The gaming geeks over at Razer have been making some of the best computer peripherals like mice and keyboards for gamers for a number of years now. The company has more recently taken to releasing special edition mice rather than completely new designs. The favorite mouse to get the custom collector’s edition touch from Razer is its DeathAdder mouse. In fact, ...

We know you're going to be shocked -- shocked! -- to hear this, but NVIDIA's gone and refreshed its high-end line of GeForce GTX cards. The GTX 580M takes the place of the GTX 485M, and NVIDIA's bragging that it's the "fastest notebook GPU ever," capable, we're told, of besting the Radeon HD 6970M's tesselation performance by a factor of six. ...

The MSI GT683 gaming laptop features the Intel Core i7-2630QM quad core processor, four DDR3 memory slots, the nVidia GeForce GTX 560M graphics card, accelerated dual hard disk technology and comes with a full HD screen. With the i7-2630QM, all four cores have a clock speed of 2.00GHz. The i7 also has the Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 which boosts the overall ...

Microsoft announced yesterday that it's preparing to unleash a whopping 16 bulletins next week. Slated for June 14, this month's Patch Tuesday will address 34 vulnerabilities across many products. The update follows a comparatively light cycle in May, which included only two security bulletins. Of the 16 patches, nine are labeled "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating, while the remaining seven are deemed ...

STEELSERIES ANNOUNCES FAMILY OF EXCLUSIVE DIABLO® III PERIPHERALS, CO-DESIGNED WITH BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT The New Diablo® III Mouse and Headset Feature "Demon Red" Illuminated Designs and Technology Specifically Tailored for this Mouse-Intensive, Dark Fantasy Game LOS ANGELES – E3 – JUNE 6, 2011 – As the game industry waits for E3 to kick off this week, SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of professional gaming peripherals ...

I am very pleased to announce the launch of a brand new version of the very popular NVIDIA PhysX SDK. The new PhysX 3.0 SDK is available to all registered developers on our developer support website located at: http://supportcenteronline.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=1949 PhysX is the world’s most pervasive physics solution for highly realistic and real-time simulation based effects for games, film and ...

With the advancement of web technologies, it is not surprising that the web and web applications are increasingly playing an important part of our experience on the computer. In the coming week, Google is releasing its first Chromebooks - netbooks which are based completely on a cloud OS and in which the traditional desktop has been replaced by the web browser. ...

Here's a quick look at the new start screen for Windows 8 running on a Dell XPS Development Tablet. The tablet supports both touch and external keyboard interfaces. The UI is ridiculously smooth, it seems even quicker than Windows Phone 7. On tablets Windows 8 will support PlayBook like bezel gestures (the gestures actually take place on the ...

You can usually rely on ex-CEO of Google (and current chairman) Eric Schmidt for a few good soundbites, but the exec’s appearance at D9 was jam-packed with them. Schmidt opened by dismissing Microsoft as a player in the current platform war – which he says is now between a “gang of four” consisting Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook, with PayPal and ...

ASUS’ glasses-free 3D gaming notebook will likely get most of the attention, but the Republic of Gamers team has also brought along plenty of kit for the DIY enthusiast. In addition to the ROG Crosshair V Formula series motherboard shown yesterday there are the ROG Maximus IV Extreme-Z and ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z motherboards, plus the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 ...