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Borderlands 2 Has Gone Gold
To those who, like me, foam at the mouth anytime new information regarding Borderlands 2 is uttered, you’ll be happy with a tweet that Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford posted on Friday: Borderlands 2 is now GOLD (360, PS3 EU, PS3 NA, Win PC)! PSN, PS3 JP + others imminent. Official statement to come when all ballots are in.
Shouldn’t We Embrace the Remix?
Is “everything a remix”? According to Kirby Ferguson, the answer is “yes”. Without feeding off the knowledge of others, and their creations, Kirby believes the world would not be where it is today. While a company might tout having invented something, and of course wastes no time in patenting it, it’s very likely that it would simply…
SteelSeries Announces ‘Freedom to Play’ Mobile Peripheral Lineup
It’s gamescom time, and that can only mean one thing: lots and lots of announcements. Helping to kick things off,SteelSeries has just announced a new line of gaming peripherals for tablets dubbed “Freedom to Play”. These peripherals are designed to enhance your tablet gaming while keeping things portable. So far, a headset…
A Look at Steam’s Hardware Survey for July 2012
You might recall that a few months ago, we planned to begin taking a look at hardware statistics that Valve updates each month. Not long after, the company up-ended all of its previous results due to inaccuracies caused by certain bugs. The most up-to-date hardware survey does put us back on the right track, however, so now…
Apple’s Biggest Reason to Sue Android Vendors: Marketshare
It’s no secret that Apple has no qualms when it comes to suing its competitors, sometimes over simple or nonsensical patents that shouldn’t have ever been granted in the first place, but what’s the reason? The company currently has more money in its bank account than any other, so what does the company fear, exactly?
Deal Gone Bad Has One Runescape Player Facing 15 Years in Prison
For as long as MMOs have existed, so has the sale of in-game currency for real-life cash. Rarely, the developer will allow such dealings to go on, and when it does, it’s usually managed through a sanctioned service (think Blizzard’s auction house for Diablo III). But when the need arises where you have to keep things out of the game…
Acer CEO Issues ‘Think Twice’ Warning to Microsoft Regarding Surface
When Microsoft first announced its Surface tablet, which would be one of the rare hardware products to come out of Redmond with a Microsoft brand-name on it, many questioned how the move would affect the company’s relationships with other vendors – namely those which have supported the company’s operating…
Windows 8 Style UI – It’s Not Metro Anymore?
I’m having a distinct sense of deja vu here, but Microsoft is requesting developers to not call the typography-based design language formally known as Metro, uh, Metro, but to call it the ‘Windows 8 style UI’, due to possible legalities regarding a European company’s trademark on the name. The company grumbling about the trademark…
KDE 4.9 Desktop Platform Released
The KDE project has this week announced version 4.9 of its popular desktop platform, dedicated to the late KDE contributor Claire Lotion. It brings significant improvements, including an expected progression of the Nokia-maintained Qt Quick framework. In addition to adding support for more KDE APIs, Qt Quick plasmoid…
AMD Re-recruits Jim Keller as Chief of Processor Group
In what might be the best news to come out of the AMD camp in quite a while, the company has announced that it’s bringing Jim Keller back on board to become the Corporate Vice President and Chief Architect for CPU Cores. He’ll be reporting to the company’s CTO and Senior VP of Technology and Engineering, Mark Papermaster.
HP Wins Lawsuit Against Oracle
HP has just scored a major win with its lawsuit against Oracle, focused around Oracle’s pulling of support for Intel Itanium-based products. You might recall that last spring, Oracle pulled all software support for Itanium processors and then went on to claim that the architecture was nearing “end of life”…
Fedora Announces Plans to Include MATE in Next Release
On a regular day, learning of a Linux distro bundling a new desktop environment in its next release is the furthest thing from being a big deal, but things are a little different here. Fedora, the spearhead of the GNOME 3 movement, has said that it will be bundling MATE (a GNOME 2 fork) in Fedora 18, expected for release this November.
