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Should Retailers Stop Selling Games that Require Steam?
A couple of weeks ago, news got out that certain UK retailers were planning to stop selling games that require Valve’s Steam platform to play, citing that by selling such games to their customers, they’d essentially be sending them to a competitor. Being that Steam is getting bigger and bigger all the time, these retailers might have a point.
In the TG Lab: NETGEAR’s N600 WNDR3700 Router
In an iteration of “In the TG Lab” I posted last month, I talked a bit about the network card that would become a crucial part of our NAS box testing, Intel’s I340. At the time, I wasn’t quite settled on which router could become the second half of the equation, but thanks to a recommendation in our forums, that router ended up…
OnLive Game Console Announced
Cloud based gaming, not up there with the faries but a large collection of servers offering up interactive games over the internet with minimal local processing. OnLive has been stirring up quite a bit of interest over the last couple years with an interesting take on playing games. Instead of buying $1000 of computer parts every 2 years to play…
ASUS Disk Unlocker – Beyond the 2TB Limit
3TB drives have slowly been popping up these last few months in one form or another, such as Seagate’s External GoFlex drive, Western Digitals internal Caviar Green with PCIe card and Hitachi’s own internal 3TB drive. These drives are great and all, but there be a small caveat, most motherboard BIOS’ and Operating Systems can not…
Using Amazon’s EC2 Service to Crack Passwords
Ask NVIDIA if its graphics cards can do more than just handle the latest games at the best detail settings, and I’m sure it could go on for days about all of the advantages GPGPU technology offers anyone that has one of its graphics cards. Up to this point, though, consumers still don’t seem to have been bitten by the GPGPU bug, but…
AMD’s GPUTube.com Brings us Humorous Marketing
AMD last month launched a humor site called GPU Tube that helped lead up to the Radeon HD 6800 series launch, and I’ve been meaning to talk about it for a while. With a nudge from AMD, I was reminded, so here it is! This site features a “reporter” named Jason Sparrow who goes to AMD’s Canadian headquarters to do some…
Microsoft Games for Windows Marketplace Goes Live
Couple weeks back, Microsoft announced its Steam like service would be going live November 15th. Well, surprisingly, it kept its word and it’s now up and running. Marketplace will now be part of the Games for Windows Live application as well as have a dedicated website. Many games are already for sale, including the daily deal…
Intel Introduces 120GB SSD and Trims Prices
Intel is busy working on its upcoming “G3” third generation SSDs, but that doesn’t mean it’s sitting still until then. In addition to lowering suggested retail prices to be more in line with current market prices, Intel has confirmed that a recently spotted 120GB model SSD will be introduced in the US to fill the price/capacity gap between its current…
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 460 SE
NVIDIA’s been the target of a couple rumors over the past month, and so far, one of them came true. Of course, I’m referring to the GeForce GTX 580, the new reigning champion where single-GPU performance is concerned. At the same time, a “GTX 460 SE” has also been rumored, but its potential market position was far from clear. Well, as…
Is it Possible to Hear an SSD?
When someone considers an SSD purchase, there can be a couple of different reasons for it. The most common comes down to performance, where mechanical drives are just left in the dust. For others, though, an SSD is a perfect complement to a quiet PC. After all, no moving parts means no noise. Or does it?
Entropia Universe Player Sells Piece of Real Estate for $635,000
Are you an MMO player? Does anyone ever tell you that should… oh, I dunno… get a job? Well, if you are someone known as Jon Jacobs, a devout Entropia Universe player, you could tell those people that your MMO is your job. Best of all, you might just be making a lot more money then they’ll ever hope to. Sounds a bit odd, doesn’t it?
Firefox 4 Beta 7 Released
Normally, we wouldn’t announce new versions of beta software, but a rare exception can be made here. Firefox 4 has been at the forefront of my mind for quite a while, promising much needed enhancements to a somewhat aged browser. Firefox 3 was met with a fair amount of criticism, it was slow compared to the competition…
Can Perks Influence the Review of a Game?
