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In an interesting admission, Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC has stated that it's been considering purchasing its own mobile OS - though chairwoman Cher Wang insists that nothing is set in stone. As the company currently offers both Android and Windows Phone-based models, the idea of it pursuing...

Since its launch earlier this summer, EA's Origin digital game store has been met with some rather vocal reaction. If Web forums and comment sections are to be believed, Origin is the worst piece of software that could ever grace our PC. But if there's one valid complaint I can agree with, it...

It's a common misconception that a KVM is required to use a mouse across multiple machines, but in actuality there have existed software solutions for some time. Thanks to Microsoft's labs project, "The Garage", a free solution has just become available for Windows users, and it looks quite...

Corsair's cases have long been considered to be some of the best, but at prices of $180+, many have had to sit out and hope for more modest offerings. With the Carbide series, those have arrived. The 400R mid-tower we're looking at here retails for just under $100, so let's see how it compares...

We're in the off-season for big distro releases, but that hasn't stopped Mandriva from releasing one of its most interesting variants to date. In a bold move to an exclusive KDE desktop, Mandriva 2011 looks to simplify its development and give people a straight-forward and highly polished...

Valve is offering a bunch of games at rock-bottom prices at Steam this weekend, including one of my favorite games, Civilization V, for a mere $12.50: http://store.steampowered.com/app/8930/ All of the Need for Speed's available on Steam are on sale also...

Proving that virtualization can be for more than just the enterprise, Microsoft has announced that it will be including Hyper-V support in all versions of Windows 8. First introduced with Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V is Microsoft's hypervisor that allows you to install all recent versions of...

If you received a copy of Dirt 3 via the purchase of an AMD graphics card, you may want to pay close attention to this story. It appears that up to 1.7 million Steam voucher codes have been compromised - and not because a 'hacker' broke into a server. Rather, the codes were being stored on a...

Enough said. http://www.bluesnews.com/s/125310/hard-reset-demo Downloading through Steam at the moment. http://store.steampowered.com/app/98400/

It used to be that World War II games were the laughing-stock of the gaming world thanks to their abundance, but the most blatant fad today has got to be zombie games. We might have Valve's Left 4 Dead to thank, because since its release in 2008, there have been a countless number of...

Thanks both to its stellar go-your-own-way gameplay and immersive cyberpunk world, the original Deus Ex is regarded as one of the best PC games of all time. Following up to such a cult classic isn't easy, but with Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal has proven that it didn't want to disappoint DX's...

A new report documents the prodigious rate at which the world’s population is growing. It was just 1999 when we reached 6 billion. As of July 1 of this year we numbered 6.89 billion. By the year’s end we will have surpassed 7 billion. According to Hania Zlotnik, head of the population division...

As I have made clear through various news posts and articles throughout the years, I am not that big a fan of DLC. More often than not, downloadable content feels like little more than a money-grub by the developer or publisher - offering gamers things that feel like they should have been in the...

When Nintendo launched its 3DS handheld earlier this year, it seemed to be well-received overall - at least by reviewers. But with its $250 price-tag, some had a hard time jumping on the bandwagon, especially if they already owned a regular DS. As a result, sales were paltry, prompting Nintendo...

AMD and NVIDIA are the undisputed champions where serious gaming graphics are concerned, but Intel has consistently been making improvements to its integrated solutions that aim to deliver a real option to those who are content running their games with modest resolutions, medium detail levels...

The updates from Microsoft's Windows 8 team keep on rollin' in, and I have to admit that if the momentum keeps up, Windows 8 might even outshine the success of Windows 7. On Tuesday, the company released details about ISO and VHD native support - that is, the ability to mount either image and be...

Three months ago, during Computex, OCZ showed off its latest RevoDrive PCIe SSD, dubbed 'Hybrid'. As the name no doubt gives away, the product sees a hard drive paired with an SSD, in order to have them act together and give users the best of both worlds - speed and storage. This is an idea that...

When the time rolls around when a PC enthusiast needs (or wants) to build a new computer, choosing the right components more often than not isn't that difficult. For those not too familiar with computer hardware, it's a different story. If minimal research is done, someone could end up...

As important as backing up data can be, keeping on top of things can be a chore. Lexar's promise is that with its Echo MX thumb drive, all potential hassle is minimized. As a solution that kicks off the backup process as soon as the drive is plugged in on both a Mac or PC, it does have some...

With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 right around the corner, Google has teamed up with the New York Times to open up a channel where videos can be found of all sorts, helping us to reflect on what happened that day. http://www.youtube.com/September11