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Analyze That: Are We Original?

The gaming industry is really, really suffering. And the name of the disease is not piracy on the PC, restrictive DRM from the publisher or the impossibility of adapting RTS mechanics on gaming consoles. These are trivial matters with little or moderate impact on the gaming world. The big issue with the whole industr...

22 September 2008
21:41 GMT

Discover What Kind of Gamer You Are with GamerDNA

Recently, a new site called GamerDNA emerged and it aims to uncover the patterns in behaviors and attitudes in the case of gamers, all this through a series of tests that focus on different kinds of genres like the all too popular MMOs, shooters or strategy games. It is also meant to be a different kind of social net...

22 September 2008
20:01 GMT

America's Army Brought to High Schools in the Interest of Education

America's Army is a videogame developed by the United States Army in order to promote their programs and training to the young people of America. Although many critics have said that it is nothing less than a propaganda meant to get young people recruited into the Army, the game really caught on, due to the fact...

22 September 2008
19:01 GMT

Peter Moore Says EA Sports Is Moving to Digital Downloads

Tired of paying the same 60 dollars each year for an EA Sports produced game to just get the same core game mechanics with a coat of extra graphical polish and a roster update? Well, truth be told, the 2009 sports games from Electronic Arts seem to have some nice under the hood changes as well, but the company i...

22 September 2008
18:11 GMT

New Downloadable Goodies for Rock Band

Rock Band, the game that decided to give the immensely popular Guitar Hero a run for its money, is really having a good period right now. Harmonix has just announced that the long awaited Rush album, Moving Pictures, will be available for download next Tuesday for Xbox 360 owners and Thursday for PlayStation 3 users....

22 September 2008
16:01 GMT

A Most Luxurious Zeppelin: Native's B&W Zeppelin for iPods and iPhone

Audiophile or not, if you are the kind of guys who really are into high-class audio technology, then you certainly are familiar with Bowers & Wilkins. Now, you might not know too much about Native, but that's what this piece of news is supposed to do: put you in the know, because great things happen. And I'...

22 September 2008
15:41 GMT

GL Golf 2.17 Adds Night Mode During Daytime

Nuclear Nova Software, a company run by a single college student at the Rochester Institute of Technology for Microelectronic Engineering, has a few Mac games up for grabs, one of which is a realistic 3D golf title. GL Golf, now at version 2.17, adds night mode to the time of day options, a save scorecard to image b...

22 September 2008
15:41 GMT

Warhammer Online Plans to Add Lost Content

A lot of MMO players were disappointed when Mythic said that its upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning would deliver less content than initially planned. After all, it was supposed to take the crown from World of Warcraft and news of less content was not a good start.Mark Jacobs, the general manager of Mythic E...

22 September 2008
15:31 GMT

LimeWire for Mac Updated

LimeWire is a free peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client which uses the Java platform to locate files as well as share files. Recently updated to version 4.18.8, the Mac version of the application fixes a bug in which changing any value in Options caused a Library refresh. LimeWire is one of the only P2P file shari...

22 September 2008
14:31 GMT

EA and Maxis Strengthen Spore's DRM Policy

Spore player complaints have made the headlines lately regarding Electronic Arts' DRM policy for the God game, recently released for the Macintosh platform. EA Games president Frank Gibeau revealed in a statement that the company would increase the number of installations from three to five and would institute a...

22 September 2008
13:01 GMT

Steve Ballmer, Between Monkey Boy and I'm a PC

Steve Ballmer has never been afraid to go overboard when it comes down to demonstrating his love for Microsoft, the company's products or the ecosystem built around those products. But, while a pseudo-retired Bill Gates continues to be synonymous with the Microsoft brand, a little room for the company's Chi...

22 September 2008
12:48 GMT

Prince of Persia Has a Release Date

Ubisoft says the eternal Prince that has already starred in a game trilogy for the company is ready to swing into action again in early December in the new re-imagined Prince of Persia. The  game is set to arrive in North American on December 2 and in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on December 4. The United ...

22 September 2008
12:31 GMT

The Latest Version of Windows for Supercomputers Goes Against Linux

Microsoft has completed the Windows Server 2008 puzzle with the release to manufacturing of the latest iteration of Windows for supercomputers. As previously reported, Windows HPC Server 2008 RTM'ed today, September 22, 2008, an event which was announced at the 2008 High Performance on Wall Street conference. Th...

