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From our front-page news: There was a rather significant release that occurred earlier this week that I ended up forgetting about, but it's worth mentioning now even if I'm a few days late (whoops!). Adobe released its long awaited Flash 10.1 plugin. Before you say, "Who cares?!", realize that...

Following-up to a hit like Modern Warfare must have been tough, but Infinity Ward has done a great job of delivering what we hoped to see, while tossing in many other surprises as well. Let's take a look at the game from all angles, the fine and the rough, and finish things off with a look at...

From our front-page news: Think that NVIDIA's 3D Vision is nothing more than a fad? According to a press conference held earlier this week by the company, that couldn't be further from the truth, and it has a good handful of reasons to back up its claims. Unfortunately, a lot of what was...

From our front-page news: Both AMD and NVIDIA shot over some information regarding events that each is holding, one being a contest, the other being an auction. Both are equally as interesting, though. On the AMD front, the company is wrapping up its 40th anniversary celebrations by offering up...

From our front-page news: Last week, Gigabyte held a press conference along with Marvell and Seagate to tout features with each of the respective company's new products. On the Seagate side, there was of course the Barracuda XT, the company's first drive to take advantage of the S-ATA 3.0...

From our front-page news: This past Monday, I made a news post that explained my upcoming plans to install an SSD in my personal PC, to help get a better understanding of the real-world benefits of using one on a day-to-day basis. Simply put, I'm tired of boasting about how great the SSD...

From our front-page news: Hot on the heels of ATI's launch of the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, an NVIDIA employee posted a fun little image on his Facebook that shows off a GF100 card, also known as the first card to use the company's Fermi core. That's not what's important. What is, is that the...

On the lookout for a P55 motherboard to match that shiny new Lynnfield CPU? Given the sheer selection available, deciding on one can be a hassle. ASUS' P7P55D Pro looks to appeal to a large crowd, though, by offering a slew of useful options, impressive overclocking abilities and a great design...

From our front-page news: Last month, VMware released updated versions of its popular Workstation and Fusion virtualization software, for the PC and Mac, respectively. Of the new and updated features, we had full support for Windows 7, improved 3D rendering and a whole lot more. Seeing just what...

From our front-page news: At Computex this past June, OCZ unveiled an SSD unlike most others. Rather than stick to a simple 2.5" frame, or toss a whack of chips onto a PCI-E card, the company's "Colossus" drive is a 3.5" solution that packs in more than one SSD and RAIDs them together, for...

From our front-page news: In our review of Sapphire's Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X last week, I had a major complaint in our overclocking section. For some reason, on certain cards, the "Overdrive" overclocking tool bundled with ATI's Catalyst Control Center is far too limiting. That card, for...

If we had an award for the "best bang for the buck", it would require little thinking to give it to ATI's Radeon HD 5850. For the price, it offers incredible power, superb power consumption and temperatures, and of course, DirectX 11 support. We're taking a look at ASUS' version here, which...

From our front-page news: Earlier this month, I made a news post discussing some fresh changes unveiled with the latest version of Ubuntu, 9.04 (also referred to as Jaunty Jackalope). I've been using the latest OS on my notebook a fair bit since then, and I have to say, this is easily the best...

From our front-page news: SSDs might have been out and about for a couple of years, but up until now, I've never used one in my personal machine. I've of course fiddled with them on our benchmarking machines, but as for putting one to a more realistic, and long-term use, I haven't. That's going...

People scoffed at AMD when it released its Phenom II X4 965 a few months ago thanks to the 140W power rating. To help make up for it, the company has now followed-up with a 125W version, sporting a lower price, along with improved C1E and DDR3-1333 support. With these improvements, is the X4 965...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b75_1258211165 And more on the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33906595/ns/us_news-weird_news/

If you happen to be eating, I don't recommend taking a look at these shots right now: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers/ Some of these are just ridiculous.

From our front-page news:Microsoft has good reason to be pleased with its launch of Windows 7, because for one, it was fairly smooth, unlike Vista's, and two, consumers are actually quite pleased with it. For gamers, a major technology came pre-installed with Windows 7, that of course being...

From our front-page news: If there's one product that both AMD and NVIDIA would share an opinion on, it's Lucid's Hydra. This is a chip that's set out to essentially replace CrossFireX and SLI, if all goes according to plan. Rather than handle multiple GPUs with alternate-frame rendering...

From our front-page news: When the argument PC gaming's demise arises, one of the most common issues discussed falls back on piracy. The fact is, piracy on the PC is easy, and no single person can deny that. Upon release, and sometimes even before, full games are available on various networks...