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I have so far put 23 hours into this game and have been loving it. I've heard about the problems that some are experiencing with crashes and such, but for me, almost the entire 23 hours I've sunk into the game has been crash-free. With a couple exceptions. At about hour 15 or so, I...

Microsoft has been divulging quite a bit of information on its upcoming Windows 8 OS on its official development blog, and the juicy tidbits don't seem to have an end in sight. In a new update, the company has gone into great detail about the improvements that the Explorer file manager will be...

At PAX Prime 2011, which occurred this past weekend, some folks at NVIDIA managed to take the time to peruse the games on display and scored a couple of interviews with people currently working on some of the most anticipated games in the coming year. Most notably, Patrick Liu from DICE was able...

Whenever a new version of a Web browser is released, something sure to be listed in the release notes will have to do with performance. It could be anything from a more optimized JavaScript engine to having a smaller memory footprint. All in all, any performance increase is appreciated, but I do...

It's not often that you see something like this happen. On Sunday, Arsenal experienced a humiliating defeat to Manchester United, and as a gunner, I can't even bring myself to repeat the score. However, the loss was so ridiculous that Arsenal is now offering the 3,000 fans that made the trip up...

Last week, it became public that GameStop had been removing OnLive coupons from the boxes of the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and given the company's admission to this on its Facebook page, it seemed as though the initial public backlash did nothing to clue the company into its...

With newer SSDs now coming well within 10% of maxing out a SATA 3.0 port, it's important to make sure that your motherboard is properly equipped to handle such drives if planning to buy one. In our testing, while AMD's and Intel's solutions offered superb performance, Marvell's leaved a bit (or...

On August 25, 1991, computer programmer Linus Torvalds posted a message to a Usenet group stating that he had begun work on a MINIX replacement, one that was just meant to be a "hobby". He said he was to be free, and said that it'd likely never support anything other than AT hard disks - as...

GameStop has come under fire for many things over the years, but the latest incident takes the cake. It's been known for some time that the company will open most games that are sold in order to keep the disc behind the counter, secured. But with the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution...

I haven't been thrilled about all that's been floating around about Windows 8, but with its development blog launched about two weeks ago, Microsoft has been unveiling more good than bad. Its latest announced improvement? A much-needed overhaul of the file transfer dialogs, to improve both...

This is not about a CPU death, so apologies in advance. I am sure that would have been far more satisfying of a read. No, this is a tale of how one speck of dust wasted about six hours of my life, leading me to believe that the motherboard I was testing was broken. Last night, I hooked up...

There have been some major announcements made in the tech industry over the past two weeks, but this might be the biggest, and the most important. It has just been announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO at Apple, handing over the reigns to the previous head of the company's worldwide...

There are few pieces of software in our virtual toolboxes here at Techgage that are quite as important as Acronis True Image Home. With it, we can keep regular backups of our own PCs, and also create full PC images of our benchmarking rigs that allow us to get back into action fast in the event...

For about as long as the free image editor GIMP has existed, an oft-requested feature has been a single-window mode, a la Adobe Photoshop. Though both tools exist to accomplish the same overall goals, GIMP's design saw the toolbox and images themselves separate from the main application window...

We mentioned in a recent chassis article that having the best of both worlds where cooling and noise is concerned is difficult, but as Corsair's H80 proves, the same can't be said about CPU coolers. In fact, for both those aforementioned reasons, the H80 might have just become the best CPU...

This past May, NZXT released its Sentry Mesh fan controller, which like the name would suggest, had a meshed front perfectly suited for those with a chassis to match. In some ways, it was a much-needed product, as some fan controllers kind of stood out in the wrong way on meshed chassis. But...

In the summer of 2000, Ion Storm released what became an instant cult classic and its most successful title during its tenure, Deus Ex. On the surface, the game looked like the usual futuristic action game, but for fans, there's a lot more to it than that. At its heart, it's an RPG in the truest...

Since the introduction of USB 3.0, we have needed to install third-party drivers in Windows in order to have the ports function, which for obvious reasons hasn't been ideal. On the newly-launched Windows 8 developer blog, we're told that this problem will cease to exist with the release of...

If you've been on the lookout for a new gaming mouse, it might be worth waiting another month or so for the release of Logitech's G300, announced late last week. In both looking at the photos and the specifications, the G300 looks to be one of the better gaming mice released in the past year or...

It's no secret that one of the most pirated pieces of software is the entire Windows OS, and if not for the fact that a Windows license is forced on consumers more often than not with the purchase of a desktop or notebook PC, the number of non-legal users could be at unfathomable levels. Piracy...