Windows 8 RTM – Get Ready for October Release
It feels like only last year when we were all basking in the glory of the Windows 7 release, but no, three years on, we’re here again but singing a different tune. Windows 8 and its Metro’fication has been Released to Manufacture (RTM), with build number 9200. This is stage one of the official…
Borderlands 2 is Third Highest Pre-Order in Take-Two’s History
Oh Borderlands, what hath thee done. Take-Two, the parent company of 2K Games, has stated that the pre-order sales figures of upcoming title, Borderlands 2, are the third highest it’s seen in its history, only below the behemoths GTA IV and GTA San Andreas. Development of BL2 is complete and pre-orders can be placed…
Cooler Master to Use ‘Horizontal Vapor Chambers’ in Future CPU Coolers
In our notebooks and on top of the processors on our graphics cards, Vapor Chamber cooling technology is not too rare. But with desktop CPU coolers, it’s not only rare, but non-existent (to our knowledge). That is until now, of course, as Cooler Master has just announced its plans to begin releasing CPU coolers that utilize…
Star Wars: The Old Republic Allows Free-To-Play Option This Fall
In a move many arguably saw coming, Bioware’s often criticized first MMO title will be enabling a Free-To-Play option, sometime in the coming autumn. For the most part, the details are rather thin, but a general outline of both the Subscriber-based and Free-based systems have been outlined on the SWTOR website.
Richard Stallman Warns Against Nonfree DRM’d Steam on Linux
When Valve a couple of weeks ago announced that it has been working on a Steam client for Linux, we stressed just how big of a deal it is for users of the OS. Gaming has always been a sour point for Linux, and still is in some regards on OS X – at least compared to Windows. But with a company like Valve behind both OSes…
Hotmail’s Days Are Numbered: Microsoft Introduces Outlook.com
Microsoft has today announced Outlook.com, an e-mail service built on top of the well-known name from the company’s Office suite. At some point, Outlook.com will replace Hotmail.com, but at the moment users are free to use either or – your e-mail will exist in both. In that regard, you can consider Outlook.com to be just a new…
For Those Who Shun Detail, Here’s Google Maps ASCII
If you’ve yet to take your hit of awesome today, don’t worry, I have it right here. We’ve all seen what Google Mapslooks like in 8-bit, but have you ever wondered what it might look like in ASCII? Well as the old saying goes, if you ASCII, someone will ANSI, and in this case, that someone is Peter Nitsch.
Gasp! – Claw Machines Are Rigged?
Ahh, claw machines. One of the oldest and most popular attractions at any arcade, claw machines taunt you not with hopes of a high score, but a real prize. If you’re skillful enough, you’ll be able to orient the claw perfectly, reach down and snatch that cool toy. But, is that all that’s involved? Or is a little bit of luck required as well?
Just How Hard is it to be an Expert? Not Hard at All, Apparently
If you have ever read news online, and chances are good that you have if you’re still breathing, you’ve no doubt seen a countless number of sources quoted. It could be a story about an accident that happened downtown, an article about how people with the messiest desks work the most efficiently or a tech story about a huge…
New DX11 Demo Shows Off Ultra-Realistic Gems
With all its awesomeness and potential, DirectX 11 sure does suffer a lacking of demos that can show off its abilities – and the demos that do exist tend to focus mostly around tessellation. Well, coming from Japan is a simple demo called Rigid Gems, utilizing “hybrid raytracing” techniques that helps objects, in this case…
Sign-up Response to Google Fiber Off to a Great Start
It hasn’t even been a full week since Google announced its planned rollout of ‘Google Fiber’ Internet in both Kansas Citys, but the outpouring of support so far is evident – especially on the Missouri side. There, a staggering 39 eligible neighborhoods have reached Google’s minimum goal for pre-registrations, totaling 30% of the total.
Does Tech Packaging Matter?
Just pick up the latest and greatest piece of tech? Whether it be a smartphone, notebook or really any other electronic gadget, do you ever stop and analyze how nice the packaging is? And better still, does it matter to you what the packaging looks like? The packaging “issue” is brought to light with the help of Google’s…
Jack Daniel’s Sends Author What Might Be Most Polite C&D Ever
The de facto measure to take whenever a company finds an infringement being made on one of their products is to send their best lawyers after the target like a pack of rabid dogs, flinging threats left and right like there’s no tomorrow. Then there’s Jack Daniel’s, which almost makes a cease and desist seem pleasant.