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Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Gaming

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Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Well, this should be fun. In celebration of the Never Settle game bundle deal, the folks at AMD offered us some Radeon video...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming The Tech Report

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Type: News story Tags: Windows

When the mainstream press talks video games, they usually get it horribly wrong. That's why I was expecting to roll my eyes at Time...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

At the BUILD conference last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer boasted about...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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

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Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix

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Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming

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

All of EA's hard work to make Origin comparable to Steam seems to paying off—but, at least this week, not quite in the way some...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Windows is under new management. In a surprise executive shakeup earlier today, Microsoft announced...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows

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Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming Operating systems

We're taking a little break from our usual slew of storage deals to bring you a couple of budget case bargains this week. Antec's famous...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Windows