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The tablet will cost 399 to 499 euros in Europe when it goes on sale later this year.

Announced late last year, the X3 will make its debut in Europe in the third quarter, sporting both a touch screen and physical keypad and offering a music player and FM radio.

Warren Spector, a prominent video game developer for Disney, says at GDC Europe that if the industry isn’t careful, it might get marginalized as a niche market like that of U.S. comics.

Graphics chip supplier pares back revenue predictions, blaming increased memory costs and economic weakness in Europe and China.

China and Europe outpacing U.S.