Pirates Get A Taste Of Their Own Medicine
We posted this story earlier today in our Gaming News Round-up but, since so many of you sent this one in, I decided it needed a post of its own. This is comedy gold:
The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail… Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn't want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers. So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message.
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Pre-Order LG's $14,000 Curved OLED TV
If you have a spare $14k burning a hole in your pocket, LG is taking preorders for that 55" curved OLED TV we showed you earlier this month.
LG on Monday began taking pre-orders for a 55-inch curved OLED TV. The new display, which looks like a flat-screen TV but with a subtle, inward curve, is available for purchase by South Korean customers for $13,500. It will arrive for customers next month.
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Sony To Post First Annual Profit In 5 Years
After selling a couple billion dollar buildings, Sony is set to post its first annual profit in 5 years. Hey, maybe Sony should get into real estate!
The company sold its New York City headquarters earlier this year for $1.1 billion, which was estimated to generate net cash proceeds of about $770 million and help it pay off debt. Sony said that the weaker yen helped increase the value of its overseas earnings, and the company now expects to report a net profit of 40 billion yen for the fiscal year ended on March 31st.
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[H]ardware Round-Up II
Cases: AeroCool Xpredator X3 Evil @ Technic3D
Lian Li PC-V750WX Compact E-ATX Case @ Benchmark Reviews
Cooling: SilverStone Argon Series AR01 @ eTeknix
Motherboards: BIOSTAR NM70I-847 Motherboard @ MadShrimps
Storage: AData DashDrive Durable 1TB @ XtremeHardware
Video: ASUS MX279H 27" Display @ ocaholic
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Stolen Credit Card Used To Bid On Coffee With Tim Cook
I don't know about you, but the only way I could have coffee with Tim Cook is to report my card stolen afterwards. $600k for coffee?!?!
The Internet was all abuzz last week when Apple announced it was auctioning off a coffee date with CEO Tim Cook for charity. But whoever submitted last week's high bid of $605,000 is likely going to get a date with law enforcement instead — the charity says the bidding is back at $600,000 today after discovering the high bidder used a stolen credit card.
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The Highest-Paid College Majors
Computer science majors are number four on the list of highest-paid college majors but, considering seventy percent of the list is made up of engineering careers, you might want to take a long hard look at switching majors.
Engineers took seven of the top ten spots in NACE's April survey, with petroleum engineers–a category added this year–earning the most, with average starting salaries of $93,500. Other than engineering majors, the list of highly paid grads includes computer science majors, management information systems/business majors, and finance majors.
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Camelot Unchained Kickstarter Down To The Wire
The Camelot Unchained Kickstarter has raised $1.65M of its $2M goal with only 70 hours to go. It's kinda exciting when Kickstarter projects come down to the wire like this. If you haven't checked it out yet, give it a look.
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Negative People Better At Replying to Emails
I guess telling someone to screw off is easier than writing a shiny-happy e-mail.
The engineers at Contactually, a referral marketing platform, analyzed more than 100 million email conversations and found something surprising. People who tend to use positive, upbeat language in their messages—like "care" and "amazing"—only respond to 47 percent of their emails within 24 hours. Those who more frequently use negative words, like "missed" and "stupid," respond to a healthy 64 percent of messages within a day. That's 36 percent more than their shiny happy counterparts.
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Opera Sues Ex-Employee For $3.4M
Opera is suing an ex-employee for $3.4 million for allegedly taking trade secrets to Mozilla.
Hansen is a former employee and consultant of Opera Software ASA. Opera Software ASA is of the opinion that Hansen, after he left Opera, has acted contrary to his contractual and other legal obligations towards Opera, among other things, the duty of loyalty and his contractual and statutory confidentiality obligations.
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[H]ot Deals
Today's [H]ot Deals forum thread is full of exclusive deals just for [H] readers. The coupon codes for the items listed below won't last forever and are limited to stock on hand so you'd better get in on these deals while the getting is good.
AMD FX-SERIES X6 FX-6100,95W,AM3+,3300MHZ OEM = $94.99
Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 GC 2GB GDDR5 PCIe = $174.99
ADATA XPG 8GB DDR3 DDR3 1600 For Desktop = $54.99
ULTRA LSP650 650W ATX POWER SUPPLY = $49.99
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Overclocking Review
We follow-up with a full evaluation of overclocking the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN. We will find out how fan speed and temperature affect the clock speed, then we will take it to the extreme with voltage tweaking to see how fast we can get our TITAN and the performance increase as a result.
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Real Life Liquid Lifebar Project
Sure, we've seen stuff like this from the modders in our forums but it was usually for a case mod, not a real life health bar.
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Gaming [H]eadlines
Beyond: Two Souls Trailer Debuts at Tribeca @ Shacknews
Game Dev Trolls Pirates @ Kotaku
Project Hell Becomes Hellraid @ Blue's News
Watch Dogs Unleashed In November @ Joystiq
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More Info On Microsoft's IllumiRoom
In preparation for the CHI 2013 conference in Paris, Microsoft has released a new 5 minute video and a a 7MB .PDF detailing its proof-of-concept IllumiRoom.
