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PC Hardware EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Peripherally Speaking: Able Planet PS500MM Headset 10 I recently got a headset to review! I don't know exactly how much there is to say about a headset in an intro, but I'll try anyway. So, it's got a microphone, and it's got some cushy ear cushions... Ken Levine likes PC gaming, would like to have it back 42 Ken Levine, creative director for 2K Boston, recently told Forbes that he wants PC gaming to find its stride again. The only problems were the ones he enumerated in the interview – it takes... 1337: Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD and Intel forming PC Gaming Alliance, Voltron 85 According to a San Jose Mecury News writer, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, AMD and others will be making an announcement at GDC next week that they will all be forming a "PC Gaming Alliance"... Coolmasters new CMX cases make gamers drool 20 In the PC gaming world, there are about a million choices on what case to buy. Do you buy a store bought PC? Not me. Do you build it? Of course. Do you cut and slave to mod out your own case so t... Brace yourself: Crysis system requirements released 75 Actually, the system specs aren’t nearly as bad as I thought they’d be. On the other hand, it looks like I’ll barely be able to run Crysis at all, and many of you will probabl... E3 2007: New range of Commodore gaming PCs to launch in US in Q3 of this year 18 The brand name Commodore may not mean a lot to anyone who's got into gaming over the last couple of console generations, but to wizened old gamers of a certain age *cough*Yes me*cough*, its m... BioShock system specs released: you have a 360 to fall back on, right? 68 The day of judgment has arrived; can your PC still get the job done or will your Xbox 360 game collection get $60 bigger (or more if you splurge on the Limited Edition) come this August? You&... Virtual reality medical advancements 12 No, hospitals aren't ripping off the game Trauma Center, they've actually been working on these medical projects for at least a decade:  Scientists have created a computer program th... Commodore is bringing it back 22 Remember the Commodore Computer, the definitive computer of the 1980's? No? I can see it now: half of our readership is scratching their heads in confusion (or hitting up the wiki) while the ... Ideazon keyboard and mouse contest over: weiners announced 20  Well, it's time to end the Ideazon keyboard and mouse contest. We had plenty of awesome entries in the contest, and so we've collected some of the best in the gallery down below. I&... Poor people can play Crysis too! 16 If you were worried that you and your old Dell might not be able to play the graphic-heavy Crysis, then put those fears to rest. According to Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli, just about everyone should be... Who uses Creative Labs sound cards? No one, apparently ... 44 Creative Labs has been the market leader in the sound card industry for almost two decades now, and with that kind of utter dominance comes what one would call "criminal disregard (bordering... CES 2007: The Games for Windows Experience Index 12 Not only is Microsoft using Games for Windows to help brand and standardize PC gaming, but they'll also have a system that will analyze your system specs and give you a score accordingly. Yes... Add 2GB storage to your Wii for $9.95 13 If you suffer from Wii Virtual Console collection disease like I do, you're probably  losing sleep over your available block count. Luckily, SD cards are dirt cheap now: WarnerBoy spotte... Top 5 reasons not to upgrade to Quad Core ... yet 26 AMD recently released their new line of quad core processors, which are CPUs that allow 4 simultaneous actions to be performed at once. Does anyone give a damn?  Problably not.  Well, I... The GeForce 8800GTX smokes ATI's best 0 The arrival of the G80, successor to the dominating 7 series GeForce cards, is finally coming to a high end computer store near you next week. Should you wet your pants over this? Sort of. The... The next best step in PC and console gaming? 0 Today I was invited by Philips to check out their upcoming amBX technology for PC gamers -- they are also in talks to bring this to consoles in the future -- and see what the fuss was all about... Nielsen study reveals our habits 0 Normally I'd pass on some number-crunching geek study, but this one actually can prove quite useful -- especially when engaged with fanboys or gaming outsiders. You can look at the full results... The Half Life 2 news show starring Alyx 0 Northwestern University Labs have created an automated system that generates a virtual news show using the Half Life 2 engine. "News At Seven gathers stories from around the internet, does some... Hey Voodoo lovers! HP owns you! 0 Not content to sit by and watch Dell gobble up custom-PC makers, good 'ol HP has decided to jump on the gaming PC money train and strike a deal with Voodoo PC. Rahul Sood of Voodoo laid out the... Nerdcore #5: Women and technology, a match made in heaven. 