This week’s virtual console releases feature a classic beat-’em-up along with a sci-fi RPG–what do they have in common? Both games have you chasing the bad guys so you can get your girl back.
River City Ransom (1989, NES, 500
Wii points): River City Ransom is a classic beat-’em-up action game that takes you into the [...]

Intel is in pretty good competitive shape at this point, with AMD still working to get into the quad-core era. But Intel has had trouble breaking into new markets outside the PC or server in the past, which is why investors will be watching closely over the next two years to see what Intel’s [...]

In the latest game from The Sims creator Will Wright, players take control of an organism that grows from primordial ooze into a full-fledged colony of creatures that populate cities, planets, and eventually, the entire universe.

All of you out there who are eagerly awaiting the fantastical creature-creating delights of Spore will want to get [...]

“When Apple came out with the iPod, only Apple could deliver music to it,” Blecher said. “They accused Apple of exclusion. When they did the
iPhone, it was impossible to shift to other carriers. They said that was exclusionary…any time you have high market share and restrict competition in any way, you’re going to raise antitrust [...]

Download the firmware update for Windows or Mac.

The product will be “Certified for
Windows Vista” Support for the new USB Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) has been added. The PTP option in the setup menu will be modified to MTP/PTP. The icon will also be modified.
The effects of noise reduction processing performed at shutter speeds of [...]

Once photographs have gone through processing, you get a flyover that does a quick back and forth over the rendered scenery. You also get a 3D environment that you can walk though using the keyboard’s arrow keys. Users can download both of these files to their desktops for later viewing.
Make3D is a project lead [...]

Super Smash Bros Brawl starts off with an extremely fun battle between Mario and Kirby that also sets the tone for the rest of the story. In the beginning, you’re presented with an issue where the two fair ladies, Peach and Zelda, are once again prisoners of the evil and it’s up to Mario and [...]

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Wrong! I’ve already spoken about the 16:9 revolution that’s sweeping this nation faster than Swine Flu hysteria and this is where it has its biggest impact, in the 21.5-inch to 22-inch category.

For many, this increased resolution over larger monitors is reason enough to get excited, but check out our full reviews of two 21.5-inch [...]

“We can say with certainty that Windows Server did not contribute to this incident,” Windows Live Product Manager Samantha McManus said in a statement to CNET News.com.

Microsoft was far less detailed when it comes to what the problem actually was.

“This issue appears to have been related to an unexpected event which caused device overload [...]

My TweetCloud.
It only works with Twitter accounts that are publicly accessible–some members keep their updates friends-only–and it takes a while for the app to munch through all the “tweets” and form a cloud. And like many small Twitter applications that get unexpected viral buzz, the server sometimes crashes. But when it’s working, the end result [...]