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Are video games becoming too violent? It's a question that the mainstream media loves to ask on a regular basis, with Bulletstorm most notably being in the hot seat recently. Personally, I don't mind violence in video games, and nor do I believe that video games inspire people to kill in...

I'm not going to jump the gun and call this one of the simplest games ever created, but it has to be right up there. Called URL Hunter, the entire game looks to be coded with the help of JavaScript and simple HTML, and takes place entirely in your address bar... as in, the bar where you normally...

When typing in path names with spaces in the directory name, you can use quotation marks ( "D:\NETSHARE\My Pictures" ) to prevent this kind of problem. On an aside, I too have been having difficulty in getting this workaround to work again since the article was published - possibly due to a...

Yes, I'd pick solid audio quality over positional nearly any day. Movies these days are tuned to 5.1 and in games like various FPSs, hearing someone sneak up behind you is invaluable. If you hear the sound of footsteps over stereo, you tend to misplace the direction and can cause hesitation when...

About a year ago, Apple released its iPad 'tablet' to the world, and in doing so started a chain reaction. At first, many were skeptical to believe that tablets could hold a real market, but it didn't take long before it was proven that yes, many people do want tablets. Not long after the iPad's...

On Wednesday, we posted a look at AMD's upcoming Catalyst 11.4 driver, and yesterday, the company sent along even more information on what to expect in terms of performance. In the same e-mail, the company reiterated a project it kicked off this past December, called Mjölnir. According to AMD...

A couple of weeks ago, Apple refreshed its entire MacBook Pro line-up and brought a rather exciting feature to the table... Intel Thunderbolt. Previously known as Light Peak, Thunderbolt is an ultra-fast connection interface that can be easily daisy-chained, and can handle fast data throughput...

For gaming an movies, yup, has to be 5.1 or 7.1. For music, good old stereo is more than enough. The problem with the 5.1+ systems is space, orientation and alignment of speakers. If you don't have shelf space behind you, then there is little point buying a 5.1 system. It took days of minute...

The gaming landscape has changed rather drastically in the past ten, or even five years, but what's in store for the future? More now than ever, casual gaming is big business, and so is "accessible" gaming. Many people today own a smartphone where a game is only a button push away, which quite...

It's taken a little while to get here, but Mozilla has finally released an RC (release candidate) version of Firefox 4, which means for all intents and purposes, it's near-finished. Though the company hasn't announced an official release date for the final version, it could be within the month...

For all of our Chrome visitors out there, of which account for about 25% of our entire site's traffic, a stable version of 10.0 has been released and is well worth updating to. In addition to much improved JavaScript performance, thanks to an updated V8 engine, the settings tab has seen a vast...

This past December, a rumor floated around of Microsoft's plans to bring its Windows 8 operating system to ARM-based processors, and after seeing what certain vendors at last week's CeBIT had to say about things, it does look like there's a good chance it'll happen. You can read the rest...

There are hundreds of options when searching for a computer case. For those who just can't make up their minds, ASUS has come to the rescue. The solution? A box that holds the actual motherboard but also doubles as the computer case. You can read the rest of our post and discuss here.

It's become a popular fad in recent years to encourage the downfall of Internet Explorer 6, but it's all for good reason. Aside from the fact that it's hardly that powerful in today's day and age, it's also not too compatible with recent Web technologies. As a result, many people who still use...

As far as desktop environments go, there are none quite as controversial as GNOME. The reason is that the GNOME developers have often implemented features (or feature reductions) that have been considered important, and to some, the changes make sense, while to others, it might seem that the...

Need a NAS with a little more oomph? Is money of little concern? If so, Thecus' just-announced N16000 might be worth a perusal, as it aims to be the ultimate in centralized storage with the ability to support up to 48TB worth of storage! As the name suggests, that can be done with 16 hard...

Try switching the SATA mode in BIOS, make sure it's in AHCI mode. If it's in this mode, change it to IDE or RAID, since it could be causing a conflict with the OS (common problem with WD drives). Since you are having other issues like with USB and the the DVD drive... it might be better to...

Just in time for GDC, Valve has announced that Steam is coming to the big screen... err, rather "bigger screens". That's right, for those who use a television as a display, or simply a very large monitor, Valve is soon to release an updated version of its Steam client that better supports large...

With Apple's refreshed MacBook Pro line-up, a lot is brought to the table. At the very least, there are faster processors, Intel's Thunderbolt technology, FaceTime going HD and more. But, there was another introduction that I didn't immediately notice... AMD Radeon graphics. That's right... it...

I've never played WoW, talked to people who have, but never bothered to try it out. With Rift, I've got up to Level 17 and I must say this multi class system is very well done. They give you the choice, but you are still better off concentrating on a single class - at least to begin with. Some...