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I've been a PC user almost all my life, but up until about ten years ago, I never had an extreme interest in PC hardware, focusing more on software and games. I am not sure what clicked inside me and made me develop a keen interest in hardware, but like most enthusiasts, I retain a mental list...

In developing a chassis, companies like Cooler Master have to decide whether the focus will be on cooling or noise, because it's extremely difficult to have a chassis excel in both. The Silencio 550 proves this, because while it becomes the quietest chassis we've ever tested, it comes at the...

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In a surprising move, HP has announced that it's cancelling all of its WebOS products, including the Pre and TouchPad, and is unsure of what to do with the OS itself. As someone who has had a keen interest in WebOS due to its openness and overall potential, this news is a bit upsetting, and to...

We've already talked about one "Top 25" list today, so how about another? This one isn't tech-related, but hey, it's Friday, and it's one a lot of us can relate to. It lists 25 foods that we'll never be able to eat again, as they either failed in the market or were pulled for some other reason...

A lot of people might not admit it, but I'm willing to bet that deep down, we all have a soft spot for epic or hilarious deaths in video games. Well, at least I do. Be it falling accidentally off of a cliff or getting hit by a car when crossing the street, I can't help but snicker. Heck, some...

As most of our staff consists of avid PC gamers, we tend to review a fair number of peripherals to suit that style. But with a look at Enermax's Aurora Lite keyboard, we're pretty well going in the opposite direction. It doesn't feature a bunch of gimmicks, but rather focuses on delivering a...

Valve's PR guy Doug Lombardi told Kotaku at Gamescom that the first bit of free DLC for Portal 2 would be released mid-September: http://kotaku.com/5832185/portal-2s-first-dlc-will-still-technically-arrive-this-summer Can't wait!

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Well, here's something I never expected to see. Either Activision (and/or Infinity Ward) has lightened up a bit, or it's begun to consider Battlefield 3 a serious threat to its bottom-line, because the company has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will support dedicated servers on...

Since its release in late 2004, World of Warcraft has become the envy of all other MMO-makers out there. Thanks to Blizzard's creating of a game that was both welcoming to light and heavy game players alike, not to mention one that's quite captivating, subscription numbers skyrocketed like no...

During the Gamescom event (ending Sunday), GOG.com is offering The Witcher 2 for $29.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher_2?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=game_subject&utm_campaign=tw2_gamescom_promo Jamie reviewed the game in May and highly recommended it...

Graphics buzzwords - love 'em or hate 'em, we're sure treated to a lot of them. One of the more recent, and most prevalent, is 'Morphological Anti-Aliasing'. This is a unique technique that aims to provide quality AA effects in games where AA is either not possible in the engine, or just wasn't...

I've never been a big fan of god games, and with the last one I played being Black & White, it's been a good ten years since I last touched one. But when a friend linked me to a From Dust gameplay video a couple of weeks ago, the game grabbed my attention, and I had a good feeling that my god...

AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver, 11.8, and with it come the usual slew of bug fixes and game performance improvements, in addition to a new feature that Black Edition processor users will enjoy - CPU overclocking. That's right, in the major first step of...

At the conclusion of its Gamescom keynote, Sony surprised everyone by announcing worldwide price drops on all models of the PlayStation 3. The base model, including a 160GB hard drive, will retail for $249.99 in the US and Canada, €249.99 in Europe and ¥24,980 in Japan. Other models that either...

Care to own a GeForce GTX 580, but don't care for the added heat that such a beastly graphics card can add to a PC? For quite some time, EVGA has been no stranger to releasing its high-end GPUs with water-blocks built-in, and now it seems that PNY is getting in on the action as well. Its latest...

The story of Crysis 2 is one of pain and anguish - as long as we're talking about its launch, and PC gamers. While many believed that the game should have become a true successor to the title that became its own meme ("Can it run Crysis"), what we saw instead was a game that was heavily...

The hottest days of the summer may be behind us, and Cooler Master wants to make sure that the temperature of your CPU follows. Not soon after the launch of the Hyper 612 S/PWM CPU cooler comes another release, the GeminII S524. Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here!

This is a bit different! Full press release: Fountain Valley, CA -- August 16, 2011 -- Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is sponsoring a ticket package and product...