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  • Review: Gateway SX2840

    Review: Gateway SX2840

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Gateway's new SX2840 is an ideal system for someone who needs a good basic computer. It's designed to be a small form factor rival to the high end, high cost systems currently on the market. The new SX2840 also hits that mythical sweet spot of price and performance, making it the ideal system for someone looking for a combination of price and performance.

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  • PC shipments up 15 percent last quarter (but none of those are the Apple tablet so whatever)

    PC shipments up 15 percent last quarter (but none of those are the Apple tablet so whatever)

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    There was plenty of talk ever since Lehman Brothers exploded in mid-2008 about how would consumers cope. Would they keep buying widgets in the face of insane job cuts? Would they keep buying, but only at a fraction of what they had in the past? Let's take PC sales, a pretty good barometer of where the average person is. (It's a big purchase, but not like buying a car or house.) Shipments of new PCs jumped 15 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. That's worldwide, by the way, and much higher than the people who expect things expected. This is good news.

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  • Hands-on: Psyko Audio Labs 5.1 Headphones

    Hands-on: Psyko Audio Labs 5.1 Headphones

    Posted on January 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Everything is always better in surround sound. Most 5.1 or 7.1 headphones are a convoluted mess of speaker drivers, usually resulting in massive ear cups. But these headphones from Psyko Audio Labs have a rather innovative way to trick you into thinking sounds are coming from all directions.

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  • OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video)

    OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video)

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Sure, OnLive has already done live demos of its "cloud gaming" service, but it never hurts to get another comprehensive 48-minute video on the subject. In a presentation at Columbia University, CEO Steve Perlman goes over the nitty gritty of how game streaming works, the OnLive user interface (11:53), an inevitable Crysis Wars demo (16:35), Brag Clips (17:49), and of course the iPhone app (19:31). Though cellphone integration is still limited to primarily spectating and social networking functions, PCs and Macs can get gaming via a 1MB browser plugin, or you can grab the microconsole streaming box for your TV, which Steve suggests might be given away for free with OnLive subscriptions. If you have any more unaswered questions, check out the audience Q&A at 33:14, and the full vid awaits after the break.

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    OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Crysis & Crysis Warhead $15 each this weekend on Steam

    Crysis & Crysis Warhead $15 each this weekend on Steam

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Steam has yet another great weekend sale going on right now. Both Crysis and Crysis Warhead are $15 each this weekend and let me just say, they are totally worth it.

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  • SNES on the Nokia N900? Yes, please.

    SNES on the Nokia N900? Yes, please.

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    You know what? Your phone could play Crysis at a high resolution with the settings cranked way up, and I wouldn’t really care all that much. But coax it into playing SNES ROMs? I’ll take three. With a bucketful of elbow grease and more tech know-how than anyone should be allowed to have, Konttori (One of [...]

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  • Alienware Aurora ALX announced, melts faces with speed

    Alienware Aurora ALX announced, melts faces with speed

    Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Alienware announced some new systems recently, including their latest desktop box, the Aurora ALX. The biggest news about the Aurora is the inclusion of the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 card. Reputed to be the current "top of the heap" when it comes to video cards, it's being tested all over the web.

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  • Exclusive: OTOY Goes Mobile, Turns Your Cell Phone Into A Powerful Gaming Rig

    Exclusive: OTOY Goes Mobile, Turns Your Cell Phone Into A Powerful Gaming Rig

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Last week we posted a pair of videos showing off OTOY, the upcoming server-side rendering service that can stream complex 3D games to your computer through any web browser. It's a very impressive technology, requiring no plugins or lengthy installs — just open your browser and you can instantly jump into a game of Crysis or GTA4, streamed in HD quality. Today we've gotten our hands on a clip proving that when OTOY says its technology will work on nearly any browser-enabled device, it means it. As the video below shows, OTOY is going to bring modern games like Crysis and GTA 4 to your mobile phone. The phone in the video is a Samsung Omnia, which was released to the public last summer (in other words, you don't need a cutting edge phone for the technology to work). The game is running through the phone's built-in browser, with no installs required, and is being controlled via a Xbox gamepad connected wirelessly. OTOY Chief Strategy Officer Mark Tseng says that the company is working on a variety of control schemes, allowing users to control games using a phone's accelerometer, onscreen gamepad, or external peripherals like the Xbox controller.

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  • All violent video games poised for ban in Germany

    All violent video games poised for ban in Germany

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Bad news for German gamers. (As I understand it, we're huge in Baden-Baden.) A bill is about to be introduced to parliament, after having been rubber-stamped by all sixteen of the country's interior ministers, that would ban the sale of all violent video games. What's a violent video game? Any game “where the main part is to realistically play the killing of people or other cruel or unhuman acts of violence against humans or manlike characters.” Yikes.

