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NVIDIA Prefaces AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 Launch with Price Drops
We’re sure this will come as a surprise to no one, but with AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 series debuting on Friday, NVIDIA has taken its stance by lowering the prices on both its GeForce GTX 460 and GTX 470 graphics cards. On the GTX 460 side of things, the cost of the 1GB models will now match the 768MB models, while the GTX 470 will…
Pirate Parties in Space?
Pirate Parties International, the umbrella organization for the worldwide Pirate Parties, are bouncing ideas around the prospect of launching a satellite for the purpose of hosting a torrent site in space. Why you may ask? So that it can not be taken down for breach of copyright… there are no laws in space, right?
Futuremark Releases “High Temple” 3DMark 11 Trailer
Futuremark’s latest 3DMark iteration, 11, is right around the corner, and to help salivate fans, the company has just released a brand-new trailer called “High Temple”. As you’d expect, there’s heavy use of DirectX 11 techniques here, including tessellation. Though the trailer consists of a single area, there’s a lot of neat graphical eye candy to…
Can a Gaming Vest Improve the Fun-Factor and Your Performance?
For gamers who like to be competitive or look for different ways to “spice” things up, there’s certainly no shortage of peripherals available. Most often, mice and keyboards are the first place gamers look for an increase to their performance, but there are other things that can vastly change your experience as well – even amousepad. Or my…
Lavalys EVEREST is no More, Resurfaces as AIDA64
About a month ago, I decided to check out the Lavalys website to see if there were any newer versions of EVEREST available to what we were using, and was a bit surprised to see an overall lack of updates. I didn’t think too much of it, but apparently there was a good reason for it. Lavalys, the company originally behind the popular PC tool, is soon…
Blizzard Suing Group Selling StarCraft II Hacks
Regardless of the game, game type, genre, online or off, cheating has a real presence in gaming today. And if there’s one company that wants it done away with more than any other, it’s Blizzard. The company has a long history of banning players en masse from its World of Warcraft MMO game – well over 100,000 to current day. And similarly…
Thief Steals Laptop, then Returns Data on USB Drive
It’s probably safe to say that no matter what kind of good one person does, it doesn’t make up for other unrelated crimes they’ve committed. That said, you might find it hard to choose a side with this story. You see, laptop thefts are nothing new, and are far from unique, but this particular story is, because it seems the thief has some sort of…
Western Digital Launches Internal 2.5TB and 3TB Hard Drives
Last month, I took a look at a unique external hard drive solution, Seagate’s 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. The reason it’s unique is obvious… its 3TB stature. Up until the release of that product, all we saw were 2TB solutions, and the reason was due to a couple of technological hurdles that storage vendors are just now beginning to tackle…
AMD to Launch New Radeon Series Later this Week
The launch of AMD’s “Northern Islands” GPUs has been rumored for some time, but the company itself let the cat out of the bag during an earnings call last Thursday, which placed October 22 as being the official launch date. I don’t believe that the company admitted to the exact models being queued up for launch, but based on the most…
Fan-Made Duke Nukem 3D Remake Gets the OK
Without question, one of my favorite PC games of all time is Duke Nukem 3D. I’ve played through the game numerous times, and even took advantage of multi-player back in the day (remember TEN?). Last year when 3D Realms released the game on the Xbox 360 as an Arcade title, I even bought it and went through the game again.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is Shaping Up Nicely
Where gaming is concerned, I love this time of year. There are so many releases, and as far as FPS titles go, the one I’m really anxious to get my grubby hands on is Call of Duty: Black Ops. As a general rule, I don’t usually research a game too much before it comes out, because I like to keep as much as possible as a surprise, but…
Nvidia Removes XFX from Official Partners Listing
Nvidia has officially removed XFX from its list of partners. XFX was well known for distributing high end and often overclocked graphics cards based on Nvidia GPUs. The action by Nvidia may come as a surprise to some, but XFX has not produced a Graphics card based on the Nvidia Fermi Architecture, and in 2008, it stopped being an…
Razer MMO Rodent Drops Tail – Gains Wings
