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Getting Closer: Valve Releases Linux Betas for Left 4 Dead 2 & Portal
Since the launching of Steam for Linux this past February, we’ve seen a good number of titles from Valve hit the platform, but when taking a look at the developer’s catalog as a whole, it becomes obvious that we still have a little way’s to go. While it’s not clear if Valve…..
Nyan and Keyboard Cat Creators Going to the Mattresses
Anyone who has been on the Internet has seen a meme in one form or another, which is described as “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.” This is generally done in a humorous fashion through puns, pictures, animation, music and etc. There are…..
Corsair Releases SSD & Hard Disk Drive Cloning Kit, SSD Toolbox
Corsair has today released two products, one hardware and one software, that aim to help you make the transition to an SSD a smooth one, and also to help you keep your SSD optimized once it’s in action. First, the “SSD & Hard Disk Drive Cloning Kit“, comprised of a CD and…..
MAINGEAR’s Latest Contest Urges You to Show Off Your Old, Ugly PC
Is your PC such an old beater that you’d rather streak naked in public than let it be seen by family and friends? If so, it seems certain that you need a change, and to suck it up and post a picture of that baby for the world to see (the PC,…..
A Look at Steam’s Hardware Survey for April 2013
It’s been a couple of months since we last checked in with Steam’s hardware survey, so let’s do some catching up, shall we? In our last look, Steam’s official support for Linux launched mid-month, so our stats overall were less-than-ideal, but now, we can finally see where things stand now that the…..
Intel Names Brian Krzanich as the Company’s Sixth CEO, Assumes Role on May 16th
This past November, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced his retirement, with plans for his transition to occur in May. Well, wouldn’t you know it – it’s May, and Intel’s Board of Directors has finally announced Paul’s successor, Brian Krzanich, who was previously the company’s COO. Krzanich will assume the CEO role on May…..
Intel’s 4th Gen Core Processors Feature ‘Iris’ IGP, Offers 2x Performance
Intel’s fourth-gen Core processor series – codenamed “Haswell” – is set to launch in the very near-future, but despite that, we’ve been left mostly in the dark up to this point regarding its IGP. Well, as of today, that’s no longer the case, as the company has officially announced its next graphics…..
Pirates Being Pirated in “Game Dev Tycoon”
Earlier this week, Greenheart Games released its first game, Game Dev Tycoon, for only $8. Despite the small price, it didn’t stop many from pirating it. In anticipation of this fact, Patrick Klug, founder, director and coder for Greenheart Games, decided to do turn the tables on those very people who couldn’t be…..
First Trailer Released for Call of Duty: Ghosts, Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare Successor
“There are those who wear masks to hide, and those who wear masks to show us what they stand for. To inspire. To unite. To defy. To strike fear in the hearts of their enemies, and hope in the hearts of their followers. There are those who wear masks to protect themselves,…..
AMD’s FX Line Greets Two New Models: Six-core FX-6350 and Quad-core FX-4350
With Intel set to launch its fourth-generation Core processor series in the coming months, what better time than the present for AMD to pad its FX line a little bit? The company this week added two models to the fray; the FX-6350 and the FX-4350. These models directly replace the FX-6300 and…..
EA Goes to Trial over Madden Franchise – Again
Earlier this week, Techgage reported on the many issues facing Electronic Arts and things just seem to be getting worse for the gaming giant. On Tuesday, a California federal judge denied EA’s final attempt to dismiss a case that was filed over two years by Robin Antonick. The suit claims that Robin…..
The Missing Video Game and Violence Link
Dr. Patrick Markey is someone you may not have heard of before, but he is an associate professor of psychology at Villanova University, the director of the Interpersonal Research Laboratory, and a former president of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research. Yesterday, USNews published his opinion piece “In Defense of Violent…..
2K Games Not Joining the E3 Party
Earlier this week, Techgage reported that Nintendo would not be giving a press conference at this year’s E3, now it appear that 2K Games will be absent from the festivities all together. The news comes from 2K’s own blog site where it gave this statement: “While 2K will not have a booth…..
