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- Gaming
- (1) Casino-style gambling. The original meaning of the term, gaming may also refer to gambling over the Internet.
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- Catalyst 8.3 graphics drivers
- Taking a look at the new Catalyst 8.3 drivers from AMD/ATi. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: amd, ati, catalyst, drivers, radeon, graphics, video, gaming
- Image galleries 2008-03-11
- 3DV's depth-sensing camera
- Tomer Barel, vice president of 3DV Systems, shows CNET News.com's Ina Fried a 3D camera called ZCam. The camera mimics hand moments, enabling gamers to do away with their traditional game controllers.
- Tags: Game, Camera, 3DV, Games, Personal Technology, Gaming, 3D, ZCAM, game controllers, motion sensors, Ina Fried
- Videos 2007-12-10
- The BIG Alienware m9750 review
- Comprehensive review on the Alienware m9750 gaming notebook by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Notebooks, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, product photos, alienware, m9750, notebook, games, gaming, nvidia, vista
- Image galleries 2007-11-29
- NVIDIA Gamer Conference
- In a vacant hangar at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., hundreds of PC gamers spent the weekend competing in Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 party. The big draw this year was Crysis, a title some fans call Electronic Arts' most realistic yet. News.com's Kara Tsuboi bids adieu to the...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Gamer, Games, Personal Technology, nvidia, kara tsuboi, news, video games, gaming
- Videos 2007-11-20
- DigitalLife 2007 a playland for tech lovers
- CNET's Rich DeMuro walks around the show floor at DigitalLife 2007 at New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center, where new tech for the digital lifestyle was on display at every corner.
- Tags: CNET Networks Inc., digitallife, lifestyle, tech, technology, nyc, new york, rich demuro, gaming, dell, video conferencing, video game
- Videos 2007-09-28
- DemoFall 2007: Most memorable of future tech
- Check out the best--and worst--that the DemoFall 2007 conference in San Diego has to offer.
- Tags: San Diego, demo, demofall, product, future, tech, technology, rafe needleman, erica ogg, webware, dimdim, vyro, games, video game, gaming, feedhub, fixmymovie, motion dsp, phreesia, pudding
- Videos 2007-09-28
- PS3 sales up 135% after price cut - still long way to go to catch Wii
- Sony learns that in the end it really does come down to price.There was no doubt in my mind that Sony had pitched the price of the PS3 way too high for it to catch on beyond hardcore Sony fans and those who live to game. The idea that parents...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Get your $500 PS3 ... while you can!
- Days after announcing a 17% price cut, Sony decides to phase out the $499 PlayStation 3 games console, leaving US buyers with a choice - buy the 80GB PS3, or buy something else.The $499 PS3 will continue to be offered for sale until current stocks are depleted. Sony says that...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- It's content that drives the adoption of new technology
- Many companies still seem to be missing the point. Outside of a small number of tech-heads, it's content that drives the adoption of new technology, not how cool the technology actually is.Two areas where this simple but trustworthy rule of thumb has been forgotten are home entertainment and games consoles. ...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Gadgets, Gaming, Hardware, HD-DVD, Marketing, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Sony and AMD cut prices to try to stimulate sales
- Both Sony and AMD are cutting prices this week in order to try to stimulate sales.Sony is cutting 17% off the price of the PS3 games console. In real terms this means a price cut of $100, making the PS3 $20 pricier than the top-end Xbox 360 bundle (that is,...
- Tags: Industry, Hardware, Gaming, Components
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Xbox 360 unreliability costs Microsoft $1 billion
- Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console just took a huge step away from profitability yesterday when the company announced that it will take a $1 billion charge to cover manufacturing defects and the additional burden of giving consumers an extended warranty. Will the Xbox ever turn a profit?Microsoft's quite used to fixing...
- Tags: Microsoft, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Wii continues to hammer PS3 in Japan
- The Nintendo Wii continues to outsell both Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Japan.Although the Wii has been on sale since late last year, they're selling so briskly supply still hasn't caught up with demand and long lines form when shipments arrive at stores.Enterbrain Inc., the publisher, found that...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Sony releases updated firmware for PS3
- Shifting attention from one overhyped product (the iphone) to another, this time the PS3. Sony has released updated firmware for the PS3 games console.Firmware version 1.82 adds the following features: Support for playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) format video has been added. ** High image quality encoding method used by...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- The PS3 price-drop dilemma
- I keep hearing rumors and reports that suggest that pretty soon Sony will cut the price of the PS3. But cutting the price comes at a risk.I have no doubt the PS3 is currently overpriced and I know that Sony is begging everyone to see it as more than a...
- Tags: Trends, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Foxconn GeForce 8400GS DirectX 10 graphics cards for under $100
- Foxconn have launched a pair of DirectX 10 compatible graphics cards which will cost under $100.The GeForce 8400GS cards come in two memory flavors - 256MB and 128MB or RAM. The cards are based on the nVIDIA 8400GS GPU and both run at a 450-MHz core clock and an 850-MHz...
- Tags: NVIDIA, Graphics, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- What is Microsoft really gaining from open source FUD?
- In all the stories about Microsoft's attack on open source, I have seen little talk about what the company is gaining in all this.I don't think it's money. Despite press reports that companies like Xandros or LG are paying a "Linux tax" to Microsoft, on net dollars don't seem heading...
- Tags: Strategy, politics, Patents, Microsoft, management, Legal, IBM, gaming, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Wii outsells PS3 5-fold in Japan
- Discouraging news for Sony as the company banks on the PS3 games console as being able to turn around the company - last month the Nintendo Wii outsold Sony's PS3 by more than five to one in Japan, painting a gloomier picture than the previous month where the ratio was...
- Tags: Thoughts, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- It's official - Microsoft has closed the door to modded Xbox consoles
- I've not received any official word from Microsoft on the banning of modded Xbox consoles from Xbox Live yesterday but this on Major Nelson blog makes it clear that the ban was deliberate:As you can imagine, we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to modded consoles connecting to LIVE....
- Tags: Microsoft, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Is Microsoft banning "modded" Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live?
- I've just received a number of emails from Xbox 360 users who claim that their modded Xbox games consoles have been banned from Xbox live.All the emails I've received are from people who claim to be running an Xbox with modified firmware (modded firmware allows game backups and pirated games...
- Tags: Gaming, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- NVIDIA 8800 Ultra to ship soon
- NVIDIA has announced that hardware partners will ship the NVIDIA 8800 Ultra, dubbed the "the worlds fastest graphics processing unit" by May 15th. If youre interested, you better save up - the cards will cost around $829.The NVIDIA 8800 Ultra ships with 768MB or RAM and will deliver frame...
- Tags: NVIDIA, Graphics, Gaming, Components
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
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