Over the next four years the Brazilian city will be a global hub of sport as it hosts the soccer World Cup in two years and the Olympic Games in 2016.
This hub delivers the first and only official Xbox LIVE experience on a phone, including Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight feed and the ability to see a gamer's avatar, Achievements and gamer profile.
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For example, the Marketplace hub displays the four different software stores where you can purchase media: third-party apps, games, music and Samsung Zone, a separate app store serving software made by Samsung.
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