Saturday, October 10, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 10/10/2009


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PS3 Claims "Top Home Console" Slot as Wii Sales Decline
The PlayStation 3 is expected to claim the "top home console" slot for the month of September. According to EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich, hardware unit sales for next-generation systems are likely to decrease by four percent over last year for the month of September - with all platforms except the...
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Availability Check: Radeon HD 5850s Are Still Scarce
To view The Tech Report's availability chart, please click upon the source link below. AMD's Radeon HD 5850 has been out for over a week now, but online retail availability doesn't seem to have improved much since we looked last Thursday (http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/17685). This time,...
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More ATI KMS Improvements For Linux 2.6.32
Nearly half-way into the Linux 2.6.32 development cycle there is a huge pull request of new ATI kernel mode-setting code. With this new code, all ATI GPUs with kernel mode-setting are using a newer and cleaner initialization path while dropping support for the current paths. Lots of this init path...
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Valve Unveils Fourth Left 4 Dead 2 Mode
Valve has announced the new fourth game mode for Left 4 Dead 2 - Scavenge. Scavenge is a round-based competitive multiplayer game for up to eight players, where a team of survivors attempts to collect and transport gas canisters to a generator somewhere on the map while a team of infected tries to...
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Hands-On: Serious Sam HD
For the PC. Let's not waste time preaching to the choir. Serious Sam HD is Serious Sam: The First Encounter wearing a shiny new HD hat. It's exactly the same game, but prettier. If you loved the insanity of Croteam's wildly unapologetic crowd-management blaster the first time around, you'll love...
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AMD Names Thomas Seifert Chief Financial Officer
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the appointment of Thomas Seifert (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/AboutAMD/0,,51_52_570_16039,00.html) as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Seifert, 46, will report to Dirk Meyer...
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