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Skate 3 Rolls Into New York with The Maloof Money Cup Contes

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 4, 2010 – Black Box, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announcedthe first downloadable content pack for the critically acclaimed skateboarding game SKATE 3 - The Maloof Money Cup 2010 NYC Pack.  The content pack hits Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on June 8 for 400 MS points or $4.99 and an additional [...]

NZXT Tempest Evo Case Review

NZXT Tempest Evo Case Review

I’ll never get tired of reviewing cases.  Sure, I don’t get to do the kind of extensive testing that’s reserved for internal hardware, but there’s something about a gaming case that grabs my attention and doesn’t let go.  I’ve been known to procrastinate when it comes to work.  Unless I open my door to a [...]

EA to Webcast E3 Analyst Event on June 16, 2010

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jun 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that it will webcast its E3 analyst event on June 16, 2010. During the course of this event, Electronic Arts may disclose material developments affecting its business and/or financial performance. Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:45 am to 8:45 am Pacific [...]

George Romero’s App of the Dead for iPhone

Los Angeles, California– June 3, 2010 – George A. Romero, the undisputed master of horror cinema (“Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Dead”, “Creepshow”, “Monkey Shines”, “Diary of the Dead”), today announced with partner, Peter Grunwald, and Artfire Films’ Art Spigel and Ara Katz, that APP of the DEAD, developed with Ohio-based Additive Interactive, [...]

Activision Blizzard, Nokia, and ‘Alan Wake’ Creator to Present at Exclusive Transmedia Event on June 14, 2010

LOS ANGELES, June 3 /PRNewswire/ — Digital Media Wire today announced speakers for the 2nd annual International Game and Film Lounge (http://www.gamefilmlounge.com/) to be held at the Figueroa Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, June 14, 2010, the day the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) opens its doors at the LA Convention Center. The International Game and [...]

How to Fix PSP 6.20 Games on Custom Firmware

How to Fix PSP 6.20 Games on Custom Firmware

There was a time when a cracked PSP was an open portal.  The warez scene seemed to be one step ahead of Sony, who are extremely zealous about copyright protection, and you could play just about any backup without any hassle.  Required firmware updates have trickled down from Sony, each one required to play the latest [...]

Cooler Master NA90 Universal Notebook PSU Review

Cooler Master NA90 Universal Notebook PSU Review

Notebooks have an unnecessarily hard life.  People tote them just about everywhere, but most of them are no more rugged than a child’s plastic toy.  In spite of batteries (or perhaps because of), people tether their portable computers to their power adapters all of the time, which have a tendancy to get tugged, pulled and bent, eventually resulting in [...]

RARE GETS BRAND NEW LOOK AS IT TURNS 25

LONDON – 2 June 2010 - British developer Rare is to celebrate its 25th anniversary in the games industry this summer. Such a landmark provides a natural opportunity to reminisce over what has been a hugely impressive presence throughout that period, and to prepare for an equally influential future with a brand new look. Throughout Rare’s [...]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Soundtrack Now Available

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 1, 2010 - Starting today fans can get their hands on the soundtrack to Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 featuring the music of legendary, Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer. The 17-track score from the mega blockbuster, which has become the biggest entertainment launch in history, includes an original score by [...]

Rock Band Network Affiliates Revealed

CAMBRIDGE, MA – JUNE 1, 2010 - Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced the launch of the Rock Band Network Affiliates Program. The Affiliates Program brings together bands and music distribution, promotion and tools sites under the Rock Band Network umbrella. “The Affiliates Program is [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Video Games

GUILDFORD, U.K., June 1, 2010 – Today the EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that two Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsTM videogames are in development to coincide with the much-anticipated final adventure in the Harry Potter film series from Warner Bros. Pictures which will be [...]

Episode 2 of the “Crackdown 2” Animated Mini-series

LONDON – 1 June 2010 - The riveting five-part animated mini-series for “Crackdown 2” continues today with the second episode, titled “Evil Seed.” In “Evil Seed,” fans will uncover the mystery that surrounds Catalina Thorne, the origins of the dangerous Freak virus, and how the Cell crippled the Agency to take control of Pacific City. Now’s [...]

DIY Heatcore: Inexpensive & Great Performance

DIY Heatcore: Inexpensive & Great Performance

With the heat levels produced by most modern processors, watercooling is gaining more and more attention in the mainstream cooling gear market. Of course, the appeal of more efficient cooling that can be had through watercooling, as opposed to traditional heatsink and fan cooling solutions, has drawn overclockers to it since its inception. The reasons [...]

How to Etch a Printed Circuit Board

How to Etch a Printed Circuit Board

The first question that I can hear u thinking is what’;s a PCB? PCB stands for Printed Circuit Board, for example your motherboard is one big PCB (just multilayered) obviously a motherboard is way out of our league, however with some household equipment and some chemicals we can make ourselves some great casemodding PCB’;s. Just [...]

OCMS News May 2010

OCMS News May 2010

Entire PowerMat Products Reviewed Friday, May 28, 2010 So when I got the opportunity to review the awesome new charging appliances put out by Powermat, I jumped on it. The idea of charging something wirelessly is right up my alley, being the child of Tesla’s thought that I am. So I told the guys over [...]

Dark Sector Screenshots

Dark Sector Screenshots

Entire PowerMat Lineup Tested

Entire PowerMat Lineup Tested

  Decades ago, there was a man who had a dream of powering the entire world wirelessly.  His vision was to use giant towers that would transmit electricity through the air, which would be harvested by receivers that would use them to power homes and electronics.  Not that there were that many electronics back in [...]

Hacking the Mio C220 GPS

Hacking the Mio C220 GPS

I’ve never owned a pocket knife.  I discovered long ago when my grandfather gave me my first Coleman multi-tool that a simple blade that tucks into its own handle is nothing compared to a nice multi-tool with screwdrivers, blades, saws, ect… So when I bought my Mio C220 GPS unit for my geocaching hobby, I [...]

7 Futuristic UI Wallpapers

7 Futuristic UI Wallpapers

You can live in the virtual future, or at least make your computer look much more sophisticated than the Pentium 3 you have in your cardboard box with these wallpapers.

OCMS News April 2010

OCMS News April 2010

Linux Firewall: Overcoming Email Server Problems Wednesday, April 28, 2010 As discussed in our article “Why Build a Linux Firewall”, there are many advantages to having a custom-built firewall appliance in your home. While these Linux distributions are easy to set up and have nice User Interfaces, they still have some problems. Not every feature [...]