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  1. Rob Williams

    PS3 Unreal Tournament III Delayed Until "Early 2008"

    From our front-page news: Whew, Sony has got to be crying in a corner somewhere. One of the biggest titles for the PS3 this holiday season, Unreal Tournament III, has been delayed until "early 2008". This is solely to do with the Unreal Engine 3 not functioning as it should on the PS3 hardware...
  2. Rob Williams

    Geek Squad Helps Put Child-Porn Trafficker Behind Bars

    From our front-page news: I like Best Buy's Geek Squad service about as much as being forced to use Windows Vista on a 286 with half of a keyboard and a monochrome monitor with an exercise ball as a chair and no beer in the house. But there has to be some good in everything, right? In this case...
  3. Rob Williams

    Bugatti Veyron vs. BMW M3

    From our front-page news.Whats this have to do with tech, you ask? Not much of anything, but that sure doesn't take away from it's "cool" factor. Autoblog links to a video of a few lucky people who had the opportunity to drag race both the W16 1,001HP Bugatti Veyron and my brand new dream car...
  4. Rob Williams

    The State of DirectX 10 - Image Quality & Performance

    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...
  5. Rob Williams

    Valve Begins Pre-Loading For HL2: Episode 2 & Portal

    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...
  6. Rob Williams

    OCZ Announces PCP&C Turbo-Cool 1200 Power Supply

    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...
  7. Rob Williams

    Xbox 360 "Arcade Edition" Due On Oct 23?

    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...
  8. Rob Williams

    Tabula Rasa Delayed Until November 2

    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...
  9. Rob Williams

    Zune 2 Just Around the Corner?

    As posted on our front-page:We all knew it was coming, but Microsoft made official the fact that new Zune units will be hitting the shelves next month. Though "Zune 2.0" has been a term being thrown around a lot, Microsoft is not referring to their new products as such. This makes sense, as even...
  10. Rob Williams

    "Recommended System Reqs" are useless

    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...
  11. Rob Williams

    AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition: This one goes to 11

    Might be good for those who already have an AM2 motherboard, but 3.3GHz is still not that impressive when Core 2 Duo's for an even lower price can achieve much better frequencies.
  12. Rob Williams

    Auzentech X-Fi Prelude

    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...
  13. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H

    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...
  14. Rob Williams

    Logitech G9 Laser Gaming Mouse

    Logitech won't speak about this, but there is little doubt that something like that will be in the works. The G5 proved to be a popular mouse, so I can't see why they would overlook a wireless version of the G9.
  15. Rob Williams

    Team Fortress 2 Class Roundup

    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...
  16. Rob Williams

    Liquid Resize GIMP Plugin Released

    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...
  17. Rob Williams

    Free CD/DVD Authoring Tool That Rocks?

    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...
  18. Rob Williams

    Can Your Car Last 930,000 Miles?

    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...
  19. Rob Williams

    "Big Bang" Sony Announcement Next Week

    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...
  20. Rob Williams

    Super Mario Bros Running Shoes On Sale

    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...
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