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In a surprise move by Amazon, Portal 2 is on sale for $30 right now. For a game that was just launched two weeks ago (read our review), this is surprising. Especially so considering the overwhelming positive reception it has received from players and critics alike - if the Metacritic score of 95...

Beginning today, AT&T will be implementing a monthly data cap plan for its DSL and U-verse customers. AT&T DSL customers will have a 150GB per month limit, while U-verse customers receive a slightly roomier 250GB monthly cap. Subscribers that exceed these limits will be charged $10 per each...

For those who like their blockbuster games, this might be the week to pay attention to Steam. It's "EA Week", meaning each day there will be a title, or series of titles, on sale with some rather hefty discounts. http://store.steampowered.com/sale/eaweek So far, Dragon Age (50% off) and Dragon...

Being a bit of a fanboi for the 700D/800D, I had a feeling I'd like this one, and sure enough, it's a winner. It reminds me of the 700D I am in and out of every day; it's uncanny. The front panel is nearly identical, and the way the doors come off is as well. I love some of the smaller features...

When Corsair released its Obsidian 800D full-tower nearly two years ago, it was the company's first chassis, but still managed to set standards. For those who were hoping for much of the same aesthetic value and design features in a smaller package, Corsair delivers with its 650D, a...

<Deathspawner> Sore neck? <Optix> Yep. Tweaked it doing dishes of all things. <Optix> I mean, extreme dishes. <Optix> I was washing a plate, tried to do a 540 and then there was pain. <Tharic-Nar-7> aww, shit man, i did that with extreme sitting... there i was...

I will have to give Pardus a go soon :-) That's exactly why, and no, Ubuntu is not the first distro to have a 3D accelerated environment. KDE 4, which came out in January 2008, would have been the first "official" desktop to ship with built-in 3D features. However, prior to that, anyone could...

Portal 2 took me like 10 hours to clear through, and some puzzles stumped the hell out of me. A lot of the time I was just being an idiot and not paying enough attention, though. I do wish there were more "secrets" to find though. It was depressing to explore every nook and cranny of the game...

It boils down to Compiz, not Unity. Compiz has -never- worked in VMware, for whatever reason. Someone I know runs like six different OSes through VMware, but one install of Ubuntu through VirtualBox just to enable Compiz :S This is VMware's problem.

Compared to GNOME 2.x and KDE 4.x, no, not at all. The performance is acceptable, but the draw rates of the windows, for example, when moving them around the screen, doesn't seem to be as fluid as with other DEs. To be fair, though, part of this could do with the fact that AMD Radeon graphics...

Valve for some reason didn't post this on the Steam website, so here's the e-mail in full: April 29, 2011 - Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced...

For the most part, both methods are the same. A menu pops up, you search for the application, wait a second for it to show up, and then hit enter to launch. I have found this feature to be more reliable on KDE, though, for one simple reason: keyboard shortcuts work only half of the time in...

While Linux headlines were dominated by Ubuntu mentions yesterday, it wasn't the only distro to experience the launch of a new major version. Slackware, one of the oldest distributions still being actively developed, released its 13.37 version. Yes, that's the official version number. It...

AMD earlier this week released the Catalyst 11.4 driver, introducing a couple of new features, and a bunch of performance updates. If the name "11.4" sounds familiar, it might be because we took a look at what was coming to the driver last month. Building on the overhaul AMD rolled out with...

After months of anticipation, Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed 'Natty Narwhal', has launched in its final form. The big news this time around is that the OS ships with Canonical's 'Unity' desktop environment as default - a large risk on behalf of the company. To see if that risk paid off, let's take an...

Yup, that's just it. I find it a little disheartening that NVIDIA worded it, "You Asked for It, You Got It: SLI for AMD". No one is going to believe a word of that. If NVIDIA truly cared, this would have happened long ago. It's still a great thing to happen, but things like that bug me.

Does Unity actually work for you in VMware? I wonder if the 7.1.4 fixed the problem where it didn't (was a wide-spread problem, not just me). I will have to check this out once I get this article written!

The moment <strike>all of you</strike> <strike>all AMD fans</strike> some AMD fans have been waiting for has finally arrived: native SLI support on AMD platforms. Similar to the SLI transition that occurred on Intel platforms in 2008, the native likeness of AMD's SLi support means that no...

I didn't realize that Acronis even sold retail copies of its products! Sheesh. The serial code never stood out to me just because I've had to copy/paste it from an e-mail. I agree... 71 is asinine.

Oh, I couldn't agree more. I'd do the same thing from a business perspective, but it still sucked nonetheless. 480p looked fine on regular TVs, but look horrible on HDTVs. It's one of the reasons I hardly ever used it. I don't mind poor graphics, but at least give me a resolution that's easy on...