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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:30
From the other side of the world comes a report that Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will be released to manufacturing in April 2009, roughly a year after SP1. The Malaysian website TechARP has a pretty good track record with this sort of prediction, and my sources tell me that schedule sounds about right.
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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 01:23
An anonymous reader writes "Now that Intel has unleashed its next-generation Core i7 processors, all eyes are turned to AMD and its incoming wave of 45nm CPUs. To get a feel for AMD's future competitiveness, The Tech Report has taken a pair of 2.7GHz 45nm Opterons (with 75W power envelopes) and put them through the paces against Intel Xeons and older, 65nm Opterons in an extensive suite of performance and power efficiency tests — from Cinema 4D and SPECjbb to computational fluid dynamics and a custom XML handling benchmark.
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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 00:34
The market share of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer dropped under the 70% mark last month for the first time since Web metrics vendor Net Applications Inc. started keeping tabs on browsers, the company said today.
IE slipped to a 69.8% share, down from October's 71.3% and off 7.6 percentage points in the past year.
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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 00:00
In this game ( free games to play) you play Tic Tac Toe with another player. The play area is a grid of 3 x 3 spaces. The ...
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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 00:00
You are trapped in a room full of bad guys. You need to shoot your way out. The moment they stick ...
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 23:43
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 23:43
In action movies, when the hero has only minutes before the readout on the bomb counts down to zero, with many miles to drive ( driving games) through a congested city in order to get there in time, he'll just ignore traffic lights and floor it. Wouldn't it be great if you could do the same thing on the Internet if your torrents don't download fast enough? Now you can. Maybe.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 23:15
When 1UP FM co-host Nick Suttner and I shambled into work today, barely functioning after a Thanksgiving weekend overstuffed with food, we didn't expect to immediately be confronted by the living undead. Such are the risks we brave every day for you when entering the haunted grounds of 1UP Manor.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 22:54
Ponca City, We love you writes "A study has confirmed that many people see human facial features in the front ends of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars. Forty study participants assessed cars based on a system known as geometric morphometrics by viewing high-resolution, 3D computer reconstructions and printed images of 38 actual 2004-06 car ( driving games) models and rating each model on 19 traits such as dominance, maturity, gender, and friendliness, and if they liked the car ( driving games).
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 20:29
CWmike writes "The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating. 'We think 500,000 is a ballpark figure,' said Macalintal when asked the size of the new botnet.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 20:07
PCGH reveals the advantages and disadvantages of the PC version of GTA4. Poor shadows and textures contra good particle effects and big range of visibility.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 20:00
 A UK Daily Mail online (free-games-online) report puts Eidos parent company SCi Entertainment actively out on the sale block again. Though no specifics are given, it says that the company has received preliminary inquiries from Electronic Arts and Ubisoft.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 19:52
Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth has reassured fans that a patch for the Xbox Live Arcade title is on the way, hoping to allay concerns over the game ( free games to play) 's still-buggy Xbox Live co-op component.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 19:32
The Games of 2009We count down to January 1 with a month of exclusive game ( free games to play) previews.continued... By 1UP Staff, 12/01/2008
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 19:14
The Bush administration and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are poised to square off in front of a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday to litigate the constitutionality of legislation immunizing the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants. " 'The legislation is an attempt to give the president the authority to terminate claims that the president has violated the people's Fourth Amendment rights,' the EFF's [Cindy] Cohn says.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 19:00
If you didnt put on at least 8 pounds your Thanksgiving sucked.
- Dude, antimatter
- The geek A-Team!
- You hot for cyber
Monday?
- People ate gross stuff
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:34
PC World - So long red ring of death? That's what some are asking now that slightly (and stealthily) revised Xbox 360s are finally trickling into the market. New on the inside, anyway, though without so much as a twinge of marketing pomp and circumstance.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:26
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:25
From War Herald:
"The update you've all been waiting for, 1.0.6, is almost here! We wanted to thank everyone who tested and provided feedback on this update's content.
On Tuesday, 12/2/08 all servers will be brought offline to begin the update. North American servers will be brought down at 6:30AM EST with Oceanic servers to follow at 9:00AM EST.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:24
Media magnate Sumner Redstone has sold his majority stake in Mortal Kombat publisher Midway for a paltry $100,000, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Analyst Michael Pachter once estimated that Redstone spent between $500 and $700 million on Midway stock since 1983. But Midway's stock price has plummeted in recent years, falling from $23 a share in 2005 to 38 cents last Friday.
Redstone's controlling interest was sold to investor Mark Thomas for $0.0012 a share.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:21
PC World - What if a game ( free games to play) had to be activated at the store before you could use it?
