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  • Gran Turismo 5 has optional 10GB hard drive install Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 8:06AMGran Turismo 5 is due for release on November 3rd, with standard, collector’s edition, and a console bundle available. With two months still to go though, more details of the game are slowly filtering through to gamers. We’ve already been surprised by the news that the game will include a track editor as well as 3D [...]
  • Halo: Reach pirates will be permabanned, says Microsoft Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 6:36PMGamers who have decided to forgo the 3-week wait and download illegitimate copies of Halo: Reach will suffer some less than pleasant consequences.
  • Linux Mint 9 offers new software manager, backup tool Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 5:26PMThe Linux Mint team has released the final version of Linux Mint 9 ("Isadora"), based on Ubuntu 10.04. Linux Mint 9 features a new software manager with 30,000 packages, a new backup tool, and menu and interface improvements, says the team.
  • Target stores country-wide will soon accept video game trade-ins Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 3:51PMTarget will now be accepting trade-ins of used video games and more, the retail store announced earlier this week.
  • Blockbuster in plans to file for bankruptcy Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:51PMAlthough Blockbuster will not be liquidating its stores like Hollywood Video and GameCrazy, the rental chain is finally succumbing to some of the pressure dealt by upstarts Netflix and Redbox. According to the LA Times, Blockbuster is preparing to file for bankruptcy next month.
  • Microsoft to boost Xbox Live voice quality in time for the Kinect Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 10:36AMAudiophiles rejoice! The dulcet tones of that prepubescent mouth breather moistly shouting gay and racial slurs directly into your cochlea through your Xbox Live earpiece is about to get even clearer. Microsoft has just announced that they plan to improve the technical audio quality of voice communication on Xbox Live in their autumn system update, which [...]
  • Crysis 2 Limited Edition bonuses revealed in video Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 9:21AMIf you’ve been wondering whether to pre-order the Limited Edition version of Crysis 2, publisher EA has released a new video to entice you to spend the extra cash. Here’s the extras included in the Limited Edition: Bonus XP: Day 1 access to 5 preset classes Scar Weapon Skin: Scar assault rifle digital camouflage Weapon Attachment: Day 1 access [...]
  • The Bible makes its MMO debut in September Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:21PMThe Bible is about to get a lot more interesting. German developer FiAA is set to release The Bible Online, a browser-based massively-multiplayer RPG, on September 6. Allowing players to re-enact parts of the Bible over a number of chapters, the game will launch with Chapter 1: The Heroes, where players must take control of Abraham and his descendants on their journey to the promised land.
  • Spartan races against time in newest live action Halo: Reach trailer Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:51PMA young Spartan darts through a chaotic battlefield in an attempt to “Deliver Hope” in Halo: Reach's newest live action trailer titled. Unlike the first live action trailer, “Birth of a Spartan,” this one comes fully packed with classic Halo action from Elites to Banshees to the popular new Halo: Reach feature, jetpacks.
  • Angry Birds landing on PlayStation this Fall with 120 levels, Palm version now available Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 4:06PMThe iPhone game that sold nearly seven million copies in less than nine months is coming to the PlayStation, UK publisher Chillingo confirmed yesterday. In addition, Angry Birds landed on Palm’s phones on Tuesday. The latter port supports the Palm Pre and Pre Plus running webOS 1.4.5 and “additional availability” is reportedly coming soon. The PlayStation [...]
  • Sony says PlayStation 4 will still have a Blu-Ray drive Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:21PMWhen Sony first revealed the PlayStation 3 way back in 2006 (has it really been so long) they said they expected it to have a ten year console life. It seemed crazy at the time, but they’re actually already half way through it, with the PlayStation 4 not even hinted at yet. By 2016, though, [...]
  • Playboy MMO to launch later this year Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 12:51PMPlayboy is launching a game label later this year that offers “high-quality online video games to male gamers,” according to the press release. Partnering with Bigpoint - the developer behind the new Battlestar Galactica MMO -, the play label will launch with Poisonville, an MMO that drops players into a crime-filled city where they must complete a series of missions to counteract corruption ...
  • The Sony PlayStation’s buttons get explained by their designer Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:06AMYou may never have given it much thought, but there’s a reason why every video game console’s face buttons are different from one another: patents. Even if Sony had wanted to, they couldn’t have adopted the NES’ “a-b” button convention, and likewise, Microsoft couldn’t have taken the PlayStation’s geometric shape convention for the Xbox. It turns [...]
  • Zynga hated by City of San Francisco for “Mafia Wars” marketing stunt Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:06AMThe city of San Francisco is cleaning up the mess of some mafia wars this morning, and while that might conjure the image of swarthy wise guy corpses riddled with tommy gun holes, the real perp is decidedly less Soprano-esque: Zynga, the makers of the popular Facebook games Farmville and Mafia Wars. Yes, it seems that [...]
  • Fallout mod turns computer into an old-timey radio Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 3:06AMYouTuber Robbaz must be pretty excited for Fallout: New Vegas because he put together a sweet case mod celebrating the game before it was even released. The mod places an AMD Phenom II computer into a the body of a radio from 1938, which means it would fit in perfectly in the world of Fallout. [...]
