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Do you enjoy day-one DLC? Chances are good that you do - at least if you consider BioWare's Director of Online Development Fernando Melo's words to be gospel. He believes that day-one DLC helps cater a developer's launch to all players, including those who tend to complete their game in just a...

I am not an audiophile, but I do enjoy listening to quality audio. For a while now I've been eyeing up an amp so that I'm not limited to my sound card for driving headphones. The majority of soundcards do not have amplifiers in them, so when plugging in high impedance headphones, the volume is...

For as long as MMOs have existed, so has the sale of in-game currency for real-life cash. Rarely, the developer will allow such dealings to go on, and when it does, it's usually managed through a sanctioned service (think Blizzard's auction house for Diablo III). But when the need arises where...

I'm having a distinct sense of deja vu here, but Microsoft is requesting developers to not call the typography-based design language formally known as Metro, uh, Metro, but to call it the 'Windows 8 style UI', due to possible legalities regarding a European company's trademark on the name...

The KDE project has this week announced version 4.9 of its popular desktop platform, dedicated to the late KDE contributor Claire Lotion. It brings significant improvements, including an expected progression of the Nokia-maintained Qt Quick framework. In addition to adding support for more KDE...

In what might be the best news to come out of the AMD camp in quite a while, the company has announced that it's bringing Jim Keller back on board to become the Corporate Vice President and Chief Architect for CPU Cores. He'll be reporting to the company's CTO and Senior VP of Technology and...

HP has just scored a major win with its lawsuit against Oracle, focused around Oracle's pulling of support for Intel Itanium-based products. You might recall that last spring, Oracle pulled all software support for Itanium processors and then went on to claim that the architecture was nearing...

On a regular day, learning of a Linux distro bundling a new desktop environment in its next release is the furthest thing from being a big deal, but things are a little different here. Fedora, the spearhead of the GNOME 3 movement, has said that it will be bundling MATE (a GNOME 2 fork) in...

It feels like only last year when we were all basking in the glory of the Windows 7 release, but no, three years on, we're here again but singing a different tune. Windows 8 and its Metro'fication has been Released to Manufacture (RTM), with build number 9200. This is stage one of the official...

In our notebooks and on top of the processors on our graphics cards, Vapor Chamber cooling technology is not too rare. But with desktop CPU coolers, it's not only rare, but non-existent (to our knowledge). That is until now, of course, as Cooler Master has just announced its plans to begin...

In a move many arguably saw coming, Bioware's often criticized first MMO title will be enabling a Free-To-Play option, sometime in the coming autumn. For the most part, the details are rather thin, but a general outline of both the Subscriber-based and Free-based systems have been outlined on...

When Valve a couple of weeks ago announced that it has been working on a Steam client for Linux, we stressed just how big of a deal it is for users of the OS. Gaming has always been a sour point for Linux, and still is in some regards on OS X - at least compared to Windows. But with a company...

Ahh, claw machines. One of the oldest and most popular attractions at any arcade, claw machines taunt you not with hopes of a high score, but a real prize. If you're skillful enough, you'll be able to orient the claw perfectly, reach down and snatch that cool toy. But, is that all that's...

If you have ever read news online, and chances are good that you have if you're still breathing, you've no doubt seen a countless number of sources quoted. It could be a story about an accident that happened downtown, an article about how people with the messiest desks work the most efficiently...

With all its awesomeness and potential, DirectX 11 sure does suffer a lacking of demos that can show off its abilities - and the demos that do exist tend to focus mostly around tessellation. Well, coming from Japan is a simple demo called Rigid Gems, utilizing "hybrid raytracing" techniques that...

It hasn't even been a full week since Google announced its planned rollout of 'Google Fiber' Internet in both Kansas Citys, but the outpouring of support so far is evident - especially on the Missouri side. There, a staggering 39 eligible neighborhoods have reached Google's minimum goal for...

With the usual onslaught of games going on sale, let people know here anything you'd personally recommend, the sort of titles that people tend to glance over. One that I picked up a while ago and going really cheap now is SpaceChem. It's a puzzle game that's very heavily logic based. You use...

New release of the Firefox browser for Android users is now out, if people want to give it a try. Seems to be a big improvement with a number of UI options that are likely to appear in the Desktop browser (rounded corners on tabs and such)...

Everyone gasp in absolute shock! OK, so it's not a complete surprise, but The Elder Scrolls is going online in the form of an MMO. There are scarce details at the moment as the exclusive reveal comes from the Game Informer, but a trailer and pictures will be made available tomorrow. You...

It has been a few years but Indilinx is back! Since their splash into the consumer markets in 2008, SSDs have characteristically been doubling in performance with each successive launch of some controller on a roughly annual basis. Yet more recently, SandForce has managed to recapture and hold...