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The good folks at SiteAdvisor have put in a good bit of work in checking 140,000 downloads from over a million sites to find and rate the “best of the worst” sites and downloads when it comes to adware.Read More »SiteAdvisor samples nearly 150,000 downloads for malware
Further to Kenny’s post, it seems there has been a leak of some additional patch information, along with some pictures.Read More »Update to Battlefield 1.2 Patch
Any counterstrike player will be familiar with the experience of joining a server, loading up the map, and seeing a few changes. Like seeing a massive floating banner for whatever clan it is that runs the server. Normally these are just a minor irritation.Read More »Valve gets hot over in-game ads
“…and in other news, there was a pointless post on ‘Bertie Baggio’s Wonderland’ shortly after the news of our top story broke.”
Microsoft’s Kevin Collins was surprised as a HD-DVD player he was demoing failed to work at CES yesterday. Of course, this isn’t the first time a Microsoft executive has been embarrassed at a tech demo (thanks to the ever-keen-to-bash-MS users at /. for the link!).Read More »HD-DVD tech demo fails at CES
The folks at Microsoft’s “Linux and Open Source Lab” have done a ‘study‘ (and I use the term as loosely as possible here) to “dispel the myth that Linux will run on legacy hardware”. They claim their sudy shows more or less that Windows runs as well as Linux on legacy hardware. Interesting.Read More »Microsoft releases more propaganda; some surprised
In the upcoming format war, the winner will likely be decided by capacity, speed, coolness of name, and avaliability. So InPhase’s 300Gb Holographic drive is… Read More »InPhase says “Mine's bigger”
“…I got a new joystick and keyboard.” Yes folks, though it may not sound like much, I have in fact got a couple of decent… Read More »“The gaming world was turned on it's head today, as…”
Since the XBOX 360 recently launched, I thought I’d remind people of a comparison done between it and the Dreamcast: Dreamcast 2.0 from 1UP.com It… Read More »XBOX 360 Fairly Recent Launch
From 2 states consider game laws. Well, gee, I know this may sound obvious to some… but perhaps it isn’t games that make children violent?… Read More »Two More states considering game laws