uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. In 2006, uTorrent was acquired by BitTorrent Inc., who continued to develop the application, and... More...

HTC has announced 3 new handsets that are aimed at customers who want even more choice when it comes to choosing a Windows Mobile handset. The Touch HD has quad-hand GSM and 7.2Mbps HSDPA support... More...

There's no stopping it now: the marriage of XM and Sirius has been cleared by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under a few conditions. The deal is said to offer subscribers better choice in the... More...

Dell, today, officially introduced the Latitude XT, its first product in the tablet category. Though it's just one notebook, Dell's entry is sure to cause a stir. It's a modest niche of computing that hasn't... More...

HTC has officially unveiled the next Touch phone in their range of touch branded devices. Unlike the Touch Dual the Cruise has WiFi, GPS and a 3MP camera. HTC has also included their own TouchFLO... More...

Microsoft has officially taken the beta moniker off the next generation of its Windows Live services, such as the Windows Live Mail email client, which it launched at events in New York and Los Angeles... More...

Microsoft has officially opened the much anticipated and well overdue registration for the new @live.com email addresses. This minor update along with the rest of wave 2 of Microsoft's Windows Live Suite allows users to... More...

Valve has officially launched The Steam Community after being in a beta testing phase for about a month or so. For those not in the know, The Steam Community (or TSC) offers some nice new... More...

Today developer Turbine (Asheron's Call) and Midway announced the release of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. The game is the first massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game based on the books of J.R.R.... More...

First BestBuy, then SonyStyle pulled the plug on the 20GB version PlayStation 3 console. Now, Sony has made it official by scrapping the 20GB PS3 in North America, after claiming consumer and retail demand simply... More...

As I reported a week or so ago, Bethesda has now officially announced the first expansion for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - The Shivering Isles. Here is what Bethesda had to say about the... More...

Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™ 2, the next installment in the popular squad-based action franchise, is currently in development for the Xbox... More...

Thanks to Bluesnews for the heads up on this one. As I reported the other day, Bethesda was getting ready to annouce a new Unreal 3 engine powered FPS that they were developing for... More...

Thanks to Voodoo Extreme for the heads up. Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games, Inc. announced today that "Gears of War" has gone gold. To celebrate the passing of the "gone gold"... More...

Thanks to Firingsquad for the heads up. Vince Desi, whom most of you have probably never heard of, is the head honcho over at Running With Scissors. He gave word yesterday that Running... More...

On Saturday Mozilla officially released RC2 of Firefox 2.0, Neowin originally reported the release a day earlier on Friday the 6th. Mozilla Firefox, the popular web browser, caused a stir with the original release, but... More...

Slackware 11 has been officially released, just over a year after Slackware 10.2 became available. Software available with Slackware 11 includes KDE 3.5, Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0.5 and X11R6 6.9. As usual, ISOs are available through... More...

In the latest Microsoft press release, Microsoft has announced wider public participating in the Windows Vista beta testing program for Release Candidate 1 scheduled to be released this week. They also state Vista is on... More...

Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of chips, has unveiled its new dual-core microprocessors for high-end servers that use more than four chips. The new central processing units (CPUs), are based on the outdated NetBurst... More...

As I reported a few days ago, Ultima Online is about to get revamped in full on isometric 3d-ish goodness. As several users noted there has been a "3d" version before, but this is a... More...

Bungie announces Halo 3, the third and final game in the Halo Trilogy. Halo 3 will be released for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2007. The game was revealed to the world at the Microsoft press... More...

Vivendi Games today announced that Sierra Entertainment's award-winning F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon), is currently being developed for the Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment system and will be unveiled at the forthcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo... More...

"Wii", like Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Reminds me of that Firefox flick, Wheee! Less than two weeks before E3, Nintendo has released a statement addressing the change-up, and explained what exactly the name Wii represents: "While... More...

At the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Microsoft execs provided some official names and more specific timetables for several products under development. "Monad," the Windows scripting shell, is now "Windows PowerShell." PowerShell is slated to... More...

Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. "Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy protection system to Starforce for upcoming... More...

Fight an all-out war for survival in the year 2142. Electronic Arts and Sweden-based developer, Digital Illusions, today announced development of the next installment in the award-winning Battlefield™ franchise, Battlefield 2142™. The highly anticipated first-person... More...

