Space War Commander released
1st January, 2009

New year celebrations brings PC gamers a new game release "Space War Commander", Be in a universe that no longer needs humans, Space War Commander challenges you to trade cargo, hunt ships, and grab control of asteroids and planets. Bypassing tedious base building common to other games, you must knit a strategy from simple threads like outwitting pirates, cutting off enemy supplies and hitting the enemy where they are weakest. Command a range of ship types against greatly superior forces. Come out victorious from the hairiest space battles using creative tactics. Space War Commander pits your mind against the universe.

Space War Commander is a new kind of Real Time Strategy Game we call REAL time.
No fastest finger competitions, in its place, bring vastly superior forces to their knees with the power of your mind. No repetitive engagements, instead, clever ploys. In one level you might rush behind the enemy to cut them off early from a valuable planet they thought was secure or send your trading fleet on a daring run through occupied space.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? There’s a catch. In an act of sabotage, someone turned on your star base’s self-destruct mechanism. This means that your base will gradually destroy itself, assuming that your enemies don’t eliminate you first. Really, you have no time to waste. Get to it, commander!

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World's tallest video projection in London
29th December, 2008

LG Electronics is sponsoring the capital's New Year's Eve fireworks display this year, and has promised to see in 2009 with the world's tallest video projection (200-foot tall) of London's gaffe-prone leader.

The video projection will appear over the entire city from the Shell Building on the South Bank, and will be joined in his massive virtuality by a 'star-studded list' of 'very special' guests.

"We will significantly enhance the experience on the night and ensure that London's New Year celebrations become a global talking point" says Andrew Warner, Marketing Director of LG Electronics UK.

Presumably along the lines of: "If they do this again next year, we'll go to Paris for New Year's instead."

So now what are you thinking about, New Year Celebrations!!

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3-Fan Cooling for GeForce GTX 280
28th December, 2008

With the forthcoming release of the new GeForce GTX 295 just around the corner, some of NVIDIA's board partners continue to be focusing on the highest-performance NVIDIA-made graphics processor on the market, specifically the 65nm GT200.

The manufacturer is expected to reveal a new product that will acutely make itself noticed in any user's desktop system. Details on this Inno3D card, dubbed iChill GeForce GTX 280 Extreme Edition, have recently been leaked on the Internet, including specs and a number of high-quality pictures.

The GT200 graphics processor is known for getting hot, which means that it will require a decently large cooling solution. The GeForce GTX 260 and the GTX 280 are standardly provided with a dual-slot one that NVIDIA uses for all its high-end graphics cards. However, the aforementioned Inno3D iChill product is equipped with a custom, dual-slot cooling solution that could enable overclocking enthusiasts to max out the specifications of the cards, resulting in a better performance ratio.

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Most powerful graphics board in history
20th December, 2008

PNY Technologies announced its new ultra high-performance graphic boards, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 by PNY. The 5800, the company says, is "the most powerful professional graphics board in graphics history."

Both of the scalable GPU accelerated solutions are available in Genlock/framelock and HD-SDI versions. Based on NVIDIA's second generation unified architecture, and offering up to 4GB GPU memory, which NVIDIA says is an industry-first, they are designed to handle massive datasets and specialized needs for the Visualization & Simulation, Oil & Gas Exploration and Broadcast & Film markets.

"GraphStream is pleased to work together with PNY and NVIDIA to launch a new generation of innovative platforms based on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY," said Craig Dunwoody, CEO, GraphStream Incorporated. "Relative to previous platforms, we are offering improvements of up to 200% - 400% in the performance and capacity of the GPUs. This will bring dramatic efficiency gains to a wide range of technical-computing applications."

"With its enormous 4GB frame buffer and high performance, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 SDI by PNY provides GPU-centric applications like ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH with immediate benefits and huge potential going forward," said Jeff Edson, president and CEO, ASSIMILATE.

"By combining advanced visualization and computational performance, these latest additions to the NVIDIA Quadro FX ultra high-end professional graphics board family enable our partners to deliver next generation solutions for large scale clusters, aerospace image generators, tiled wall displays, high-definition projection, as well as film and broadcast applications," said Jeff Medeiros, senior business development manager, PNY Technologies

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Internet cables cut in the Middle East
20th December, 2008

The undersea links have broken twice this year. The whole Middle East is wobbling on the threshold of an internet blackout after three out of four undersea cables that connect it to the rest of the world were strangely cut at the weekend.

Both phone and internet connections are at risk, with only one submarine cable remaining intact. The cables, which run across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal, appear to have been severed somewhere near Egypt.

According to the BBC, 'net traffic to India is down by 65 per cent, while Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have also been hit. Although there's no suggestion that the cables were somehow deliberately cut, a similar incident resulted in two broken cables earlier this year.

A networking expert told the BBC just how unlikely this situation is: "Normally you would expect to see one major break per cable per year. With four you should have an insurance policy. For this to happen twice in one year, on the same cable, is a serious cause for concern."

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