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Posted October 7, 2011, 5:13 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming With Video
With just three days before the Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta comes to an end, DICE community manager Ian Tornay has announced that they're opening up the 64-player, vehicle-filled Caspian Border map over the weekend to do some load testing. Previously,…
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Posted October 4, 2011, 3:16 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Gaming Breaking News
We love that Battlefield 3 is using the PC as the lead platform rather than a console. When played on the PC the game will handle 40 more players and will take advantage DirectX 11 and 64-bit processors.

DICE recommends a quad-core CPU be used along with 4GB of system memory. As for the graphics card a GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950 is suggested, meaning that gamers will want to spend around $200 on a modern graphics card to appreciate Battlefield 3. Today we'll take a peak at what's required to play Battlefield 3 as we check out how the beta performs.
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Posted September 27, 2011, 10:31 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
Hot on the heels of the latest GeForce beta driver release, AMD has issued its own update to the Catalyst driver series optimized specifically for the Battlefield 3 beta. The Catalyst 11.10 preview driver is essentially a hotfix release and…
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Posted September 26, 2011, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
Nvidia has announced a new set of drivers for GeForce card users who want to get the best possible performance in the upcoming Battlefield 3 beta, which is set to go live tomorrow for those who pre-ordered through Origin and…
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Posted September 23, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Diablo III will not ship until early 2012, narrowly missing the lucrative holiday season and forcing anxious fans of the franchise to wait even longer to get their hands on the anticipated title.
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Posted September 15, 2011, 5:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software
Further cementing their alliance, Skype today announced an update for its beta client on the Mac that brings the same Facebook integration already available on Windows PCs. Mac users can now link their Facebook accounts with Skype, which enables them…
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Posted August 10, 2011, 8:06 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
BitFenix has unveiled a new budget desktop chassis series comprised of two enclosures: Alpha and Beta. Both are constructed out of steel and plastic -- the de facto materials among budget cases. While the company clearly cut corners where possible,…
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Posted August 2, 2011, 2:20 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple
On Monday evening, Apple granted developers access to iCloud.com, Apple's online home for its new online storage and synchronization service. The service is intended to provide ubiquitous cloud synchronization features across all Apple devices. iCloud is still in beta, but…
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Posted July 27, 2011, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming With Video
DICE's highly anticipated shooter Battlefield 3 will open up for testing in the coming weeks, the series' community manager Daniel Matros recently explained. There will be two trials: a "highly tech focused", invite-only alpha trial, and a more open beta…
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Posted July 14, 2011, 5:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Adobe has announced a beta release of Flash Player 11. You can download it directly for Windows, Mac, and Linux. At the same time, the company has announced the availability of the Adobe AIR 3 beta. Last month, Adobe killed AIR for Linux and announced it would focus on mobile instead.
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Posted July 7, 2011, 5:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software With Video
Google has released Google Maps 5.7 for Android. You can download it now from the Android Market (Android 2.1+ is required). The new version includes Transit Navigation beta, updated access to directions, better suggested search results, and a photo viewer to…
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Posted May 23, 2011, 10:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
Mozilla released the first beta version of Firefox 5 on Friday, roughly one month after making the browser available in the cutting-edge Aura channel keeping up with its new quick-release plan intended to bring features and improvements sooner. Among the…
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Posted February 26, 2011, 2:08 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 12. The new beta build comes less than three weeks after the Beta 11 release, and as far as we can see this is mainly just a bug fix release. The company says this…
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Posted February 8, 2011, 10:16 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 11. The new beta build comes less than two weeks after the Beta 10 release, and as far as we can see this is mainly just a bug fix release. For more information, check…
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Posted January 14, 2011, 3:31 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 9. The new beta build comes less than a month after the Beta 8 release, and includes faster start-up time, bookmarking, and smoother complex animations.
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Posted December 21, 2010, 12:41 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 8. The new beta build was originally intended as a quick update for the feature-complete Beta 7 release, but it turns out it's pretty significant as it includes 1415 bugfixes, an improved add-ons manager,…
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Posted December 20, 2010, 1:52 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
After over a year of development, Minecraft has hit Beta status today. Minecraft was developed for about a week before its public release on May 17, 2009. With the new milestone, the price of the game has increased to €14.95;…
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Posted November 11, 2010, 6:50 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
Mozilla has announced the release of a new beta build for the long-time coming Firefox 4. Unlike the last couple beta releases which mostly just tweaked a few things here and there, this one actually brings along a couple of…
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Posted October 6, 2010, 9:59 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
Mozilla has announced during its Weekly Update meeting that the code freeze release of Firefox 4 Beta is now imminent. The company was originally slated to complete Beta 7 in September, but had to delay its release twice due to…
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