Suited up and ready for action, Activision, Inc. and Lionhead® Studios today announced The Movies™: Stunts & Effects, the expansion pack to the 9th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards' "Simulation Game of the Year." Building on... More...

Actiontrip has now confirmed that the North American version of Gothic III from Aspyr Media has been delayed until fall. Earlier today it was announced that the German version of the game was also being... More...

Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment software company and award-winning developer Crytek, today announced they will bring Crysis, an exciting new first person shooter, to gamers worldwide. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the... More...

The first four WiMAX products have received certification from the WiMAX Forum, the organization said yesterday. Though more than 150 deployments and trials of WiMAX products have already been launched and tested, the certification... More...

After two Preview Releases and 3 public Betas, it has finally arrived! Opera 8 Final - undoubtedly, the worlds fastest and the most standards compliant web browser suite, has been released. Opera has not yet... More...

Attention soldiers! Activision, Inc. and acclaimed developer Infinity Ward are back in action with Call of Duty 2™, an all new epic title which delivers an unparalleled portrayal of the chaos and intensity that was... More...

While PCI Express is rapidly replacing AGP in the new computers from makers like Dell and HP, the majority of end-users still uses older machines with previous-gen interconnection and even wants more powerful graphics cards... More...

Gothic fans rejoice! JoWooD Productions has announced that German developer Piranha Bytes will make a third game in the much loved Gothic series of RPG's. While not much is known about the third game obviously,... More...

Apple today officially launched its iTunes Music Store in Canada, giving music Canadian users the same innovative features and breakthrough price of $.99 CDN per song that it offers in the US. "The demand across... More...

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a fresh delay to the launch of Gran Turismo 4 in Japan, Sony has now confirmed that the title has also been pushed back to early 2005 in North... More...

It's been one long journey folks, but the wait is finally over. Mozilla has just posted the final builds of Firefox 1.0 to their FTP servers for everyone to grab. Firefox 1.0 comes with a... More...

A week after saying it was "basically done," Bungie has sent the hotly anticipated shooter to the factory. Just over a week ago, Bungie announced that Halo 2 was "basically done." Today... More...

Super Mario 64 DS and Spider-Man 2 highlight a US launch lineup that will consist of 10 to 12 titles. Also, Japanese launch details, Final Fantasy III confirmed. In the wee hours... More...

Sony follows retailers' lead and drops the price of its PlayStation 2/DVD recorder hybrid. Following up on last week's reports that Japanese discount stores were drastically discounting the PSX, Sony itself has... More...

Not long after we reported it leaked, Microsoft officially released Windows Media Player 10, which sports many new features and a new user interface. This release hosts a new User Interface that is... More...

Visual Concepts confirms its upcoming hockey game will also bear ESPN NFL 2K5's low price point. Over a week after online retailers began listing it for $19.99, ESPN NHL 2K5 has been... More...

Today Intel announced its first line of Celeron's built on 90nm technology. Celerons are Intel's lower end lower cost processors. This new breed of Celeron processors called Celeron D has a 256KB of... More...

Citing NPD numbers, Microsoft declares its console had a 51-percent market share in April 2004. In the time before E3, many analysts were saying that, as a result of its $149 price... More...

The board of directors for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is exploring the sale of the company, AT&T Wireless officials confirmed Thursday. Chief Executive Officer John Zeglis told financial analysts during an earnings report... More...

Consumers Can Access Their Digital Photos, Music Collections and Recorded Television This evening during his keynote address at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect... More...

We announced about this version before but it was pulled from server shorty afterwards. jv16 PowerTools is basically the tool for your computer. Until now your computer might have been the one who was in... More...

Infogrames, founded in France in 1983, acquired the rights to the Atari brand in early 2001 when it bought Hasbro Interactive. In October 2001 the company relaunched the brand and began using it as a... More...

Thanks ooo for this, Factornews sends word to tell us that Unreal Tournament 2004 has been officially announced by Infogrames. Along with the announcement of this title, it has been revealed that a conversion of... More...

Red Hat, Inc., the world's premier open source and Linux provider, today announced the availability of Red Hat Linux 9. Drawing from the work of the open source community, Red Hat Linux 9 allows users... More...