Game Review: The Binding of Isaac
There is some special alchemy at the heart of The Binding of Isaac. Developer Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy) has combined biblical monsters, scatological humor, and tense twin-stick shooting...
11 by Craig Getting on 9/30/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.9 Drivers
Following up yesterday's release of the Catalyst 11.10 beta package, AMD has made the final version of the Catalyst 11.9 package available for users of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows...
16 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/29/2011Samsung Talks About 32nm 1.5GHz Exynos SoC
In our Galaxy S 2 review we highlighted an extremely unique aspect of Samsung's latest: its Exynos 4210 SoC. The 4210 features two ARM Cortex A9 cores running at...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/29/2011DisplayLink Shows Off USB 3.0 Video Adapters
Although IDF 2011 ended two weeks ago, not everything has been covered yet. One thing we missed was DisplayLink's announcement of their first USB 3.0 video adapters. There will...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 9/29/2011Rick Bergman Resurfaces...as the CEO of Synaptics
Last week I regrettably posted that AMD's Products Group GP, Rick Bergman, had left the company for unknown reasons. Tonight I got an email from Synaptics telling me that...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2011Intel Engineer Ports QuickSync Video Decoding to FFDShow
An Intel engineer by the name of Eric Gur started an AVSForum thread indicating he had begun work on enabling Quick Sync support in FFDShow's video decoder. Quick Sync...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2011AMD Confirms 32nm Yield Issues at Global Foundries
AMD just announced revised revenue projections for Q3. Revenue is up compared to Q2 by 4 - 6%, but AMD had originally expected an increase of 10%. The reason...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2011L.A. Noire Coming to PCs This November
L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s gritty 1940s crime drama adventure from developer Team Bondi, is headed to PCs next month. It will release in North America on November 8 and in...
15 by Craig Getting on 9/28/2011Microsoft Details SkyDrive Integration for Third-Party Developers
Microsoft's Mike Torres digs into some code today on the Building Windows 8 blog, showing third-party developers how to integrate SkyDrive functionality into their programs using the Windows Live...
4 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/28/2011Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" Update Now Available
Microsoft has been hyping the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update for quite some while now. They have been claiming that it will be the biggest update for WP7 platform...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 9/28/2011Introducing the Tizen Project
When Intel first announced its intentions to enter the smartphone space it needed an OS that demanded the additional silicon Intel was willing to invest in this market. With...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/28/2011Toshiba Unveils Thrive 7" Tablet
Now that the 10” tablet market is pretty well fleshed out, the new hot device to have this season is a smaller tablet in the 7-9” range. Toshiba came...
12 by Vivek Gowri on 9/28/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.10 Preview for Battlefield 3
With today's launch of the Battlefield 3 early beta, AMD has released a preview build of their Catalyst 11.10 drivers specifically for Battlefield 3. The Catalyst 11.10 Preview driver...
8 by Ryan Smith on 9/27/2011Intel Releases Atom D2500 and D2700 Processors
Back in April, we reported the specifications of Intel's upcoming Cedar Trail platform. On Sunday, Intel quietly updated their CPU price list with two new SKUs: Atom D2500 and...
20 by Kristian Vättö on 9/27/2011Firefox 7.0 Released
Has it already been six weeks since Firefox 6.0 was released? Apparently so, since Firefox 7.0 has just been made available for Windows, OS X, and Linux users to...
23 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/27/2011Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 & 5.0, Available October 16
Alongside availability of the Galaxy Tab 8.9, Samsung also announced the availability of the Galaxy Player 4.0 and 5.0: Samsung's iPod Touch competitors. Both will be for sale starting...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/26/2011The Wait is Over: Samsung Announces the Galaxy Tab 8.9
When I first met the Galaxy Tab 8.9 in Florida earlier this year I felt like it may be the perfect tablet form factor: small enough to be really...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/26/2011Windows 8 Syncs Settings Between Systems Using Windows Live ID
Today on the Building Windows 8 blog, Katie Frigon explains how user settings, Metro apps purchased through the Windows app store, and other data can be synced across Windows...
4 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/26/2011Samsung Reveals Omnia W and Korea-only Galaxy S II HD LTE
Samsung likes to fill a news cycle (expect more from them tonight), and so it's no surprise that on the same day that they reveal the details of the...
13 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/26/2011T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 2 Available October 12
This morning, Samsung officially announced the last set of details surrounding the relatively enigmatic T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 2, which we have been following pretty closely. First up, Samsung...
5 by Brian Klug on 9/26/2011