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A couple of weeks ago, I linked to an interview with Cory Doctorow, which took a look at gold farming in MMO's from a slightly different perspective. Well, in the "world" of MMO's, gold farming is a major issue that can affect mostly players, and not so much the game developer. But there's...

Have you ever walked up to a vending machine and hoped that it could recommend a tasty beverage? Well, likely not, but in case you did, you should probably plan a trip to Japan, where such a thing is being rolled out en masse. Within the next two years, the company behind them promises that...

As hard as it may be to believe, it's been well over a year since 3D Realms posted that it'd be shuttering. Since then, a lot has happened, including the realization that it hasn't shuttered, but rather that it is running with a skeleton crew. But, with that skeleton crew, it meant that...

Why is it that Star Wars seems to be one of the few franchises out there that seems to take forever to adopt the latest video technology? Sure, Blu-ray hasn't been around THAT long, but look at how long it took before the films were finally available on DVD! Oh well, those who want them on...

This past weekend, Gigabyte held its third GO OC NA final in Industry, California, and put fourteen of the best overclockers together in the same room and let them loose on Intel's Core i7-980X processor and Kingston's HyperX memory. We were there and have all the info, and more pictures than...

It's been just about three years since the original BioShock came out, and at the time, it won gamers over due to its original setting and story. It's not too often you get to play in an underground city, after all. Not to mention an underground city during the 1960's. The sequel continued with...

I love to game, and I love games that have puzzle elements to them. But when it comes to a real puzzle, I realize just how un-smart I am (see what I did there?). Whether it be crosswords, sudoku, or the Rubik's Cube, I'm normally left clueless. Well, at least where the latter is concerned, I can...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI for short, formed in 1908 with the goal to investigate crime and ultimately, serve justice. Over the years, it's helped put many people behind bars, and as an avid watcher of America's Most Wanted, I have seen many times how the FBI has helped, with...

For people surfing the Internet, aka: most of us, an increasing concern is the lack of privacy that's becoming more evident by the day. How many times have you visited a website and saw a banner ad that peddled local dating, with pictures and profiles of potential hopefuls from your exact city...

Have media on your PC, but want to watch it on anything but the PC? With ASUS' O!Play, getting that job done is simple. Take 30 seconds to hook it up to a TV, and you can stream media through a network, or via external storage, such as eSATA or USB. It's simple, and at $100, it's not too hard on...

For the past couple of years, there's been an ongoing Mac vs. PC war between both Apple and Microsoft, but it's been the former that's had the longer run, and the more straight-forward claims. Well, that looks to end with Microsoft's new "PC vs Mac" micro-site, which tells people what a Mac...

Ted Stevens, the former senator who famously once said that the Internet was like a series of tubes, was killed in a plane crash last night. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/us/11crash.html RIP

Mafia II pits you as Vito Scaletta, set out to rule the streets of the fictional city "Empire Bay" throughout 1945 - 1957. As the latest game to feature NVIDIA's TWIMTBP branding, Mafia II features both 3D Vision and PhysX support. We're taking a look at the latter to see just what it is the...

For computer gaming, 1993 was a landmark year. id Software, known at that time as the brain behind the epic Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen, delivered "Doom", an evil, twisted, and action-packed 3D shooter that proved just as addicting as it was gory. I think few will call Doom anything other...

There seems to be a billion different perspectives on what the future of the Web is going to be, but according to Google's ever-vocal CEO, Eric Schmidt, the future is... with a total lack of anonymity. A comment like this from Mr. Schmidt of course comes as no surprise, as it was also him who...

This past May, Valve did something that literally blew our minds... it released a Mac-based Steam client. We of course knew that the game selection at first was going to be lackluster, because let's face it... Macs aren't known for their gaming abilities, and until recently, it seemed like the...

Looking for a mid-tower chassis that offers a big bang for a small buck? Thermaltake hopes to win us over on those claims with its Armor A90, a chassis built from the ground up with military-like design cues in mind, and also one that includes numerous convenience features, superb airflow, and a...

You know... as much as I hate DRM (and trust me, I hate it), I can begin to understand its use when I read stories like this one. As it appears, a highly-acclaimed indie title called Machinarium, which costs only $20 on a regular day, suffers from a ~90% piracy rate. You read that right... for...

When Cooler Master released its first "CM Storm" gaming mouse last fall, we were impressed. For a company not known for mice to come out with such a competitive product was great, and helped pave the way for the future. That future is here, in the form of the Inferno. Can it surpass the quality...

For those who want to run truly high-end gaming PC's, there's usually a common inclusion... water-cooling. The reasons to go this route are obvious... improved temperatures, quiet operation, and of course... it looks cool. Over the years, we've seen some companies water cool everything from...