Fracture' and Mercenaries 2' offer solid gaming action and fun
Sometimes a good, dumb action game is just what the doctor ordered. Take these two.- 12:11 PM
Sometimes a good, dumb action game is just what the doctor ordered. Take these two.- 12:11 PM
Shares of IBM Corp. jumped Thursday after the technology company's surprise announcement that it was still plenty prosperous in the third quarter despite the worsening economic climate.- 11:37 AM
Microsoft Corp. will be releasing games developed by top Japanese designers for its Xbox 360 console, a senior executive said Thursday, the latest effort by the U.S. software maker to make inroads in a market where it has long struggled.- 9:27 AM
In "de Blob," it is your job, as the aforementioned blob, to return color to a city left completely monochrome by a nasty corporation of ink people. You do this simply by rolling around town, smashing into paint repositories of different colors, and rolling over and jumping onto rooftops, walls, trees, city dwellers and more in order to save their colorful souls.- 12:17 PM
IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.- 7:21 PM
A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.- 12:37 AM
Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year.- 8:42 AM
Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.- 3:36 PM
A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.- 12:07 AM
Micron Technology Inc. will cut about 15 percent of its global work force as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations, the company said Thursday.- 6:41 PM
Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There's just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around.- 5:41 PM
It was late on a Saturday night.- 3:52 PM
Plantronics GameCom 777 Surround Sound Headset- 3:59 PM
Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.- 11:21 AM
As chief executive of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer heads a company that's not just a PC software giant but also a growing presence in the broader consumer electronics industry.- 1:41 PM
Used to be that I'd avoid all-in-one consumer electronic products simply because they just weren't as good as the separate, standalone models. But that's changed, especially when it comes to computer peripherals. Take the printer for example. Or more specifically, let's take a look at Epson's latest offering in their all-in-one printers category, the Artisan 800.- 1:46 PM
Lower prices on consumer electronics may help carry the tech industry through a difficult holiday shopping season. But analysts believe corporate spending on computer servers, PCs and business software is entering a period of slower growth that will last well into next year.- 1:51 PM
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The editors of Game Informer magazine rank the top 10 downloadable titles for October:- 3:52 PM
Video games come, and video games go. Sometimes they stick around for decades, such as the "Madden" NFL series. Sometimes they are reborn, like countless Mario games. Sometimes they just die, as happened with "Twisted: The Game Show."- 3:52 PM