Thermaltake Water 3.0 – All-In-One Liquid Cooling System Evolves
Thermaltake has announced its new Water 3.0 All-In-One LCS (Liquid Cooling System). It is an upgrade over the Water 2.0 system, which was introduced in mid-2012. As with the previous iteration of LCS, Water 3.0 is available in three versions: Performer, Pro, and Extreme. All three have the same basic universal water…..
Nintendo Playing Hooky with E3 Press Conference
E3 has always been a way for game developers, hardware and software, to come together in one place and show the public what they have been working on and provide a road map of where they are going in the coming year. This year’s E3 will be missing a major contributor to…..
EA Avalanche of Doom Continues: Layoffs, Closures, More SimCity Madness
The world of big business is constantly changing, yet it in EAs case it seems to be going through an earthquake, with all the bad news coming from it these days. Just last month Techgage’s Rob Williams reported on John Riccitiello Stepping Down and the critical launch failure of SimCity on EAs…..
Alienware’s X51 – Gaming on Ubuntu Goes Boutique
Although hardcore PC performance and gaming enthusiasts might scoff at any news Alienware puts out, one item did catch Techgage’s attention. Alienware announced the arrival of its newest machine, the X51. Now what made us sit up and pay attention? The X51 is running not Windows 8, nor Windows 7, as its…..
Monthly Subscriptions Now Available Through Steam
The traditional subscription-based MMO developers have not had any opportunities to bring its games to the largest digital PC distributor on the internet, Steam. Yesterday is when everything changed. In a statement made by Valve on its own Steam News feed, it announced: “With Subscription Plans, Steam offers gamers the ability to…..
Blacksmith Tony Swatton Creates a Real-life Minecraft Diamond Sword
Well, this might just be one of the coolest real-world examples of a video game weapon that I’ve ever seen. In Minecraft, the most powerful and durable sword in the game is the Diamond Sword, and as such, it tends to be the most sought-after. Naturally, then, it’d be the sword that a…..
Sights on Titan: AMD Unleashes Dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 6GB
With NVIDIA having launched its Titan mega-GPU a couple of months ago, it seemed inevitable that AMD would finally get around to releasing its dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990, and as the title of this post and all of these pictures suggest, it’s happened. With the card comes renewed claims from AMD of…..
WD Delivers World’s First 5mm HDD and SSHD Models
On Monday, we posted our in-depth look at Seagate’s latest “SSHD”, one that earned its “Thin” moniker by being built around a 7mm-thick form-factor. Naturally, our friends at WD would send us a press release the very next day touting its latest products built around a 5mm-thick form-factor – a world first.…..
NVIDIA’s GeForce 320.00 Drivers Usher in Dead Island: Riptide, Star Trek and Neverwinter
It’s that time again, NVIDIA users; the company has just pushed out GeForce 320.00, and it’s well-worth upgrading to. At the forefront, the drivers are meant to coincide with the release of Dead Island: Riptide, Star Trek and Neverwinter, so if you are planning to pick any of those up, this driver…..
Facebook Tests the Waters with Google’s WebP Image Format
A couple of years ago, Google revealed its “WebP” image format, which shared the same overarching goal as the “WebM” video format: efficiency. While JPEG as a whole is fairly efficient, there’s always room for improvement, and while it might be hard to see the advantage as a normal user, Web services…..
Rare Sega ‘Pluto’ Prototype Console Surfaces, One Goes Up for Auction
Last week, an amazing thing occurred in the video game world. As far as anybody is aware, there only exist two Sega “Pluto” prototype consoles, and one day apart, the respective owners of each came forward to show-off their wares. The first reveal happened at ASSEMbler, where “Super Magnetic”, a previous Sega…..
WD Launches XE Hard Drive Models with ‘Performance Adapter’
When WD launched its “XE” enterprise SAS hard drives last fall, it gave its customers an “eXtremely Efficient” option to deploy. At the forefront, their 2.5-inch form-factor allows customers to install them in slim servers, and compared to competing 3.5-inch 15K RPM models, they consume far less power (67% lower, according to…..