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The new Magicka Wizard Wars currently under development is not expected to launch until next year, but today its developers Paradox North have released the first trailer of gameplay from Magicka Wizard Wars to whet your appetite.

The new Magicka Wizard Wars is a fastpaced action PvP game that utilises the humour and dynamic spellcasting system of Magicka. Watch the video after the jump to see the gameplay of Magicka Wizard Wars in action.

Magicka Wizard Wars

Valve has today announced that Dota 2 has finally arrived on Mac and Linux systems via their Steam Games Network. Dota 2 has been available since July 9th 2013 as a final release and now allows Mac and Linux gamers to enjoy the multiplayer online battle arena.

Dota 2 is the stand-alone sequel to the Defense of the Ancients mod and has been developed by Valve and is exclusively available through Steam.

Dota 2

A new electric engine has been created called Rubbee which has been designed to transform any road bike into an electric powered bike in a matter of seconds.

The Rubbee has been designed in the UK and the revolutionary electric drive which can be mounted on any bicycle in just a few seconds. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the Rubbee project and see it in action.

Rubbee

If like me you find cutting your lawn a little boring and not quite as exciting as you would like, you might be interested in a new 130mph Honda Mower which has been crated by Honda to add a little more fun in to your chores.

The 130mph Honda Mower is capable of reaching a top sped of 209 kilometers per hour or 130mph and 0-60 in just four seconds and was created to look like a mower, cuts like a mower but provide as much fun on the lawns of suburbia as it is on race tracks, explains Honda. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the 130mph Honda Mower project and see it in action.

130mph Honda Mower

Music streaming service Spotify now has more than 24 million active users, and out of those 24 million users 6 million are paid subscribers, this will apparently be announced by Daniel Ek at SXSW in Texas later today.

In July of last year Spotify had a total of 15 million subscribers with 4 million paying subscribers, so it looks like they have managed to add around 2 million paid members since last summer.

Spotify

It has been revealed that EA And DICE are currently investigating how the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset can be incorporated into their Frostbite games engine.

Recently the Frostbite 2 game’s engine was used by DICE to create the awesome Battlefield 3 game, and now the developer is seeking a master thesis student to help with the development of Oculus Rift virtual reality support within their Frostbite 2 games engine.

Oculus Rift

Yesterday we heard that the new iPhone 5S is expected to go on sale in August of this year, and now according to a recent report the iPhone 5S has now gone into production with Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn.

The iPhone 5S is expected to come with the same design as the iPhone 5 which was launched last year, the handset will have updated internal components which will include a new processor and more memory.

iPhone 5S

As well as announcing their new Tegra 4i mobile processor, Nvidia also announced a new smartphone reference platform which the company has called NVIDIA Phoenix and it will use the new NVIDIA Tegra 4i processor.

The NVIDIA Phoenix platform is features a slim design which measures just 8mm thick, and it comes with a 5 inch full high definition display and also 4G LTE thanks to the NVIDIA i500 which is built into their new Tegra 4 processor.

NVIDIA Phoenix

Electronic Arts has reelased a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming racing game Real Racing 3, revealing what you can expect from the new game once it arrives on mobile devices later this month.

Earlier this month the development team behind the new Real Racing game explained the new multiplayer time shift feature which has been created to enable player to race against each other at anytime, even when the other person is not online.

Real-Racing-3

Liberty Global has announced they are purchasing Virgin Media in the UK, Virgin Media provides Pay TV that rivals Sky here in the UK, as well as ultra fast broadband and also telephone services.

Liberty Global will pay a total of $23.5 billion in cash and stock to acquire Virgin Media, and the purchase will give the new company over 25 million customers and will serve 47 million homes in 14 countries.

Virgin Media