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Baidu will ignite a web browser war in China Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:20PMHome-grown browser beta reaches 1.2
Will 'Game of Thrones' game live up to books, show? Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 3:13PMThe "Game of Thrones" PC game — due later this summer — has a lot to live up to. The best-selling fantasy books its based on have thrilled readers around the world not to mention spawned a hit HBO TV show. Will fans want to relive this medieval adventure on their computers?
Modern Warfare 3 URL Redirects to Battlefield 3 Site Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:41AMEA has made it all too clear that it wants to slit the throat of the Call of Duty franchise, as it readies its impressive looking Battlefield 3 to go head to head with Modern Warfare 3 later this year. But today the publisher resorted to some dirty tactics, or so it seemed at first. Gaming news ...
Mobile Gaming Stocks: Will Cheap Games Hurt the Video Game Industry? Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:14PMIf you're a child of the 1980s, then there's a good chance that Nintendo's inaugural video game console topped your Christmas or Hannukah wishlist when the first-generation system debuted.
Blog » Cheap Chick Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 5:00PMCiv World.png: a screenshot from the new Facebook game, "Civ World," a version of the popular strategy game, "Civilization." Facebook gaming • Long before "FarmVille" there was "Civilization," the iconic computer game in which players build a civilized world over thousands of years.
How Apple turned the fountain of youth into a fountain of cash Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 6:45AMCollege students have never been more popular than today. No, not in terms of Facebook friends, although that’s likely true, too. Rather, it’s because of their role in the consumer electronics market. Every major CE manufacturer is targeting their demographic. David Roman, the new CMO at Lenovo, admitted recently that “the only way to build a consumer brand is to be relevant to the youth market ...
Review: Really Big Sky (PC) Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:21PMThis fresh twist on the shoot-'em-up genre is interesting and tough, but grindy gameplay and cluttered visuals take away from the fun.
Sony Vaio Z hands-on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 4:42AMPremium PC, premium price
Dungeon Siege III Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 6:35AMCrawl through the clichés Review Recently, I battled through Dragon Age 2 , Two Worlds II and spent some serious time immersed in Witcher 2 . Now here comes Dragon Siege III . All these sequels - summer must have come early, I thought.…
Intel's 'Haswell' chip in focus: Heads up Nvidia Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 12:20AMMore details about Intel's future 'Haswell' chip were revealed in technical documentation published via an Intel software blog.
Opinion: Microsoft's accidental success story Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 3:41AMMicrosoft introduced a peripheral device for gaming in November called Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 . The product turned out to be a brain-dead simple-to-use, innovative and completely new user interface.
A Double in 3 Months Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 7:54PMWhen, and when not, to use LEAP options.
Why Nokia is losing the smartphone game Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 12:43AMGet Ahead reader Ismail A Muhsin analyses why Nokia is losing out to other rivals in the smartphone market. However, he believes that the Finnish giant has the potential to outsmart competition.
Feature: Umi, we hardly knew ye: contemplating the fate of the videophone in 2011 Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 5:07PMWhen Star Trek debuted in 1966, it portrayed the future as fantastical—but not unfeasible. Despite the outrageous promise of interstellar travel and transporter arrays, there were still more modest predictions with the potential to come true. Take, for example, the tiny handheld devices used to communicate among the crew, cited by inventor Dr. Martin Cooper as his inspiration for the cellphone ...
Best Case for Your PC Build: 8 New Chassis Tested & Rated [Hardware] Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 3:17PM# hardware When you're outfitting a new computer, it can be tempting to just buy the cheapest no-name case you can find, slap your new parts into it, and call it a day. While that might have been a valid choice in ye olde beige days-heck, early Dream Machine builds didn't even list the case-it's not one we'd recommend today. Enthusiast components today put out a lot of heat, and if that heat isn ...
Reportlinker Adds The Video Gaming Industry Outlook Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 5:53AMReportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Report: Wii U 50 percent more powerful than PS3 (and it should be) Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 6:52PMThe next-generation console wars are officially upon us, as an analyst claim that the Wii U is 50 percent more powerful than the PS3 makes the rounds of a web that's hungry for any shred of information on Nintendo's recently unveiled console hardware . Industrygamers.com scored the following quote from Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia: "Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that ...
THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Should Buy Netflix For Hastings To Co-CEO With Ballmer Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 12:08PMMSFT Flat In Mixed Market Stocks are opening mixed after two economic reports suggested a sluggish recovery. The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in April and slightly more people applied for unemployment benefits last week. Shares of MSFT are flat versus a positive tech tape.
Sony at E3 2011: beyond PlayStation Vita Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 10:49PMBudget 3D monitor and active glasses join Move game lineup in bid to move on from PlayStation Network hacking controversy It was surely the right decision. Sony opened its E3 press conference with an apology for the recent PSN outage, delivered by Jack Tretton, head honcho at Sony Computer Entertainment America. He told a packed audience at the Memorial Sports Stadium, "My friends in the media ...
Infinity Blade creators say they've cleared $10M Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 6:06PMThis is when you start wondering if you're in the wrong line of work. In only six months, the popular iOS game Infinity Blade exceeded US$10 million in earnings, according to an Epic Games press release posted today. The sword-fighting, third-person slasher game was released in December to much acclaim, although a TUAW reviewer experienced some disappointment with it. Many were wowed by the game ...
E3 2011 Round up: Microsoft and Sony keynotes Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 1:37AMMicrosoft is not straying far from the beaten path and has unveiled a swathe of sequels to established franchises at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 (E3 2011) in Los Angeles.
2011 Father’s Day Gift Guide, Part 1 (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) Sunday, June 5, 2011 @ 8:50AMOnce again the various writers of GeekDad have assembled some of their best dad-worthy ideas. If you don’t like what you see here, check back — we’ll be offering to more lists before we’re done. In addition, our gift lists from previous years. Battletech 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set Battletech is the nigh-legendrary game of mecha combat, [...]
See Windows 8 Interface In Action Saturday, June 4, 2011 @ 2:29PMWhether you use your PC for gaming or just surfing the web, this is the shape of things to come. An interesting video blog cropped up this week from Microsoft that should be of interest to anyone in the gaming crowd, given the amount of time most of us spend on a computer for one reason or another. The video shows off the dramatic changes coming to the next version of Windows, which is expected ...
Hail to the 'Duke Nukem Forever' Demo and Launch Trailer, Baby Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 4:05PMThat was a cheap title. I admit it. But you're not here to critique my primitive word-fu. You're here to see what Duke Nukem Forever looks like. And you want that scored with Mickey Avalon's remix of "Stroke" by Billy Squier. So without further ado, here you go (yep, definitely NSFW—you've been warned!): It's like [...]
Review: OnLive -- The What, Why and Who of Gaming in the Cloud Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 6:20PMI’m sure you have all heard of cloud gaming by now. Cloud gaming is the “new gaming” that allows you to connect (via a high speed internet connection) to a remote server that is hosting the game data.
GuruFocus Interview with Investor Arnold Van Den Berg Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 10:20AMBy gurufocus. Arnold Van Den Berg is a value investor with 43 years of industry experience and founder of $2 billion firm Century Management. A short time ago, GuruFocus readers asked him their investing questions. His responses are below: Read more » »
Gigabyte Aivia M8600 Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 3:31PMWhile the Gigabyte Aivia M8600 gaming mouse offers customization and all the bells and whistles to keep an avid gamer happy, its heavy design makes it difficult to wield.
Get a refurbished HP 15.6-inch laptop for $299.97 Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 6:58AMDon't let the "refurbished" part scare you: the nicely equipped G62-347NR comes with a full one-year warranty, same as new models.
Verbatim Wireless Optical Touch Mouse Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 1:46PMThe Verbatim Wireless Optical Touch Mouse looks great, but falls flat on gesture controls, which were kind of the point.
SOCOM 4 and Thor: God of Thunder Enter Level Up Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 8:21AM Well we have online gaming back on the Playstation Network but still not PSN Store as you will read below in our first news story. However Sony has made an announcement about the previously mentioned free one year identify theft protection. All the details are below. That’s just the beginning of a very busy news week...
Meet the GeekTechers Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 1:22AMLearn a little more about the fine folks behind the GeekTech blog!
Turtle Beach Ear Force gaming headsets review Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 12:14AMDaniel Rutledge reviews the Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 and PX21 headphone models.
