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Sapphire Edge-HD Mini PC First Look
In the past couple of years, it’s become less common for tech companies to stick to a single line-up of products, and in fact, the transition has been inevitable. Companies like Corsair no longer only make memory, but power supplies, audio peripherals and even chassis. The same kind of thing could be said about many different tech…
Bulletstorm First Impressions
Bulletstorm, the game created by the same guys who put out Painkiller in 2004, came out this past Tuesday. Like most brand-new games, I didn’t know much about Bulletstorm, except that A) the graphics appealed to me, and B) the game was surrounded in controversy. Fox News, as an example, pretty much considered it to be the worst…
Report: Current SSD ‘Secure Erase’ Methods Don’t Work
Last spring, we posted an article that took a look at data recovery on SSDs; essentially, the difficulty of. Thanks to TRIM, once a file is deleted on an SSD, it’s difficult to recover, and in our tests, common recovery applications simply didn’t work. In a recent report, though, techies at the University of California have have found that…
Could Apple be Bringing 24-bit Audio to iTunes?
This might just be one of the strangest ideas I’ve ever heard. It seems that some music execs have been in discussion with Apple to help get 24-bit audio onto the iTunes music store… and as Ars Technica appropriately asks, “Why bother?” I have nothing against iTunes, and I have in fact spent hundreds of dollars there over the…
Apple to Refresh MacBook Pro Line-up this Week
To those prepped to make a MacBook Pro purchase… wait. It’s been reported that Apple will be refreshing its line-up later this week, and that brand-new models will be shipping to customers within the next two weeks. Nothing much is known about the performance-related specs, but there are a couple of aesthetic changes and an interesting…
Video Game Characters are Cheap Dates
Drinking in games can be a humorous past time, get a few giggles in before taking on a horde of bad guys under very one sided conditions (no force of evil can match the mighty Quick Save/Load). But ever stopped to wonder how realistic this drunkard behavior, slurred speech and floor collapsing humor can be? Nah, me neither.
AT&T iPhone vs. Verizon iPhone
Verizon’s iPhone hit the market earlier this month, and though we know some of the limitations, is it worth jumping over to from AT&T? The answer depends a lot on what you want to do with your phone, and if you happen to make a lot of phone calls and often get disconnected on AT&T, then that’s the biggest reason that Verizon should be…
Minecraft Gets a Video Documentary
Minecraft, a game that we profiled after its initial release, has become one of the most popular games on the planet. It’s been played by by millions, and purchased by 1.36 million (and growing). Its creator, Markus “Notch” Persson, began development of the game himself, and up until recently, conducted all of the development work himself.
The Story Behind the Half-Life 2 Source Code Leak
About a year prior to Half-Life 2’s official release, someone had hacked into Valve’s servers and stole the source code for the game, and within no time, it was made available online for anyone to download, look through, and play. I remember being one of those to download the code at the time, because it was seriously exciting. After all…
Intel Announces ‘Fab 42’ Development in Chandler, Arizona
President Barack Obama last week met with several important Silicon Valley employers and innovators, including Intel’s own Paul Otellini, and afterward, Intel gave him a tour of its semiconductor research and manufacturing site in Hillsboro, Oregon. At the same time, Intel announced its plans to invest over $5 billion into a new facility in…
Problems Arise with Seagate’s Momentus XT Mobile HDDs
Seagate’s Momentus XT mobile hard drive is one-of-a-kind on the consumer side of things, as it pairs a mechanical drive with some NAND flash commonly found in SSDs, and in the end delivers great performance. It’s effective because it allows the most common files to be read from the flash, while the rest of the data is on the hard…
Crysis 2 Leaked a Month in Advance of Release
Poor Crytek. I forget where it was, but I read an interview with Crytek’s Cevat Yerli a couple of years ago where he stated that the “next Crysis” wouldn’t be PC-exclusive like Crysis and Crysis Warhead were. Why? Piracy, and nothing but. Games are so easy to pirate on the PC, and with a game as mega-popular as Crysis, there’s little…
Duke Nukem Forever Gets ‘Balls of Steel’ Edition
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen Duke Nukem Forever get a release date, and have also seen previews posted around the Web. So far, those previews seem to have mixed reaction, but one thing’s for certain… this game is going to demand attention when it’s released, and it seems unlikely that hardcore Duke fans are going to be…
Sony Unveils its PlayStation Phone: Ericsson Xperia PLAY
We knew that a “PlayStation Phone” was en ruote, but now we finally have hard details of what to expect in terms of hardware and software. The first official phone to feature support for PlayStation-esque hardware is the SonyEricsson Xperia PLAY, and hopefully if it takes off, we’ll see similar options from other mobile vendors as well.
