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- Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration
In recent months, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have really managed to squeeze impressive amounts of performance out of their respective web browsers, making page rendering and web applications noticeably snappier with each release. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 lags behind a bit in current benchmarks, but the IE team has a...
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Last by blubje at 2:22 PM on 11/21/09 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat benchmark appears
Finally, a DirectX 11 benchmark based on an actual game. Shacknews writes that GSC Game World has released a freely downloadable benchmarking tool based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat, its upcoming post-apocalyptic survival shooter. The benchmark takes you on several flights through a reconstruction of Prypiat, the abandoned Ukrainian city...
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Last by SPOOFE at 3:04 PM on 11/21/09 - Office 2010 beta is now available
If spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations get you all hot and bothered, then you might be happy to know that Microsoft has released a public beta of its upcoming Office 2010 productivity suite. You can grab the beta right now from the official download page; just click "Get It Now"...
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Last by Coran Fixx at 10:54 AM on 11/21/09 - Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising demo hits the web
With the surge of new and exciting games coming out this season, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, demos aren't an extinct species just yet. As Shacknews reports, Codemasters has just released a demo of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, its tactical military first-person shooter that came out last month.
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:31 PM on 11/18/09 - GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 beta hits the web
A little over a month ago, Adobe announced plans to release a beta of its GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 player "later this year." Well, we're now later in this year, and as planned, the beta has become available for download from the Adobe Labs site. Adobe offers versions of the...
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Last by insulin_junkie72 at 5:14 PM on 11/18/09 - Borderlands zombie expansion shown on video
Completed Gearbox Entertainment's Borderlands? Sick of the multiplayer mode? Don't uninstall the game just yet. Shacknews reported last week that an expansion pack entitled The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was on its way for consoles on November 24, with a PC version to follow some time later. Well,...
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Last by Grahambo at 1:59 AM on 11/19/09 - Microsoft warns of Windows 7 zero-day flaw
Is this the first zero-day security vulnerability in Microsoft's new operating system? According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a flaw through which attackers could crash Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Reportedly, exploiting the flaw can bog down those operating systems "so thoroughly that the...
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Last by TO11MTM at 7:58 PM on 11/17/09 - Deal of the week: Crysis bonanza
Crytek's Crysis and Crysis Warhead are infamous for pushing hardware to its limits even today, but they're also pretty swanky games once you get to play them. And despite their age, both have graphics that are still up there with (if not better than) some of the prettiest cross-platform...
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Last by Jigar at 11:01 AM on 11/16/09 - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC to include DirectX 11 support
As you may or may not know, while DICE's original Battlefield: Bad Company game was a console exclusive, the sequel—creatively entitled Battlefield: Bad Company 2—will hit PCs on March 2, 2010, the same day as the console launch. Not content with simple cross-platform development, DICE has gone ahead and implemented DirectX...
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Last by jasonalwaysready at 10:46 AM on 11/16/09 - Modern Warfare 2 saw biggest entertainment launch ever
Step aside, Grand Theft Auto IV. As the AP reports, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has taken the crown of biggest entertainment launch ever, racking up 4.7 million sales within its first 24 hours of availability in the United States and United Kingdom alone. Rockstar North's GTA...
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Last by willyolio at 1:53 AM on 11/16/09 - Microsoft to get some Wolfram in its Bing
Wolfram Research's Wolfram|Alpha "computational knowledge engine" isn't meant to be a Google-killer, but it might just help turn Microsoft's Bing into one. Microsoft has announced on the Bing search blog that it has partnered up with Wolfram Research to integrate some Wolfram|Alpha features inside its search engine.
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Last by Pettytheft at 8:37 AM on 11/12/09 - Zune HD gets free 3D games
Have a Zune HD? Well, you should now be able to put the 3D capabilities of the player's Tegra system-on-a-chip to the test. As Engadget reports, Microsoft has added a handful of free 3D games to the Zune Marketplace today. In the words of the Microsoft press release, titles include:
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Last by eitje at 3:23 PM on 11/12/09 - Poll: What will be the best PC game of the season?
It's that time of year again. Days are shorter, the weather is colder, folks are putting up decorations and prepping for the holiday shopping rush, and a new batch of games is coming out. Well, unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case you're probably enjoying long, warm...
Poll Question: • What will be the best PC game of the season?
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Last by zima at 9:38 AM on 11/16/09 - Amazon releases Kindle app for Windows
No need to shell out 260 bucks for a Kindle reading device—so long as you don't mind reading books off of your PC monitor or laptop display, that is. Amazon has released a Windows application that lets...
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Last by bender at 3:36 PM on 11/11/09 - European Commission holds up Sun, Oracle deal
Remember how Oracle and Sun shook hands on a $7.4-billion merger this spring? The U.S. Department of Justice okayed the deal in August, but now, the European Commission has thrown a wrench into the works. As the Associated Press reports, the Commission has issued a "statement of objections"...
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Last by RagingDragon at 8:44 PM on 11/11/09 - CyberLink speeds up photo, video apps with GPUs
A year on from the release of Elemental's Badaboom, GPU-compute acceleration for consumer video apps seems to have creeped into the mainstream. Earlier today, CyberLink and Nvidia announced "unique new features and significantly improved performance" now available in CyberLink's suite of photo- and video-editing applications. The acceleration features span...
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Last by stmok at 11:43 AM on 11/10/09 - Shooting my way through Borderlands
"Okay, just one more mission..." That phrase usually preceded me going to bed far too late through most of last week. Yes, I was bitten by the Borderlands bug. For a total of around 20 hours across a few evenings, I shot, electrocuted, set on fire, disintegrated, and drove through...
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Last by lilbuddhaman at 7:41 PM on 11/16/09 - Epic lets devs make standalone Unreal Engine 3 titles for free
id Software often gets credit for opening the source code of old game engines a few years after their release. Epic Games has now pulled a comparable feat, except with two major differences: the new Unreal Development Kit doesn't include game-engine source code, but it does give developers all of...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 1:01 PM on 11/06/09
