Gaikai has launched its Facebook app which allows PC, Mac and Linux web-based users to stream free PC game demos directly from Facebook. The app will work in North America and Europe. More...

Microsoft today demonstrated an early, three week old, build of Internet Explorer 9 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and... More...

Spotify, a music streaming service very popular in Europe and the UK, has released a demonstration of an Android app the company is currently developing. For those who haven't heard of Spotify, it is... More...

Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb, Silverlight Team, demonstrated a jaw dropping implementation of Facebook's recently announced API changes. Goldfarb was presenting at a Facebook Demo day, Cnet news attended and recorded the session (see below). The applications... More...

Kam Vedbrat, formerely a Windows UX guy, just demonstrated some great new features in Direct 2D and DirectWrite for smoothing fonts. Kam also demonstrated the new Gabriola font included in Windows 7. DirectWrite: ... More...

Picked up on some nice demos of Windows 7 this morning at PDC. Firstly there is a touch screen application demonstrating the touch features and ability for multi touch during air hockey. It was a... More...

A desk has never been so fascinating before, but not a lot of desks comes with a touchable surface and heads-up display. It's safe to say, Russ Burtner's desk kicks the crap out of every... More...

Ubisoft out of the kindness of their hearts has released not one, but two demos for Sam Fisher's next romp out in the cruel terrorist-infested world - Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Note of major importance... More...

Nokia has developed a prototype handset that supports Mobile Internet Protocol version 6, a version of the protocol that will help to improve the quality of voice over IP, streaming video, and other applications delivered... More...

Irrational Games plans to ship two demo versions of Tribes: Vengeance next month, in the form of an open beta multiplayer test and a separate single-player demo, producer Chris Mahnken has revealed in an interview... More...

NEC has built the first optical storage drive to support not only today's DVDs but tomorrow's High Definition blue-laser technology-based discs, the company said today. The machine uses a single optical head that contains one... More...

Several gaming sites joined an alliance protesting against exclusive demo releases and seeking to promote the broadest available means of giving consumers access to samples of games before they make a purchase:In the gaming industry,... More...

This week was Doom's 10th birthday. To celebrate this, Gamer's Hell brings you the ID Software Ultimate Demos Collection, which includes all the popular titles developed (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake...) and produced (Heretic) by ID.... More...

Activision has released not one but two playable demos for Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, allowing you to try out the upcoming 3D real-time strategy game by Stainless Steel Studios. The first demo is... More...

ATI have released RADEON™ 9700 Real-Time Demos & Screensavers. These demos all require Microsoft DirectX9.0 and CATALYST 3.0 Display Drivers in order to run. Demos: Animusic A real-time version of "Pipe Dream"... More...

CHIP FIRM AMD appears to be making blizzards of announcements this Comdex. The latest today is that it demonstrated a 64-bit version of Unreal Tournament 2003 on its Athlon 64 (Clawhammer) processor.As AMD says, the... More...

ATI Technologies Inc. today continued its commitment to deliver the most advanced, high-quality graphics solutions with the release of a new beta software driver supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) application program interface... More...

Spotted this on Slashdot. Providing a sneak preview of its future developments, Intel Corp. here today demonstrated its fastest microprocessors to date--a 4.7-GHz chip for high-end desktop PCs. Paul Otellini, Intel's president and... More...

Dr Foxy enjoys getting an early look at a game still being made, but CitizenC questions the damage they can do, and asks everyone to think of the children. "Dr Foxy: So... More...

Here in sunny Monaco, where space is so tight, if they really want to whack up a new building they have to stick it on the roof of one already here, AMD has been wooing... More...

Get a more complete understanding of Visual Studio .NET, the visionary yet practical, development tool for creating the next generation of applications. Much like Microsoft Visual Basic® first did ten years ago, Visual Studio .NET... More...