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20 Years On: Thief II

Rick returns to the best stealth game in existence.

April 2, 2020 | 15:00

Half-Life: Alyx Review

Half-Life is back! But how does the switch to VR stack up?

March 31, 2020 | 12:00

Mod of the Month February 2020 in Association with Corsair

We've picked some of the best projects recently completed in our project log forum.

March 25, 2020 | 14:00

Researchers unveil rapid-charge aluminium battery tech

Fully charges in under a minute.

April 7, 2015 | 12:13

Gove bemoans UK technology education at BETT

Education secretary Michael Gove has savaged the state of UK technology education, calling for serious reform.

January 12, 2012 | 09:58

Thanks for coming to LITS - see you next year!

Thanks to all those who came to LITS for making it such a success. See you again next year.

October 26, 2011 | 08:23

Behind the scenes of Battlefield 3

Dice’s visual architect Johan Anderson delivered a keynote speech at Nvidia’s GeForce LAN 6.

October 25, 2011 | 11:13

Civilization Board Game Review

We already know that the Civilization board game is very complex, but is it worth the effort?

April 15, 2011 | 13:53

Why Aren't Games Better?

John asks if the constant push for polygons stops developers from improving games in other ways.

May 17, 2010 | 10:33

Nvidia's Next Generation Ion Platform

We delve into Nvidia's 'Next Generation Ion Platform', formerly known as Ion-2, to see how Optimus technology and numerous other tweaks hope to give a better graphics experience for Intel's latest Atom 'Pineview' CPUs.

March 3, 2010 | 09:09

Nvidia Optimus: More Than Meets The Eye

Nvidia's new Optimus technology is primed to transform switchable graphics in laptops, netbooks and the second generation Ion platform. Trust us, for your next laptop upgrade this is looking like a must have technology.

February 9, 2010 | 14:05

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5770 Review

AMD has launched two new mid-range graphics cards today, the Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750. We review the Radeon HD 5770 from Asus and look to see whether the game has changed at this hugely important price point. Read on to find out.

October 13, 2009 | 09:30

Does Nvidia have a future?

In the first of a regular series of articles looking at the giants of the tech industry, we focus on Nvidia - it's had a torrid time over the past 18 months, but in the past, it's always come back stronger when under pressure, so what does the future hold this time for Nvidia?

August 20, 2009 | 12:41

Apple goes Pro with 13in MacBook, updates 15in MBP

Apple updated its MacBook line with several new versions and slashed prices on many existing models at its Worldwide Developer Conference keynote last night.

June 9, 2009 | 15:11

CRT emulation provides authentic retro gaming

Researchers have accurately emulated CRT colour-bleeding, afterimage effects and scanlines in an Atari 2600 emulator.

May 5, 2009 | 15:08

IBM Technology Alliance reveals 28nm chip plans

IBM's partners, including AMD's former fabrication wing, GlobalFoundries, announce that they are developing 28nm chips.

April 17, 2009 | 14:53

AMD and Seagate to demonstrate 6Gb/sec SATA today

New technology will be primarily targeted at solid state disks before it hits the mechanical hard drive industry.

March 2, 2009 | 09:56

Microsoft BlueTrack - under the hood

Microsoft's new Sidewinder X8 mouse incorporates its BlueTrack tracking engine, which boasts speeds and specs far in excess of those of laser or optical mice. Here we delve into the technology behind the numbers, and interview Microsoft on the technology and its future.

February 28, 2009 | 09:48

Intel unveils 32nm process technology

Intel has demonstrated the world's first 32nm processors and announed massive plans for its latest process technology.

February 10, 2009 | 19:41

The Dark Side of Overdrive

LCD monitor manufacturers have constantly pushed response times down with overdrive technology, which increases the voltage to force the liquid crystals to change colour states faster. Sadly, there are some side effects associated with this - we explain the cause and detail how to spot the problems yourself.

February 6, 2009 | 08:08

Sony CEO demos flexible OLED technology

CES 2009: Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer demonstrated the world's first flexible OLED technology today during his keynote at CES.

January 8, 2009 | 21:09

The bit-tech Hardware Awards 2008

Earlier in the week, we published the best games of the year and today it's time to look back at what's happened in the technology industry over the last year. Find out which products are the best of the year, and also which innovations have caught our eye during 2008.

January 2, 2009 | 17:56

XFX jumps into bed with AMD

XFX is now an official AMD partner and will produce ATI graphics cards starting from early 2009. The company will also remain an Nvidia partner as well.

December 16, 2008 | 15:52

Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB (GV-R485MC-1GH)

Passively cooling a Radeon HD 4850 is no mean feat and that's exactly what Gigabyte has done with the GV-R485MC-1GH graphics card. We have a look at the card and subject it to the Crysis Crunch to find out if the Multi-Core cooling solution is up to the task.

November 28, 2008 | 08:24

Take the Dolby Sound Survey and win prizes!

We have teamed up with Dolby to seek out your views on the current state of sound technology in the PC industry.

October 21, 2008 | 12:12

AMD announces manufacturing spin off

During a conference call this afternoon, AMD confirmed the rumours that have been circulating about its plans to spin off its foundry business into a separate company.

October 7, 2008 | 16:20