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Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 19th Nov - Graphics cards
Sapphire Radeon HD 5850

The graphics solution world is constantly evolving with visual quality being stepped up at an ever-growing exponential rate. The launch of Windows 7 and with it the tantalising prospect of DirectX 11 games is perhaps ...

Coolermaster Mouse Mat Roundup 17th Nov - Mouse mats
Coolermaster Mouse Mat Roundup

Coolermaster is a name that will be instantly recognisable to most hardware fans, being a longstanding big player in the case, psu and cooling market. This time round though we will be trying out something a little bit ...

Coolermaster Sentinel Advance

One of the tactics that some companies have used to help themselves through the tougher times of ...


Roccat Kova 6th Nov
Roccat Kova

Roccat are well known at this stage for their impressive PC peripherals, introducing desktop ...


Asus EAH 4890

With the recent arrival of the new ATI Radeon HD 5 series graphics cards causing a great deal of ...



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Plasma vs LCD 20th Nov - Hardware
Plasma vs LCD

In a world where television is much more than a mere entertainer, where bulky CRT TVs which we once thought to be the best things on earth are on the verge of extinction, there seems to be a eternal battle that's waging ...

Pirates of the Burning Sea Interview

MMO games are one of the biggest and most well renowned genre's in the gaming industry; and it's certainly one of the biggest earners for some companies. However, while there are several million gamers that enjoy this ...


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Hardware round-up | 24/11/09
Tuesday, November 24th 13:07 GMT (0 views)
Hardware round-up: 24/11/09
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Industry | Pandemic Studios Goes out Office Space Style
Tuesday, November 24th 12:23 GMT (12 views)
Pandemic Studios Goes out Office Space Style Pandemic Studios, developers of the mercernary series, and until recently were putting together an open world Batman game loosely based on the Dark Knight movie, have officially shut their doors for the last time, but the employees wanted to go out with a bit of style, so released a video that it sure to make a few movie fans smile.

Taking a queue from the film Office Space, several employees of the company decided to take the office fax machine, and teach it for costing them their jobs; with bats, bars and hammers.

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Hardware | OCZ Announces Colossus SSD
Tuesday, November 24th 12:12 GMT (13 views)
OCZ Announces Colossus SSD OCZ has announced that they are releasing yet another line of SSDs, known as the Colossus. They're built in the 3.5" form factor, and is designed specifically for the desktop market; which is markedly different from a lot of recent SSDs which are aimed at notebooks.

Out of character with more traditional SSDs, the Colossus range is available in capacities up to 1tb in size.

The drives use an internal RAID-0 architecture (Indilinx SSD controllers plus a Silicon Image RAID controller) to speed the drives up, delivering an impressive 260MB/sec, 260MB/sec, and 220MB/sec respectively for the 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB Colossus drives.

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General | Digital Economy Bill to see Serious Opposition
Tuesday, November 24th 12:02 GMT (14 views)
Digital Economy Bill to see Serious Opposition The Digital Britain Economy bill was unveiled and put forward into parliament on the 19th of November, and many have expressed serious concerns with it, as it could grant the government unrestricted powers to ban users from the internet that it suspects of internet "piracy."

Many also believe that this and other powers the bill reserves could damage the UK's growing digital economy.

Stephen Fry announced his displeasure at the bill through his Twitter account, "Dear Mandy, splendid fellow in many ways, but he is SO WRONG about copyright. Please sign and RT {retweet]".

Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns on digital issues, said: "It's quite a shocking bill. We're extremely worried about it."

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Press release | Wasp Joystick
Tuesday, November 24th 11:54 GMT (12 views)
Wasp Joystick Glopipe has a press release for the Wasp Joystick: "The ideal piece of equipment for optimally mastering legendary air battles and breathtaking game sequences. This sturdily built Joystick is, thanks to its high level of movability and its very wide action radius, perfect for complex aerobatics and thus provides for flexible navigation. For the all-round view from the cockpit the Ministick is ideally adapted for the thumb. With the regulator for thrust control you also always have the perfect adjustment for your flight manoeuvre.




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Gaming | GCHQ After Gamers
Tuesday, November 24th 11:50 GMT (14 views)
GCHQ After Gamers At one of the biggest institutions of British Intelligence, GCHQ, they are taking on an interesting new recruiting technique, finding potential new employees from the Xbox Live gaming community.

A government representative has explained that its criteria for hiring was "reflected in game-play experiences on Xbox, such as quick thinking, problem solving and team work". Xbox Live's most popular games amongst fragacidal maniacs include the wargame 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2', space wargame 'Halo 3', zombie-beatdown thriller 'Left 4 Dead 2', and, you can work it out yourself, 'Assassin's Creed 2'.

Adverts are expected to show up in the coming weeks, with no details on what they will look like yet.

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General | Apple Comments on App Store Walk Outs
Tuesday, November 24th 11:42 GMT (18 views)
Apple Comments on App Store Walk Outs With some app. store developers leaving the roost, Apple has released a statement clarifying their often seemed draconian rule of the store.

Apple senior vice president for worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller said that Apple's review protocol is comparable to any other retailer who wants to have quality control over their products.

Schiller admitted that there were 10,000 applications being submitted to the store each week, so things were getting a little out of hand in terms of case by case app. moderation.

He also said that a large proportion of the rejected apps. were ones that were designed to steal user data.

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Industry | Blizzard "We Announce Games too Early"
Tuesday, November 24th 11:31 GMT (16 views)
Blizzard "We Announce Games too Early" Blizzard has made an announcement that is not going to be a big one for those that have followed the long development cycles for the company, that they announce games too early.

"We realize that and go, 'You know what? Next time we're not going to do that,'" VP Rob Pardo explained to Techland, as noticed by Big Download. "And then we always fail at that. But I'd rather fail at that than fail at making the game great."

Diablo 3 was announced over a year ago, with the only release date information released so far, that it wouldn't be finished next year.

Starcraft 2 will be released next year, or at least the first chapter of it, and that game was announced a long time ago now.

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Industry | Texas Firm to take Class Action to Microsoft
Tuesday, November 24th 11:19 GMT (17 views)
Texas Firm to take Class Action to Microsoft After the recent mass scale banning of Xbox live users by Microsoft, because they believed upwards of a million users were running a modified version of the console, which in there minds at least means there were a million people playing pirates games; a Texan firm has announced that they're putting together a class action law suit.

The law firm wrote on its website, "Microsoft has chosen to use one of the most indiscriminate "weapons" in its arsenal in an effort to combat piracy -- as a result, use of this "weapon" has resulted in a great deal of collateral damage -- many people were affected who had nothing to do with piracy.

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Hardware round-up | 23/11/09
Monday, November 23rd 12:17 GMT (13 views)
Hardware round-up: 23/11/09
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