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Google Makes ‘Google Fiber’ Official
Google has today formally announced its Google Fiber Internet service, causing those living in either Kansas City, MO or Kansas City, KS to jump for joy while making everyone else discover a new level of jealousy. While the initial packages themselves are priced well, it’s the talk of “Gigabit” that’s most exciting.
Humble Bundle Makes the Move to Music
Well, this is a little different. Humble Bundle, the service that regularly allows gamers to purchase great titles at set-your-own-prices, has just announced its “Humble Music Bundle”. As it sounds, a handful of albums are up for grabs, and the price? Whatever you want it to be, of course. As with the gaming bundles, all of the…
Borderlands 2 PC Pre-orders Now Available
Just a quick note to those who’ve been waiting patiently (or impatiently) for Borderlands 2 pre-orders for the PC to hit the Web – it’s happened. Posted by Gearbox today on its official blog, the game is available for pre-order at Steam, GameStop, Amazon, and others. Pre-ordering the PC variant of the game offers the same…
Why Steam for Linux? Because Windows 8 is a ‘Catastrophe’
As we mentioned in our news section last week, Valve finally put an end to all of the “Steam on Linux” rumors by announcing its plans officially. The reasons for its attention to Linux should be obvious. It’s a small market, but it is growing, and no group of folks have proven more fervently that they want games for their platform.
Relaxing Combat? Auralux Makes it Happen
What’s one word you rarely see sitting next to “RTS”? Could it be, “simple”? To some, that sort of pairing is nonsensical, but bringing sense to it all is War Drum Studios’ Auralux. This game proves that strategy can besimplistic, and believe or not, relaxing. Released late last week for Android, but also…
Linux Kernel 3.5 Released
Further proving that Linux kernel developers never take a break, version 3.5 was released over the weekend. This marks the fifth major release since the kernel hit 3.0 last June, so we’re now seeing an accelerated release pace. This release brings some important features, including an option to enable checksums for metadata…
OCZ Discusses First Completely In-house Indilinx Controller
During OCZ’s quarterly earnings call CEO Ryan Petersen let word out about OCZ’s future SSD plans, and a surprising amount of detail regarding its next controller. “Now, moving on, let me take a short – give you a short update on our product development front. I think it’s important to point out that we’ve recently gave…
Valve Confirms Steam Client for Linux is in the Works
For about as long as civilization has existed, there have been rumors of Valve’s Steam platform coming to Linux. Finally, the best hint of things came to fruition this past spring, when Phoronix paid a trip to Valve’s HQ in Washington to see first-hand the progress being made. This week, Valve took things just a step further…
WD Announces NAS-targeted ‘Red’ Hard Drives
Having released audio-video hard drives in the past (dubbed “AV”), I’ve long wondered if Western Digital would release a series targeted at one of the most thriving storage markets out there: network-attached storage. Lo and behold, it’s happened, making me wish I had jotted that thought down to paper (rather, Notepad…
Mozilla to Cease Development on its Thunderbird Mail Client
In a bit of unfortunate news for users of the Thunderbird e-mail client, a leaked Mozilla e-mail has revealed that innovation support for the project will soon cease. This decision was made due to the fact that Mozilla wants the bulk of its focus to be elsewhere, such as with a Firefox OS (or rather, it wants to focus where more $$$…
Classics Soon to Return: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Nights & Jet Set
The next couple of months are going to be great for classic game re-releases, and if you were a big fan of either the Sega Saturn, Dreamcast or Sony PlayStation, you’re going to have reason to get excited. A game I am stuper-stoked for, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, is set to hit Xbox Live on July 18th and PSN sometime soon…
Valve to Launch Community-Driven ‘Greenlight’ Service
Valve, regular innovators where digital game distribution is concerned, has just announced “Greenlight“, a new community-based effort on Steam that will see gamers choose which titles get released through the service. According to Valve, the internal greenlight group has always had a hard time deciding which games get…
FIFA Approves Goal-Line Technology for Association Football
