Microsoft has just announced that Windows 8 will be avialbe on October 26th. You can learn more after the jump. More...

Apple has begun to alert the press that they will be holding an event on October 20. The event, which has a tag line of 'Back to the Mac', will naturally be focusing on the... More...

The weekly top 10 selling games on Impulse for the week of October 25th - 31st has been published. Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment, Demigod, and The Witcher make the top 3 for... More...

Well it's that time again! This month Neowin celebrated its 8th birthday and to celebrate the fact that we are yet another year older Neowin will be giving away some prizes to our readership as... More...

Today I am pleased to announce that Neowin will be covering this years Microsoft professional developers conference. If you've been following Neowin for years then you'll know we covered every aspect of the Longhorn beta... More...

Tokyo show shifts from September, confirms Oct 9-12 dates The dates for this year's Tokyo Games Show have been revealed, and organiser CESA has decided to push it back from last year's September slot... More...

Microsoft plans to hold its next Professional Developers Conference (PDC) from October 27 to 30, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Microsoft generally schedules the PDC whenever it reaches a critical mass of momentum... More...

Market tracking firm NPD is reporting that the Halo 3 frenzy has not kept Microsoft in the number one place for more than a month: October console sale numbers show 366 thousand Xbox 360s sold... More...

Market research firm NPD is reporting that U.S. sales of video game hardware and software jumped 73% in October to $1.1 billion (compared with $643 million a year earlier). Nintendo's Wii console regained its spot... More...

Neowin.net presents the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of October 31, 2007. This week our panel consists of Christopher Vendemio (bangbang023) and Rob Wright (Rob). The topics discussed are as follows: Apple refuses cash... More...

Neowin.net presents the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of October 25, 2007. This week our panel consists of Christopher Vendemio (bangbang023) and Rob Wright (Rob). The topics discussed are as follows: Anti-piracy talks in... More...

Neowin.net presents the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of October 18, 2007. This week our panel consists of Christopher Vendemio (bangbang023) and Rob Wright (Rob). The topics this week are as follows: iTunes Plus... More...

Back in April, Apple announced a delay from June to October for the next version of its operating system due to needs of the iPhone program. Well, October has finally arrived. The company says that... More...

Neowin.net presents the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of October 11, 2007. This week our panel consists of Christopher Vendemio (bangbang023) and Rob Wright (Rob). The topics this week are as follows: Valve's Gabe... More...

The Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update for October 2007 is now available via Windows Update. Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update. I encourage you to upgrade... More...

The Xbox 360 Elite is set to launch in Japan on October 11, after a late April launch in the U.S. and an early May one in Canada. Although Japanese gamers have to wait Xbox... More...

Nvidia is scheduled to launch its new IGP (integrated graphics processor) chipset MCP 78 in October 2007 to make up for its recent MCP 68, noted sources at motherboard makers. MCP 68 recently launched in... More...

Cnet's News.com is confirming a previous article from DigiTimes about the release of Leopard being delayed until October. Well, partially at least. Apple has announced the company is delaying the next release of Mac OS... More...

At his GDC keynote, Phil Harrison revealed that PlayStation Home will be a free service going into beta starting April will a full scale launch in the fall. A Sony developer document says otherwise: there... More...

The NPD Group has released their Top 20 Best Selling PC games list for the month of October. Sims and World of Warcraft will seemingly never drop out of the top 5 best sellers, which... More...

Yes, its that time of the week again. The NPD Group has released the newest Top 10 list for PC games (and consoles of course, not listed here though) in the US and guess who... More...

I might start making this a weekly thing when the Top 10's are announced. So here are the Top 10 best selling games for the week of October 8th through the 14th. There are a... More...

Despite mentioning in a press release that Windows Media Player 11 would be ready for 24th October, Neowin has learned via a Microsoft spokesperson that this date has been changed to 30th October. Windows Media... More...

Once again, even though I don't do it every week or two, here is the NPD Groups list of the Top 10 best selling PC games for the week of October 7th. Notice what game... More...

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the... More...

As JediXAngel pointed out in the forums, Microsoft is planning on taking down the Xbox Live service for the entire day on Tuesday October 17th. The downtime will begin at 12 midnight Pacific time on... More...

Retailer GameStop confirmed to The Wiire today that Wii pre-orders for the United States will begin Friday, October 13. While Wii games have been available for pre-order for a few weeks now,... More...

Microsoft has just posted their security patch bulletin for the month of October. As usual all required patches for your PC can be caught using Windows Update. A total of 10 patches were released this... More...

The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. When the detection and... More...

Quote - This ISO-9660 CD image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on October 10th, 2006. It does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This CD... More...

Quote - Redistributable This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use... More...

Since Microsoft Released Windows Vista™ Release Candidate 1 (RC1) on September 1, 2006, Microsoft has "Forked" the development cycle and began work on the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) builds, which Technical Beta Testers and the... More...

Mozilla has today delayed the release of the open source Firefox 2.0 browser until the 24th of October. The browser was supposed to be ready on 15 August. A second beta is now scheduled for... More...

Sun Microsystems plans to publish the first open source Java code by October this year, the company has revealed. Laurie Tolson, vice president of developer programmes and products at Sun, said at a company event... More...

According to sources at Microsoft, the company plans to ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) in early September. More important, perhaps, is that Microsoft still plans to release Vista to manufacturing by the end... More...

While Japanese gamers have been diving into Final Fantasy XII since March, we poor souls in North America have had to wait patiently for our version of the latest RPG epic -- without even knowing... More...

Support for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 1a (SP1a) ends on October 10, 2006. Microsoft will end support on this date. This also includes security updates for these service packs.... More...

In order to make preparations for Xbox 360, Microsoft announced that Xbox Live and Xbox.com will be shut down temporarily on October 24th, with service for both resuming the following day. Changes to... More...

Well the big gaming day has finally come. According to Take 2 Games, the Hex-based strategy game Shattered Union is now in retail stores in North America. Shattered Union is a "what... More...

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the... More...

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the... More...

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the... More...

Two bulletins previously released for October - MS05-052 and MS05-050 - has been just been revised. Microsoft detailed the revision as followed: MS05-050: Bulletin updated to provide additional clarity around DirectX versions... More...

As previously announced, 9 security bulletin entries has just been published. The outline is as followed: MS05-044 : Moderate: Vulnerability in the Windows FTP Client Could Allow File Transfer Location Tampering... More...

So you didn't win anything huh? Well, this year we have a prize for everyone, winners included. Our own in-house DJ Chris Allen aka [NFC]Wave] has done a full 74 minute... More...

As promised, one week after the draw here are all the winners that our script randomly generated. 5107 members took part and the script selected 83 from that amount. Members were paired with a prize... More...

It seems as though is planning a fairly large "Patch Tuesday" next week. In a bulletin posted to TechNet earlier today, the software giant is expecting to release upwards of 9 patches for Windows including:... More...

This week has turned into what could be a very profitable one for some Neowin members, yesterday we celebrated Neowin being online for 5 years, well most of that 5 years anyway, with a massive... More...

This year we have a bumper giveaway package. Neowin staff have also contributed this time around offering hosting, software and even an iPod Nano. We like to celebrate our birthday by giving stuff... More...

According to bluesnews, 2K Games has announced that Serious Sam II has gone gold and will ship to retail outlets in North America on October 11th. This is for the PC and X-Box version. Both... More...