September 2nd, 2010
Ruffian Games is offering plenty of free content, from new arenas to expanded game modes, in Crackdown 2’s newest batch of DLC. The Toy Box, available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace, includes a new Vehicle Tag mode, level 6 rewards, and the Keys to the City.  Read More →
September 2nd, 2010
Safety organizations are always searching for new ways to get drivers to slow down, but this latest idea may be a step too far. It may even cause accidents. The BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation has partnered with safety group Preventable to place an optical illusion of a little girl chasing her ball in the street. For  Read More →
September 1st, 2010
At long last, the critically-acclaimed four-player beat’em up, Castle Crashers, is available on PlayStation Network. According to developer and artist Dan Paladin, Behemoth had been working on Castle Crashers for PSN for “about a year and a half.” Now, that work has finally paid off. Sony fans can now enjoy one of Xbox Live’s best downloadable titles for $14.99.  Read More →
September 1st, 2010
NASA is currently working on the next generation of launchers called the Constellation class. The launchers will be capable of 3.6 million pounds of thrust and are descendants of the solid rocket boosters used to launch the space shuttle. As part of the work on the new launchers NASA performed a stationary two-minute, full-scale test  Read More →
September 1st, 2010
HP bought out Palm for a reason, and that reason is webOS which — despite being something of a slow starter so far — has a lot of potential as a mobile operating system that can ultimately compete against the likes of Android and iOS, especially in the tablet market. Now HP is getting ready  Read More →
August 31st, 2010
HP got itself into a bit of hot water with the federal government and as a result is writing a $55 million check to settle charges of “kickbacks” and overcharging for equipment. The Guardian reports that the charges were first brought against HP in 2007, and included accusations that the company worked with Sun Microsystems and  Read More →
August 31st, 2010
According to Intel’s head honcho, Apple is cool with the Infineon deal and their McAfee acquisition will drive new solutions to keep viruses and malware off your smartphone and PC. The news that Intel snapped up Apple’s supplier Infineon and antivirus company McAfee for $1.4 billion and a whopping $7.68 billion respectively, caught even the most  Read More →
August 30th, 2010
Over three years after AMD bought GPU-maker ATI, AMD plans on killing off ATI once and for all. But wait, don’t get upset just yet: they’re just killing it in name. There’s just too much money in GPUs to kill off such a profitable division. Rather, AMD plans to simply discard the ATI Radeon co-branding the  Read More →
August 28th, 2010
When you think of a typical Apple Store you think of clean artistic lines and a calming atmosphere which accentuates the beauty of Apple’s computers and iPhones. At least, that’s what the marketing material says. It’s an Apple Store’s typical sterile environment which makes pictures of a robbery at one that much more dramatic. 9To5Mac is  Read More →
August 28th, 2010
Chances are, if you own an 8-core Mac Pro then you really don’t need to consider overclocking it as the system is more than fast enough. But if you’d like a quieter machine with the option of overclocking, then liquid cooling is the way forward. Asetek have carried out just such an experiment pitting a liquid-cooled  Read More →
August 28th, 2010
Gran Turismo 5 is due for release on November 3rd, with standard, collector’s edition, and a console bundle available. With two months still to go though, more details of the game are slowly filtering through to gamers. We’ve already been surprised by the news that the game will include a track editor as well as 3D  Read More →
August 28th, 2010
iLounge chimed in on Friday with a few tidbits about the upcoming iPod touch, citing “a source who would have reason to know” claiming the gizmo would lose the curved back and adopt the appearance that takes clues from Apple’s notebook: Think of the top of a MacBook Pro, only smaller, which is to say flat  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
Gamers who have decided to forgo the 3-week wait and download illegitimate copies of Halo: Reach will suffer some less than pleasant consequences.  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
Notebook maker Fujitsu has just unveiled their latest laptop, the Lifebook AH530GFX, and while technologies like Optimus try to juggle powerful GPUs with mobile battery life, this new LifeBook takes a different approach: it offloads the more powerful GPU to an external card. Here’s how it works. If you just need to do email or browsing,  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
We all know that Microsoft is going all-chips-in with their upcoming motion control accessory for the Xbox 360, the Kinect. Heck, they recently said that despite the widely reported problems of the device, they expected it to add five years to the 360’s lifespan. But Sony’s being a little more cautious with their similar Wii-killing  Read More →
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