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I'm part of the way through watching Indie Game: The Movie on Netflix, and today, Geoff uncorked his assessment of Mark of the Ninja,...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

We're only a week from Black Friday, but by the look of things, retailers aren't saving their best deals for next week. Today's highlights include:

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Storage Gaming

With two weeks to go before the release of Far Cry 3, AMD has posted a fresh batch of Catalyst graphics drivers with claimed performance...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix

Add Kingston to the list of SSD vendors offering drives with next-generation NAND. The firm's new SSDNow V300 features flash memory chips built on...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

For those obsessed with silencing their PCs, passive cooling is the holy grail. A cooler can't make any noise if it has no fans...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

While Office 2013 was released to manufacturing just over a month ago, the productivity suite isn't actually due out until the first quarter of...

Type: News story Tags: Software

We've known for a while that Google plans to release its own Maps app for iOS devices. Considering the new Apple Maps' lack of...

Type: News story Tags: Personal tech

The Pick 6 Bloomberg: Dell sales forecast misses estimates amid PC-industry slump and Microsoft's Ballmer says company must combine hardware, software The Telegraph:...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

In spite of this morning's e-mail hijinks, we collected a handful of release announcements in our inbox this week. Biostar, MSI, Spire, and Zotac...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cooling Mobile computing

According to DigiTimes' sources in the supply channel, Thunderbolt has infiltrated about 10% of new PC motherboards and notebooks. There's no indication of...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Displays Mobile computing

It seems our DNS provider, DomainMonger, had some sort of massive outage last night, apparently as part of a conversion about which they didn't notify...

Type: News story Tags: Internet The Tech Report

Samsung has begun producing NAND chips using "10 nanometer-class" process technology. The press release doesn't get more specific about the fabrication process, which...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory

Last week, a Microsoft developer stated that DirectX 11.1 would remain a Windows 8-only feature. That remark was true—but, as it turns out, only...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software

When Microsoft was gearing up to release its Surface tablet, there was a lot of talk about the move possibly alienating the company's hardware partners....

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Yes, there's another Crysis game on the way. Crytek already teased the eye candy and new multiplayer modes earlier this year. Now, the...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Eight is Enough Neowin: Steven Sinofsky denies he wanted more control at Microsoft MSDN Blog on DirectX 11.1 and Windows 7 Fudzilla: Asus...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

PC enclosures are all alike these days. They all have that same cuboid shape with an inverted PSU emplacement, side-facing drive bays, grommeted cable routing...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Flexible displays appear to be inching closer to reality. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is in "the last...

Type: News story Tags: Displays Mobile computing