Archive for March, 2011 - Page 6

Regular TFTS readers will know that when NVIDIA unveiled the GTX 590 last week, I was utterly disgusted by the $700 price, calling it a return to a dark place in graphics card history – or something like that. Now, a shocking report is coming out of some of NVIDIA’s [...]

UK readers may have noticed that just the day after the Nintendo 3DS came out there, some GAME shops were selling pre-owned Nintendo 3DS handhelds. How is that possible? Easy. According to internal GAME documents acquired by Eurogamer.net, GAME corporate management encouraged local retail employees to go to Tesco stores, where they were [...]

In case you haven’t been following this case, Microsoft and Apple are engaged in a battle over Apple’s trademark of the word “App Store”. App Store is Apple’s popular marketplace for third-party apps on their iPhone, and they’ve held the trademark since 2008 when the store launched. Microsoft claims that [...]

It’s no secret that if you start clogging up your DSL or cable connection by download massive amounts of porn or something else from BitTorrent, the ISPs will gently being throttling you back so you don’t hamper the internet connections of everybody on your block. But, after users complained that [...]

We know that Nintendo has been experimenting with 3D technology for a long time, and now they’ve finally had success with the Nintendo 3DS. Does that mean that the next Nintendo home console will be 3D? No so fast. Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, talking to CNN’s Mark Milian, [...]

After seeing the trailers for the upcoming L.A. Noire, I got to thinking that it was downright cinematic. If someone had told me that it was a movie instead of a game, I likely would have believed it. But now, the game that could be mistaken for a movie just [...]

If you spend a lot of time on your laptop–I know I do; I’ve taken to using them more than I use a desktop these days–especially if you spend a lot of time on your laptop away from power outlets, then you’ll definitely want to know about this one. A [...]

You were here just about 18 hours ago when my cohort Kevin Schram asked the question: “Any guesses on how high we’ll see WWDC tickets go on eBay?” Well, we’ve got an answer, at least for the time being–there are currently nine auctions running featuring WWDC tickets on eBay, and [...]

The Nintendo 3DS launched in Europe and North America this past weekend, but something seems a little off: we haven’t been hearing stories of massive 3DS shortages like we did with the launch of the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, or pretty much any other high-profile console launch. That doesn’t mean, [...]

Face it: your Xbox Live account is in a sorry state. You don’t have any cool Xbox Live Arcade games, you don’t buy DLC for the retail games you own, and even your avatar looks stupid. I know that may have been difficult to admit, but you’ve already taken the [...]