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Anyone who’s been paying attention to the latest games would know that America’s Army 3 had a less than stellar launch. Following the launch, the US Army closed their  main developer in an attempt to “consolidate development.” They have not admitted this layoff having anything to do with the abysmal launch of the game.

A representative from the “surviving” development team said that the development of future America’s Army games will happen from a different development team location.

“This consolidation will allow us to gain efficiencies between our public and government applications,” according to a representative from the current dev team. ” We appreciate all the hard work that every member of the America’s Army team has contributed to the project, and we look forward to delivering future America’s Army game releases in the months ahead.”

Alright, I feel that it is necessary to voice my opinion on the new iPhone 3.0 update being the only writer for Tech Olive that actually owns/uses an iPhone.

First of all I think it is important to remind you all of one thing that many have overlooked: The update is an iPhone update, not an iPod Touch update. Therefore, all you disgruntled iPod Touch users that are upset because you felt jipped of new features, cool your jets.

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According to Amazon.com, it looks like DJ Hero will arrive October 27 for a price of $120. The PS2 bundle will be $20 cheaper. This hasn’t been confirmed by Activision so the dates and prices might end up changing, but you never know.

What do you think of the price tag? Would you shell out that much?

[Amazon Listing]

Samsung has unveiled the world’s first 32GB DDR3 memory module. It’s only for servers at the moment, so you won’t be able to go out and buy a stick for your pimped out workstation at home.

No word yet on price or availability.

via [I4U News]

Today Konami has announced that their original Metal Gear Solid game will be released on PSN for $9.99. There’s no mention as to whether the game will be remade, graphically or otherwise for this port, but then again, MGS doesn’t exactly need to be remade in any way.

[Konami Press Release]

PNY seems to have quite a few giveaways on their gaming site, XLR8 Gaming. Most recently, they are giving away a game by the name of Crazy Machines 2. A game created in The Incredible Machine‘s image, an incredibly advanced and detailed physics-based puzzle game and it’s free! All you have to do is sign up at their site and spin a digital wheel. If you don’t get it on the first spin, don’t worry, they’ll let you respin until you win!

Thanks for the tip, Jakob!

Logitech has just debuted another wireless Guitar Hero-licensed controller, but this time it’s exclusively for the Xbox 360. Some notable features include a wooden neck, a rosewood fretboard, metal frets, a touch-sensitive slider on the neck, and a “silent” strum bar.

These high quality controllers will be available in August for $199. Watch a quick tour of the controller after the break.

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So it’s been roughly a day since the 3.0 update for both the iPhone and iPod Touch released. We want to know how it’s going for you guys. How do you like it? Let us know by voting and commenting!

While we were all sitting quietly waiting for the ArmA II demo to release, America’s Army 3 seems to have crept up on us and tipped our chair back. The full game is free to anyone who wants to be recruited by the US Army try it out. Although the game is supposedly “released”, Steam is “preloading” it for me currently. I guess we’ll see what happens when the download finishes.

Share your AA3 experiences in the comments.

EDIT: So, after a few hours of downloading, it finally finishes and I am greeted with: “Status: Pre-load complete; unreleased” in my games list. WTF, Steam?! Anyone else having issues with their game not unlocking?

EDIT 2: I got it to run by manually running the .exe from the game’s directory. Steam still thinks it’s locked, but the game runs fine. The only problem is that after a training session, it doesn’t save your progress. I guess I’ll leave it for the night and see how it goes tomorrow.

Aaron Long (aka m0nk3ys1ms), one of our good druggie friends at the Olive, decided to share with us his thoughts of the new 3.0 update for the iPod Touch and sent us this video. View it after the break.

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