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From our front-page news: Windows Vista has been out since January, but I've still seen no reason to make the shift to Windows Vista. Granted, I am not a major gamer, and I admit it, but no DX10 titles have seemed to deliver the goods to warrant a Vista installation. Our friends at HotHardware...

From our front-page news: Valve sends along word that both Portal and Half-Life 2: Episode 2 are available for pre-loading. If you've pre-purchased the Orange Box or any one of those titles by themselves, you can begin the download now in preparation for next weeks (October 10) launch. Team...

From our front-page news: Is your monster computer starting to get weak in the knees? Have a huge wad of cash in hand? Then OCZ's latest PCP&C 1200W power supply could be for you. The Turbo-Cool 1200 features a "single +12V rail" for the ultimate of stability. Being an NVIDIA SLI-certified...

From our front-page news: Nowadays, there are so many rumors floating around, it's difficult to track them all. Even worse, sometimes rumors can overlap reality and confuse everyone. Well, the Xbox 360 Arcade Edition has been floating around rumorville for a while, but when two different...

From our front-page news:Game developers today seem to have it rough, with constant reason for setbacks and delayed launches. Richard Garriott's latest offering, Tabula Rasa, has been delayed for an additional two weeks, setting the launch at November 2. Reasons for the delay seem to be caused...

I was taking a look at at post at Kotaku and noticed that the recommended system requirements for UT III made no sense. Which part? Try and guess. Recommended System Requirements • 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor • 1 GBytes of System RAM • NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card • 8 GB of Free...

Finally! We are beginning to see Creative's chipset offerings being used in other manufacturers sound cards. The first such product is Auzentech's X-Fi Prelude, which we have on the test bench today. Though it excels in some regards, we find out that it has a lot of room for improvement. You...

Gigabyte's new GA-MA69GM-S2H board has HTPC written all over it, with no fewer than six possible video output types, optical Toslink output, and AMD's 690G chipset with Radeon X1250 IGP. In our review, we find more than a few reasons to recommend it to anyone who’s considering a new HTPC. You...

From our front-page news: I haven't yet had the chance to give the Team Fortress 2 beta a go, but I will have to in the next few days, prior to it's actual release. I admit that I had little interest in the game since it was first announced, but I have yet to hear a truly poor comment about the...

From our front-page news:Remember that video of the image resizing technology that would properly scale any image to look good with any aspect ratio or size? Well as it turns out, it's now available as a plugin for the GIMP image manipulation tool (available for Linux and Windows). I took a...

From our front-page news: I can't count the amount of times I have been asked, "What's a good Windows alternative to Nero (or Roxio or etc)?" I'll admit, being primarily a Linux user, I have had no such experience with various free alternatives only because I have come to enjoy Nero quite a bit...

From our front-page news: Anyone who owns a car hopes that it will last enough so it will feel as though they had their money's worth. Some are happy with 100,000 miles, others may try for 300,000. But how about 930,000 for a 12 year-old car? That's right, some Honda Civic owner managed to get...

From our front-page news: The rumor train doesn't stop for long, does it? According to GamePro France, Sony is planning a "big bang" announcement on Oct. 12, next Friday. Speculation has it that it is likely to be the long-rumored 40GB PS3. Not to dampen the mood, but if that's the announcement...

From our front-page news: Who's been eating some of those magic mushrooms, hmm? Shoe designer Run Athletics have collaborated with Nintendo to develop a shoe for SMB fans all over. Included is a cool box and shirt, all for $120 USD. If you want to own a collectors item on the cheap, you...

From our front-page news: According to various sources around the web, the Zune 2 is just around the corner, as is a new piece of firmware that will be functional on all versions of the device. It's unknown what functionality the firmware will add, but what's important is that the Zune 2 will be...

From our front-page news: The music industry has stepped on people for far too long, and it's not only the customer who is affected. Radiohead is taking a stand, and advantage of the fact that they have no current contract with any record label. Their latest album, In Rainbows, which has been in...

From our front-page news: Things don't seem to be going well for NCsoft Korea as of late, with much angst towards CEO, Kim Taek-jin. The past few months in particular haven't been smooth sailing, as many employees are leaving and internal scandals occurring, but Tabula Rasa's release may be able...

From our front-page news: If you have hopes of owning a stable Xbox 360, your chances may be improved with the new Halo 3 edition, which features a 65nm CPU and lighter heatsink. It seems to be the only major change to the system though, but it could be the one that really helps patch things up...

From our front-page news: An OLED TV may sound like a product that would be a ways off, but not the case at all. Sony has announced the SonyDrive XEL-1 in Japan, an 11-inch screen that features a 960x540 resolution and an incredible 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The downside is obviously it's...

From our front-page news: Ahh, who could forget the Atari 2600? The console came out before I was born, and I never really had much experience playing with it while growing up, but it's hard to dispute the effect that it had on the videogame industry. If you have one in your closet, dust it off...