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It was only last month that OCZ announced its plans to accelerate the departure from the DRAM business, as to instead change focus towards morphing into a leading provider of solid-state drives. Although the news that OCZ would no longer be selling new memory was indeed surprising, just a quick...

Bulletstorm, the game created by the same guys who put out Painkiller in 2004, came out this past Tuesday. Like most brand-new games, I didn't know much about Bulletstorm, except that A) the graphics appealed to me, and B) the game was surrounded in controversy. Fox News, as an example, pretty...

Last spring, we posted an article that took a look at data recovery on SSDs; essentially, the difficulty of. Thanks to TRIM, once a file is deleted on an SSD, it's difficult to recover, and in our tests, common recovery applications simply didn't work. In a recent report, though, techies at the...

This might just be one of the strangest ideas I've ever heard. It seems that some music execs have been in discussion with Apple to help get 24-bit audio onto the iTunes music store... and as Ars Technica appropriately asks, "Why bother?" You can read the rest of our post and discuss here.

To those prepped to make a MacBook Pro purchase... wait. It's been reported that Apple will be refreshing its line-up later this week, and that brand-new models will be shipping to customers within the next two weeks. Nothing much is known about the performance-related specs, but there are a...

Drinking in games can be a humorous past time, get a few giggles in before taking on a horde of bad guys under very one sided conditions (no force of evil can match the mighty Quick Save/Load). But ever stopped to wonder how realistic this drunkard behavior, slurred speech and floor collapsing...

Verizon's iPhone hit the market earlier this month, and though we know some of the limitations, is it worth jumping over to from AT&T? The answer depends a lot on what you want to do with your phone, and if you happen to make a lot of phone calls and often get disconnected on AT&T, then that's...

Minecraft, a game that we profiled after its initial release, has become one of the most popular games on the planet. It's been played by by millions, and purchased by 1.36 million (and growing). Its creator, Markus "Notch" Persson, began development of the game himself, and up until recently...

Seagate's Momentus XT mobile hard drive is one-of-a-kind on the consumer side of things, as it pairs a mechanical drive with some NAND flash commonly found in SSDs, and in the end delivers great performance. It's effective because it allows the most common files to be read from the flash, while...

Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen Duke Nukem Forever get a release date, and have also seen previews posted around the Web. So far, those previews seem to have mixed reaction, but one thing's for certain... this game is going to demand attention when it's released, and it seems unlikely...

We knew that a "PlayStation Phone" was en ruote, but now we finally have hard details of what to expect in terms of hardware and software. The first official phone to feature support for PlayStation-esque hardware is the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, and hopefully if it takes off, we'll see similar...

A couple weeks ago, a group of modders decided to create nice little mod for StarCraft II, introducing MMO elements into custom maps for the venerable game. A pre-alpha demo was posted on YouTube which caught the attention of Activision Blizzard, which was quickly followed by a cease and desist...

It's no secret that I'm no fan of Windows, and it has nothing to do with me being a Linux "fanboi" (I'm not). Rather, it's the fact that Windows continually gives me reason to complain, as there exist implementations and problems that arise that just boggle my mind. Take this issue, for...

Although I'm a huge Need for Speed fan, I also have enjoyed playing games from the Test Drive series ever since the first release, so of course, I've been anticipating Test Drive Unlimited 2 for months. Does it live up to my personal hype? After sinking about four hours into the game so far, the...

With an official known release date for Duke Nukem Forever (May 3, 2011), it's just a matter of time before we'll all be able to give the latest Nukem release a spin and see if, after 12 years of development time, the game aged like a fine wine. Last week, Gearbox invited select members of the...

For the avid music listener, Apple offers a good range of portable players. For those who need something super-small, there's the shuffle, and for those who want the same but a little more feature-rich, there's the nano. Then of course there's the touch, which avails iPhone-like functionality...

As a devout PC gamer, I've come to love Valve's Steam platform over the years. The main reason is one I could sum up simply as "ultimate convenience". About 90% of the games I play in a given year are available on Steam, and because of that, I simply couldn't imagine using another solution. Once...

Up until a couple of months ago, I had been using Mozilla's Firefox Web browser since long before it even became "Firefox". As I moved over to Chrome, I began to notice that Firefox 4.0 was beginning to take quite a number of features or aesthetic cues from Chrome, among others, and I apparently...

Within the piracy realm, it's not too difficult to read first-hand accounts of people who've been hit with harsh court rulings, or the perspective from the record/movies/etc companies themselves. But it's not often we hear the opinions straight from the lawyers, who are clearly the binding force...

It's been merely a week since Intel announced a fault found within its H67/P67 chipsets, but given the amount of chatter around the Web in that time, it almost feels like it's been a lot longer. Although consumers are still stuck in a bit of a rough spot, or more of a waiting game, Intel is...