22 September 2008
12:14 GMT

The Problem of Avatar and User Created Content Rights Rises Again

The issues regarding the Avatars and custom content created by users are pretty obscure to the general public. Most of them are happy with their avatars and keep them on a low level of complexity, but there are plenty of people who invest quite a lot of time and effort into building their avatars and getting custom i...

22 September 2008
12:01 GMT

Microsoft Engagement ROI Beta Tool Available

The Engagement ROI tool is available to all customers running the Atlas platform starting today, September 22, since Microsoft announced that it was taking the tool outside of the initial limited pool of testers associated with the Beta program. Designed to deliver reporting and optimization capabilities to measure d...

22 September 2008
11:52 GMT

Intel Planning 45nm Celeron M Processor

After a more than successful run with its netbook-friendly Atom processor, leading chip maker Intel is expected to unveil another version of the old Celeron M processor. The new model will be designed to take advantage of the latest technology, including the 45nm manufacturing process, which has already been adopted ...

22 September 2008
11:48 GMT

New Airline e-Ticketing Spam Taking Off

Researchers from the security company BitDefender came across a new e-mail scam aimed at spreading malware and claiming to deliver invoices and e-tickets acquired through an online airplane ticket purchase system. As expected, contained in the attached .zip file are several trojan installers.The e-mails have subjects...

22 September 2008
11:34 GMT

NBC iTunes Downloads Top 1 Million Since Return

After removing all of its content from Apple's iTunes Store in September 2007, NBC returned to the venue with even more content, and in HD, following Apple's hosting a Let's Rock event in San Francisco. The popular broadcaster can now confirm topping a million NBC TV shows downloaded through Apple'...

22 September 2008
11:07 GMT

Ohio LinuxFest 2008 Preview

The Greater Columbus Convention Center will host this year's annual Ohio LinuxFest, which will take place on October 10-11. Now at its sixth edition, the Ohio LinuxFest will include a large expo and popular speakers, while welcoming free software developers, open source enthusiasts and virtually anyone who is in...

22 September 2008
11:04 GMT

Microsoft Advertising Goes Mobile

Microsoft broke the ice when it comes to mobile ad syndication on the U.S. market. The Redmond giant inked its first mobile advertising delivery deal with CNBC and will reach an audience of no less than 1.1 million unique visitors per month. According to the agreement between the two companies, Microsoft will be the ...

22 September 2008
11:00 GMT

God of War: Chains of Olympus Unlockables (PSP)

God of War is a pretty good franchise, with already two full titles launched, one of which for the PlayStation Portable system, and a third installment soon to follow. The lead protagonist, Kratos, is battling mythological creatures in the times of Ancient Greece and in God of War: Chains of Olympus, he will journey ...

22 September 2008
10:56 GMT

Plastic-Chewing Bacteria Could Save Plastic from Landfills

Besides the fact that they could save a lot of space from being filled with plastic bottles, the newly-found bacterial engineers can also turn cheap, environment-unfriendly PET plastic in bottles into a biodegradable type of plastic named PHA.One of the many applications of the PHA plastic is in medicine, where it co...

22 September 2008
10:44 GMT

Karaoke Your Way to the Top with the Memorex SingStand

Two popular ideas have been recently merged by Memorex: karaoke and iPods. The new Memorex karaoke "machine," named SingStand brings a very interesting approach to this rather fun preoccupation: it comes in the shape of an actual microphone stand instead of the old bulky karaoke devices of yore, possibly helping the ...

22 September 2008
10:39 GMT

Eskimohunter Music Video Shot with Nokia Nseries Devices

Apparently Nokia is getting better and better, not only in terms of telecommunications but also in what regards multimedia. With its high-end multimedia functions that the Nseries smartphones come with, it seems that only the sky is the limit when it comes to their reliability and functionality. This is the case ...

22 September 2008
10:33 GMT

FlatOut: Head On Cheats and Unlockables (PSP)

Flatout: Ultimate Carnage is the third game in the Flatout demolition racing franchise, developed by Bugbear Entertainment, published by Empire Interactive and distributed by Vivendi Universal Games. The PlayStation Portable version was entitled FlatOut: Head On. Also, the game uses a very well implemented ragdoll ph...

