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According to exciting news just hitting the wires NASA’s Phoenix has purportedly located what scientists are certain is ice just under the surface of Mars which appears to have been discovered thanks to the Phoenix Lander’s twelve retrorockets – used to slow the descent of the Phoenix prior to touchdown …

According to Infogrames president and former Sony Computer Entertainment America’s front man, Phil Harrison, games developers will soon be looking to move away from developing purely single player games, such as Bioshock or the up and coming latest version of Alone in the Dark, on account of consumers no longer …

Those of you who own pro-level DSLR cameras may be interested in a report conducted by an independent researcher by the name of Rob Galbraith which has confirmed that not only do SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash and SD cards offer considerable performance gains over competing memory cards but that SanDisk’s Extreme …

Rumours that Apple’s new 3G iPhone is indeed set for a 9 June launch, as is widely speculated, have been further fuelled by a detailed report published by Forbes which serves to bring together numerous sightings of mysterious shipments to various ports in the US as well as a marked …

It seems like not a single day goes past without another contender entering the mini notebook ring set on socking it to Asus’s Eee PC range and now, to add to the likes of HP’s Mini Note and MSI’s Wind (to name but two) it appears that Dell is set …

Back on April 21st we reported that Asus may be looking to introduce a new Eee PC with a larger 10” screen (see: Asus Eee Mini Notebook Range To Get ‘Uber Eee’ with 10” Screen) and now it appears that Asus may well be launching this new model, known as …

According to a leak being touted as legitimate, we could see the first notebooks sporting Intel’s first Dual Core Atom processors by the end of the year thanks to a chip being billed as the Atom 330 which, if the leak is to believed, will boast a Thermal Design Power …

‘Most of the games on [the] Wii look like crap’ according to High Voltage’s Eric Nofsinger who, apart from not mincing his words, belives that third-party developers need to ‘step up to the plate and deliver [to show that] the Wii platform is capable of a lot more than what …

Activision has confirmed that the Wii version of their Guitar Hero World Tour software title, previously known as Guitar Hero Rock Band Edition World Tour, is set to become the ‘first game ever in the Guitar Hero franchise to allow in-game downloadable content on Wii’ just as various software publishes …

According to reports surfacing in the English press, the budget hotel chain Premier Inn has announced that it plans to offer guests rooms on the Moon within twenty-five years and have, according to reports, apparently already purchased a plot on the Moon in preparation for the construction of their first …

It seems that the real world actors behind the key characters in Rockstar’s blockbuster, Grand Theft Auto IV, are less than happy with their earnings, with Michael Hollick, the actor behind the voice and motion-capture of GTA’s main character, Niko, stating that ‘it’s tough, when you see Grand Theft Auto …