Tag Archives: Windows

Steam User Interface Beta Available

February 24, 2010

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Steam User Interface Beta Available

Haven’t been posting much Steam news lately but Valves new Steam Beta update seems to be newsworthy.  Right now you can opt into the Steam UI beta and experience the biggest change in Steam since the gaming platform and online content distribution network was launched.
The Steam Store outlines all the changes and enhancements to the [...]

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The Novint Falcon Pistol Grip gun thing

June 24, 2009

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The Novint Falcon Pistol Grip gun thing

This gadget looks pretty spiffy,  maybe not something to fully replace the trusted keyboard and mouse FPS combo but intriguing nonetheless – especially now it has a pistol attachment.  The Falcon was originally announced at CES 09.

The Novint Falcon lets you control a game in three dimensions, and also lets you feel high-fidelity three-dimensional force [...]

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Find $10,000 with Microsoft IE8!

June 18, 2009

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Find $10,000 with Microsoft IE8!

In a refreshingly to the point Internet Explorer 8 promotional stunt, Microsoft has buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet.  Be the first to find it and you keep it.
How?
Visit the IE8 $10,000 competition website and follow tengrand_ie8 on Twitter.
But you will never find it using old Firefox. (So get rid of it, or get lost)

To [...]

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Windows 7 beta 1 First Look

December 28, 2008

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Windows 7 beta 1 First Look

ZDNet Blogs have a promising first look at the recently released Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400)

This beta is of excellent quality. This is the kind of code that you could roll out and live with. Even the pre-betas were solid, but finally this beta feels like it’s “done.” This beta exceeds the quality of [...]

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