22 September 2008
10:33 GMT

Toshiba and Sony Can Get Along, Work on 45nm Cell Processor

It looks like Sony and Toshiba can get along after all. This comes hot on the heels of this year's final stage of the Blu-ray versus HD DVD war, which prompted many to believe that these two companies would never see eye to eye, not in the near future nor the distant one. However, going against this comes the ne...

22 September 2008
10:30 GMT

Blinged Out Palm Centro for Emmy

It seems being a TV star ain't half that bad, since, besides getting free clothes, you also get free gadgets along with other presents. This is the case of Emmy hosts, presenters and performers, all of whom will receive a blinged out Palm Centro at this year’s edition of the awards show. Granted, mayb...

22 September 2008
10:16 GMT

With Windows 7 and DirectX 11 in the Distance, Games for Windows Evolves

Back in 2006, Microsoft was debuting the Games for Windows label just ahead of the delivery of Windows Vista and DirectX 10. Two years later, and with Windows 7 having reached Milestone 3 Build 6780, the Redmond company continues to be committed to Games for Windows and Games for Windows Live. In this regard, with Di...

22 September 2008
10:13 GMT

FBI Raids Knoxville College Dorm in Connection with the Palin Hack

It looks like the rumor that David Kernell, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is the person responsible for illegally accessing Sarah Palin's e-mail account is shaping up to be true. The FBI searched an apartment at The Commons in Knoxville, a student housing complex located in t...

22 September 2008
10:10 GMT

The Fast and The Furious Cheats and Hints (PSP)

The Fast and The Furious is a videogame published by Electronic Arts and Namco-Bandai alongside the movie The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006. Inspired by the events of Universal Pictures' upcoming film, The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift, this game will immerse players in the underground world of dri...

22 September 2008
10:06 GMT

Google's First Android Phone Launching Tomorrow in New York

The highly expected Android Phone from Google will be launched tomorrow in New York during a press conference. Google chose Taiwanese manufacturer HTC to build its smartphone, but little is known about the exact model that will be used. With all that, it is almost sure that its name will be G1.If we are to follow the...

22 September 2008
10:00 GMT

SmoothCreations Intros New, Mean-Looking Gaming Rig

If you have recently become a SmoothCreations customer, then you already know what these guys are capable of. As mentioned in several of our previous articles, the company tries to do its best in providing its users with a unique computer system that can deliver an optimum performance for both gaming and day-by-day t...

22 September 2008
09:47 GMT

Naphthalene – Among the Most Complex Molecules Found in Space

A group of scientists successfully identified naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules ever found in the outer space, which could indicate that other prebiotic chemical components involved in the appearance of life on Earth may have been present in the matter that formed the solar system.The group of researcher...

22 September 2008
09:44 GMT

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 Cheats and Hints (PSP)

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 is the sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, one of the bestselling PlayStation Portable games launched in 2006. Developed by Dimps, published by Namco Bandai Games and distributed in Europe – where it was released in May 2007 – by Atari, the game was inspired by the famous ...

22 September 2008
09:37 GMT

Blackberry Storm with Slide-Out Keyboard?

Okay, so the Blackberry Pearl Flip didn't get too much attention since word got out about the Storm model. Until a few days ago, you could find a leaked video on the Internet, which presented Blackberry Storm as being available in North America only through Verizon, and that made a big fuss. Now, rumors have it ...

22 September 2008
09:29 GMT

$40 Billion Microsoft Share Repurchase Program

Having just completed a $40 billion stock repurchase, Microsoft is looking for nothing short of a repeat. On September 22, 2008, the Redmond giant's board of directors embarked on yet another share buyback program, also worth $40 billion. Not only this, but the company's shareholders will benefit from a boo...

22 September 2008
09:29 GMT

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars Cheats (PSP)

Crazy Taxi is a video game developed by Hitmaker and published by Sega. First released in arcades in 1999 and then ported to the Sega Dreamcast in 2000, the game was subsequently brought to the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube in 2001 and then to PC and Game Boy Advance in 2002. The Sony PlayS...

22 September 2008
09:13 GMT

First Beta Release of openSUSE 11.1 Is Here

A few days ago, the openSUSE Team announced the first beta release of openSUSE 11.1, which includes many new additions over the previous alpha releases, such as new GNOME, KDE and kernel versions, as well as numerous improvements and bug fixes. A delay in the release of this version occurred partly because the ISOs...

