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Viking: Battle For Asgard is an action-adventure game developed specifically for next gen consoles by Creative Assembly and published by Sega on the 25th of March 2008 in North America, the 27th of March 2008 in Australia and the 28th of March 2008 in Europe. The game is based on Norse mythology and presents an inter... |
11 August 2008
19:06 GMT |
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The Unreal Tournament franchise is one of the most prominent multiplayer series to have ever seen PCs and now it's almost ready to be launched on the Xbox 360. The game will most certainly take advantage of the Xbox live features and will revolutionize the way multiplayer shooters are played on consoles. Unreal ... |
11 August 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Since Mass Effect was such a successful title, I believe that nobody is surprised to hear that Bioware is looking to milk as much money as possible out of their first game in the trilogy. With a PC version and a first downloadable content pack released, the developers of one of the most appreciated games ever are loo... |
11 August 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Most of you might know the Medion brand thanks to its small-sized, Intel Atom-powered portable computer system meant to compete with ASUS' vast Eee PC lineup. The Akoya Mini has seen an extensive media attention since early April, with everybody of the opinion that it's quite a looker. This is probably why ... |
11 August 2008
13:23 GMT |
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Short casual games, even though repetitive and utterly frustrating at some point, usually manage to offer some really fun first few hours to the players. Recent tycoon games, especially those developed by independent companies, succeed in giving us the same thing minus the "utterly frustrating" part - and it's s... |
11 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Developers leveraging Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 are in for a treat in terms of the tools available for building what Microsoft referred to as client, web and data-driven applications. This because the Redmond giant just released to the Microsoft Download Center the Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.... |
11 August 2008
13:00 GMT |
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Developed under the codename Windows Fiji, and released to manufacturing under the label Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, the first major update to the Windows Media Center component included by default in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista RTM and SP1, is right on track to be a disappointment. Fir... |
11 August 2008
12:30 GMT |
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Microsoft has made Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.5 for Windows Server 2008 available for download. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now live on the Microsoft Download Center. Weighing in at 2.8 MB, the... |
11 August 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Google, along with its partners, is supporting an initiative that is supposed to bring wireless high-speed Internet to every home, for an affordable price. The method is somewhat unusual, although the search giant has been promoting it for five months now, and it consists of allowing Internet providers to use the whi... |
11 August 2008
12:09 GMT |
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About two months ago we received the first precious piece of information on The Godfather II, when EA's CEO John Riccitiello confirmed the game during an investors' meeting and offered the first details on the title (you can read the full story here). However, since then, no other piece of news on The Godfa... |
11 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas.Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and ... |
11 August 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Two Worlds is set in the fantasy world of Antaloor where the player is free to roam, complete the missions of the seven factions featured in the game and choose his objectives as he wishes. Moral options are always present and the player has to choose whether he wants to earn the respect or the fear of the in-game NP... |
11 August 2008
11:46 GMT |
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In order to keep up to date on the Beijing Olympic Games, even if from in front of the screens, millions of people are searching the Internet for the latest news on the competition. This thirst for breaking news makes hijackers' job easier than ever and this is proven by SophosLabs experts who discovered an SQL ... |
11 August 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Solid State Drives are claimed to be the next best thing in the storage business, replacing the traditional HDDs, and despite recently reported issues, the upcoming flash-based storage solution is expected to improve performance and even come with a much more acceptable price tag.Indilinx, a Korean-based fabless semi... |
11 August 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Internet Explorer users are vulnerable to attacks targeting ActiveX, even when ActiveX is vulnerability-free, claims security company Symantec. According to Symantec's Sean Hittel, attackers have found a way to essentially serve users the vulnerability prior to exploiting it. Targeted is a critical security flaw... |
11 August 2008
10:51 GMT |
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The Australian Law Reform Commission has decided to forward a bill aimed at making people feel secure as far as their privacy is concerned, without the need of cutting off access to nearly all Internet resources. "People appreciate that other interests often come into the balance - such as freedom of speech, child pr... |
11 August 2008
10:13 GMT |
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The countdown has begun, and we are getting closer to the release of ATI's "Spartan," the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2. For those who are not in the know, this is a card expected to be released tomorrow, when it will finally take NVIDIA's crown in the high-end graphics market and, at the same time, position A... |
11 August 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Globex Designs, a Canadian company, has released a Firefox extension that completely changes the design of Google services using a lot of visual enhancements. It's called Google Redesigned and, at the moment, it supports Google Mail and Google Calendar. The extension uses local CSS files and remotely hosted imag... |