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Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H Motherboard
There is a review of the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H motherboard posted at Pro-Clockers today that is worth checking out. You can see our evaluation here for comparison purposes.
We reviewed the UD3H some time ago and found that it was one of the best budget motherboard out there as it overclocked pretty dang well for its price. We can imagine what is in store for us with the new UD4H and the 11-phase digital VRM. Now, we will find out just how well this board overclock and other features it offers over the tried and tested UD3H.
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AMD Radeon HD 7990 Video Card Review
Today marks the launch of AMD's Radeon HD 7990. The Radeon HD 7990 is a dual-GPU video card that has its two GPUs down on a single PCB that uses CrossFire to operate the two Radeon HD 7970 GPUs. We will test this video card in the latest games, comparing it to GeForce GTX 680 SLI and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition CrossFire.
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Enermax Triathlor 650W Power Supply Review
Today we bring you an "athletic" power supply from Enermax that weighs in at 650 watts. The new Triathlor series sports plenty of features that enthusiasts will like including Silent Cooling, Flexible Cable Management, is marketed as being Rock Stable at All Loads. Enermax ads that, "The Triathlor FC is not a blinky poser."
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 3-Way SLI Review
We follow-up with a full evaluation of GeForce GTX TITAN 3-way SLI in today's latest games. We will compare GTX TITAN 3-way SLI to GTX 680 3-way SLI and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3-way CrossFire in a triple-display setup at 5760x1200. Find out what it takes to run Crysis 3 maxed out across three displays.
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BioShock Infinite Video Card Performance and IQ Review
BioShock Infinite is here, delivering a colorful and dynamic world with the help of a customized Unreal Engine 3. BioShock Infinite has an improved PC gaming experience, we will test this game's performance among 8 video card configurations, and look at image quality of this immersive and colorful new game.
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Corsair Obsidian Series 900D Super Tower Case Review
Corsair is finally pulling back the review embargo sheets on its new "Super Tower" 900D PC case. Details and pictures have been leaking out for months, but now we finally get to see if all the hype is justified. If you are wondering what a "super tower" is, well let's just say there will be a lot of desks that the 900D will not fit under.
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ASUS Radeon HD 7850 DirectCU II Video Card Review
ASUS has refreshed its AMD Radeon HD 7850 DirectCU II video card with DirectCU and DIGI+ VRM with Super Alloy Power, poised to give you a robust video card with an improved overclocking experience. We will see whether this new revision brings new value to the Radeon HD 7850 GPU and we will compare it to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660.
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Seagate Hybrid Laptop Thin SSHD 500GB Review
Seagate has introduced the next generation of Solid State Hybrid Drives, commonly referred to as "SSHD." These drives use a small amount of MLC NAND to accelerate the performance of a 5400 RPM spinning disk. Today we test the mobile version against other available SSD caching solutions.
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Gigabyte Z77X-UD4H LGA 1155 Motherboard Review
It's been awhile since we've looked at a motherboard from Gigabyte. We haven't forgotten Gigabyte and decided to take the Z77X-UD4H for a little test drive. The Z77X-UD4H is a sub-$170 motherboard with a great look and a solid feature list for the price point that has the computer hardware enthusiast in mind.
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Seasonic X-Series: X-850 Power Supply Review
Seasonic is a long time favorite of HardOCP editors as you will find a Seasonic PSU in many builds we have done over the years. Today Seasonic pushes its X-Series forward just a bit more building its first gold efficiency rated fully modular enthusiast power supply. But will it blend?
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OCZ Vertex 3.20 20nm 240GB SSD Review
OCZ releases the Vertex 3.20 240GB SSD as part of the continued restructuring of its product lines. With 20nm NAND and a LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller the Vertex 3.20 SSD is geared for budget conscious buyers, and today we test it with the other top value-oriented SSDs.
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SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB SSD Review
The SanDisk Ultra Plus features SanDisk's proprietary eX2 ABL MLC NAND with nCache technology. This technique creates a SLC layer to help boost write performance and enhance endurance. The SSD also features a four channel Marvel 88SS9175 controller and 128MB of DRAM cache.
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ASUS GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II OC Video Card Review
ASUS has delivered a factory overclocked GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II OC to our doorstep to run through the wringer. We match this ASUS video card up against AMD's Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and Radeon HD 7850 to see which will prevail in the battle of the mainstream cards. There are good values at this price point.
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NZXT Phantom 630 Modular Full Tower Case
NZXT's new enthusiast computer case, the Phantom 630, looks to be truly designed for the computer hardware enthusiast and does not just carry the label like so many other products. NZXT has built the chassis with the end user in mind that wants to take things up a notch and not be annoyed when trying to accomplish his build goals.
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XFX ProSeries 650W Power Supply Review
XFX has long and actually very solid history of producing high quality enthusiast power supplies. We have consistently found XFX PSUs worthy of [H] Editor's Choice Awards. Today the XFX ProSeries 650W promises "One Rail, One Setup" in a PSU that is different. Let's see if that is good or bad.
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