22 September 2008
09:06 GMT

Einstein and the "Green" Retro-Fridges

The refrigerator model proposed by Einstein was soon replaced with a better one, except now, as global needs change and technology improves, the savant's fridge doesn’t seem such a bad idea anymore, which is why scientists decided to "revive" the genius' electricity-free, environment-friendly icebox.M...

22 September 2008
09:02 GMT

The Dual Core Atom Officially Shipping

Intel announced that its latest addition to its Atom series of processors is officially shipping starting with September 21st. The new CPU, named Atom 330, has been designed for nettops, low cost desktops that support mainly the basic Internet functions and can playback MP3s and DVDs. Atom 330 is a dual-core chip man...

22 September 2008
09:01 GMT

Mozilla Firefox Going Mobile

For some time now, alongside Opera and even Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox has been one of the favorite Internet browsers used on most PCs. Unfortunately, until now, only Internet Explorer and Opera could be used on mobile phones, while Firefox remained available for PCs alone. So here is the good news for all Fi...

22 September 2008
08:56 GMT

NVIDIA Offers a Good Indication of Blu-ray in New MacBooks

With Apple's new MacBook line approaching its (inevitable) official confirmation, speculation is starting to emerge regarding NVIDIA's new MCP7A chipset line. It is proposed that NVIDIA's latest chipset will make up the basis of new MacBooks in a move that would see Apple dropping the standard Intel la...

22 September 2008
08:53 GMT

Packard Bell Enters Netbook Market

There is a certain wind of change blowing over at Packard Bell, a company that was acquired by the worldwide leading systems vendor Acer. After introducing its high-end iPower GX gaming notebook last week, the company also announced its very first portable system computer, specifically designed to meet the requi...

22 September 2008
08:48 GMT

Avatar: The Last Airbender Cheats and Hints (PSP)

Avatar: The Last Airbender is a really good show that won an Emmy for the best American animated television series, and which follows the adventures of Aang and his friends, Katara, Haru, and Sokka, while they try to save the world from the Fire Lord, ruler of the Fire Nation. Debuting at the beginning of 2005, the s...

22 September 2008
08:46 GMT

Mandriva Mini - A Netbook OS

Europe's leading Linux developer, Mandriva, announced last week its latest OS, one that is designed particularly for netbooks, and is best suited for the needs of OEMs and ODMs. Called Mandriva Mini, this new Linux product offers multiple benefits, like efficient power management, fast boot, flash memory optimiz...

22 September 2008
08:44 GMT

Spore Gets Multiple Accounts per Copy

Electronic Arts seems to be ready to listen to its customers when they have genuine grievances. Soon after the release of Spore, some people pointed out that you could only create one user account per boxed game copy bought, even if the game manual said that multiple accounts were supported.The manual was in error an...

22 September 2008
08:22 GMT

Safari 4 to Sport Faster JavaScript Thanks to SquirrelFish Extreme

Over the weekend, Apple's WebKit group announced SquirrelFish Extreme. The “major new retooling of the SquirrelFish JavaScript engine” has made it to Safari before Apple could even release a final version of the web browser's fourth incarnation, AppleInsider is reporting.SquirrelFish is a regist...

22 September 2008
08:18 GMT

"Missing Link" Mantis Fossil Discovered

The recently uncovered 87-million-year-old specimen of praying mantis is believed to be the "missing link" between the giant Cretaceous mantises and today's similar insects.  While this is acknowledged to be truly a rare find, the importance of this discovery is yet to be evaluated. The fossil insect is 1.4...

22 September 2008
08:16 GMT

Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta 2

Concomitantly with the introduction of the Windows Live Wave 3 public Beta, Microsoft has also delivered an evolved version of the Outlook add-in designed to bridge its desktop clients with its online email services. Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta 2 is a new example of how the Redmond giant is expanding the Windo...

22 September 2008
07:47 GMT

We Are "Globally" Running Dry

Direct consumption and agricultural uses of water, together with other industrial purposes, have recently become more and more worrying in quantitative terms. While people generally worry they will eventually come to lack food, in fact the water that provides it should be their main source of concern.Many millennia h...

