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Intel has filed a suit in the Court of Chancery in Delaware, alleging that the 2004 cross-licensing agreement the companies signed ”does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with ‘integrated’ memory controllers, such as Nehalem.” NVIDIA, in a press release, begs to differ.
Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA said:
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Daniel Petric, 17, of Elyria, OH was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges. His motive: to be able to play the video game “Halo 3.”
The tragedy occurred on October 20, 2007. His parents, Mark and Susan Petric had realized the boy’s obsession with the [...]

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Still can’t find a Nintendo Wii? It is still the hottest-selling video game console after two years, and still hard to find, at least at the standard retail price. Your last chance for the holiday season might be Wal-Mart.com, as the world’s largest retailer has been stocking up, and [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
On Thursday, NVIDIA and Toshiba jointly announced the first laptop with three, count ‘em, three NVIDIA GPUs. The new models added to the Qosmio X305 line use hybrid SLI to use the integrated NVIDIA 9400M GPU during non-frenetic video use (i.e., not gaming), and switches to the dual NVIDIA 9800M GTS [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
The Beatles are a stranger to Apple and iTunes, but apparently not so to MTV and their video game subsidiary Harmonix (Rock Band). A deal between the parties was announced on Thursday morning by MTV and the band’s own Apple Corps Ltd.
For those not in the know, Apple Corps Ltd. is the [...]

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I was never good at spelling, and frankly that has not changed much over the years. Maybe it was because I never had a Speak & Spell growing up. Whatever the reason, I found a website offering up an emulated and 100% free version here.
Here’s what Jake the developer had to say [...]

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Electronic Arts (EA) has decided seven months is enough. It has decided to end its pursuit of Take-Two Interactive, which began — and was rejected — in late February.
In August, EA let its tender offer for Take-Two expire, but the company remained interested. The two companies continued discussion in private.
On [...]

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Last week’s Xbox 360 price cuts in the U.S. have resulted in (unsurprising) a spike in sales in the U.S., with some (surprisingly!) seeing up to 600% higher sales of some models between September 5th and September 7th (the weekend of the drop). Overall, retailers are showing a doubling of sales [...]