Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

So we were expecting the Playstation Portable 2 (PSP2), instead we get the Next Generation Portable or NGP – It’s still a code-name for the time being, but here it is, Sony’s next foray into the the portable gaming world. Most of the important details have been released at Sony’s Tokyo trade show, to which most will be salivating over…

So I’m a little (very) cynical when it comes to ‘3D’ or Stereoscopic, since, well, it’s not actually 3D, but an optical illusion to provide the appearance of spacial depth. It’s grossly expensive to purchase the equipment, limited content, most varieties require the use of rather goofy glasses and you have to be seated in a ‘sweet spot’ in order to view…

Coming up to the end of the month, another wave of GPUs make their way onto the market. NVIDIA introduces it’s latest – more mainstream solution, the GTX 560 Ti, a model revision of the GTX 460 to take advantage of the matured 40nm manufacturing process, providing users with the GPU they expected over 6 months ago. Higher clock speeds…

Are you an avid gamer looking for a feature-rich and reliable gaming mouse that also happens to be wireless? Logitech’s G700 might be worth a look. At around $85, it’s not cheap, but it does offer a plethora of customizable buttons, the ability to go wired if the battery dies, and also supports a super-high 5700 DPI.

Folding and crowd-sourcing projects for research have been springing up for a number of years. Folding@Home became a household name due to its integration with the PlayStation 3 as a screensaver. The algorithms used for these projects are often inefficient, requiring massively complex computations for seemingly simple…

The rumor mill has been working overtime these last few months regarding the next generation PlayStation Portable. Will it have a touchscreen? Will it have 3D like the Nintendo 3DS? How about HD graphics over a 4 inch screen with the processing power of a PS3? Does it even exist? All the while, even the developers have been…

Corporate restructuring is rarely news worthy, but when a CEO that took a company from near administration to profitability within 2 years and resigns, then it’s worth paying attention. Dirk Meyer took the reigns of AMD in 2008 and turned it around for the better, so why is he resigning?

Maths, easy for some, hard for others. For CPUs, it’s their bread and butter, what they are meant to do and how they earn their living… if they were alive of course. But sometimes, you don’t need to calculate the square root of 2,376,147 to within 3 million decimal places. Sometimes you don’t even need the number to be accurate…

BitTorrent is slowly gaining a ubiquitous status as the go to protocol for downloads. A thorn in its side has been its reliance on a central tracker, which if taken down would result in peers being unable to connect to each other. Moving along a few years and the Distributed Hash Table or DHT system was implemented into the BitTorrent…

Hardware enthusiasts are always on the look out for ways of getting something for nothing or expanding the use from a given piece of equipment. Overclocking, soft-modding, anything goes for squeezing those precious few flops or frames out of their hardware, or making it perform like a much more expensive model. AMD CPUs…

OnLive, the Internet based game streaming startup, is already looking into the prospect of expanding its horizons into the world of movie streaming. With the backbone to support game streaming services to multiple users, why not put it to more use via movie streaming like Netflix? OnLive already provides movie streaming of a basic sort…

Cloud based gaming, not up there with the faries but a large collection of servers offering up interactive games over the internet with minimal local processing. OnLive has been stirring up quite a bit of interest over the last couple years with an interesting take on playing games. Instead of buying $1000 of computer parts every 2 years to play…

3TB drives have slowly been popping up these last few months in one form or another, such as Seagate’s External GoFlex drive, Western Digitals internal Caviar Green with PCIe card and Hitachi’s own internal 3TB drive. These drives are great and all, but there be a small caveat, most motherboard BIOS’ and Operating Systems can not…

Couple weeks back, Microsoft announced its Steam like service would be going live November 15th. Well, surprisingly, it kept its word and it’s now up and running. Marketplace will now be part of the Games for Windows Live application as well as have a dedicated website. Many games are already for sale, including the daily deal…

Normally, we wouldn’t announce new versions of beta software, but a rare exception can be made here. Firefox 4 has been at the forefront of my mind for quite a while, promising much needed enhancements to a somewhat aged browser. Firefox 3 was met with a fair amount of criticism, it was slow compared to the competition…

AMD quietly announced that it would be delaying its upcoming flagship 6000 series graphics card till the first quarter of 2011. The Antilles GPU would have been the most powerful offering from AMD’s current GPU lineup. A dual GPU based graphics card utilizing two Cayman based chips that will be found in the upcoming 6970…

Last month we detailed that Gran Turismo 5 had been delayed yet again, past its November 2nd release date. A small reprieve in the announcement by Sony mentioned a release date of ‘this holiday season’. While an update is now way overdue as to an exact release date, it would appear certain members of the public in…

Logitech has been a great innovator in the peripheral market with such devices as the Unified USB receiver to allow multiple wireless devices to connect via the same USB port. On Monday, Logitech announced a very intriguing device, the K750 Solar powered keyboard. This is not a normal solar powered device, since it’s more akin to a…

Wireless mice offer a plethora of benefits to their users, but the most common complaint about them is the lack of battery-life, or the need to change the batteries at all. Logitech aims to make things a bit easier on people with its Marathon Mouse M705… a mouse that uses two AA batteries and lasts an entire three years. Yes, three years.

OCZ must of thought the original RevoDrive was too slow, because just a few months later it’s announced theRevoDrive X2! The original PCIe based SSD came about as a result of hitting limitations with the SATA II interface. SSD technology was developing faster than the interface could keep up, so by removing SATA and…