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:21
PC World - The Nintendo Wii was the number one selling item this Black Friday, and tech sales in general blasted through grim economic expectations.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:21
PC World - Want EA's Spore for 20 bucks? The new Spore Creepy and Cute Parts expansion pack free? The Xbox 360 Arcade with Guitar Hero III for $270? Have a look at Ian Paul's "20 Hot Cyber Monday Deals" for a general link grab with a few helpful game ( free games to play) tips, and the following complementary list for some last minute extras.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:21
Work continues on Battlefield Heroes despite the recent closure of the game ( free games to play) 's beta, and producer Aleksander Grondal recently talked it up with Gamasutra. Grondal isn't a Battlefield developer veteran, instead having previously worked on Anarchy online ( free-games-online) and Dreamfall at Funcom. As such, he brings a different mentality to the team working on Heroes, which he claims is a mixture of half newcomers to the series and half previous Battlefield developers.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:20
Final Fantasy CCEoT 'Debut' trailer
Square Enix announced Monday that the Wii and DS-bridging Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time will arrive on North American shelves in "Spring 2009." While that's not quite as specific as we'd hoped, it's better than the previous release date of simply "sometime in 2009." For more info on the multiplatform title, check out our
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:19
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:54
Kjella writes "A little over a week ago we discussed the EU's forbidding of disconnecting users from the Internet. But even after having passed with an 88% approval in the European Parliament, and passing through the European Commission, it was all undone last week. The European Council, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, removed the amendment before passing the Telecom package. This means that there's now nothing stopping France's controversial 'three strikes' law from going into effect.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:43
 Click the image above to check out our Games of 2009 exclusive preview countdown.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:40
 As an English major, I've always been excited by the prospect of mixing my love of videogames with my love of fine literature.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:27
From the Macintosh to the Wii there have been some great Star Wars video games, and this list names the ten best of all time.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:21
The Chinese-developed, browser-based MMO Aurora Blade has been accused of containing numerous examples of blatant plagiarism by fans of Ragnarok online ( free-games-online).
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:17
In a double dose of info the Uncharted sequel we all knew was coming has been confirmed along with a few bread crumbs of info on the sophomore chapter for the young series.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:03
Ian Lamont writes "BitTorrent has responded to a report in the Register that suggested uTorrent's switch to UDP could cause an Internet meltdown. Marketing manager Simon Morris described the Register report as 'utter nonsense,' and said that the switch to uTP — a UDP-based implementation of the BitTorrent protocol — was intended to reduce network congestion.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 16:51
Looks like the Penny Arcade Expo isn't the only convention intent on expanding. The game (free games to play) Developers Conference is heading overseas. GDC organizer Think Services announced that GDC Europe will be debuting August 17 - 19 in Cologne, Germany. It'll be run in conjunction with the the new consumer games event GamesCom, which recently changed its days to August 19-23. The event joins other Think Services such as the San Francisco GDC, Austin GDC as well as the newly announced GDC Canada.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 16:50
Though there's been no official word for a while and developer Funcom recently laid off some staff, the studio is still planning to deliver the long-promised Xbox 360 edition of its mature MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 16:12
gadgetopia is one of many who wrote to tell us about the many rumors flying around that Microsoft may be aiming another deal at Yahoo, this time for $20 billion. The story was apparently originally broken by the UK-based site Times online ( free-games-online), and contained lots of details about the supposed deal. Since then, Ross Levinsohn, reported to be part of the new management team, has denied there is any truth to these rumors, leading to questions about where all of this supposed information came from.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 16:00
Based on an upcoming DreamWorks animated movie, Monsters vs Aliens allows you to play as various characters, including The Missing Link, the macho half-ape, half-fish; the gelatinous, indestructible and always hungry B.O.B.; Ginormica, the 49-foot-11-inch tall woman and Insectosaurus, the 350-foot tall grub.
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 15:49
A sequel to Naughty Dog's PlayStation 3 action title Uncharted: Drake's Fortune has been confirmed by way of a video teasing an upcoming trailer.
The trailer will debut on Spike TV's 2008 Video game (free games to play) Awards ceremony on Sunday, December 14.
Following the original's 2007 release, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells told Three Speech that fans could "pretty much count on us doing one in the near future."
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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 15:43
Many would claim that DRM is bad, and perhaps rightly so. But it's unfortunately a necessary evil in the videogame biz (at least it is if you ask almost any company this side of Sins of a Solar Empire publisher Stardock). SecuROM in particular is frequently employed by developers in order to prevent pirates from illegally playing their games.
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