  • Misleading Atari game box art from the 70s and 80s Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 6:21PMLast week we found out Square Enix was in trouble with the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority for using PS3 visuals in an Xbox 360 advert. There was a difference between the graphics in both games, but the issue was nowhere near as bad as games released in the 70s and 80s. Runic is running a series [...]
  • * Should Daemons Just Be Frontends to the OS Auditing System? * Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 5:30PMI came across a news entry at Phoronix about a new init replacement, systemd, and curiously started a read into the surprisingly heavy matter. Systemd is by no means as simple as upstart. It does far more things far more straight and in more detail. The differences are so significant that they enforce quite different configuration strategies. One can argue for both, depending on the goal to ...
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. double-pack $10 on Steam this weekend Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 8:06AMIf you are looking for a game to play this weekend, then the Steam Weekend Deal may interest you. For just $10 you can bag yourself both S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chenobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat as a bundle. That’s 75% off the normal price of the games. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are first-person shooters, but introduce [...]
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow hits Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 5 Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 3:21PMPublisher Konami has confirmed that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 5. Based on the Castlevania franchise that earned fame on the NES, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow sports a more contemporary concept based around hacking and slashing your way through the game. It should be much more than yet [...]
  • Video: Portal 2 being played at GamesCom Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:07AMPortal 2 isn’t out until February 9th next year, but that hasn’t stopped Valve making a playable version available at GamesCom this week. The video above gives us an idea of what to expect from Stephen Merchant’s efforts as the voice of your little helper. It’s funny, but it may also become annoying depending on how [...]
  • University of Florida to offer StarCraft management class Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 3:21PMThe University of Florida is teaching a new course that will make you want to go back to school or if you are in college make a transfer. Technology Review is reporting that a management course will use StarCraft for teaching lessons about time and resource management. 21st Century Skills in StarCraft or EME2040 is not available [...]
  • Lord of the Rings Online goes free-to-play September 10 Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 1:36PMBack in June Warner Bros. announced that the Lord of the Rings Online MMO would be switching to a free-to-play model. Those choosing to play for free can purchase virtual goods, expansions, races etc., while paid-subscriptions will continue as a VIP Program. There will be a range of benefits for choosing the paid option including unlimited [...]
  • Xbox 360 Avatars made more realistic for Kinect Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 3:06AMRare, the developer behind the original Xbox 360 Avatars, are redesigning the Avatars for Kinect due to issues regarding the figures' cartoony proportions.
  • Remote access software embraces mobile devices, new desktop platforms Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 6:26PMNoMachine announced details about an upcoming version 4.0 of its X Windows-based, Linux-compatible NX Remote Access software.
  • Henri Bergius on Akademy, MidGard, Open Collaboration Services and GeoClue Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 10:30AMAt Akademy, we ran in to many interesting people, including "random motorcycle adventurer" Henri Bergius, who is also a board member for Akademy co-organizers COSS among his many other free software related activities. Read on for the full conversation.
  • Interpreting email error messages Saturday, July 3, 2010 @ 10:31PMHanover - Electronic mail often goes astray. Fortunately there's a system in place to notify the sender about potential causes of the failed delivery. The notices provided by the mailer daemon aren't always as informative as one might hope, but t...
  • Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo] Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 2:26PM# dealzmodo We've got excellent deals today, but you had better act quickly! That Daemon Tools deal is a one day only sale. And of course, there are lots of great gaming deals, with all of the new systems being released. Enjoy! More »
  • Physical vs virtual: What's your poison? Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 6:15AMPower management and VDI Sysadmin Blog Virtualization is not new - mainframes have been doing it for ages, and other non-x86 operating systems have been slicing up servers for quite some time as well. Yet if I had to pin a single IT label on the first decade of this century, I'd tag it as the decade of x86 virtualization.…
  • Fracked Again Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 1:26PMHot water: The old flaming faucet trick gets another workout in the hydrofracking flick Gasland , screening Friday at the Palace.
  • Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server Sunday, June 6, 2010 @ 10:42PMVincent Danen simplifies the steps to setting up Dropbox to work even with a GUI-less Linux computer. Dropbox allows you to synchronize files across multiple machines.
  • Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server Tuesday, May 18, 2010 @ 7:18AMVincent Danen simplifies the steps to setting up Dropbox to work even with a GUI-less Linux computer. Dropbox allows you to synchronize files across multiple machines.
  • Linux Mint 9 features new software manager, backup tool Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 8:49AMThe Linux Mint team has released a development RC (release candidate) version of Linux Mint 9 ("Isadora"), based on Ubuntu 10.04. Linux Mint 9 features a new software manager with 30,000 packages, a new backup tool, and menu and interface improvements, says the team.
  • Critical Reception: Nintendo's Picross 3D Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 7:20AMThis week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to Nintendo's puzzler Picross 3D, which reviews describe as "just too clever for a DS puzzle game fan to pass up." Picross 3D currently earns a score of 81 out of 100 at Metacritic.com. 1UP's Ray Barnholt gives Picross 3D a grade of A-. "[Nintendo] made nonograms extra fun with the Picross series, where you literally chip away at ...
