Three major brand hard drive vendors – Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in the products, Taiwanese channel distributors said.
About 12,000-15,000 defective hard drives are estimated to have entered Taiwan. It is unclear whether [...]
Claims have re-emerged that the US space agency (Nasa) did find signs of life on Mars during the historic Viking landings of 1976.
Dr Gil Levin, a former mission scientist, says he now has the evidence to prove it, just days before the US and Europe send new expeditions to the Red Planet.
The United States and [...]
bani writes “Following just a month after the test release, Enemy Territory has finally made a full version release! You can download the Linux and Windows versions for free, it does not require the retail Return to Castle Wolfenstein product in order to play. Hats off to Id+Activision+SplashDamage for giving the community such an excellent [...]
LOS ANGELES — James Cameron, whose technological wizardry helped make Titanic the highest-grossing film in history, is convinced celluloid is on its way out. And to help send it to its grave, the director says he will start production early next year on one of the most ambitious movies ever made: a high-definition, 3-D digital [...]
Both Lucas Arts “Star Wars Galaxies” and Blizzard’s “Ghost” are delayed till 2004.
LucasArts has announced that development on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of its highly anticipated Star Wars massively multiplayer title, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, has been put on hold in order to focus on the launch of the PC version.
The [...]
Vanguard(DC) writes “There was a major hacking incident last night on the servers of Shadowbane, a newly released MMORPG by UbiSoft/Wolfpack. The attackers wreaked havoc on at least one game server, with apparent god-like capabilities in-game. There’s already an official statement on the forums - ‘Ubi Soft and Wolfpack Studios are now working with law [...]
Actor/comedian Bill Murray has signed on to voice the role of Garfield the Cat in the live-action/CGI film directed by Peter Hewitt (Thundercats) for 20th Century Fox.
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The latest update of the GeForce FX adds a significant performance boost, and appears to
approach the Radeon 9800, according to ZDNet Labs - though Nvidia has been accused of fiddling the tests
Nvidia’s latest high-end graphics processor appears to have caught up to ATI’s latest Radeon chip in performance, even allowing for alleged dirty [...]
While conventional wisdom used to say that staring at a TV screen or computer monitor for hours on end did bad things to your eyes, this new study says that regular video gaming improves your visual skills. So, forget contact lenses, go play some video games… Even more to the point, the study found [...]
NPD Techworld has released a list of the top-selling PC games for the month of April.
The top 20 were:
1. Delta Force Black Hawk Down
2. Command & Conquer: Generals
3. The Sims Deluxe
4. The Sims: Unleashed Expansion [...]
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