22 September 2008
07:31 GMT

Windows for Supercomputers Edition Compatibility

Microsoft is making headway toward having two versions of Windows for supercomputers available on the market. The Redmond giant is already offering Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and the Release Candidate 2 build of Windows HPC Server 2008, but the company is gearing up to go gold with its latest iteration of th...

22 September 2008
07:19 GMT

Tilera Announces New Processors with 64 and 36 Cores

Tilera Corporation, an industry leader in multicore embedded processor designs, has announced today its new TILEPro family of processors, which can deliver a new benchmark record for performance. The new family of processors includes two new models, the TILEPro 64 and the TILEPro 36, which have been designed to deliv...

22 September 2008
06:46 GMT

Parallels 4 to Virtualize OS X Server

With VMware taking huge chunks of the virtualization-solution marketplace, Parallels needs to act fast, and the company knows it. Therefore, a pre-release build of Parallels Desktop 4 embodies support for dual-core Intel Macs, and, most importantly, enables virtualization of Mac OS X Server on machines already runnin...

22 September 2008
06:40 GMT

Panatech OZII and Sony Ericsson W902 Pass the FCC

One thing is certain and that is that, when a phone goes to FCC testing, we get lots of interesting bits of information about it. This is the case with Sony Ericsson W902 and Panatech OZII (the Ocean 2), which have recently received certification. Since the FCC has to perform a lot of tests on the phones before certi...

22 September 2008
06:36 GMT

Download Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2.0 for Vista SP1 and XP SP3

Having released version 1 of the Microsoft Pro Photo Tools at the end of April 2008, the Redmond giant has moved forward with the evolution of the utility designed to permit photographers to  handle digital images in RAW formats. In this context, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools version 2.0 is now available for downloa...

22 September 2008
06:05 GMT

iPhone 3G (32GB) Said to Accompany In-Home Activation Process

Provided that rumors of Apple's lifting the in-store iPhone activation process materialize, a new iPhone 3G model (32GB) is to arrive on the scene, speculation has it. Also backing up this story are reports saying that Apple's 8GB iPhone 3G is almost nowhere to be found anymore.It generally occurs that, whe...

22 September 2008
06:04 GMT

AMD's Fusion for Gaming Utility Could Disable Antivirus Applications

Last Thursday, Advanced Micro debuted its new “The Future is Fusion” campaign, whose main purpose is to inform users about the different technologies and products coming from the Sunnyvale, California-based company. Moreover, the Fusion campaign is also meant to provide details of how AMD's pro...

22 September 2008
05:59 GMT

Warm Dust Particles Suggest Planetary Collision

By observing vast masses of dust accompanying a distant binary star system, US scientists concluded that it's possible that 2 planets similar to Earth violently collided 300 million light years away from us.  Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California in Los Angeles, who worked on the...

22 September 2008
05:56 GMT

Survey Shows Mario Is Japan's Favorite Videogame Character

Japan is really wasting a lot of money on irrelevant stuff, the latest example being this survey made by Oricon Monitor Research which asked 1,000 Japanese men and women to name their favorite videogame character. Although it was a bit of a no-brainer, the survey showed only Japanese characters making the top 10, pro...

22 September 2008
05:46 GMT

Nokia N96 SIM-Free for UK Users

Until now, users could only get the new N96 from O2 and Orange by signing a contract. Fortunately, this is not the case anymore. Users can now simply buy the SIM-free N96, which is unlocked to all UK networks, and just insert their SIM card in it. The recently launched N96 is a phone that's optimized for di...

22 September 2008
05:33 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 12

Welcome to our 12th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! Here’s what you can read about in this edition: CentOS 4.7 introduces better support for Guest OSes; the Linux Mint community releases Fluxbox edition of Elyssa; Pardus 2008.1 brings you KDE 4.1 with a glamorous desktop; the final version of PC-BSD 7.0 (Fibo...

22 September 2008
05:18 GMT

New Mac Mini Code-Named 'Brick' Rumored

Some claim Apple's got more than a MacBook refresh up its sleeve. While next-gen Apple notebooks are said to be already shipping to retailers, a new rumor has it that Apple's “one more thing” this year could very well be a new Mac Mini.“Sources have indicated Apple's 'one more th...

