Bloomfield - or as you would probably have heard from your techy pals: the next CPUs in line for the X58 platform. Somehow, some way, NVIDIA crawled out of its shell and agreed to integrate it's patented SLI technology onto Intel's chipset. It's an alliance that people always anticipated since the merging of AMD and ATI, yet always seemed eluded reality. X48-based motherboards are still CrossFire only, so will the PC enthusiast finally receive optimum CPU performance with state-of-the-art GPU technology in X58? More at the full story.

Holy crap. Simply holy crap. We all know that AMD is particularly late for the next-generation graphics party, but the company's counterparts for NVIDIA's 9800 GTX have finally arrived, and from preliminary launch copies, we hear they're blasting the competition away. Diamond seems to be one of the first companies to let loose its primary ATI Radeon HD 4870 SKU, but is it worth the upgrade? Learn more at the full story.

Remember Mark Rein's concern that not all PCs are capable of playing today's bleeding edge games? The PC Gaming Alliance was formed to relaunch the PC as the ultimate gaming platform, and but that hasn't helped much. Luckily, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) came up with a great idea: the Germany-based semiconductor giant has released AMD GAME! - a label akin to Game for Windows that would set standards for identifying game-capable hardware. More details in the full article.

Deal ahoy! Avid surfers who've got more than two bookmarks pointing toward Newegg claim that Intel's dual and quad-core processors have experienced some price slashing, and it's evident from their excitement that this is the best deal you're ever going to get midway into 2008. So what will you and 999 others be doing this summer? Shopping begins at the full story.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game is set to be released across various platforms such as Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, and PC. According to the developers behind the game, they prefer to work on the PS3 version  before they head on to the other versions. Find out the details after the jump!

Just how many cores does a processor need to be called fast? Two? Four? Eight? AMD says a dozen should do it for now. The company is planning to push the computing envelope by launching its 12-core Shanghai chip late this year. This little baby should result in rocket-powered Crysis sessions each and every time. Full details after the jump.

The PC version for BioWare's Mass Effect might have been bad news to eager fans. Well, we got something that could take your mind off it. The specs for the PC version has been finally released. Better get your pen and paper to jot down the details. Find out what the specs are in the full article.

You've probably been one of several folk waiting patiently for Ubisoft Montreal's Windows version of Assassin's Creed. Beautiful renders like those shown before often clued that you'd need a monster of a machine to rival or best that level of visual candy, but Ubisoft has just confirmed that extreme hardware isn't a must. Give your aging machine a pat on the back, and head on over to the full story to find out why.

To PC gamers who are eagerly anticipating details on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, details have been revealed such as four new investigation types, PC requirements, and more. Three additional screenshots expose how the game has shaped up. Learn more about the game's details after the jump!

Itching to get that retro fix on your Nintendo DS? Then ScummVM's just the homebrew for you, with its ability to emulate most SCUMM-coded games at full speed (and in almost perfect stability, too). Point-and-click retro heaven on the DS is just a download away, so hit that jump!

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