11 August 2008
10:04 GMT |
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In Virtua Fighter V, the world's 17 best fighters begin their final phases of preparation for entering the Fifth World Fighting Tournament. They must not repeat their prior mistakes and achieve mind, body and soul steadiness. However, J6, the organization funding the tournament, has other intentions with this co... |
11 August 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has released the latest set of Daylight Saving Time and Time Zone updates for both Windows client and server operating systems, including Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The releases have already been available via the Microsoft Download Center since the beginning of July 2008, a... |
11 August 2008
10:01 GMT |
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The Elive Team announced the release of a new development version of their Linux distribution, which includes a new kernel, an improved installer, Firefox 3, an autoeject function, Madwifi driver and more. The kernel version used is 2.6.24.7, updated for a better configuration of IDE/SATA/SCSI chipsets. If it doesn&#... |
11 August 2008
09:40 GMT |
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Vampire Rain is a stealth action horror game developed by Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios and AQ Interactive on the 25th of January 2007 in Japan, the 29th of June 2007 in Europe and the 3rd of July 2007 in North America. A PlayStation 3 version has also been in the works and it was expected to hit the... |
11 August 2008
09:26 GMT |
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High Performance Computing is without a doubt at the opposite pole from mainstream computers. But Microsoft is laboring to make a difference, and while mainstream and HPC might never become intersecting concepts, Windows for supercomputers is indeed opening up the door for more high performance computing customers. A... |
11 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
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As we are approaching a very interesting autumn, extensive rumors of upcoming products keep surfacing, and the netbook market is certainly one of the topics that are most frequently approached. Recently, LG's X110 netbook is believed to provide its users with one significant feature that isn't that common i... |
11 August 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Musix Linux 1.0 R2R5, a 100% free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix, and meant for artists focused on music production, has been announced a few days ago by the Brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges. In this version of Musix, Brazilian Portuguese and English have full support, while Italian, S... |
11 August 2008
08:48 GMT |
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UNO is the classic party card game that's said to be number one for family fun! You can compete against three other players to match colors and symbols or go wild with special command cards (like Skip and Reverse - pretty self-explanatory), and be the first to play all your cards. Add-on theme decks offer new ar... |
11 August 2008
08:48 GMT |
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BlackBerry Javelin, a new and not yet officially announced device, seems to be the most multimedia-centered smartphone in RIM's history. The handset has appeared several times on the Web, in leaked pictures and videos, but the latest images with it (spotted on Crackberry) offer new and cool details that BlackBer... |
11 August 2008
08:43 GMT |
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For the billions that are not participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Microsoft has the perfect surrogate. Via Popfly, the Redmond company lets users get a shot at winning their own medals. But in addition to offering medals, Popfly also enables participants to rip the games and effectively build their own ve... |
11 August 2008
08:02 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson W760, one of the newest Walkman slider phones, might soon be released by AT&T, the largest North American mobile carrier. Although there is nothing coming from AT&T regarding the W760, the handset has recently been spotted featuring the carrier's logo, as Cell Phone Signal reports. Thus, it's ... |
11 August 2008
07:05 GMT |
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A group of scientists at the University of Michigan has recently unveiled studies that could put an end to malicious software and spam. A new approach to security sees the functionality of the traditional antivirus migrate off the users' machines to the cloud, as a way to deal with the majority of problems that ... |
11 August 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Today, Intel officially unveiled the brand name for its upcoming processors, which are built on the highly talked about Nehalem architecture. The company did not release any specific technical details about the future chips, but only the products' logos and brand names. Fortunately, users will soon get to know m... |
11 August 2008
06:56 GMT |
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The 17th year of market availability for Microsoft Money, the Redmond company's personal-finance-management solution is synonymous with the death of two traditions associated with the product. First off, Microsoft will no longer release new versions on a yearly basis, and in this context has scrapped the 2009 va... |
11 August 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Until not long ago, women were defined and judged by the rocks on their fingers. In all fairness, they still are, the only difference being that, this year, it really doesn't matter if that diamond they're wearing comes in the shiny and, some say, completely overrated package of an "engagement ring." Quite ... |
11 August 2008
06:37 GMT |
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Content and copyright owners are constantly fighting against piracy, either by starting organizations with the role of preventing the expansion of illicitly sourced content, or by filing lawsuits against major BitTorrent trackers. The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular communities for sharing and downloading of file... |
11 August 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Vodafone, the second largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers' number, has partnered with MTV in order to bring music fans a new "multi-platform program" called Vodafone Soundbites. Offering a comprehensive view of the global music scene, Vodafone Soundbites is comprised of 21 shows, eac... |