Razer has an impressive catalogue of gaming peripherals and one of its more unique products to catch our attention was the 17 button Naga Mouse. Well, an update to the strangely alluring rodent was Epic. It swapped a tail for wings and the Razer Naga Epic was born. 17 buttons, interchangeable grips, wireless, fully programable…
Gran Turismo 5 – Forever
No surprise here, Gran Turismo 5 has been further delayed from the November 2nd release date, the now umpteenth delay for the GT5 release. While Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi will often cite ‘perfection’ as the excuse, it’ll only get you so far. GT5 Prologue was released way back in 2007 and nearly 4 years later, we are still without…
iPhone 4 82% More Prone to Accidental Screen Damage
When the iPhone 4 hit the market this past summer, it became one of the best-looking smartphones out there, and also supposedly one of the most durable – despite having a glass casing. This glass, though, is strengthened with various chemicals, and it was Apple’s hope that there’d be less RMAs or product issues due to broken glass…
Nintendo to Release Special Edition Mario Wii in Japan
When the Nintendo Entertainment System came out in the mid-80s, along with it came a video game and video game character that would stand the test of time. I’m of course talking about Super Mario Bros. and the lead character… Mario. I don’t have to say just how much Mario and family of characters caught on… the number of…
Ubuntu 10.10 Released
The latest version of Ubuntu was released this past Sunday, and the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. As the latest version is 10.10, it only made sense to release it on 10/10/10, and for those at home, 101010 in base two binary in decimal format is 42 (32+8+2), also known as the meaning of life. Pretty deep for an operating…
NVIDIA Launches Low-End GeForce GT 430
Last month, NVIDIA gave budget gamers a Fermi solution in the form of the GeForce GTS 450, and today, the company has followed-up with an even lower-end variant… the GT 430. Boasting a speed increase of about 50% compared to the GT 220, it’s NVIDIA’s hope that the GT 430 will find its place in HTPC and other small PCs all over…
SandForce to Soon Launch SF-2000 Family of SSD Controllers
When SSDs first hit the scene in a big way, there were only a couple of controller vendors floating about – at least, those that we heard of. Of course there was Intel, but also JMicron, Indilinx and Samsung. Then out of nowhere, came a company named SandForce, and since then, it has become a demanding player in the…
Testing out Netflix’s Canadian Service
In the US, movie lovers have been able to enjoy the services offered by Netflix for over ten years. But despite living in a country literally fused onto the US, Canadians had to wait quite a while… with the service having just launched a couple of weeks ago. Though I’ve been the type of person to oppose the thought of streaming video, I decided to…
Valve Selling Left 4 Dead 2 for a Mere $6.79 USD
In celebration of the recent “The Sacrifice” DLC launch for Left for Dead 1 and 2, Valve is offering an incredible deal on both titles. Own the first, but not the second? Valve is offering its latest and greatest Zombie shooter for a mere $6.79 USD. Don’t own either? You can pick both up for $10.19 USD, which is roughly 33% of the standard bundle…
NVIDIA Begins Selling Self-Branded Cards at Best Buy
Over the weekend, it became known that Best Buy in the US began selling NVIDIA graphics cards, and it’s not quite what you think. No, these weren’t EVGA, PNY, or some other vendor, but rather equipped with pure NVIDIA branding. Many questions were immediately raised, and after purchasing a couple of the cards himself, Kyle…
A Look at Steam’s Latest Hardware & Software Survey
Like clockwork, Valve has once again updated the Steam “Hardware & Software Survey”, its useful report on the hardware and software gamers are equipped with. It’s been a couple of months since I last checked things out, and I’m a bit surprised at a couple of trends, and also the addition of a couple of new categories. On the PC…
Microsoft Brings Back Windows 7 Family Pack (For a Limited Time)
Remember that “Family Pack” offering of Windows 7 that Microsoft taunted us all with close to the OS’ launch, and then pulled not too long after? Well, when the deal ceased to exist, there were many perturbed people, and for good reason. The deal is excellent, and I’m not sure anyone knew just how limited the duration of the promotion was…
Would You Pay $30 for a New Release Movie?
Before you try to answer that question, it might help to appreciate the entire scenario. Would you pay $30 for a brand-spanking new release – as in, not even available on DVD or Blu-ray – via an on-demand service? Oh, and it should be emphasized that this would be a $30 rental… gone once you watch it, or gone after the predetermined…