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In a bid to boost sales of its mobile CPUs, Advanced Micro Devices has quietly returned Athlon 64-branded chips into its mobile family. AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK processors are specifically designed for notebooks, as...

Skype said its Internet phone service has returned to normal after a software bug left many users unable to log on for two days. The company, a division of online auction company eBay Inc., said...

The Video Game Decency Act of 2006 was one of a handful of pieces of proposed federal legislation that failed to get traction in Congress last year. The legislator behind the Video Game Decency Act...

Thanks to JJ_ for the heads up on this follow-up story of when Microsoft invited Firefox developers to Redmond. Back in August, Ars reported that Sam Ramji, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, invited...

Series founder will direct next-gen edition; Nintendo opens special Tokyo studio to bolster game's development. According to the latest issue of Japanese game bible Famitsu, Nintendo has opened an office in Tokyo...

PS2 Maximum Impact 2 anchors company's Tokyo Game Show offerings, KoF animated project also in works. SNK Playmore has revealed its plans for next month's Tokyo Game Show, and they include the...

Mythic Entertainment, developer of the massively multiplayer role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot, will be holding its second roundtable in Las Vegas. The event will be held at the Rio Hotel and Casino on September...

After a false start in September (story), the complete "making of" movie trailer for Sid Meier's Pirates! is now available again to commemorate the release of Firaxis' 3D role-playing action adventure hybrid. As before, the...

Expansion pack for the open-ended PC space simulation due in early 2005. First screens inside. German games publisher Deep Silver has announced an expansion pack for its PC space simulation X2: The...

Lara Croft creator Toby Gard has joined US development studio Crystal Dynamics to work as a senior designer on the next Tomb Raider title - marking his return to the series after leaving Core Design...

With the battle fully joined, RealNetworks defended its Harmony digital music software against accusations from Apple that the technology was "hacked" from the iPod's DRM (digital rights management) application. "Harmony follows in a...

According to ZDNet.com Karlheinz Brandenburg is credited with much of the work leading to the MP3 format. Today he and his team have created a product which offers true "three dimensional" audio. The team...

Dennis publishing announced today that this year's award would be presented at an event held in London on November 5th. The public following industry nominations in each category votes for the award, which was first,...

A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield hindering anyone attempting to enter the music sharing market: by a licence to webcast content. Mercora is a P2P...

Atari announced a new game in the Test Drive series today, a set of racers whose history stretches all the way back to 1987. The new game goes by the name of Test Drive: Eve...

Kemco has shipped Batman: Dark Tomorrow for the Xbox and GameCube to retail outlets nationwide today. Developed internally by Kemco, Batman: Dark Tomorrow is rated T (Teen) and retails for $49.99. Batman: Dark Tomorrow is...

WAY BACK IN THE DAYS when grass was greener, children were still beautiful, and computers ran at speeds today now reserved for PDAs, there was a little RAM technology we used called EDO that happened...

Indian tech guru Kanwal Rekhi has whipped himself into shape, lost 70 pounds and is returning to the start-up world after an eight-year hiatus. He has joined a Sunnyvale Web-hosting company, Ensim. ...

Aliz, which affects Windows PCs, was first identified by anti-virus experts back in May but it was only this week that it began spreading rapidly. MessageLabs, a managed services firm which scans...