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Mourning: Launched!
It appears as though, Mourning, a new MMORPG has quietly launched today. You can even go to the website and download the client, although you need to buy a $19.95US key to play, which gives you a free month. “In many tales and legends the world of Krel is described as a
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Coffee or Password?
“Security vendor VeriSign found 66 percent would choose to give up their passwords for a Starbucks coffee, during an informal on-the-street survey conducted Thursday in San Francisco”
The people didn’t obviously reveal their usernames, but even so. Of course, I would likely give out a fake password for a free latte. Booya. Read it here.
Hackers figure out file extraction from Sony UMD
” Software developers have figured out how to extract files from the Universal Media Discs used in Sony’s new PlayStation Portable handheld video game device, though there is no way to play the games extracted from those discs.”
PSP games will likely never be able to be downloaded illegally and played on the system, however it’s fully possible to create PC emulation for it. Since the files can be extracted, I am sure it’s only a matter of time before that happens. Check out the full article here.
Firefox Coins Successes
“Firefox, the open source web browser, has been downloaded 50 million times since its official launch in November. To celebrate, the Mozilla Foundation, which led its development, is giving away commemorative coins to people who have done the best job promoting it.”
Not sure exactly how they choose the people that get the coin. It’s noted that Firefox has been a main competitor of IE since it’s release, so it will be interesting to watch what happens when IE 7.0 get’s released. Read the article at BBC UK.
Google’s Web Accelerator
“The search engine launched the beta version of a solution that will accelerate the online browsing and the loading of the generated searches.
Web Accelerator is a freeware program that runs together with the browser and directs all the searches and web-site requests through Google’s searches. The software is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox.”
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, you can read more about it at Softpedia, and also download it there as well. Head over to The Inquirer for a potential security risk.
Soltek EQ3501-300P SFF @ Viperlair
“Overall, we found the Soltek EQ3501-300P a solid system with a few flaws, both minor and major depending on what you’re looking for in a SFF PC. The system itself is suitable as a full sized system replacement, and if you’re aware of the limitations and can work around them, you’ll be fine. Whether or not you like the appearance though is up to you.”
If SFF is your thing, check out this review at Viper Lair.
ATi MVP Info Revealed @ Hexus!
“The system will run with a master card and slave card. The slave card can be ANY ATI card on the market, which is just about as cool as absolute zero, but (and it’s a big BUT).. the master card, which will control the frame buffer, has to support MVP. The ATI solution runs on a tiled based approach – which has a minimum checkerboard size of 32 pixels square.”
Whew, this is going to make the next few months of computing very interesting. MVP works on a different method than SLi, and ATI fully believes it’s a better way. I can’t wait to see this technology come to light, and I am sure that we will see that MVP will potentially beat the pants off of SLi. Check it out at Hexus!
USModular Cold Fusion 2 x 512MB PC4000 Memory Review @ 3D Xtreme
“Today 3DXtreme is proud to present our latest review, this review comes from a relatively newcomer in the memory field, USModular. In this review we are taking a look at the 1GB Kit of USModular Cold Fusion PC4000 Memory; this memory is rated for use at 250 MHZ or DDR500 with the timings of 3-4-4-8. The Cold Fusion 512MB sticks of memory feature gold heatspreaders and the Cold Fusion insignia under the hood are specially tested, speed binned Hynix ICs.”
Check out the full review over at 3D Xtreme.
Matrix Online: Review at Jolt.co.uk
Monolith has been responsible for a large amount of quality titles over the years, including Blood, No One Lives Forever 2, and Alien Vs Predator 2. But The Matrix Online is the developer’s first foray into the world of Massively Multiplayer gaming. After a right old carry on getting our copy patched
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Sunbeam 20-in-1 Superior Panel @ LAN Addict
“Sunbeam’s 20-in-1 Superior Panel is exactly that! A brilliantly devised and constructed panel to put everything any PC user would need at their finger tips. There are many other panels that could be purchased for your PC, but why go with 2 or 3, when you could simply go with 1?”
Very cool product no doubt. Check it out at Lan Addict.
Understanding and Tweaking Windows XP Services @ PC Stats
“The reason for this occasional slow performance is the same reason why Microsoft Windows XP runs considerably slower than Windows 2000 at times; it’s what’s going on in the background. Every modern operating system needs to run certain processes constantly, regardless of what other programs and operations are currently active and regardless of what the user may be doing. These background processes may be used to detect new hardware, monitor the network for incoming data, or a variety of other things that require the operating system to pay constant attention to its surroundings. In Windows XP, these background processes are called Services and they will be the topic of this edition. We’re going to look at what the WinXP Services are and do, why they are necessary, which ones should be running on your system and which ones you can do without.”
Check out the full article at PC Stats!
