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- Saturday science subject: The Moon, comets, and water
Last Saturday, we wrote about how NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has discovered a substantial amount of water on the Moon. There was talk about comets, not solar wind, being the source of the water pretty early on, and New Scientist now says "evidence...
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Last by just brew it! at 6:47 PM on 11/21/09 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat benchmark appears
Finally, a DirectX 11 benchmark based on an actual game. Shacknews writes that GSC Game World has released a freely downloadable benchmarking tool based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat, its upcoming post-apocalyptic survival shooter. The benchmark takes you on several flights through a reconstruction of Prypiat, the abandoned Ukrainian city...
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Last by SPOOFE at 3:04 PM on 11/21/09 - Report: Elusive Apple tablet delayed until late 2010
The Taiwanese rumor mill has more news about Apple's mysterious yet eagerly anticipated tablet product. This time, DigiTimes has heard from its sources at component makers that Apple will delay the tablet's launch from next March to the second half of 2010. Why the delay? Word is that the Mac...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:04 PM on 11/19/09 - Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising demo hits the web
With the surge of new and exciting games coming out this season, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, demos aren't an extinct species just yet. As Shacknews reports, Codemasters has just released a demo of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, its tactical military first-person shooter that came out last month.
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:31 PM on 11/18/09 - Borderlands zombie expansion shown on video
Completed Gearbox Entertainment's Borderlands? Sick of the multiplayer mode? Don't uninstall the game just yet. Shacknews reported last week that an expansion pack entitled The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was on its way for consoles on November 24, with a PC version to follow some time later. Well,...
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Last by Grahambo at 1:59 AM on 11/19/09 - Saturday science subject: Moon water 2: Aquatic boogaloo
In September, we wrote about how a trio of science teams had discovered evidence of water on the Moon. As ScienceNow reports, NASA has now made an even more spectacular find. The agency's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which smashed into the Moon on October 9...
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Last by Mavrick88 at 12:00 PM on 11/16/09 - Deal of the week: Crysis bonanza
Crytek's Crysis and Crysis Warhead are infamous for pushing hardware to its limits even today, but they're also pretty swanky games once you get to play them. And despite their age, both have graphics that are still up there with (if not better than) some of the prettiest cross-platform...
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Last by Jigar at 11:01 AM on 11/16/09 - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC to include DirectX 11 support
As you may or may not know, while DICE's original Battlefield: Bad Company game was a console exclusive, the sequel—creatively entitled Battlefield: Bad Company 2—will hit PCs on March 2, 2010, the same day as the console launch. Not content with simple cross-platform development, DICE has gone ahead and implemented DirectX...
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Last by jasonalwaysready at 10:46 AM on 11/16/09 - Modern Warfare 2 saw biggest entertainment launch ever
Step aside, Grand Theft Auto IV. As the AP reports, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has taken the crown of biggest entertainment launch ever, racking up 4.7 million sales within its first 24 hours of availability in the United States and United Kingdom alone. Rockstar North's GTA...
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Last by willyolio at 1:53 AM on 11/16/09 - Zune HD gets free 3D games
Have a Zune HD? Well, you should now be able to put the 3D capabilities of the player's Tegra system-on-a-chip to the test. As Engadget reports, Microsoft has added a handful of free 3D games to the Zune Marketplace today. In the words of the Microsoft press release, titles include:
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Last by eitje at 3:23 PM on 11/12/09 - Poll: What will be the best PC game of the season?
It's that time of year again. Days are shorter, the weather is colder, folks are putting up decorations and prepping for the holiday shopping rush, and a new batch of games is coming out. Well, unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case you're probably enjoying long, warm...
Poll Question: • What will be the best PC game of the season?
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Last by zima at 9:38 AM on 11/16/09 - OpenOffice.org mouse has 18 buttons
No, this is no April fools joke—at least, we don't think so. OpenOffice.org now has its own pointing device thanks to WarMouse, a little-known firm that's announced an 18-button monstrosity geared for the multi-platform productivity suite. Behold: Yes, the OOMouse has 18 buttons (all...
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Last by derFunkenstein at 11:25 AM on 11/11/09 - Saturday science subject: Climbing up the space elevator
Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that the space elevator will be built about 10 years after everybody stops laughing. We're certainly getting there: as New Scientist reports, NASA has awarded a $900,000 prize to a team that developed a robotic climber capable of ascending a cable at 3.9...
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Last by zima at 8:10 AM on 11/12/09 - Shooting my way through Borderlands
"Okay, just one more mission..." That phrase usually preceded me going to bed far too late through most of last week. Yes, I was bitten by the Borderlands bug. For a total of around 20 hours across a few evenings, I shot, electrocuted, set on fire, disintegrated, and drove through...
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Last by lilbuddhaman at 7:41 PM on 11/16/09 - Epic lets devs make standalone Unreal Engine 3 titles for free
id Software often gets credit for opening the source code of old game engines a few years after their release. Epic Games has now pulled a comparable feat, except with two major differences: the new Unreal Development Kit doesn't include game-engine source code, but it does give developers all of...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 1:01 PM on 11/06/09 - Left 4 Dead 2 demo now available to all PC users
After a brief bout of pre-order exclusivity last week, Valve has now made its Left 4 Dead 2 demo available to the general public. As Shacknews reports, the PC demo is a free download on Steam, and console users with Xbox Live Gold subscriptions can grab the 360...
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Last by PainIs4ThaWeak at 9:25 AM on 11/06/09 - Etc.
Every year at this time for the past few, we've had a strangely ample ladybug bloom. The things gather all over the sides of our house, and many of them manage to slip inside through open doors or cracks. Today, while I was making breakfast, I spotted one...
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Last by Flying Fox at 10:42 PM on 11/03/09 - iPhones not playing nice with Win7, P55 systems
Being an early adopter isn't always all sunshine and kittens. Some folks have found that out the hard way after trying to sync their iPhones on brand-new Lynnfield PCs running Windows 7. As The Register reports, those users have piled complaints into a six-page thread on Apple's discussion...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 7:32 PM on 11/03/09