If ever there was the right time to use the phrase, “It’s about damn time”, this is it. FIFA, the world’s governing body of association football (soccer), has just approved the use of goal-line technology for the beautiful game. As strange as it is given its enormous popularity and size, football remains one of the odd-ball sports…
Linux Users Report Bannings from Diablo 3 for Using Wine
When it comes to PC gaming, it’s been proven time and time again that Linux users always get the short end of the stick. It’s not much of a surprise given overall usage of Linux on the desktop, but it’s unfortunate nonetheless. Because of this situation, it’s not uncommon to see people trying to get the latest blockbusters working…
Two-Player Gaming Action on an iPhone? That’s GameDock’s Goal
I’m not sure if I’m alone or not, but ever since Kickstarter projects became as popular as breathing, I’ve begun to grow just a wee bit bored. So, to grab my attention today with a Kickstarter project has to mean that it’s interesting, and the “GameDock for iPhone” is just that. “Oh great, another iPhone dock” – yes, but this one is a bit different…
EA to be a ‘100% Digital Company, Period’
Is physical game media soon to disappear? According to EA’s Labels president Frank Gibeau, it’s inevitable – at least for his company. He does state that “if customers want to buy a game at retail, they can do that too. We’ll continue to deliver games in whatever media formats make sense“, but follows that thought up with…
Final Fantasy VII Soon to be Re-released for PC
I think it goes without saying that one of the best role-playing games ever created is Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997 for the original PlayStation. The game had it all – a fantastic story, an interesting world, memorable characters, robust battle and character mechanics and enough on the side to keep you engrossed.
CERN Scientists Discover Higgs boson-like Particle
Scientists at CERN, home of the world’s largest particle smasher, have today announced their discovery of a particle that could turn out to be the elusive Higgs boson. In physics, the Higgs boson is the last remaining piece of the puzzle according to the Standard Model – a theory as to how the universe works at the elementary level.
NZXT Launches ‘HUE’ RGB LED Controller
NZXT has long been offering elegant fan controlling solutions for the PC, but where controllers in general are concerned, NZXT has had bigger plans. That’s been proven with the just-launched HUE “RGB LED Controller”, a 3.5″ front-bay peripheral that allows you to tweak the LED lighting in your PC to any color you can imagine…
NVIDIA Greets ‘The Secret World’ Launch with GeForce 304.79 Drivers
Whenever a seriously hyped MMO first hits the market, there’s one thing we can always count on: updated graphics drivers. That’s especially true when the game happens to be Funcom’s The Secret World, which NVIDIA has been happily promoting leading up to its launch. NVIDIA’s support this time around is a little more interesting…
Compiling 1,100 Software Packages in a Row Under Gentoo
While not a common task for most Windows users, compiling software under Linux isn’t uncommon at all. Reasons could be that the software simply isn’t designed for your distro of choice, the software isn’t available in your distro’srepository, or you might have hacked the code or are working on your own project. Users…
HP Decides to Skip ARM-based Windows Tablets
With its uncoming launch of Windows 8, Microsoft will be, for the first time ever, making an ARM-based edition available. Not for consumer purchase, Windows NT will be snapped up by tablet vendors in lieu of a full-blown edition better suited for Intel processors. Weeks ago, Microsoft announced its Surface tablet, and sure…
Micron Acquires Elpida; Boosts Share Ownership of Rexchip
When Elpida filed for bankruptcy this past February, the question wasn’t about if the company would be acquired, but by who. After all, when a top 3 DRAM vendor is in trouble, the other 2 aren’t going to sit by idly. That’s been proven today, as Micron announced that it will be acquiring the company for $2.5 billion USD.
Should Linux Users be Worried About ‘Secure Boot’?
With the release date looming for Windows 8, I’m beginning to get a little concerned about what UEFI’s “Secure Boot” is going to mean for Linux users. Up to this point, I haven’t paid too much to it, so as to avoid spontaneously sucker-punching my monitor, but soon enough, ignoring it might not be an option. So what exactly is…
Sony Acquires Cloud Gaming Provider Gaikai for $380 Million
Cloud gaming has scored a major success today, with Sony announcing that it will be acquiring leading providerGaikai for a staggering $380 million. With that sort of value, Sony has proven that cloud gaming has a strong future, much like Netflix proved with video. The acquisition will no doubt lead to a new or…