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  1. Rob Williams

    ASUS Gives Tribute to the Mona Lisa

    From our front-page news:Think that working at some of the largest companies in the world means there's all work and no play? Well, ASUS might prove that once in a while, fun does have to come into the scheme of things, and that's proven with a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's legendary painting...
  2. Rob Williams

    Modern Warfare 2 Filled with Controversy

    From our front-page news: Today is a big day. The follow-up to Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 4) is now available on the PC (the game has been available for consoles for the past couple of days), and I can't wait to dive right in. As mentioned the other day in our news, developer Infinity Ward is...
  3. Rob Williams

    Processor Shipments Break Record in Q3

    From our front-page news: With a recession, especially like the one we're in now, many people begin to appreciate the value of money a lot more, and tend to cut back on their regular spending. After all, is a new appliance really that important if it means rent will be hard to pay next month...
  4. Rob Williams

    OCZ announces partnership with SandForce

    It looks like there's another SSD chipset maker out there in the wild, to add its name to the likes of Indilinx, Samsung, Intel and others. The company is "SandForce", and not too much is known about it yet, but OCZ has already taken a leap of faith and jumped on board to begin producing SSDs...
  5. Rob Williams

    FRAPS 3.0 Released with Support for Windows 7, DirectX 11

    From our front-page news: Here at Techgage, our virtual toolbox is chalk-full of various applications and utilities that we can't do without. We pick and choose from our collection depending on what we need done, whether it be to stress-test a CPU, kit of RAM or a graphics card, or to compare...
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    The Quest for Useful Real-World SSD Benchmarks

    From our front-page news: As I have mentioned in our news section in the past, we've been working on getting some storage-related content up on the site for a while, but as things go, issues keep arising, and it never seems to happen. As it stands, however, we're closer than ever to getting such...
  7. Rob Williams

    Indie drummer killed after fall in elevator shaft

    Thirty-four-year-old Gerhardt "Jerry" Fuchs, a beloved fixture of both the New York and Athens, Georgia, rock scenes who played with LCD Soundsystem, !!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk), Turing Machine, MSTRKRFT, and The Juan MacLean, died Saturday night in a fall after attempting to crawl out of a...
  8. Rob Williams

    Call of Pripyat DirectX 11 screenshots

    I have such a love/hate relationship with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., because the entire series is one that I feel like I want to play, but once I get into the game, I lose all interest completely. The first in the series, Shadow of Chernobyl, had me hooked, but towards the end, I was getting bored. Then...
  9. Rob Williams

    OpenOffice Mouse Features 18 Buttons & Analog Stick

    From our front-page news: Although I enjoy the odd fast-paced game now and then, whether it be a single-player FPS or an online game, I've never found myself upset at the number of buttons found on my mouse. As long as I have a scroll wheel, back and forward buttons near the thumb-rest and of...
  10. Rob Williams

    ScamVille: Companies Starting to Back Off

    From our front-page news: Last week, I linked to a story at TechCrunch that exposed the dangers of online game offers that target titles usually found on social networking sites, such as Facebook or MySpace. According to our RSS traffic, that news story had an abnormally large number of...
  11. Rob Williams

    Dell Releases World's Thinnest Notebook, Adamo XPS

    From our front-page news:If there's one single trend that's appreciated by the vast majority of people affected by it, it would have to be the one that sees our gadgets getting smaller and smaller over time. There's of course limits, but if you take a look at notebook PCs, cell phones and other...
  12. Rob Williams

    Modern Warfare 2 Set to Disappoint PC Gamers

    From our front-page news: Imagine you were an executive in charge of a very successful game developer. To date, all of your games have sold incredibly well, and gamers just can't seem to get enough. The next game queued for release is a big one. One that anyone who's played any game from the...
  13. Rob Williams

    Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X

    It's no secret that the Radeon HD 5870 is the fastest GPU on the planet, but what do you get when you take it, toss in a more robust cooler, quieter operation, higher clock speeds and not one, but two free games? You get the Vapor-X, from Sapphire. Despite all that it packs in above the...
  14. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Uses Comics to Poke Fun at Intel

    From our front-page news: As we touched on just the other day, it's not uncommon to see companies using various forms of creative advertising to get their point across. Again, the most common example to fall back on is Apple vs. Microsoft, as the TV spots that continually poke fun at everything...
  15. Rob Williams

    Steve Jobs Named Fortune's CEO of the Decade

    From our front-page news: Step back, and take a hard look at the business world. Where CEO's of tech companies are concerned, who first comes to mind? Of course, there are many CEO's out there whom many would consider to be invaluable to the tech industry, but there only seem to be a handful who...
  16. Rob Williams

    Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Close to Final Release

    From our front-page news: Although it hasn't been that long, it feels like I've been tracking the release of Thunderbird 3 forever. But, it's still in beta. As things are looking now, though, it's not going to be in that state much longer. A near-final version is expected next week, with a final...
  17. Rob Williams

    World of Warcraft Introduces Paid Collectible Pets

    From our front-page news: There are many out there who believe that hardware innovation has slowed down, and to some extent, it could have. Processors, graphics cards and more are continually updated with new features and faster performance, but rarely do we see anything truly innovative. On the...
  18. Rob Williams

    Novation Releases "Launchpad" - Music Controller for Everyone

    From our front-page news: Want to create some incredible beats, but don't know the first thing about going about it? Ever download a DJ mixing application, like Ableton Live, FL Studio or Sony ACID Pro, but were lost at the sheer complexity of it all? The Launchpad, by Novation, looks to cater...
  19. Rob Williams

    AMD vs. NVIDIA: Anti-Aliasing in Batman: Arkham Asylum

    From our front-page news: There's an on-going war of words being exchanged between AMD and NVIDIA, and in some cases, also Eidos and Rocksteady, regarding the recent PC hit, Batman: Arkham Asylum. The story surfaced well before the game's launch, but spread like wildfire when it became available...
  20. Rob Williams

    Are Retailers Slow to Catch on to Current Consumer?

    From our front-page news: When the recession hit last fall, or even earlier based on some opinions, retailers didn't know what to do. It's not too often that most of us are affected by something all at once. The reality hit most people that money is important, and shopping sprees aren't. So...
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