22 September 2008
05:15 GMT

AMD to Rename its 45nm Processor Series

It seems that Advance Micro Devices is on its way to change the name of its upcoming 45 nanometer processors. While the Phenom X4/X3 brand remains unchanged, the numbers that come after it will have five digits. According to sources, the two CPUs that will be released this year will be named Phenom X4 20550 and Phen...

22 September 2008
05:10 GMT

SanDisk's 'slotMusic' Offers DRM-Free MP3 Music

After turning down Samsung's acquisition offer, the flash-based memory vendor SanDisk has announced today the introduction of a new physical music format dubbed “slotMusic,” which will be delivered in the form of microSD cards. In addition, the company has also announced that its new media storage s...

22 September 2008
05:06 GMT

Supercapacitors Will Soon Replace the Batteries of Your Car

The car batteries that we rely on today may be soon "driven" to extinction by recent discoveries. Engineers' old engine power-delivery problem has now been solved by means of the new supercapacitor.  Post-doctoral researcher Jiyoung Oh together with research scientist Mikhail Kozlov from the NanoTech Instit...

22 September 2008
04:59 GMT

Emporio Armani's 'Night Effect' Introduced by Samsung

On Sunday, September 21, at a press event in Milan, Italy, Samsung and Armani unveiled the Samsung M75500 mobile phone, nicknamed the Night Effect. For Samsung, this is the second mobile phone with the Armani branding, but the first for Emporio Armani (the first was Giorgio Armani). The phone is a bar type one, ...

22 September 2008
04:55 GMT

Xbox 360 Just Behind the Nintendo Wii

Although some reports released in the middle of the last week suggested that the Xbox 360, with its new reduced price tag, was overtaking the Nintendo Wii in sales on the Japanese market, the weekly data from market research firm Media Create says that the Microsoft made console came very close but fell just short of...

22 September 2008
04:33 GMT

iTunes 9 Ideas – 'Social' Features

iTunes 8 “fire-starter” and digg founder Kevin Rose is at it again, this time on Seesmic, with a couple of new ideas on how Apple could shape up iTunes into an even better media playing app. Rose suggests Apple could add several features to iTunes 9 to make the experience more fun for users and their frie...

22 September 2008
04:32 GMT

Pentax Introduces K-m (K2000) Entry-Level DSLR Camera

Over the past few weeks, you've been able to see just what some of the biggest names in digital photography have planned for this year's Photokina show. However, one name was missing (Pentax), but it seems that the company's not about to let this major event go by without launching a new product, so th...

22 September 2008
04:32 GMT

Dell Planning Quad-Core 17-Inch Laptops

Dell, one of the leading vendors of portable systems, is planning to release a couple of new laptops, specifically designed to deliver the required performance for a high-end mobile workstation. Part of the company's Precision product lineup, the new laptops promise several significant features, which will ulti...

22 September 2008
04:11 GMT

New Glitch, Longer Shutdown for LHC

Scientists from CERN stated on Saturday that the Large Hadron Collider may be shut down for at least 2 months, following the leak of a large quantity of helium – used in order to cool one of the proton-guiding magnets – into the collider tunnel. This is the last and the worst out of a series of unfortunat...

22 September 2008
04:07 GMT

On November 11 Dance on the Mirror's Edge

Publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE are officially announcing that Mirror's Edge, the futuristic free running game, will surely be launched on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on November 11. We know that a PC version of the game is now still in development and EA says that it should arrive later in t...

22 September 2008
04:05 GMT

VIA Strikes Back with a Dual-Core Nano

The battle on the ULPC market seems to begin tightening up. We already know that Intel marked a big success with its Atom processor, yet responses to it appeared right away. That is the Nano chip from VIA, which turned to be quite a strong competitor. The other big player in the industry, Advanced micro Devices, also...

22 September 2008
04:00 GMT

Activision Takes Game Pirates to Court

Piracy is a big thing nowadays – it's present in a lot of industries and despite the efforts of the producers, it will keep going for a long time. Most commonly it targets the music industry, with users downloading songs from various Internet websites or using different types of applications. But the gamin...

22 September 2008
03:53 GMT

King of Fighters XII Revealed

The Amusement Machine Show in Japan has been chosen by SNK as the perfect venue to present The King of Fighters XII to the public that will, hopefully, be interested in playing the game.Game producer Masaaki Kukino says that the game will first appear in the Japanese arcades in April 2009 and that versions for gaming...

