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Hardware The top motherboard in the new G1.Killer range from Gigabyte leaves the archetypically ugly branding of its predecessors in the dust. The three G1.Killer motherboards - the Assassin, the Sniper and the Guerrilla - are based on the X58 chipset and are a completely new approach from Gigabyte

E3 news

EA’s presentation at the E3 expo this year has been marked by release date announcements for many of their upcoming titles, including Battlefield 3 which will be launching on 25 October this year, before Activision’s Modern Warfare 3 hits shelves

E3 news

A range of announcements came from Ubisoft at this year’s E3 convention, with new entries into the Far Cry, Brothers in Arms and a new Rabbids title for the Xbox Kinect taking the spotlight at Ubi’s presentation, along with Assassin's Creed: Revelations

The rivalry continues Activision’s recent announcement of Call of Duty Elite, a subscription content platform for Call of Duty, is in for further competition from EA’s upcoming Battlefield 3. A recent announcement on the Battlefield blog has revealed that BF 3 will see the launch of a very similar ...

Sounds cool Noctua is showing off five new heatsink designs, all of which are prototypes, at this year’s Computex. Noctua also débuted a new fan design that, for the moment, only comes in a 120mm form factor. The new design is called Focused Flow and focusses the airflow towards the centre of the f...

Yay, more software to install According to a report from the Wall Street Journal Electronic Arts will be unveiling a new digital distribution service similar to Steam at E3 this year. The PC download service will be called Origin and will feature Star Wars MMO The Old Republic as a digital exclusive

I'll just leave this here
New patch incoming, with some haircut DLC...
I am almost finished my second playthrough. Hopefully the Steam folks will have less to download this time around.

They listened

Following the announcement of DRM restrictions that would be in place for the PC version of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and the subsequent fallout, Capcom have announced through the Capcom Unity blog that they will be easing offline restrictions for SSF4: AE

Lodsys have already confirmed that Apple and Google have licensed the patents (and have liability clauses in dev agreements, absolving them for the most part), they're probably only going to be hitting the devs. Google is quiet so far, Apple believes that they were well within their rights to includ...

Keep trollin', trollin', trollin' Patent holding company Lodsys is going ahead with its plan to sue several iOS developers for allegedly infringing on a patent that the company holds, despite Apple stepping to say that their license agreement covers its developers. Several developers have had cases...

A whole new dimension Today LGE South Africa launched the new LG Cinema 3D Smart TVs which use an active screen and passive polarised glasses. LG states that the TV has a 180 degree 3D viewing angle so that viewers are not forced to sit directly in front of the TV. Viewers are also not forced to si...

What will they make of it? Chinese MMO operator Perfect World, which maintains a popular MMO title by the same name, has bought Cryptic Studios from Atari. The Chinese company seems to have paid the sum of about $ 50 million in cash for Cryptic, the studio behind City of Heroes and Star Trek Online

New hardware, I'm told Toshiba has unveiled its two flagship gaming notebooks; the Qosmio X770 and Qosmio X770 3D. The X770 has a quad core processor (no further details are provided) and will come with up to 8GB RAM. The Qosmio packs up to 1.25TB of hard drive space including a Hybrid drive that h...

More details are needed The Wall Street Journal has reported a little more detail on Activision’s subscription-based offering, called Call of Duty Elite, which will be launching for use with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in November this year. The report only offers glimpses of what will be, with ...

Hardware

At first glance the Samsung Galaxy Tab appears to be a half-hearted attempt at competing with the iPad. The 7” screen does not look nearly as impressive as the iPad’s 10” whopper but the smaller screen has the benefit of reducing battery drain

Maximum realism?

The U.S. Army will be using Crytek’s Cryengine 3 to develop a training simulator for its soldiers, a project that will apparently cost $ 57 million. Known as the Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS), it is being developed by a company called Intelligent Decisions

Patch 1.1 is here for those who don't know/don't have the Steam version

http://en.thewitcher.com/patch/

But how long will it take? Comments from Sony’s CFO (chief financial officer) Masaru Kato have confirmed that the recently hacked company is already working on developing the successor to the Playstation 3. While speaking on the company’s expenditure for the upcoming NGP handheld Kato said that res...

Harsher than an 47-hit combo The upcoming Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition for the PC will be launching soon but there are going to be a few restrictions on the game, especially for players without an internet connection, according to the Capcom Unity blog. The game uses Games for Windows Liv...

And next on the bandwagon is... Ubisoft announced yesterday that 2012 would see the launch of free-to-play Ghost Recon Online, a PC-only MMO modelled on the Ghost Recon series of tactical shooters. Existing MMO Age of Conan will also be offering a free-to-play model a little later this year, timed ...

A little vague, isn't it? Sad news for those waiting on the return of the Playstation Store, it will not be returning yet as was (tentatively) announced previously. Sony representatives from both Europe and America have confirmed that while PSN was down for maintenance last night, the Playstation S...

Pricing

Towards the third week of June AMD is expected to launch its new Bulldozer processors which will be released under the FX-Series branding in quad-core, hexa-core and octo-core flavours. At the same time AMD will also release its A-Series APUs (codenamed Llano)

Apple do good? Last week a patent holding company called Lodsys starting sending letters to iOS developers alleging that that they were, by using Apple’s developer APIs, infringing on a patent that Lodsys holds. Apple has now stepped in by contacting Lodsys and insisting that the patent in question...

Sure it was broken but... Role-playing MMO Hellgate London will resurrecting itself following a closed beta which is taking place in America from 3 to 5 June this year. Currently all that is known about the release date is that it will take place in the States after the beta concludes. It will, how...

This may actually work Ubisoft recently announced the formation of a movie and television studio, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, but at the time of announcement had not revealed what their first projects would be. Variety has reported that the fledgling studio will be doing several 3D game-based movies b...