If you knew that the writer of a game review you just read was treated to some good times by the company during the review process, would you trust them? This is a subject that Ars Technica has been infatuated with the past couple of months, especially with regards to how Activision has treated reviewers of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Not…
Are Porn Downloaders the Most ‘At Risk’ for Being Fined?
We’ve talked a fair bit about file-sharing on the site before and the repercussions it can hold, but in all we’ve discussed, it’s usually on the subject of music or movies. As it seems, though, it looks like those who reallyshould be watching their backs are those who download pornography, as those cases seem to be far more successful.
AMD Delays HD 6990 ‘Antilles’ till Q1 2011
AMD quietly announced that it would be delaying its upcoming flagship 6000 series graphics card till the first quarter of 2011. The Antilles GPU would have been the most powerful offering from AMD’s current GPU lineup. A dual GPU based graphics card utilizing two Cayman based chips that will be found in the upcoming 6970…
Gran Turismo 5 Leaked in Europe
Last month we detailed that Gran Turismo 5 had been delayed yet again, past its November 2nd release date. A small reprieve in the announcement by Sony mentioned a release date of ‘this holiday season’. While an update is now way overdue as to an exact release date, it would appear certain members of the public in…
CoD: Black Ops & NFS: Hot Pursuit Receives 85% and 90% from IGN
Ahh, isn’t this just the best time of year? No, it’s not because of the weather, or the upcoming holidays, or the fact that we all ate too much candy in recent weeks. No, this is the best time of year because it’s when most of the biggest games of the year get released, and gamers are faced with a unique problem of too many games to…
NVIDIA Shows Off DirectX11 Tech at PDXLAN 16.5
At this past weekend’s PDXLAN 16.5 event, Tom Petersen, NVIDIA’s Director of Technical Marketing, decided to give people in attendance a preview of what’s to come from the company. This included some slides of features that its upcoming GPU would be offering, and though he couldn’t specify which one, anyone reading this is likely…
UK E-tailer Leaks Price of K-model Sandy Bridge CPU
As rumor has it, Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors are set to be launched this coming January, but aside from that, there are few other specifics known about them, especially with launch specs and pricing. Due to a “mess-up” at one UK e-tailer, though, it does look like we have a baseline to go by. Kind of; the pricing is for a “K” model, which…
Recent RIAA Case: $1.5 Million for Sharing 24 Songs
Over the years, we’ve posted a fair number of news items regarding various aspects of piracy, and though there have been different subjects to tackle, there’s been a common theme. If it’s a single person we’re talking about on the opposite side of the RIAA, the outcome is rarely desirable. In the recent case of Jammie Thomas, the outcome…
NVIDIA to Launch GeForce GTX 580 Next Week?
After we posted our in-depth look at AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 graphics cards a couple of weeks ago, we took a look at what NVIDIA’s radar may look like, to see what the company might do to steal back some of AMD’sthunder. It’s not that AMD released the best single-GPU card on the market, but from a price, performance and features…
Competing P2P Clients Usage Rose after LimeWire’s Demise
After ten long years of providing service to its users, LimeWire succumbed to the brute force of the record industry and closed shop. As the saying goes, though, once one goes down, ten more pop up, and that couldn’t be more true. If people pirate, they are not going to suddenly begin not pirating, and that’s something the record industry…
Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard Announced
Logitech has been a great innovator in the peripheral market with such devices as the Unified USB receiver to allow multiple wireless devices to connect via the same USB port. On Monday, Logitech announced a very intriguing device, the K750 Solar powered keyboard. This is not a normal solar powered device, since it’s more akin to a…
Sapphire Releases TRiXX Radeon HD Overclocking Tool
A couple of years ago, you’d be limited to the number of tools you could use to overclock your graphics card, but today, that’s no longer the case. In the past couple of years, vendors have jumped on board by releasing their own homebrewed overclocking applications, so the choice is far greater than before, and to some, a…
GIGABYTE Previews its P67-based Motherboards
Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” processors are right around the corner (rumor is ~2 months), and as you might expect, motherboard vendors are hard at work to make sure their product is available at the same time. GIGABYTE, likely in response to a product briefing that ASUS is holding in San Jose next week, jumped the gun a little bit by giving us…