22 September 2008
03:51 GMT

Windows 7 M3 Build 6780 Leaked Screenshots and Videos

With Windows 7 Milestone 3 out of Redmond, it was only a matter of time before the latest release of the next iteration of the Windows client would share the same fate as Milestone 1, dropped in December 2007. The first leaked screenshots and videos of Windows 7 M3 Build 6780 are available for the general public, in...

22 September 2008
03:38 GMT

Blackberry 8220 Flip Pearl, Soon to Be Available in Germany Through O2 and T-mobile

Recently launched 8220 Flip Pearl, previously known as Kickstart, didn't seem to get that much attention, to the point that you could even say it was somehow neglected - a thing that could be easily explained by the fact that everybody is raving about Storm (Blackberry 9530). While the 8220 is BlackBer...

22 September 2008
03:35 GMT

MercuryMover Developer Interview

As some of you may have heard, Helium Foot Software's flagship Mac app, MercuryMover, is launching as version 2.0 today. It is a free upgrade to existing users, and can be acquired at an introductory price ($20.00) by non-users. We've had the chance to talk to the head of Helium Foot Software, Keith Alperin...

22 September 2008
03:28 GMT

Bejeweled to Appear as Minigame in World of Warcraft

It's funny how developers can always come up with ways to turn addicting games into even more addicting ones. Such is the case with Bejeweled developer, PopCap Games, which will launch a version of the hit puzzle game for the biggest MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game) out there, Worl...

22 September 2008
03:15 GMT

Let the Badger Convert Your Images

Every now and then you might have to change the file format of your pictures – whether you need to post them on your personal blog or include them in a school assignment, sometimes the original format gets in the way. So, the only solution is to convert them to other formats that are more suitable for the requi...

22 September 2008
03:11 GMT

Imation Intros External HDDs with USB Wireless Capability

Last week, Imation, one of the leading manufacturers of storage and portable media solutions, introduced two new products, part of the Apollo family of external hard drives. The Apollo Expert and Apollo Pro external hard drives (EHDs) have been designed to deliver an optimum storage solution in a 2.5-inch and 3.5-inc...

22 September 2008
03:04 GMT

More Companies Interested in SanDisk's Acquisition

Last week, SanDisk turned down Samsung's offer of acquisition. It seems that the price per share offered now is lower than the one at the beginning of the discussions, and the company wants more money. As recent news shows, other companies seem to be interested in getting their hands on the flash memory company....

22 September 2008
02:57 GMT

Marc Jacobs Bags for Spring 2009

Spring is all about expressing yourself more freely, and this is naturally reflected in the clothes and accessories we wear as well. Fashion designers, it is only understandable, are not the ones to overlook this – on the contrary, it’s on what they base all their creations. However, out of the lot, it&rs...

22 September 2008
02:57 GMT

Conflict Zone: Modern War Hints (PS2)

Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy is a video game developed by MASA and published by Ubisoft Entertainment Software. The game was developed for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the Dreamcast and the PC and was released in 2001. The title is classed as a war themed real time strategy game, played from an isometri...

22 September 2008
02:55 GMT

Conflict: Vietnam Hints II (PS2)

Conflict: Vietnam is a video game developed by Pivotal Games Ltd and published by SCi Games Ltd. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and for the PC; it was launched in 2004. The game is classed as a squad based shooter that is played from a third person perspective...

22 September 2008
02:43 GMT

Nintendo Is Number 40 in The Top 100 Brands List

Nintendo is really on an ascending trend. Having launched one of the most popular handhelds, the DS, which took the world by storm, selling millions, they saw the potential in the casual gamer market and decided that their next-gen console would target them specifically. And so the Wii was born, a weirdly named, odd...

22 September 2008
02:35 GMT

Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Bagdad Hints II (PS2)

Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Bagdad is a video game developed by Pivotal Games Ltd and published by SCi Games Inc. It was created for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PC and the Game Cube; it was released in 2003. It is classed as an action title with shooter elements, ...

22 September 2008
02:19 GMT

Colin McRae Rally 04 Unlockables (PS2)

Colin McRae Rally 04 is a video game developed and published by Codemasters Software Company Limited. The game was launched for the PlayStation 2 console from Sony, the original Xbox from Microsoft and the PC. It was released in 2003. It is classed as a racing simulation title with some off road elements and can be p...

22 September 2008
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