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  • AMD’s ATI Radeon E4690 brings HD, DirectX 10.1 support to embedded GPU arena

    AMD’s ATI Radeon E4690 brings HD, DirectX 10.1 support to embedded GPU arena

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments

    AMD's newfangled ATI Radeon E4690 may not be the next Crysis killer, but it should do just fine in next-gen arcade and slot machines. All kidding aside (sort of...), this new embedded graphics set is said to triple the performance of AMD's prior offerings in the field, bringing with it 512MB of GDDR3 RAM, DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL 3.0 support and hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 high-definition video. The 35mm chip also differentiates itself by integrating directly onto motherboards and taking on many of the tasks that are currently assigned to the CPU, but alas, it doesn't sound as if we'll be seeing this in any nettops / netbooks anytime soon ever.

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    AMD's ATI Radeon E4690 brings HD, DirectX 10.1 support to embedded GPU arena originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Alienware M17x gaming laptop hands-on: it isn’t quite “all powerful,” but it’ll do in a pinch

    Alienware M17x gaming laptop hands-on: it isn’t quite “all powerful,” but it’ll do in a pinch

    Posted on May 30, 2009 | No Comments

    We're still not sure where Alienware gets off calling this thing "all powerful" -- where do you go from there? -- but we certainly like what's under the hood. This 17-inch M17x desktop replacement, which is due for E3 next week, has started cropping up early and we've gotten a quick look at one in the flesh. It weighs in at 11.5 pounds, and packed to the gills it can handle dual GeForce NVIDIA GTX 280M GPUs, an Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-core processor some fancy overclocking options, and up to 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. There's also the lovable GeForce 9400M integrated graphics with HybridPower switching for when you want to turn things down a notch and write a nice, long letter to your mother while milking the overtaxed nine-cell battery for all it's worth. Outside the raw horsepower, Alienware's revamped its design, with a hefty aluminum chassis, user-configurable lighting accents and a great many radar-evading accoutrements -- oh, and facial recognition for login and timed auto-logout. The display is configurable up to 1920 x 1200, and the laptop can pump out a good many pixels to an external monitor as well -- we saw it powering Dell's almost-ready 2880 x 900 curved display running Crysis with no problem. Other options include Blu-ray, up to 512GB of SSD storage in the dual drive bays, and perhaps best of all: a $1,799 starting price, which includes a GeForce GTX 260M GPU to get your feet wet.

    We got to play with the laptop a bit at a recent event, and were seriously impressed with the look and feel of the thing -- somewhat of a rarity in the over-plasticized gaming space. As we mentioned, Crysis ran fine, and while the hardcore gamer-on-the-go with endless supplies of cash might be a bit of a rare breed these days, at least they haven't been forgotten... though they are in store for some serious back problems in later life.

    Gallery: Alienware's new M17x gaming laptop monstrosity

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    Alienware M17x gaming laptop hands-on: it isn't quite "all powerful," but it'll do in a pinch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 May 2009 14:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • ASUS Mars GPU weds twin GeForce GTX 285s, might just melt your face

    ASUS Mars GPU weds twin GeForce GTX 285s, might just melt your face

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments

    You into frame rates? No, we mean are you frickin' bonkers over watching your rig hit triple digits in a Crysis timedemo? If you're still nodding "yes," have a gander at what'll absolutely have to be your next buy. The ASUS Mars 295 Limited Edition is quite the unique beast, rocking a pair of GTX 285 chips that are viewed by Windows as a GeForce GTX 295. All told, you're looking at 240 shader processors, a 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface, 32 total memory chips and 4GB of RAM. Amazingly, the card is totally compatible with existing drivers and is Quad-SLI capable, and if all goes to plan, it'll actually peek its head out at Computex next week. Rest assured, we'll do everything we can to touch it.

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    ASUS Mars GPU weds twin GeForce GTX 285s, might just melt your face originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 May 2009 11:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Medion’s Akoya P7700 D PC will do your multimedia right on a budget

    Medion’s Akoya P7700 D PC will do your multimedia right on a budget

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    There are little HTPCs that hum indiscreetly amidst your home theater equipment, and then are there behemoth multimedia PCs that gobble down all the HD content you can shove at them while playing Crysis at 80fps and folding proteins in the background. Medion's Akoya P7700 D looks to fall somewhere in between, featuring a strong Intel Core 2 Quad processor, a middling NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 with HDMI output, 1TB of storage to start, and a Blu-ray drive all in a case that has pleasant enough looks but won't be squeezing into many entertainment centers. The system hits Europe this week for a reasonable €699 (about $970), and if you get lucky could be appearing in local Aldi circulars soon.

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    Medion's Akoya P7700 D PC will do your multimedia right on a budget originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 May 2009 08:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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