9 Update 02/09/07: So I was doing some research and trying to figure out what to number the next Nerdcore spread when I realized something. Why didn't I even consider this post as a Nerdcore... Genesis Preview: a community-made MMORPG 0 Genesis has been dubbed "World of SporeCraft" - and for good reasons. The video above shows one man's extremely ambitious project to create the world's first dynamic MMORPG. The game's most in... AMD is sticking with ATI Brand (Bonk!) 0 Apparently, the rumor has already been proven false. But my bad ass graphic remains. :) Super Mod Extreme: Y-Boxx 2K3 0 TechEBlog takes a look back at the Y-Boxx 2K3. The Y-Boxx is a Gamecube, PS2, Xbox and a PC all in one. Here's the PC specs: "3.06-GHz Pentium 4 CPU; MSI GNB Max motherboard; Zalman... Blizzard is bored. Huge Fan Art Contest!!! 0 Instead of working on a game to be released sometime this decade, Blizzard wants to waste more time and more money and suddenly I'm not so spiteful anymore: "Contest submissions will be accept... Johnny Depp Massive Multiplayer Pirating? 0 ARG! According to Yahoo News, the upcoming Massive Multiplayer Pirates of the Caribbean game "will contain the film’s trinity of heroes, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Will Turner (Orla... Bioware Gaming Bundle Contest 0 "The BioWare Community has reached 3 million registered users, and to celebrate the community’s success, BioWare is pleased to announce The BioWare 3 Million Member Celebration, an event that... Would the real Sim City please stand up? 0 Leave it to Will Wright to help out on a slow news day. "The legendary computer game Sim City has been used as the basis for a new programme which is being used to project what the world's citi... Silent Keyboard and Mouse combo - Frag all you want without waking up the little wifey 0 Do you count yourself amongst those men whom at midnight are just barely getting warmed up for a nocturnal round of [insert your latest obsession] game on the PC? If your system is anywhere ne... World's fastest silicon-based microchip 0 "The prototype operates at speeds up to 500 gigahertz (GHz) ... To break the world record, the researchers from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology had to super-cool the chip with liqui... AMBX ambient gaming - fantastic or distracting? 0 Back in 2005, Engadget wowed us with the upcoming news of AMBX, a suite of orchestrated devices (strobes, fans, smoke machines, heat lamps, even furniture!) that receive signals from "AMBX comp... $24,000 gaming PC as fast as a... $4,600 PC 0 I kid you not - check out the Voodoo Omen Ultimate Gaming PC publicity stunt. You would think that a computer with a sticker price like that would produce 600 frames per second while giving yo... Gaming giant Alienware sells hentai! 0 Nevermind those pricy computer systems - they're now peddling upskirt shots! Half naked perky anime women are now on sale at Alienware in PDF format. The site says "The FIRST edition of Girls... The World's First 3D Gaming Mouse 0 "Sandio Technology introduced Game O', the world's first 3D gaming mouse. The patented Game O' 3D gaming mouse offers PC gamers an "unfair advantage" by allowing them to execute moves that a... All NES joysticks as PC USB devices 0 I think the PS3 will have USB support as the standard controller input, so you know where I intend to go with this! If you use classic NES emulators a lot on your PC this is awesome investmen... 720GB Hard Drive 0 Are the new 4 gigabyte games killing your hard drive space? Been pirating just a littttle too much lately? Seagate is getting ready to up the ante with their new 720 gigabyte hard drive, so kee... Intel Viiv: Existing technology in a new dress 0 I'm sure you've seen this little new colorful logo popping up here and there. But what is it, really? A new processor? A new chipset? No. It is none of these things. It is a new brand, a ... A self water-cooled video card! X1900 XTX 0 I have a sci-fi theory (seriously, for just this once). Looking at the scaling heat and fan noise problems with high end pcs, I have reason to believe that gaming rigs are ultimately going to ...		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