Sony's first PS3 advertisement hit Japanese TV. Although it's not very action-packed, and I doubt many non-Japanese people are going to think it is thrilling. The advertisement shows a boy waiting, and finally going to...
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Q Entertainment and Microsoft brought Lumines to Xbox Live today, named "Lumines Live!". The arcade game weighs in at 50MB, but those who haven't tried it yet should definitely do so. Lumines is a puzzle...
Europeans can proudly say they have got it before their American friend;, not exactly something you hear very often in the gaming world. Priced at €40 (or £30 or $50), the Opera Web browser for...
Sony started the advertising campaign for their up and coming Playstation 3 video game console. The ad appears on the side of a building in New York with a picture of the console, and a...
The FreeDOS project, an attempt to create an open-source alternative to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, has finally reached a major milestone. After years of work, version 1.0 of FreeDOS is now available for download from...
Ubisoft has today announced that combined single and multiplayer gameplay records have shown that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was the most played title on Xbox Live across the globe during the second quarter of 2006....
I don't have an Xbox, or an Xbox 360 (hint hint) but I do follow some games being developed for said consoles. Thus, I have been following with great anticipation - Dead Rising, the "Dawn...
Korean MMOG publisher NCsoft has announced that its US-developed free to play franchise Guild Wars broken the two million sales mark worldwide in the wake of the launch of the second title, Guild Wars Factions....
Popular Xbox titles to sell for $9.99; Microsoft confirms 16 participating games in program's "first wave." Greatest Hits, Player's Choice, Platinum Hits... Whatever the program is called, each current-generation system has a...
This morning, the iTunes music store announced that it had sold one billion songs. Asides from the significance for legal online music sales, it marked the end of a competition involving a $10,000...
A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim's computer. The IM.GiftCom.All worm...
Blizzard's extremely popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, has hit over 4 million subscribed players worldwide, with over 1 million of those being in America alone! These figures make it the largest MMORPG in the world...
The latest monthly update from National Statistics shows a modest 1.9 per cent increase in the number of active UK subscriptions to the internet in the 12 months to February 2005. The market share for...
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday from representatives of major film studios and the recording industry who are seeking to shut down peer-to-peer services they say are costing them billions of dollars. One of the...
Firefox, the open-source browser which only went 1.0 in November, has this morning hit 20 million downloads. At the time of writing, the site's download counter reads "20,001,054" - it's currently averaging anything from 210,000...
Google has swapped out its main Groups service with a beta of Google Groups 2, which the search giant has been testing since last May. Users who click the "Groups" link on the Google homepage...
Sony's driving sim gets pushed back in both Japan and North America; SCEA targets early '05 as new launch window. Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the Gran Turismo 4 release date...
Messenger V7 Beta Refresh has been released to testers on Beta Place. Top fixes in this version: Contact list spacing issues Right click "Get this emoticon" on...
A Polish researcher has found two vulnerabilities in the cell phone version of Sun Microsystems' Java software that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private information or render a phone unusable. ...
Microsoft trumpets the success of its shooter sequel by claiming it will be the biggest, single-day, entertainment cash cow. Unless he or she has been in a coma, most gamers on the...
Mountain Dew, 7-Eleven, and Xbox has announced a contest that will give entrants a chance to win a copy of Halo 2 more than a week before it hits stores on November 9. To enter,...
Microsoft Corp.'s five-year legal battle in Europe moves into a public courtroom for the first time as the U.S. software giant tries to get the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling against it lifted. ...
Polyphony Digital's long-awaited PS2 racing title Gran Turismo 4 is on track to meet worldwide release dates in early December - but at the cost of online play, which has been removed from the game....
Namco narrows release window and announces new tournaments. In an announcement that went out to arcade owners this week, Namco narrowed down the US release window for the latest game in its...
The highly anticipated Doom 3 computer game goes on sale in the UK at a time of renewed concerns over the possible effects of screen violence. The latest instalment in the bestselling...
Japan's antitrust regulators continue the monthly tradition of suing the software giant Microsoft. Today Japan accused Microsoft of unfair business practices. Unlike the European Union this lawsuit doesn't carry a heavy fine. ...
Thanks Bink and SidVicious for the heads up. It has been a month since Microsoft released the preview version of OneNote 2003 SP1 and today, the product has reached the RTM stage. Chris...
Thanks MaceX. The world's first online church has been forced into an urgent rethink after computer hackers logged in as "Satan" and disrupted services with four-letter expletives and racist remarks. The Church of...
World's first glimpse of Nintendo's new handheld Further information about the forthcoming Nintendo DS handheld has emerged just hours ahead of its official unveiling in Los Angeles - including what purports to...
Patent infringement issues surrounding the JPEG image standard resurfaced on Thursday after a small software vendor filed lawsuits against 31 companies ranging from Adobe Systems Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. to IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co....
RealNetworks on Monday released an update to its digital audio and video software that promises support for every major content format and online music download service. The latest version of the RealPlayer...
Apple Computer has nearly doubled sales of digital music through its iTunes music store since launching a Windows-compatible version of its iTunes software in October, the company said. Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said...
Cashpoints at two US banks have been infected by viruses, with similar breaches tipped to become more common. Automatic teller machines at two banks running Microsoft's popular Windows software were infected by a computer virus...
Official Sony concept, or talented fake? A picture purporting to be concept art of Sony's next-generation console, the PlayStation 3, has been circulated on the Internet, showing a sleek silver console with...
The U.S. District Court of Seattle has again pushed back its starting date for jury trial proceedings in the ongoing trademark suit between software makers Microsoft and Lindows.com. The two companies confirmed Tuesday...
London - UK - 11th November 2003 - Microsoft Game Studios today announced that "Amped 2," the highly anticipated second installment in the popular snowboarding franchise exclusively for the Xbox®, has pulled some slick manoeuvres...
IF YOU'RE finding Western Digital EIDE drives drop out of an IDE RAID array after a few days, the firm appears to have the answer. It might only affect you if you have drives shipped...
Sharp has unveiled a notebook computer with a display that gives the illusion of depth and can display objects in three dimensions without the use of special glasses. The new notebook is scheduled to be...
So far this year over 10 million versions of Opera have been downloaded from www.opera.com. This new record is in addition to the many millions more copies of Opera that are downloaded from other download...
Thanks to Tech-Critic.com tonight an early build of MSN Explorer 9.0 leaked onto the internet. The build compiled on the 17th of June with the build number 9.00.0006.1700 and is still very similar to MSN...
