Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

Razer announced a new keyboard to the gaming peripheral market, the Anansi. Taking inspiration from its Naga mouse, the Anansi includes 7 thumb modifier keys just below the space bar to expand the functionality of the other keys. Macro’s galore, over 100 fully programmable keys, 5 additional gaming keys and…

Microsoft announced today the upcoming service called Games for Windows Marketplace. This is basically a Steam-like extension to the Games for Windows platform. It will be going live on November 15 (just in time for Christmas it seems), and will provide much of the same service as Steam, such as integrated purchasing and…

Pirate Parties International, the umbrella organization for the worldwide Pirate Parties, are bouncing ideas around the prospect of launching a satellite for the purpose of hosting a torrent site in space. Why you may ask? So that it can not be taken down for breach of copyright… there are no laws in space, right?

To help combat things such as RSI, companies have long been developing ergonomic peripherals, and for the most part, most of them are predictable. But Smartfish has looked outside the box and developed a mouse like no other we’ve ever seen, and whether or not that’s a good thing… we’re here to find out.

Nvidia has officially removed XFX from its list of partners. XFX was well known for distributing high end and often overclocked graphics cards based on Nvidia GPUs. The action by Nvidia may come as a surprise to some, but XFX has not produced a Graphics card based on the Nvidia Fermi Architecture, and in 2008, it stopped being an…

Razer has an impressive catalogue of gaming peripherals and one of its more unique products to catch our attention was the 17 button Naga Mouse. Well, an update to the strangely alluring rodent was Epic. It swapped a tail for wings and the Razer Naga Epic was born. 17 buttons, interchangeable grips, wireless, fully programable…

No surprise here, Gran Turismo 5 has been further delayed from the November 2nd release date, the now umpteenth delay for the GT5 release. While Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi will often cite ‘perfection’ as the excuse, it’ll only get you so far. GT5 Prologue was released way back in 2007 and nearly 4 years later, we are still without…

Have you ever tried to add a network folder to a Windows Vista or 7 library, but couldn’t properly map it? Or even worse, have Windows completely ignore its files via the built-in indexer? Well, there are fixes, and all are counter-intuitive. Until Microsoft “fixes” this issue, we’ll explain how to work around the issue.

For PC enthusiasts, the name Corsair is a familiar one. The company has long been producing many products to help us fill out our PC builds, including chassis, PSUs, SSDs and of course, memory. Recently, the company has launched yet another new category of product – audio – and the first product to grace it is the HS1 gaming headset.

If you run multiple computers or different operating systems on the same PC and want access to your email without switching computers or rebooting into a different OS, Thunderbird has the answer. Here’s a quick guide to setting up different Thunderbird clients to access the same profile, no matter which OS or PC you’re connected to.

AMD announced a collaborative effort with Valve to provide ATI Catalyst Drivers to Steam client users. Steam will detect which AMD branded GPU you have and provide the relevant updates for it. This is a very important move as Drivers are quite often the number one external factor for games not working. Gamers already know the importance of…

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. It’s amusing to think how often we use that quote in one form or another and never take heed of the advice it tries to imbue upon us. Back in 1908, Thomas Edison tried to take control of the movie industry through litigation, patents and controlling film distribution. In 1915…

In the software world, the word “Boost” is synonymous with the exclamation, “BS!”, as nearly every kind of third-party software speed boost turns out to have the unwritten small print of “under certain conditions”… roughly translated as “this is useless”. People often try to speed up their Internet connection with MTU adjustments, page…

Portable Document Format files, or PDF’s for short, are pretty much ubiquitous in today’s computing, as they are a standard way of sharing documents within the business world. They are used for proofing, filling out forms, NDA’s, insurance claims, and just about anything that requires information to be presented to the user within a fixed and…

During the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced plans to deliver products based on the Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, the successor to the Larrabee and Supercomputer Chip (SCC) projects. The first of which, codenamed ‘Knights Corner’, will use Intel’s 22nm manufacturing process and scale chips…

Play a lot of Video games? So do we. For those gamers lucky enough to fall asleep at night and inevitably dream, you’re more likely to have a lucid dream – a dream which you can control or interact with, according to research. Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, became interested in video games back in…

You’ll see why 2010 won’t be like 2010. Valve has been building up to this for some time now and we were all expecting it, but it’s officially here, you can now buy and play Half-Life 2 and episodes 1 and 2 on Mac’s. In addition, a number of patches have been released enabling achievements and a new cross-platform save allowing you to save your…

The LucidLogix Hydra chip has been making its way around the Internet for a while, sporting the feature of being able to combine the processing power of different graphics cards from different manufacturers, creating a Hybrid graphics platform where Nvidia and ATI can share the load. The chip was first introduced commercially with the MSI Big…

DRM is a tough topic for all involved, consumers hate it, companies seem to love it, pirates… aren’t affected by it. So why go to all the trouble of implementing it in the first place when you can spend that time on the game itself? This is Blizzard’s mentality with StarCraft 2, concentrate on the game, not the DRM…

A Japanese team has developed a material derived from a new crystal form of titanium oxide. The material starts off as a metal and then turns into a semiconductor, this also changes the color from black to brown when exposed to light, resulting in an effective on-off function that can be used for data storage since colours reflect light…