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This afternoon, Encore sent out word that it has shipped Monte Cristo Games’ Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps to retail outlets across North America for the PC platform. Set amidst World War II, Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps follow the battles between British and German forces during the North African campaigns. The game includes 20 [...]

Manufacturers of digital still cameras are expected to steadily lose market share to camera phone makers, market analysts said Monday.
The impact of cellular phones capable of taking and sending pictures will mostly be felt in the market for digital cameras costing $250 or less. Consumers are expected to move away from these low-end cameras in [...]

“Formerly known as 3GIO, PCI Express is the open standards-based successor to PCI and its variants for server- and client-system I/O interconnects. Unlike PCI and PCI-X, which are based on 32- and 64-bit parallel buses, PCI Express uses high-speed serial link technology similar to that found in Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial-Attached SCSI [...]

Market researcher IDC has announced a new study that concludes that Pay TV providers are helping to drive rapid growth of the Digital VIdeo Recorder (DVR) market.
Despite slow adoption rates and marketing efforts that never really hit home with consumers, digital video recorders (DVRs) - devices that use an internal hard drive to record programming [...]

Check Your Email Tonight
Okay, here’s the great news you’ve been waiting for – the next super-powered wave of pre-order beta invites will be roaring out across cyberspace this evening. So make sure you have that SPAM filter turned off (or re-configured) and keep an eye out for an email from beta@coh.com. Good luck!
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The world’s largest electronics makers are working closely with Hollywood’s film studios to nail down the standards for the next DVD, but said on Tuesday it will be delayed until the end of the year.
The Blu-ray group of 13 electronics giants is proposing a new DVD technology that can store up to eight times as [...]

I noticed a small flood of Gnomedex registrations over the past couple of days, and I figured I was missing something. That seems to be the case, as we are moving the price up from $99 to $199 on April 15th (Tax Day)! It’ll be $249 at the door, FWIW. If you’re hungry for more [...]

AOL is raffling off a spammer’s Porsche, which it won in a court settlement.

Seizure of property is becoming a major tactic in these lawsuits, since guilty spammers often protest their inability to pay large fines… The Porsche-owning spammer, whose identity remains confidential, was one of a group sued last year for having sent 1 billion [...]

The gist: Amidst a scene of a bloody massacre, Conan meets a very beautiful lady dancing in the middle of the snow. Incidentally, the naked lady also has 20-foot monstrous giant brothers, waiting for an opportune time to prounce on the heroic Cimmerian. Crimson blood never looked prettier on white snow.
When I was a child, [...]

More Pre-order Beta Invites
Friday, March 26, 2004
Next Invite Wave Info
Here’s something to perk up your Friday – the next wave of pre-order beta invites is coming your way early next week. We will let you know the EXACT date as soon as we have it, but expect them to go out no later than Wednesday [...]