Tag archive: pc

Published on Kickstarter during Wednesday night, Double Fine Productions, founded by Tim Schafer, created a new video game project on the site with the goal of raising $400,000 over a period of  33 days. Double Fine Productions is responsible for games such as Psychonauts, Brutal Legend starring Jack Black, Costume Quest and Stacking. Detailed in the outline of the project, the $400,000 would be invested in the development of an unnamed,… Read More

Ferrari has been a part of the Test Drive series since the very beginning, with the games featuring everything from the Testarossa to the 458 Italia, and now Atari has announced a title dedicated to the legendary brand. Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends is its name, and it promises to be everything the tifosi could want. Atari's CEO Kim Wilson has called the game “a landmark chapter” in the Test Drive saga, and it will offer… Read More

Detailed at Telnets.org, a fan of Valve's Portal series converted his computer room into a full-blown Aperture Laboratories office complete with a Cave Johnson oil painting, Test Chamber sign, lemon grenades and even a hidden message within the room. After leaving the home office beige for the last three years, he decided to give the entire room a theme rather than simply changing the paint color. While Nintendo's Mario franchise… Read More

Google Music users, you can breathe a slight sigh of relief, but don't get too excited. Google has finally enabled a way for you to retrieve the music you upload to its new music storage locker service. The announcement was made on the official Google+ page for Android and verified by a new help article on the Android Market Web site.  Using the Windows or Mac desktop PC client, you can now click one of two options. You can… Read More

Following their recent attempts to terrify us into buying a gaming PC with the Aurora R4, Alienware has now come over all friendly and announced the X51, a gaming PC that's hidden in a console-style box. With the ability to stand vertically or lay horizontally, the new X51 could happily sit alongside other gaming machines under your TV too. Despite a footprint barely larger than an original PS3, the X51 still packs in plenty of tech, and… Read More

Have you ever wondered why your PC is so expensive? Well, a good portion of that cash goes straight into the pockets of Intel for its processors and Microsoft for Windows. Unfortunately, while the market has seen that the days of expensive PCs are over, executives at Microsoft and Intel may fight to retain high PC prices as we move into the next era of the PC: tablets. Tablet PCs are slowly taking over the market. With Windows 8, even Microsoft… Read More

So far, gesture control systems have been a hit at CES 2012, but it's not only the big manufacturers who're exploring the concept of using movement and gestures to manipulate on-screen images, nor are they the only ones pushing the technology forward. The video you see below comes from a Chinese group called Sharpnow, and it demonstrates a product called SharpSight. The bank of lenses to the right of the screen registers the… Read More

Apple may only have a few computer models, but its competitors seem to give a new model number and name to everything. The other day, Lenovo introduced six new Ultrabooks and tablets, but today, on the eve of CES, the company has let 'er rip, detailing 16 new Windows 7 laptop and desktop models in six separate alphabetized categories. We'll attempt to detail some of the highlights and differentiators of each model below. Ultrabooks –… Read More

Known for manufacturing televisions over the last ten years, Vizio is taking the leap into the PC market with two all-in-one desktops and three laptop computers. This new lineup of computer products will be shown off at CES next week, but won't be available until May 2012. The all-in-one desktops have been designed to use 24-inch and 27-inch monitors while two of the laptops utilize a 15.6-inch screen and the thinner ultrabook offers a… Read More

Afterfall: Insanity is a survival horror game in a similar vein of the Resident Evil and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchises with a dash of Fallout and maybe even some Metro 2033 sprinkled in, but if you’re not familiar with it, you’re not alone. The game started off as an indie project by Polish fans working under the name Intoxicate Studios, looking to create a post-apocalyptic shooter. In 2008, Nicolas Games saw it and decided to legitimize the… Read More

Earlier this week we got a look at what the future HP brand would look like—or at least could have looked like. Just after an image of the minimal-meets-modern take on the company’s logo leaked, an HP representative made sure we knew the futuristic rebranding won’t be coming to fruition. “In 2008, HP asked marketing agency Moving Brands to propose new ideas for various elements of HP’s brand identify, including fonts, graphics, and logos,” a… Read More

Once upon a time, desktop PCs were dull, non-threatening beige boxes hidden away under desks. But thanks to Alienware, specifically its new newly updated Aurora R4 desktop computer, they bear closer resemblance to nightmarish mechanical beings come to enslave us all. Alienware says the Aurora is its most advanced desktop PC yet, and judging by the incredible specs, it's hard not to agree. As with all Dell machines, it's expected that… Read More

For those that haven’t caught on to the gaming phenomenon that is Minecraft, it’s essentially an open world sandbox game where you are basically free to create, or in this case, recreate pretty much anything you want. In this machinima, created by games musician Grahame (aka Paradise Decay), Minecraft blocks are used to recreate the iconic scene at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope. The climactic battle sees our plucky young Jedi-in-training… Read More

Microsoft and Apple have always been competitors on some level, and as a result, their fans often contain a bit of that old competitive spirit. It’s not uncommon for Mac buyers to become overnight loyalists, but Windows has an entrenched fanboy battalion as well. Given the situation, it’s almost unnatural to think that – *gasp* – someone might own both a Windows PC and a Mac. Can you imagine the nerve? In the same household! Yet it… Read More