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Rock Band 2 Street Date OK to Break
Apparently MTV Games/Harmonix are cool with you getting your hands on Rock Band 2 early (breaking the September 14th street date), giving the player lucky enough to get their hands on it early a little “props” at the bottom of their main menu (See screenshot above). Pretty cool actually… it’s always nice to see a company [...]
Continue reading...Simple Virtual Desktops on Vista – Desktops 1.0 Released
Friday, August 22, 2008
Virtual Desktops in Vista has been a sore point for massive multi-taskers since Linux made virtual desktops cool 114 years ago and Apple took it mainstream with OS X 10.5 and Spaces. We’ve been on the hunt for a good Virtual Desktop application for Vista for quite a while; we wrote about Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager [...]
Continue reading...GDC: Grand Theft Auto IV PC Screenshots
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
We all saw this coming after Grand Theft Auto IV sold a billion copies and everyone decided that PC Gaming actually wasn’t dying after all, but here it is, officially now, Grand Theft Auto IV PC screenshots. Some of the enhancements are improved draw distance, faster load times, high-res support and “high res textures”, although looking [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Bundle Delayed a Month
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Bah, it looks like the Rock Band 2 complete bundle (game + instruments) will be delayed an entire month until October 19th and only the game itself will be available at the original September 14th release date with the option to buy the instruments separately. Unfortunately for gamers that don’t already have the complete Rock Band [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA Released PhysX-Enabled Drivers and Demos
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Right after we got done covering the news that the upcoming 177.79 Forceware drivers from NVIDIA would add the PhysX physics engine support, NVIDIA made liars out of us and released that PhysX engine support in their new 177.83 drivers… so burn… on us I guess… Either way, getting tasty physics in games via your existing [...]
Continue reading...KDE 4.1 Released – The Release KDE Users Were Waiting For
Thursday, July 31, 2008
When KDE 4.0 was first released with major portions of the desktop rewritten and pieces of the desktop (from a user’s perspective) still left mostly raw or in some cases semi-functional, there was a large user lash-back to the “massive rewrite” approach taken; some calling to brand KDE 3.x and taking that branch forward instead [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 3, Screenshots and New Theme Proposals
Sunday, July 27, 2008
We don’t normally start tracking the Ubuntu releases until they hit about the Alpha 3 stage; after all the big software updates have made it in, any theme work is mostly done and the final release is starting to take shape. Well, that happened yesterday: Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Alpha 3 was released.
Continue reading...WordPress 2.6 Released – New Feature Summary
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Publishers rejoice, WordPress 2.6 has been released and while I initially anticipated it to be a bug-fix release to follow 2.5.1, it looks like the WordPress team has snuck in quite a few sexy features. We’ll take a look at each below piece-by-piece which are reviewed in the WordPress 2.6 feature movie here. Outline Gears – Turbo [...]
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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