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EA's Jack the Ripper game detailed

7th Oct 2009 EA's Jack the Ripper game is still unconfirmed, but that hasn't stopped the details flowing. [18]

Activision didn't want Modern Warfare

7th Oct 2009 Infinity Ward has claimed it had to fight long and hard to convince Activision Modern Warfare was a good idea. [34]

Retailers: "PSPgo will fail miserably"

7th Oct 2009 Independent retailers such as Chips have said that the PSPgo will fail miserably. [26]

Nvidia working on CUDA-based anti-virus

7th Oct 2009 Nvidia has announced that it is working on producing a CUDA-based anti-virus system which will offload the task of checking for malware on to its range of graphics processors. [32]

MS unlikely to simplify licensing options

6th Oct 2009 Fielding a question at a press event yesterday, Steve Ballmer stated that the company has no immediate plans to simplify its often confusing licensing offerings. [10]

Ubisoft buys Trackmania dev

6th Oct 2009 Ubisoft has announced that it has wholly bought out Nadeo, developers of the Trackmania games. [14]

Warren Spector details Epic Mickey

6th Oct 2009 Warren Spector has finally unveiled Epic Mickey, the project he's been working on with Disney. [7]

Thousands of Hotmail accounts leaked

6th Oct 2009 The details of around ten thousand Hotmail accounts - including passwords - have been leaked to pastebin.com, possibly as the result of a phishing attack. [20]

Modern Warfare 2 PC delayed

5th Oct 2009 Modern Warfare 2 may have been delayed by up to two weeks on the PC. [76]

Mozilla demos CSP anti-XSS tech

5th Oct 2009 The Mozilla Foundation has released a demonstration of its new Content Security Policy system, designed to prevent cross-site scripting attacks completely. [9]

PSPgo already semi-hacked

5th Oct 2009 The PSPgo has already been hacked by gamers, kind of. [16]

UK game retailers angry at supermarket prices

5th Oct 2009 Independent game retailers in the UK have started to complain about supermarket prices. [66]

Stardock slams Games For Windows Live

5th Oct 2009 Stardock boss Brad Wardell has slammed Microsoft's GFWL system. [45]

MS confirms Windows XP Mode RTM

5th Oct 2009 Microsoft has announced that the Windows XP Mode virtualisation system for Windows 7 has hit Release To Manufacturing status, and will be launched on the same day as Windows 7. [14]

Nvidia: Without TWIMTBP, PC gaming would be dead

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: Ashu Rege, director of Nvidia's DevTech team, said that PC gaming would quickly peter out if it wasn't for the work of his team. [79]

Nvidia dismisses AMD's Batman accusations

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: The two figureheads behind Nvidia's TWIMTBP program have dismissed AMD's Batman accusations. [56]

High-end Fermi will ship this year

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: A senior official at Nvidia has said that they're confident GeForce products based on Fermi will ship this year. [14]

Fermi card on stage wasn't real

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: Nvidia has confirmed that the Fermi card held up by Jen-Hsun on stage wasn't real, but was adamant that the demos were. [22]

Win loads of Asus and AMD hardware

2nd Oct 2009 There's only a few days left to vote on this year's Custom PC & bit-tech Awards. Read on to find out how you could win some great prizes!

Chrome netbooks due in weeks

2nd Oct 2009 Rumours claim un-named Chinese manufacturers are set to launch netbooks based on the MIPS architecture and running Google's Chrome OS by the end of the month. [18]

Tony Hawk: Ride delayed for UK

2nd Oct 2009 Activision has dated and priced the UK release of Tony Hawk: Ride. [16]

Gabe Newell is going to Australia

2nd Oct 2009 Valve's Gabe Newell has announced that he will honour plans to visit a modder in Australia. [38]

Bloggers prompt WTF change

2nd Oct 2009 Bloggers have convinced the Wisconsin Tourism Federation to change its name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin owing to its unfortunate acronym WTF. [9]

Six-core Intel CPU will be called Core i9

1st Oct 2009 Gigabyte confirms everyone's suspicion that the forthcoming six-core Gulftown CPU will be branded as Core i9. [27]

Win Gigabyte graphics cards by Overclocking!

1st Oct 2009 Test your overclocking skills againt Gigabyte and bag yourself a top-end graphics card or gaming mouse. [52]

Finjan warns over new banking Trojan

1st Oct 2009 Security firm Finjan has alerted users to a particularly insidious new Trojan which infects Windows-based systems and steals money from on-line banking systems. [13]

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Music Games Aren't Dead, Just Waiting to Be Reborn
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