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Microsoft announces DirectX 11 at GameFest
Microsoft has unveiled DirectX 11, the company's next-generation graphics pipeline, at its annual XNA GameFest developer conference in Seattle, Washington. Details of the new API are fairly scant at the moment, as presentations from the developer-onl...
Valve hires MINERVA mod-maker
In a move which further evidences how committed to sustaining and encouraging the growth of third party mods Valve is, the Half-Life developer has now officially hired Adam 'Cargo Cult' Foster, the maker of the popular MINERVA mod for Half-Life 2. M...
Windows Home Server data corruption bug fixed
Well, it didn't quite hit the promised June deadline, but a fix for the dreaded Windows Home Server file-swallowing bug has finally been released. Microsoft announced on its Technet Blog for Windows Home Server yesterday that the Windows Home Server ...
Guitar Hero renders mice redundant?
According to analysts, how you interact with your computer in the future could be a radically different experience than it is now and the days of the mouse and keyboard could be very numbered indeed. Want proof? Then look no farther than Guitar Hero,...
Portal: Still Alive detailed
The E3 2008 announcement that Valve Software would be making an Xbox 360-only version of Portal, called Portal: Still Alive has understandably ruffled a few feathers in the PC community. What exactly will Xbox owners be getting that PC owners can't h...
