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| Music to My Ears: The VTL MB-450 Series II Signature Monoblock Amplifier |  | In case you're willing to spend some serious money on high-class, audiophile-grade gear, you should definitely take a close look at the new monoblock amplifiers from VTL, codenamed MB-450. This new amp comes with the all-time acclaimed vacuum tube technology but in a modern, 21-st century shape, easier to integrate in high-tech decors and settings. As for the performance-related specs, we're dealing with very serious technology, ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| In-Ear Isolation Headset Available for iPhone Users |  | Need new earbuds for your iPhone? It's a good thing you stopped by because we're here to let you know that RadTech ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Electronic Arts Releases Orange Box Patch |  | The Orange Box was one of the big gaming hits of 2007. And as it was developed by Valve, it was a very neatly presented package, with very little issues and bugs to annoy the end user. But the cross-platform launch of the game was bound to create some problems.
Recently, Electronic Arts ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Test Your Ninja Reflexes |  | Nunchuck's Ninja Reflex, previously exclusive to the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS, is receiving a PC v ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Epic's Unreal Goes up on Steam |  | The signs were always there that Valve was bend on becoming a superpower. They were always humble. After the huge success of Half Life one, they quickly went back to work. They toiled for seven years to release a sequel and justified it all by saying that they wanted to make a perfect game. And Half Life 2 is pretty close to being perfect. They created a digital distribution channel, called ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Valve Shatters the Orange Box |  | Valve is a shrewd, shrewd company. First they create one of the defining games of the '90s with Half Life. Then, they create a digital distribution channel that threatens traditional disk-in-a-case games with extinction, codenamed Steam. And then, they release ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Valve Needs 15,000 Emails to Start Working on Counter Strike 2! |  | I think Counter Strike is similar, in many ways, to World of Warcraft – people still play this game, even though it is already an oldie and better looking titles are available. But the community created around CS is so big and hardcore that it seems no other game can becom ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is the Disc-in-a-Case a Sign of the Past? |  | A round table of industry veterans, like Peter Molyneux, Phil Harrison, Chris Taylor, Raph Koster and Neil Young, recently sat down to offer answers relating to the above question. While there is no agreement on the subject, it's becoming clearer and clearer that change is needed so that the PC game market can start growing again.
NPD numbers, charting sales of games by taking into account all the major game outlets, have ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Steamy Music and Videos |  | Doug Lombari, vice president of marketing at Valve, talked about the plans for the popular games download service at the Game Developers Conference. And some of his remarks are rather surprising.
Last year has been a good year for Steam. One doesn't need to look a ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PS3 Is Left for Dead |  | Valve have confirmed rumors that Left 4 Dead, their upcoming squad-based zombie thrashing shooter, is not going to be available for the PlayStation 3. Valve spokesperson Doug Lombardi has said that the company does not have a dedicated PS3 development team. The port of the Orange ... [read more >>] | | 22 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements Unlockables (Xbox 360) |  | The game will sport a refined experience thanks to several improvements in gameplay, design and other technical aspects. Players will embody the young hero Sareth and choose his evolution path to acquire spells, skills and abilities that will set his destiny.
Powered by Source engine, created by Valve for its Half-Life®2 video game, the game will allow Xbox 360 gamers worldwide to experience the brutal combat, highly detailed interacti ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Valve Offers Steamworks for Free |  | First of all, don't get too excited yet: it's not a free game, nor something that you should download right away and have fun with. But, in the long run, it is something that will most likely bring a lot of benefits to the game world: Steamworks is a comp ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Stopping the Sperm Flow With the Remote Control! |  | A remote control can do more than turning on/off a TV; it could control human fertility. An Australian team is working on a device that, located inside the vas deferens (the duct transporting the sperm from testicles to the penis), could stop or release the sperm flow via a remote control.
The technology, published in the 'Smart Materials and Structures' journal, would be a flexible alternative to vasectomy, which i ... [read more >>] | | 29 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Team Fortress 2 Receives Massive Overhaul |  | The Orange Box's hit Team Fortress 2 is about to receive some major and rather unexpected changes, such as unlockable weapons, an all-new game mode and even class changes. Valve's game is a sequel to the original Quake mod and it was first an ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Valve Acquires Turtle Rock Studios |  | Valve has announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the company responsible for the development of the very promising shooter game, Left 4 Dead. Both companies have worked together well until now, so ... [read more >>] | | 11 January 2008, 04:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Portal: First Slice for GeForce Users! |  | Valve's Steam gamers seem to play more on NVIDIA hardware than all the other graphic platforms combined, according to a Steam Hardware Survey. And this is a reason for ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rockstar Brings Games to Steam |  | Rockstar Games and Valve have announced the launch of the Rockstar full game library of PC games on Steam. This means that an ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LOST TV Show Easter Eggs in Half-Life2: Episode 2 |  | It seems that game developers are human beings after all, since they watch TV and have hobbies, like creating in-game content related to their favorite TV shows. This is also the case of the guys from Valve, who included some LOST easter eggs in Half Life 2: Epi ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 04:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two |  | Valve may be a little slow when it comes to delivery dates, but when one of their games hits your PC, you are definitely going to remember it. Now some people might start wondering: is Half- Life 2 Episode 2 that good? The answer is simple. It’s freaking good. They are getting better by the version and I kind of understand why they are making such short games. I don’t think our neural synapses could endure so much pleasure in a larger dose ... [read more >>] | | 14 October 2007, 15:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Half Life 2's OS X Port Costs $ 1 Million |  | EA have recently hit the market with NFS and Battlefield ports for the OS X, so Valve couldn't wait to seize the opportunity and make an OS X port of their own. Of course, Half Life 2 seems to have been the chosen title and the talks with Apple were on their way when suddenly...th ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Valve's Gabe Newell Bans His Team from Playing BioShock |  | If you thought BioShock was big, then hear this. An interesting piece up on ComputerAndVideoGames.com reveals that Valve's Gabe Newell won't let his stiff (or himself for that matter) get anywhere near Irrational's just launched ... [read more >>] | | 28 August 2007, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Vista Exclusive DirectX 10 Bad for Gaming |  | Windows Vista exclusive DirectX 10 is simply bad for business. With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft also evolved the DirectX graphics technology from version 9.x to 10.0. However, in the process, the Redmond company revealed that DirectX 10 would be made available exclusively on its latest Windows operating system. To this day, seven months after the consumer launch of Vista, Microsoft is still firm and does not even consider ... [read more >>] | | 27 August 2007, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Single Core CPUs Still Rule |  | Gamers like to have the latest and the best hardware parts they can get their hands on, money permitting, of course. So the latest survey from the game producer Valve comes as a really big hit as most Steam users reported that they are still using single core processors for all their gaming needs. The survey took place among almost a mil ... [read more >>] | | 06 August 2007, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Valve to Place More Adverts in Counter-Strike |  | Nowadays, everything is an advertising platform and video games make one of the best platforms supporting adverts. With sports games it's understandable – you couldn't get the same gameplay experience without them. But what happens when Valve has plans in-gam ... [read more >>] | | 18 May 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Return of The King: Genalex Gold Lion KT88 |  | Rock tone was born some 50 years ago... as a matter of fact, I guess nobody knows what was in the beginning: the people who wanted to rock and were looking for tone or those who accidentally overdrove a tube amp and have seen/heard that “crunch sounds neat” and decided to make something useful with that sound...
Anyway, rock was born and I am happy about that! It's back then as well when one of the most serious and covete ... [read more >>] | | 26 April 2007, 11:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leading to Extreme: The New Vox Valvetronix Series |  | You don't have to be English to desire a Vox guitar amp: you just need to love your guitar and know what fine sound means. In the instant you comply with such conditions, you're most likely to want a Vox amp. Don't ask why because I can fill in 10 pages with reasons for which I could buy a Vox amplifier and thus wreck my hour's piece of news. So, cutting to the chase, the Vox family has grown bigger with the launch of t ... [read more >>] | | 06 April 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SiN Episodes: Emergence - Cheats, Gameplay Hints and Nude Patch (PC) |  | SiN Episodes: Emergence is exactly what someone would expect from a game based on the Valve engine. Do you remember how you could play different mods on the old Half-Life? Install and activate from the menu. This time it’s somewhat different but nonetheless, I felt like I was playing a small variation of the City 17 incident. But only for the first 3 minutes, right about until a beautiful woman wearing only a small bikini and some pixel-s ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2007, 15:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Straub Triode: Triple Absolute Beauty |  | There are many classes when word comes to instruments: low-priced entry-level, beginner-class, advanced, pro and the custom-shop, usually hand-made, user-specced “royal-class” gear. Now, you see, I haven't met any of the latter that I didn’t like, whether it was a bass or an amp or extreme-custom drums or whatever you want: even if I wasn't that fond of the design itself sometimes, I just had to admire the beauty of the craftsman ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2007, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Amps for Guitar AND Bass: Orange Thunderverb |  | A brief one, now at the closing of the edition, from Musikmesse as well (I warned you that these weeks, the German music trade show will take over everything, haven't I?). Again Orange, the British amplifier/cabinets manufacturer. The new thing the English pulled out of their bags was the Thunderverb 50, a guitar amp head for both guitar and bass, a truly nice piece of work.
The fans or simple enthusiasts know about the O ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2007, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tiny Orange Terror |  | Orange is a rather nice color or at least I think it is. When this orange color is all over on your guitar amplifier and/or cabinet it may be not that pretty unless they actually ARE Orange. And believe me, if they are orange then things are completely different.
This short piece of news just wants to let you know that all-tube amps have just gotten smaller, thanks to UK manufacturer Orange. The new amp showcased and demoed at the Musik ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2007, 10:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New-Grown Hearts through Bioengineering on the Way |  | They can grow a piece of bone or a piece of skin, but with the latest technologies, it seems they can also grow new hearts, or at least pieces, for heart attack survivors, children born with heart malformations, or those with clogged or weak blood vessels.
A team at the University of Michigan Medical School describes in the journal Regenerative Medicine that scientists are closer than ever to “bioengineering” heart pieces, heart valves ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iTube. BlueTube. |  | I confess that it did cross my mind to rant a bit about all this tube-thing which seems to invade more and more the audio industry related to hi-tech gear such as iPod and the like. So far, I will cheer up and tell you about the first tube-amplified iPod docking station. Thanko, the Japanese Thanko (wasn't really necessary, was it?) has begun shipping the iBlueTube: still not able to be called “all-tube” as in the guitar amp ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2007, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Half-Life 2 Cheats |  | Valve’s debut title, Half-Life, sold millions of copies all over the world. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies.
The player again picks up the crowbar of res ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HL 2 Ep. 2-8 Hours of Gameplay |  | Everybody knows that Half Life 2 episode 1 had 4 hours of gameplay tops, yet Valve's Doug Lombardi says that ep. 1 had to ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2007, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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