11 August 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Years have passed since the Star Trek Online game was first announced and we all know it encountered lots of problems along the way - eventually being canceled and transferred to another game development company - Cryptic Studios. Right now, it seems that everything is working out just fine and, finally, STO seems to... |
11 August 2008
05:52 GMT |
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As already mentioned in several of our previous posts, quite a significant number of new netbooks are set to drop this autumn, coming from a several manufacturers, including Fujitsu. Despite not being yet out there, the company's Amilo Mini has been caught on camera and the video was uploaded on the Internet, as... |
11 August 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific announced a few days ago the release of its LifeBook U2010, a successor of the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), the LifeBook U1010. The new machine is intended to enchant mobile professionals, glamazons and urbanites with its technological power, and with five color options meant to fit their lifestyle... |
11 August 2008
05:40 GMT |
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T-Mobile UK has recently announced the future availability of RIM's latest flagship smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000. The carrier said that the new handset would be on sale, both online and in its shops, starting September; hence, its subscribers will have to wait a bit longer than the ones of T-Mobile Germa... |
11 August 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Three American students were restricted by a court of law from presenting the results of a study made on the possibilities to perform some easy hacks on the fare payment system of the Boston subway. The three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) wanted to prove, at this year's DEFCON hacke... |
11 August 2008
05:03 GMT |
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After announcing that its upcoming Nehalem architecture will be branded as Intel Core i7, the Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer is rumored to be working on a new chipset, which will be targeted at the small and medium business users. The rumors are yet to be confirmed but, from the looks of it, the company will be ... |
11 August 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Back in 2002 an action RPG with a great title was launched, Divine Divinity, and it managed to win fans' hearts, even though the Diablo II LoD hype was still pretty high. And that, you can imagine, is a great achievement. However, there is one big surprise related to this title: the fact that it got no sequel un... |
11 August 2008
04:36 GMT |
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We live in a full retro era, with classic titles being more appreciated than current-gen releases, which is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, some of today's games really deserve to be slapped by these classics since they seem to do everything wrong. SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment have teamed up i... |
11 August 2008
04:33 GMT |
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One of the most exciting game projects to be announced by Sony was DC Universe Online, an MMO game for the PC that can also be played on PlayStation 3 consoles. Although there are no details (not even rumors) on a release date, the development of the title is clearly going on well since the people working on it have ... |
11 August 2008
04:27 GMT |
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ThinkGOS proudly announced a couple of days ago the immediate availability of a new Linux-based operating system, gOS Gadgets. The OS is built in such a way that you can easily have access to over 100,000 iGoogle and Google gadgets, all with the help of a pre-installed version of the popular Google Gadgets applicatio... |
11 August 2008
04:22 GMT |
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If you haven't grown tired yet of all the recent reports on the GeForce 9800GT-based graphics card, then you might want to check out the latest offer coming from Inno3D. The company has recently revealed two new graphics cards that feature the above-mentioned NVIDIA graphics processor and the Hurricane and Accel... |
11 August 2008
04:20 GMT |
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NVIDIA announced in July that the company had put aside $150 - $200 million to cover "anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP and GPU products used in noteboo... |
11 August 2008
04:20 GMT |
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Rogers Wireless, the largest Canadian mobile carrier, has just released two new handsets: Samsung J706 and a white version of Sony Ericsson W200a. Both phones are available only with Pay As You Go plans. Samsung J706 is a pretty small slider that brings the following features: quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 /... |
11 August 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Although the International Olympic Committee, along with human rights organizations, has pleaded for free access to all Internet resources during the Beijing Olympics, some restrictions that were instituted before the games are still preventing journalists, and people in general, from accessing certain webpages. Repo... |
11 August 2008
04:13 GMT |
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The latest news on the web shows that Sprint-Nextel Corporation is thinking about selling the iDen wireless network, the company purchased about three years ago, in 2005. This action announces itself to be a rather difficult one, since the value of the network has dropped almost 80 percent in the meantime, to a curre... |
11 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Every now and then a title comes out of nowhere to prove that new ideas can still exist in our daily games, even though many would wonder if there is still something left to invent. Koei proves with a Nintendo DS title - Monster Racers - that a racing game can be mixed with role playing and platformer elements, as we... |
11 August 2008
04:05 GMT |
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New DirectX downloads are available for a range of Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. The August 2008 DirectX Software Development Kit and DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer went live on the Microsoft Download Center this past week. In addition to the ... |
11 August 2008
04:03 GMT |
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