City of Heroes: PvP added to game
AUSTIN, Texas, May 5, 2005—NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS), the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games and Cryptic Studios™ announce the release of City of Heroes® Issue 4: Colosseum, the fourth expansion of the award-winning massively multiplayer online game. The release of Issue 4, free to all current subscribers via
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Auto Assault: Updates for May 5th
Greetings from the Central Wastelands! Our beta started last week and we are stoked by the level of participation and reactions from our early testing community. This week we’ve sent out another batch of emails to applicants and will be doing so for months to come. It’s still not to late to
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EQII: Second Adventure pack and Expansion Pack
SAN DIEGO, May 4 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online (MMO) gaming, today announced EverQuest®II Desert of Flames(TM) and EverQuest®II The Splitpaw Saga(TM), the first expansion pack and second adventure pack, respectively, for the critically acclaimed MMO EverQuest II. Scheduled for launch September 12th
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Grand Theft Auto: SA Xbox/PC Versions
“It looks like San Andreas, but there’s something funny about it. Electricity pylons are casting thick tramline shadows across CJ’s back. The sun-baked concrete looks dirtier and rougher. The broken fences outside the run-down houses look more rotten, more ghetto. And what’s that? Are those the towering skyscrapers of downtown Los Santos…..
Gigabyte Radeon X800 XL @ Gamepyre
“The last year has been interesting in computer graphics. NVIDIA released the NV4X architecture in April of last year. The GEFORCE 6xxx series was the first chipset to support Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Pixel and Vertex Shader 3.0. ATI released their R4xx architecture last year as well, supporting Pixel Shader 2.0b. One thing that the last year has also shown is that availability is king. If ATI or NVIDIA had produced more graphics chips, they would have sold them.”
The site doesn’t show up correctly in FireFox for me, but it’s a great review. Check it out at Gamepyre.
All-In-Wonder X800XT @ Rage 3D
“It’s been a long, long time since we last saw a high-end All-In-Wonder card from ATI. In fact it’s been well over a year and a half since we’ve seen a high-end 3D card saddled with the All-In-Wonder moniker. There have been new releases in the All-In-Wonder line of course, but if you were looking for that card that really puts the “All” in All-In-Wonder, the best you could get was the All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro.”
Check out the full review of this amazing card at Rage 3D.
The Next Unreal Tournament
“I’m looking at a level from the next Unreal Tournament game, and it’s not pretty. In a darkened conference room at Epic Games’ North Carolina offices, lead designer Steve Polge, lead level designer Jim Brown, and producer Jeff Morris are walking me through a level that appears to be made of the equivalent of digital cement blocks — and gently explaining to me why this is a good thing.”
This is a great article, especially if you love UT. I haven’t seen any screens until now, and they look amazing. Check it out at 1UP.
SOE questing for real-life EQII heroine
Model search begins for flesh and blood look-alike for EverQuest II poster girl Antonia; winner will be named in Vegas pageant. EverQuest II Sony Online Entertainment, purveyors of online games such as PlanetSide and Star Wars Galaxies, today announced that it will be holding a contest to find a real-life version of…..
New Valve Ebook Guides Available
Prima has released four new eBooks for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike (XBox), Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Day of Defeat.
All the game guides are $9.99US, except for the Half-Life 2 guide which is $12.99. By now though, you would think that the majority of people who have the game, beat it long ago. Check out the posting on the Steam Powered site.
Apple patches a batch of Mac OS X flaws
“Apple Computer on Tuesday released 20 patches for its OS X operating system designed to fix flaws that could catch users off-guard.
The vulnerabilities apply to Mac OS X v10.3.9 and Mac OS X Server 10.3.9, according to Apple’s advisory. The announcement comes roughly a month after Apple issued nearly a dozen patches for its Mac OS.”
All these security risks are already taken care of in Tiger, so those users need not worry. Check out the full article here.
Phishing attacks take a new twist
“In recent months, the researchers at security software company Websense detected a rise in schemes involving malicious programs known as keyloggers, according to the March phishing trends report released Wednesday by the Anti-Phishing Working Group.”
It’s no doubt that Keyloggers are becoming more and more popular. Read the full article at News.com.
BlackBerry Leads PDA Sales
“A new report confirms what a lot of people already suspected: the BlackBerry is the number one PDA. Gartner released a report on 1Q2005 PDA sales showing that the push e-mail device has recently jumped into the marketshare lead for handhelds. Specifically, BlackBerry holds a marketshare of 20.8%, up from 14.8% a year ago.”
Wow, 1/5th of the market is definitely something to be proud about. Read the full report here.
Aerocool Turbine 550W Power Supply Giveaway @ 3D Xtreme
“Fresh from our review and presentation of the 3DXtreme Editor’s Choice Award, Aerocool is providing us another Turbine 550 Watt Power Supply (value $105 USD) to give away to one lucky winner.
“Fresh from our review and presentation of the 3DXtreme Editor’s The contest rules are as usual, one posted reply to this thread is allowed per day, multiple posts in one day will disqualify. Make sure you have 5 valid forum posts elsewhere in the 3DXtreme.net Forums. Contest open to residents of USA and Canada.
You can read the review here and check out the contest here.
Jetart ThermoEye (DT2000) @ Phoronix
“Heat is always a big issue these days in modern computers. Being able to obtain the temperatures of your components can help prevent costly heat damage to your expensive new components. Today we have a thermometer device from Jetart called ThermoEye.”
Very unique device, that’s for sure! Check it out at Phoronix.