World of StarCraft Becomes StarCraft Universe – Modders Rejoice
A couple weeks ago, a group of modders decided to create nice little mod for StarCraft II, introducing MMO elements into custom maps for the venerable game. A pre-alpha demo was posted on YouTube which caught the attention of Activision Blizzard, which was quickly followed by a cease and desist notice. The problem was not with the…
Fixing the Windows Floating Context Menu Item Problem
It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Windows, and it has nothing to do with me being a Linux “fanboi” (I’m not). Rather, it’s the fact that Windows continually gives me reason to complain, as there exist implementations and problems that arise that just boggle my mind. Take this issue, for example… a “floating” context menu item.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 First Impressions
Although I’m a huge Need for Speed fan, I also have enjoyed playing games from the Test Drive series ever since the first release, so of course, I’ve been anticipating Test Drive Unlimited 2 for months. Does it live up to my personal hype? After sinking about four hours into the game so far, the verdict is still out on that, but so far, the…
Duke Nukem Forever Previews Hit the Web
With an official known release date for Duke Nukem Forever (May 3, 2011), it’s just a matter of time before we’ll all be able to give the latest Nukem release a spin and see if, after 12 years of development time, the game aged like a fine wine. Last week, Gearbox invited select members of the press to join them at an event to give a preview of the…
Is Apple’s iPod classic Soon to be Discontinued?
For the avid music listener, Apple offers a good range of portable players. For those who need something super-small, there’s the shuffle, and for those who want the same but a little more feature-rich, there’s thenano. Then of course there’s the touch, which avails iPhone-like functionality, sans the phone. For the rest of us, there’s…
Does Steam Eat Games?
As a devout PC gamer, I’ve come to love Valve’s Steam platform over the years. The main reason is one I could sum up simply as “ultimate convenience”. About 90% of the games I play in a given year are available on Steam, and because of that, I simply couldn’t imagine using another solution. Once you’re spoiled with that kind of…
Mozilla to Ramp up Versioning Scheme in 2011
Up until a couple of months ago, I had been using Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser since long before it even became “Firefox“. As I moved over to Chrome, I began to notice that Firefox 4.0 was beginning to take quite a number of features or aesthetic cues from Chrome, among others, and I apparently wasn’t the only one. Though it…
Inside the Mind of a Anti-piracy Lawyer
Within the piracy realm, it’s not too difficult to read first-hand accounts of people who’ve been hit with harsh court rulings, or the perspective from the record/movies/etc companies themselves. But it’s not often we hear the opinions straight from the lawyers, who are clearly the binding force that can either work for, or against, the…
Intel Begins Shipping Bugged Sandy Bridge Chipsets
It’s been merely a week since Intel announced a fault found within its H67/P67 chipsets, but given the amount of chatter around the Web in that time, it almost feels like it’s been a lot longer. Although consumers are still stuck in a bit of a rough spot, or more of a waiting game, Intel is busily pounding out revised chips that should be shipping…
Steam – Estimated Revenue of $1 Billion in 2010
Here’s some interesting numbers to mull over; Valve’s digital distribution arm, Steam, was estimated to bring in just shy of $1 billion in revenue during 2010. Steam officially doesn’t release sales figures, so these can be taken with a pinch of salt, but the numbers are impressive none-the-less. Total revenue of around…
Learning the Basics of Adobe Photoshop in 25 Minutes
For those looking to get into photo editing, or any type of image manipulation, Adobe’s Photoshop is always the quickest-recommended solution. But to most people just starting out, Photoshop can seem a bit overwhelming, and it’s of no surprise… it is a professional tool, after all. That doesn’t mean that it’s hard to learn, though, and to…