Blizzard announced today that it was laying off 600 employees, though its CEO said that the majority of those laid off were not directly involved in game development. CEO Mike Morhaime stressed the impact on current projects would be minimal, he said the company plans to ship Diablo 3, Blizzard DOTA, as well as expansions for Starcraft [...]

In what some are calling an “end of an era”, and the site’s proprietors a non-noticeable change, The Pirate Bay has eschewed torrents for good in favor of magnet links. TPB first announced its intent to transition to magnet files this past January. With a magnet links users would download the torrent tracker file from [...]

NVIDIA confirmed today that it is working with Microsoft on a program to distribute Windows 8 test PCs to software developers and device manufacturers powered by the Tegra®3 quad-core mobile processor with 4-Plus-1™ architecture. This seeding program enables these parties to create a rich ecosystem of apps and devices for Windows 8 on ARM-based processors. [...]

ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash Storage application products, today announced the introduction of the DashDrive™ Durable HD710 portable hard drive. The DashDrive family is the newest addition to the company’s impressive lineup of storage devices, signifying mobile, rapid, and dependable data access. The housing of the HD710 is [...]

Lancool, a manufacturer of mid- to high-end computer chassis, announces their new mid-tower PC chassis – PC-K65 – designed for ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards. Equipped with 2 modular HDD racks, the Lancool PC-K65 supports up to six 3.5-inch HDDs and four 2.5-inch HDDs or SSDs, which can be set to face forward or backward. For those [...]

After its plan to purchase Hitachi Global Storage Technologies spooked worldwide antitrust regulators, Western Digital announced today that it had agreed to sell Toshiba some of its 3.5 inch HDD manufacturing assets and related Intellectual Property. As part of this deal Toshiba will transfer its damaged HDD manufacturing plant in Thailand to Western Digital, which [...]

ProView Electronics has upped the ante in its trademark war with Apple, updating the lawsuit it has against the company in the United States to allege that Apple is engaged in “fraud and unfair competition”. If these allegations hold true, as ProView hopes, the company believes that its 2009 sale of the “IPAD” trademark will [...]

While an exact release date for Intel’s Ivy Bridge – the 22nm successor to Sandy Bridge – has yet to be confirmed, reports coming from Bright Side of the News indicate the processor has massive overclocking potential. Intel’s soon-to-be-released quad core Core i7-3770K is clocked at 3.5 GHz with an L1 cache of 128 KB, [...]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) and power supplies for computing devices and systems, today announced the availability of the Fatal1ty 1000 Watt power supply, the latest high-performance PSU targeted at gamers and enthusiasts that demand maximum wattage, high efficiency, and a modular cabling configuration. Dedicated to delivering [...]

AMD announced today that they are updating their lineup of FX desktop CPUs. Utilizing the “Bulldozer” multi-core architecture with completely unlocked processor clock multipliers, the AMD FX CPUs continue to provide PC users the enjoyment of higher CPU speeds and related performance gains. As a part of a balanced and affordable desktop system, the processors [...]