  • ModNation Racers Review Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 5:06PMModNation Racers (PS3) Is there a new king of kart racers?
  • RHEL 6 beta drops Xen Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 8:59AMThe first test version of Red Hat's Linux distribution is the first to focus solely on the KVM hypervisor
  • Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 6 Beta Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 9:01AMMajor themes in the latest release include pervasive virtualization, improved scalability and availability, and increased power efficiency, Red Hat says.
  • Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 6 beta Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 11:31AMRed Hat today released a beta version of Enterprise Linux 6, and is asking for feedback on what it called the most ambitious and important operating platform releases to date.
  • Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 6 beta Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 11:31AMDavid Neal, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 21 April 2010 at 17:15:00 Update features improved virtualisation and security Red Hat today released a beta version of Enterprise Linux 6, and is asking for feedback on what it called the “most ambitious and important operating platform releases to date”. RHEL 6 includes more virtualisation tools, as well as improved scalability and availability. New time ...
  • 10 Tools To Add Some Spice To Your UNIX Shell Scripts Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 8:43AMNixCraft: "There are some misconceptions that shell scripts are only for a CLI environment. You can easily use various tools to write GUI and/or network (socket) scripts under KDE or Gnome desktops."
  • TVLogic LUM-560W LCD is 2160p Behemoth Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 1:14PMHigh definition goes above 1080p, Virginia. While Blu-Ray offers pixel perfect clarity and amazing crispness on top of the line sets hooked up to Blu-Ray players, it’s hardly the upper spectrum of visual fidelity. Ask the RED guys, who offer cameras that film in glorious 4K x 2K, or 2160p. Wait a decade and that’s [...]
  • Sandia National Laboratories Adopts Bright Cluster Manager to Manage Departmental Clusters Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 2:01AMBright Cluster Manager to manage Cray CX1 and other departmental clusters at Sandia National Laboratories
  • The $0.69 iPad stand from Office Depot Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 7:44AMThe iPad may be seen as cheap at $499, but if you want to add a keyboard dock ($69), basic stand ($29), and case ($39), the costs soon mount up. Andrew DeVigal was looking for an iPad stand solution, but didn’t want to pay the high prices official solutions cost. So he started looking around. His [...]
  • SlideHD offers widescreen viewing to Flip Video line Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 3:44PMThe Flip Video product line has a new addition that puts video into sharper focus with a new form factor to boot. The Flip SlideHD, allows consumers to capture up to 4 hours of HD video or view up to 12 hours of content, including photos, thanks to the device’s 16GB of memory. Watching video [...]
  • Best Buy confirms NOOK coming to stores April 18th Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 4:14PMLast week we reported that Engadget had a rumor that Best Buy would soon offer Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, NOOK, for sale. Best Buy has now confirmed they will offer the NOOK beginning April 18th. As Best Buy put it, the date is “just in time for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation gift season.” Previous to [...]
  • A photographer’s view of the iPad Friday, April 9, 2010 @ 6:14PMJosh Root over at our sister site Photo.net has put up what he classes as a “short-term hands on” review of the iPad. But it actually turns out to be a quite in-depth look at Apple’s tablet. As well as looking at the good and bad stuff, he also covers what the iPad is, and what [...]
  • New DISH Network DVR is SlingLoaded Friday, April 9, 2010 @ 5:14PMBack in September 2007 we reported that Echostar, now operating as DISH Network Corporation, purchased Sling Media. Sling Media manufactures the Slingbox which allows consumers to connect a video and audio source to an Internet-connected box to enable the ability to watch television while online via a computer or handheld device. Considering DISH Network provides television set boxes [...]
  • Drobo FS is part NAS, part RAID Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 10:59AMIt’s been a long time coming, but Data Robotics has finally delivered with a networked version of its popular line of redundant storage hard drive bays. Meet the Drobo FS. The Drobo FS is a RAID-like storage device aimed at the less tech savvy. It operates similarly to RAID: you push a couple hard drives in, [...]
  • The Ultimate Steampunk Office makes everything analog, right down to the USB Stick Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 6:59AMThe difference between good steampunk and bad steampunk is that good steampunk re-imagines contemporary electronics as a retro-futuristic device, plausibly constructed of the technology of the late 19th century. Bad steampunk just covers it in brass and cogs. I’d qualify the Victorian Organ Command Desk by Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum as the former: this [...]
  • ICD announces would-be iPad killer, the Android driven Gemini tablet Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 6:44AMThe iPad is going to be the tablet to beat for the foreseeable future, but there may be a dark horse in the running for ultimate tablet supremacy, if ICD’s latest announcement is anything to go by: the company has just announced the ICD Gemini, and it looks like a bonafide iPad challenger. The Gemini uses [...]
  • Hori’s LCD-3 display straps on to your PS3 Slim Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 6:29AMAll you have to do is look at the rabid fan community around console modder Ben Heck to realize there is a sizable fascination with taking clunky gaming consoles and turning them into portables, if not quite handhelds. Unfortunately, the process is often expensive, time consuming and not for the faint of heart. What if you [...]