Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be a four-week Xbox Live Arcade exclusive, according to Karl Stewart, director at Crystal Dynamics. It seems that Microsoft required a certain window of exclusivity to allow the title’s release in the highly successful Summer of Arcade promotion. After the four weeks have passed the…

In addition to the antenna issues over which Apple is facing a backlash, a proximity sensor issue is also present in the iPhone 4, Apple has confirmed. Following reports from Apple Discussions forum posters, the company is addressing the matter with an upcoming firmware fix (either iOS 4.0.2 or iOS 4.1). The release may also include further recep…

Up until late last year, ultrathin laptops weren’t exactly on top of the wish list for most end-users, mostly because they didn’t have a sufficiently high performance to justify their price point. Then, Intel came out and unveiled its new line of energy-efficient processors, and super-slim notebooks became much more appealing. Needless to say, PC supplier…

According to reports in local media the email addresses, passwords and personal information of over 100,000 Israelis is being shared on Turkish hacking forums. Apparently, they were lifted from compromised websites in the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla raid earlier this year.The data breach was originally repor…

One of the most hyped and anticipated movies of this year is, no doubt, Chris Nolan’s “Inception,” a mind-twisting sci-fi that packs a lot of star power and even more potential of becoming the biggest movie of the summer. “Inception” opened nationwide in the US this Friday and, as box office figures indicate, it is…

The first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 is still over half a year away from finalization, but Microsoft is bound to start patching it soon enough. At the end of the past week, the software giant confirmed a Critical zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported editions of Windows client and server. At the same time, the Red…

The Linux Mint team has been refreshing all of its releases for the past couple of months and has now revealed Linux Mint 9 LXDE. Based on the lightweight LXDE desktop environment, it tries to get as close as possible to the main release and features some of the main new features of Linux Mint 9, the revamped Software Manager, the new Backup Tool and others. It’…

Valve has announced that it would be releasing Alien Swarm for today as a Steam exclusive. The title is a remake of an Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod that allows four players to engage in cooperative tactical gameplay, taking out alien threats from a classical top-down perspective. This new version of Alien Swarm was develop…

The 3D craze has been bubbling for quite a few months now, and NVIDIA recently proclaimed its support for this display mode by adding 3D Vision Surround support to its GTX 400 Series of graphics cards. Nevertheless, in the end, it is the monitors themselves that decide whether or not such a display mode can be used. Fortunately, display makers are quite eag…

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