Content and news by Rob Williams

There have been some major announcements made in the tech industry over the past two weeks, but this might be the biggest, and the most important. It has just been announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO at Apple, handing over the reigns to the previous head of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, Tim Cook.

There are few pieces of software in our virtual toolboxes here at Techgage that are quite as important as AcronisTrue Image Home. With it, we can keep regular backups of our own PCs, and also create full PC images of our benchmarking rigs that allow us to get back into action fast in the event that we need a fresh…

For about as long as the free image editor GIMP has existed, an oft-requested feature has been a single-window mode, a la Adobe Photoshop. Though both tools exist to accomplish the same overall goals, GIMP’sdesign saw the toolbox and images themselves separate from the main application window, which to some…

This past May, NZXT released its Sentry Mesh fan controller, which like the name would suggest, had a meshed front perfectly suited for those with a chassis to match. In some ways, it was a much-needed product, as some fan controllers kind of stood out in the wrong way on meshed chassis. But with the Sentry Mesh also came…

In the summer of 2000, Ion Storm released what became an instant cult classic and its most successful title during its tenure, Deus Ex. On the surface, the game looked like the usual futuristic action game, but for fans, there’s a lot more to it than that. At its heart, it’s an RPG in the truest sense of the word, allowing the…

Since the introduction of USB 3.0, we have needed to install third-party drivers in Windows in order to have the ports function, which for obvious reasons hasn’t been ideal. On the newly-launched Windows 8 developer blog, we’re told that this problem will cease to exist with the release of Microsoft’s next OS, with native USB 3.0…

If you’ve been on the lookout for a new gaming mouse, it might be worth waiting another month or so for the release of Logitech’s G300, announced late last week. In both looking at the photos and the specifications, the G300 looks to be one of the better gaming mice released in the past year or more, and with a $39.99 price…

It’s no secret that one of the most pirated pieces of software is the entire Windows OS, and if not for the fact that a Windows license is forced on consumers more often than not with the purchase of a desktop or notebook PC, the number of non-legal users could be at unfathomable levels. Piracy is an issue Microsoft has obviously sunk…

I’ve been a PC user almost all my life, but up until about ten years ago, I never had an extreme interest in PC hardware, focusing more on software and games. I am not sure what clicked inside me and made me develop a keen interest in hardware, but like most enthusiasts, I retain a mental list of hardware I consider to be…

In a surprising move, HP has announced that it’s cancelling all of its WebOS products, including the Pre andTouchPad, and is unsure of what to do with the OS itself. As someone who has had a keen interest in WebOS due to its openness and overall potential, this news is a bit upsetting, and to be honest…

We’ve already talked about one “Top 25” list today, so how about another? This one isn’t tech-related, but hey, it’s Friday, and it’s one a lot of us can relate to. It lists 25 foods that we’ll never be able to eat again, as they either failed in the market or were pulled for some other reason. There’s nothing quite so frustrating…

A lot of people might not admit it, but I’m willing to bet that deep down, we all have a soft spot for epic or hilarious deaths in video games. Well, at least I do. Be it falling accidentally off of a cliff or getting hit by a car when crossing the street, I can’t help but snicker. Heck, some games outright glorify epic accidents or deaths, so I…

Well, here’s something I never expected to see. Either Activision (and/or Infinity Ward) has lightened up a bit, or it’s begun to consider Battlefield 3 a serious threat to its bottom-line, because the company has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will support dedicated servers on the PC.

Since its release in late 2004, World of Warcraft has become the envy of all other MMO-makers out there. Thanks to Blizzard’s creating of a game that was both welcoming to light and heavy game players alike, not to mention one that’s quite captivating, subscription numbers skyrocketed like no other MMO had seen before.

Graphics buzzwords – love ’em or hate ’em, we’re sure treated to a lot of them. One of the more recent, and mostprevalent, is ‘Morphological Anti-Aliasing’. This is a unique technique that aims to provide quality AA effects in games where AA is either not possible in the engine, or just wasn’t a concern to the developer. 

I’ve never been a big fan of god games, and with the last one I played being Black & White, it’s been a good ten years since I last touched one. But when a friend linked me to a From Dust gameplay video a couple of weeks ago, the game grabbed my attention, and I had a good feeling that my god game drought would be…

AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver, 11.8, and with it come the usual slew of bug fixes and game performance improvements, in addition to a new feature that Black Edition processor users will enjoy – CPU overclocking. That’s right, in the major first step of turning its Catalyst Control Center into a…

At the conclusion of its Gamescom keynote, Sony surprised everyone by announcing worldwide price drops on all models of the PlayStation 3. The base model, including a 160GB hard drive, will retail for $249.99 in the US and Canada, €249.99 in Europe and ¥24,980 in Japan. Other models that either include a bundled game…

Care to own a GeForce GTX 580, but don’t care for the added heat that such a beastly graphics card can add to a PC? For quite some time, EVGA has been no stranger to releasing its high-end GPUs with water-blocks built-in, and now it seems that PNY is getting in on the action as well. Its latest XLR8 Liquid Cooled GTX 580s…

The story of Crysis 2 is one of pain and anguish – as long as we’re talking about its launch, and PC gamers. While many believed that the game should have become a true successor to the title that became its own meme (“Can it run Crysis“), what we saw instead was a game that was heavily influenced by consoles, in way of…