Xgaming X-Arcade Dual Joystick Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 8:32AMIf you want to bring a real arcade experience to your favorite fighting or beat-em-up game, the Xgaming X-Arcade Dual Joystick is the best choice short of building your own arcade cabinet.
Interview: The Death Of Try-Then-Buy PC Gaming Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 3:49AMThe try-then-buy model is something of a tradition in the PC gaming world. While most major publishers have left it far behind these days, developers like id Software and 3D Realms might never have risen to prominence if not for shareware. Today, it's mostly smaller companies who embrace it, taking a leap of faith that players will be so engaged with their titles that they'll pay for the full ...
Mediocre PC Ports- Is it just my imagination? Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 9:42AM I hope nobody comes into this blog ready to fight (lol...it's the Internet. I'm not naive). I would like to state that it is far from the purpose of this blog to depict this new trend in gaming as being 'evil,' and that's coming from a PC gamer. I'm actually more curious on everybody else's take. But before we get to that, I'm just going to talk about a bit of what I've observed. In the past ...
GameFly May Be Acquiring Direct2Drive Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:54PMMail-in game rental service GameFly is reportedly entering the digital distribution sector by purchasing IGN's Direct2Drive.
Put an Assault Rifle in Your PC with This Assassin Motherboard [Guts] Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 1:47PM# guts You can go the route of modesty with a gaming rig—sure, but there's something to be said for the glowing, flowing, completely outrageous rig of conspicuous PC carnage. How about a motherboard that looks like a disassembled gun ? More »
Zynga builds lead in social gaming Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 6:10AMAmid booming consumer spending on PC social networking games in 2010, Zynga managed to pad its market share lead over the other top operators, based on the success of its CityVille and FarmVille offerings, a new IHS Screen Digest research indicated.
Corsair Force Series 3 SSDs: SandForce speed for modest money Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 7:57PMSolid-state storage aficionados are well-versed in the virtues of SandForce controllers, and Corsair's new Force Series 3 drives pack a fresh version of the technology. Like the firm's Force GT , Series 3 delivers data using SATA III 6Gbps connections, but uses a newfangled SandForce SF-2281 controller to shoot your info to and fro at up to 550 MBps read and 520 MBps write speeds. The SSDs also ...
Zynga Gobbling Share in Exploding Social Games Market Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 12:23PMAccording to a new report, social gaming doubled from a year ago, and powerhouse Zynga's presence continues to dominate the market.
Morning Tech Wrap: Sony, Amazon, Android Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 8:00AMSony has finally resumed its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, though not to full working order. PC World reports the company began the staggered resumption of its two services yesterday, initially offering them to North American users, before going to Europe, the Middle East and finally Oceania. Services in Eastern Asia will return at a later date.
Report: PlayStation 3 trade-ins on the rise Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 1:08PMEdge finds that several U.K. retail outlets are seeing higher-than-expected trade-in figures for the PlayStation 3. Fingers point to the PlayStation Network's outage. Originally posted at The Digital Home
Microsoft buying Skype for $US8.5 billion Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 2:06PMMicrosoft plans to buy internet phone service Skype for $US8.5 billion.
Microsoft to buy Skype for US$8b Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 1:54PMMicrosoft is to buy internet phone service Skype for US$8.5 billion ($10.6 billion) in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the internet to try to best rivals such as Google Inc.
Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, price seen high Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 1:18PMMicrosoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, a rich price as it seeks to regain ground on growing rivals such as Google Inc.
Microsoft to buy Skype for pricey $8.5 billion Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 12:16PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try to best rivals such as Google Inc.
7 days living with... a tablet Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 12:05PMDoes anyone really need these things?
Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 bln Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 10:01AMMicrosoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, a rich price as it seeks to regain ground on growing rivals such as Google Inc.[...]
Microsoft inks $8.5 billion Skype buy in Web shift Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 9:40AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion (5.2 billion pounds), a rich price as it seeks to regain ground on growing rivals such as Google Inc. Microsoft's ...
Microsoft inks $10.7 billion deal to buy Skype Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 9:24AMMicrosoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for US$8.5 billion (NZ$10.7 billion), as it seeks to regain ground on growing rivals such as Google Inc.