Deal of the week: Cheap storage and game bargains
No question about it: SSD prices have a taken a nosedive lately. Just look at Samsung's 830 Series 128GB SSD. Right now, it's on sale at Newegg for only $109.99 with free shipping, if you enter the promo code "EMCNEJB27" on the checkout page. That's half of what the drive cost in early February, when we reviewed its higher-capacity sibling. A 50% price drop in three months isn't anything to sneeze at.
Samsung drives aren't the only ones, of course. OCZ's Agility 3 SSDs are also surprisingly cheap: the 60GB model is selling for $69.99 after a $10 mail-in rebate , and its 240GB ...
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Wired shows first Unreal Engine 4 screenshots
Sadly, there's no video to go along with these—but the first Unreal Engine 4 screenshots are now available for your viewing pleasure. Wired inserted them in a lengthy article about Epic, Unreal Engine 4, and technical guru Tim Sweeney yesterday.
The shots depict a fiery figure that looks straight out of The Lord of the Rings , some sort of ruined dungeon-like area, and a mountain range. They're replete with tessellation, particle effects, high-dynamic-range ...
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Microsoft renews 'buy a PC, get a free Xbox' promo for students
People are always comparing and contrasting PCs and consoles, but of course, the ideal is to have both platforms. For students, doubling up will be just as easy this year as it was last year. Microsoft has renewed its promotion that makes students eligible for a free Xbox 360 if they purchase a PC worth a certain price.
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Report: Amazon wants to put ads on the Kindle Fire
Already, Amazon offers versions of its Kindle e-book readers with ads on their home and lock screens. Could the Kindle Fire join that list? Maybe so, according to the folks at AdAge. They claim to have it on good authority that Amazon is rounding up advertisers to slap ads on the Fire.
The ad campaigns would run for two months and also include inventory from Amazon's "Special Offers" product. For $1 million, advertisers ...
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Windows 8 frightens me, and here's why
Some people just hate change. It can't be helped. Those people cling to old versions of their favorite software as long as they can. When support cycles end and upgrades are forced upon them, they work tirelessly to customize new releases to look just like the old ones. When that fails, they take to Internet message boards and complain endlessly. "Why did they move such and such?" they ask. "Why did they merge this menu and that one? Why does it ask for my permission when I try to do this? Why, why, why?"
Those people are the bane of developers and web designers everywhere. When they're spoon-fed improvements with shiny silverware, they purse their lips and shake their heads and cry and moan until whatever they were offered splatters ...
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Release roundup: New coolers and old motherboards
With the Computex trade show barely three weeks away, the flow of new releases from Far Eastern hardware makers is starting to slow. Still, a handful of notable announcement hit our inbox this week:
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Video mockup shows Metro version of Firefox
I apparently missed this last week, but it's worth a look if you haven't seen it. Ever wonder what Firefox will look like in Windows 8's Metro environment? We got an early glimpse earlier this month, when Mozilla announced plans for a unified Firefox visual identity. Now, there's more: a concept video whipped up by the Firefox UX Designer Yuan Wang.
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LinkedIn profiles tease new Mirror's Edge, Bad Company titles
Almost a year ago, EA Games President Frank Gibeau told GameTrailers that EA was "actively looking at how to bring [Mirror's Edge] back in the right way." A sequel to the first-person free-running action game based on Battlefield 3's Frostbite 2 engine could be in the cards, he said.
Now, fresh evidence suggests the game has been in development for some time—or definitely was at some point in the past. As GamerZines reports ...
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Steam's remote library management now out of beta
Stuck at work and eager to try a new game as soon as you get home? Too lazy to get out of bed to start a game download? Good news, then: Steam's remote library management feature has come out of beta.
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