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Metro 2033 and MSI Big Bang winners... claim your prizes! by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:43 PM on September 7, 2010 Good news, everyone. We've drawn the seven winners from last month's Metro 2033 and MSI Big Bang Xpower giveaway. Let's start with our grand prize... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Gaming	18
Gearbox, 2K Games will release Duke Nukem Forever by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:34 PM on September 3, 2010 Those recent rumors about Gearbox taking over Duke Nukem Forever development were true. According to Shacknews, 2K Games has officially revealed that the... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	62
A few hours remain in our Metro 2033 and Big Bang Xpower giveaway by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:10 AM on September 2, 2010 Almost a week has passed since we kicked off our latest contest, in which we're giving our loyal readers a chance to win one... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Gaming The Tech Report	7
Epic's iPhone demo hits App Store, looks gorgeous by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:19 PM on September 1, 2010 That Unreal Engine tech demo for the iPhone wasn't just a showpiece for His Steveness' latest keynote. It's available now on the App Store... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	53
iOS 4.1 promises to fix iPhone issues, expand gaming for new Touch by Geoff Gasior — 2:00 PM on September 1, 2010 Many were expecting Apple to announce a revamped iPod lineup at its "music event" this morning. However, before tending to the MP3 players that... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Personal tech	21
Deal of the week: A cheap GeForce GTX 465 with a free game by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:39 PM on August 27, 2010 Everyone likes free games, right? We see Nvidia has teamed up with Newegg for a neat little sale, as part of which you can grab... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming	63
Valve could make Half-Life movie itself by Geoff Gasior — 9:15 AM on August 27, 2010 Movie adaptations of video games tend to be pretty poor. They've almost never been helmed by the folks who actually created the games, though.... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	50
Win one of six Metro 2033 copies or an MSI Big Bang mobo by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:00 PM on August 26, 2010 Hot on the heels of our last two giveaways, in which we distributed a motherlode of game licenses and some shiny hardware, we're... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Gaming The Tech Report	72
THQ unapologetic for locking used-game buyers out of multiplayer by Geoff Gasior — 12:13 PM on August 26, 2010 A battle is brewing over used-game sales. THQ has begun gating multiplayer access to some new games with one-time codes that effectively lock out... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	110
No Linux version of Steam in the works, says Valve by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:10 PM on August 23, 2010 So much for that Linux version of Steam we'd been led to expect by a hidden code snippet. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Valve's... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix	49
Video clip teases Portal 2 co-op by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on August 23, 2010 Not content to give us fresh puzzles, more chill-inducing GLaDOS dialogue, and a new character voiced by a British comedian, Valve has built a... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	5
Torchlight II trailer teases co-op multiplayer by Geoff Gasior — 1:40 PM on August 20, 2010 Torchlight seemingly came out of nowhere to become one of the most talked-about PC games of the last year. The $20 dungeon crawler is... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	19
Portal 2 primed for February 9, 2011 by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:34 AM on August 19, 2010 Game release dates are sprouting up all over the place lately. After Crysis 2 and Rage, it's now Portal 2's turn. GameInformer says Valve... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	37
Microsoft developing social flight simulator by Geoff Gasior — 10:45 AM on August 17, 2010 Microsoft is preparing to get back into the flight simulator genre with Flight, a new game revealed prior to the the Gamescon trade show in... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	18
Lost Planet 2 to have DirectX 11 eye candy by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:17 PM on August 16, 2010 Add another title to the growing list of DirectX 11 games. Shacknews reports that the PC edition of Capcom's Lost Planet 2, which is due... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	17
Winners crowned in our hardware photography contest by Geoff Gasior — 2:35 PM on August 16, 2010 After painstakingly poring over the deluge of pictures submitted for our hardware photography contest, we've settled on our favorites. Judging was difficult because... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming The Tech Report	43
Rage, Crysis 2 release dates set by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on August 16, 2010 Two of next year's hotly anticipated first-person shooters now have official release dates. As Shacknews reports, id Software announced at QuakeCon that Rage will... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	50
New id engine will only be licensed under Bethesda umbrella by Geoff Gasior — 11:13 AM on August 13, 2010 id Software has a long history of licensing its game engines to third-party developers. According to CEO Todd Hollenshead, however, that practice will change... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	20

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Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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