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Type: News story Tags: Gaming Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Displays Mobile computing Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Valve's Steam distribution system continues to evolve into more of a social gaming platform. After an apparently short beta period entailing some 440,000 testers,...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Talk about an unexpected turnaround. On the heels of its CEO's weirdly implausible allegations about PC game piracy, Ubisoft has announced that it's officially...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

After months of relentless speculation and countless leaks, the iPhone 5's release date is finally official. As The Verge reports, Apple has been sending...

Type: News story Tags: Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

The death knell may be sounding for netbooks. According to a recent story by DigiTimes, two heavyweights of the netbook world, Acer and Asus, both...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Is it me, or is Valve growing more and more eager to break...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming Game consoles

Yeah, that's right, we're shamelessly going to post a FNT asking you to link to pictures of your pets. Feel free to tell us...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

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Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming

We're just 18 days away from the release of Borderlands 2. The game has already made headlines, not least of all because Nvidia decided to...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

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Type: News story Tags: Gaming Windows

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

We learned a couple of months back that HP has no plans for ARM-powered Windows RT tablets—at least not yet. The firm still intends...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech