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Dan Greenawalt stops by the Channel 9 studio to talk about the E3 announcements surrounding Forza 4, the integration of Kinect and his love of tire dynamics. Link Removed Link Removed

The Microsoft SoundLab is a group at Microsoft that supports our needs for sounds and sound effects, mostly for video games. They have handled most of the Microsoft Game Studio sounds, for games like Halo, Fable, and Forza. Mike Caviezel walks us through the SoundLab and talks about what it's...

When you crash-land on an alien planet, you find yourself alone and in constant danger. Everything on this planet seems focused on killing you, but you have no choice but to explore and stay alive. Sounds a bit like Metroid, doesn't it? It's actually the premise behind a new indie PC game called...

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows Angry Birds is one of the best games ever made and its now available on Windows 7 in two versions, one paid but offering true widescreen and full screen capabilities, the other free, and with additional bonus levels. ... Link Removed -...

The Deus Ex site and Eidos.com were defaced and taken down yesterday when a splinter group of the hacker organisation Anonymous broke through Square Enix security to steal the personal data of more than 80,000 registered users. According to IRC chat logs of the hackers’ conversations...

next-gen Xbox was recently spotted in the wilds of an unnamed Electronic Arts (EA) studio. 

The console - an early build with no casing - is apparently housed inside a standard PC shell. "Quite often when new consoles come around they're packaged into a PC shell, but actually what's...

The years edition of the great rally racing series has 70% rally stages and 30% of mixed events... sounds like a winner to me.

EA announced today the latest title in the Need for Speed series, Need for Speed: The Run. NFS: The Run takes players on a heart-pounding cross-country race from San Francisco to New York. Launching on November 15, Need for Speed The Run lures players into an underground world of...

"Homefront" tries to craft an expansive, historical "What if?" scenario. But the new game ends up delivering "Oh ... not again!" game play. The first-person shooter from Kaos Studios and THQ expands on current tensions with North Korea, but delves into a future where North and South Korea...

Greetings! There has been a problem with my computer for some time now and I have no idea how to solve it. I cannot press Right click while having Ctrl pressed. If I have Ctrl pressed and I press right click nothing happens. Instead of the normal box that should appear in Windows, I get a weird...

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A recent nation-wide survey investigating sleeping habits has linked the use of technology with insufficient sleep. But the findings may not be that clear-cut. The details come from the National Sleep Foundation, a non-profit group aiming to tackle sleep-related health issues and thus cut the...

Hey guys I seem to be getting a BSOD whenever I play video games. I thought it was the memory so I ran memtest86 for countless hours each stick at a time and they all tested out fine. I also tested my HD through chkdisk and everything tested out fine. I also seem to get 2 different crashes...

Hi! Thought I might introduce myself. My name is Henrik and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I own a company by the name of Reachground that creates audio for video games. Even though it's common to use MAC for audio I feel more home with Windows which I've been using since 3.1. Before that DOS...

The potential for a realtime movie maker "Sandbox for Cinema" with virtual acting using the new Crysis engine is looking extremely good, think of Garys mod on steriods.... Then just as that blow you away...watch the new Unreal 3 engine bladerunner inspired "Samaritan" demo running on 3x Nvidia...

I was at GDC 2011 in San Francisco this year and ran into a few old friends. Including video game journalist Geoff Keighley and bungie composer Marty O'Donnell. GDC is a great event that happens every year where big gaming and independent gaming companies alike attend sessions, meet other...

Hi Guys Since this is Windows discussion I'm interested in what everyone had for their first computer, and when and why you got it. My first computer was a Radio Shack Model 100 or something like that, running Windows 3.1. I had previously worked on one barrowed for the summer from the...

Link Removed Remember Gaikai, the cloud computing service that lets you demo video games in your browser window without downloading a thing? It's live, meaning it's no longer just us tech journalists that get to give it a thorough try. Provided you have a blazing fast internet connection and...

Video games aren't known for their emotional depth. In recent years, games have gotten bigger, the graphics have gotten sharper, stories have gotten fancier and Hollywood actors have begun lending their voices to leading characters. But there has always been something missing -- despite all the...

Looks like us L4D fans will have something to look forward to in April: Link Removed due to 404 Error