Gartner Inc., considered the PC industry's leading technological research and advisory company has just corrected EA DICE's Ben Cousins' approximations of the PC hardware install base - it's not just hundreds of millions. According to Gartner, there's already more than 1 billion PCs used all over the world, and if the hardware adoption rate continues, it will reach 2 billion by 2014. That's close to a third of the world's total population. Facts and more at the full story.

Intel pulled up the curtains on a little surprise at 2008 Computex technology show in Taipei, and the shocking revelation is geared for taking connected gaming to the next level. Using Intel-powered PCs, they've demonstrated that mobile phones could play video, audio, and relay game control messages via streams on a new build of StreamMyGame software. More details revealed at the full story.

That source link below is your gate to Ubisoft's official site for the Beta Test of Tom Clancy's EndWar. Interested much? See if you're suited up for the task by checking out the requirements and other information at the full article.

When the World of Warcraft edition Dell XPS M1730 laptop was first introduced, we imagined that a lot of you guys weren't able to purchase it because of its rather high price. Dell, however, has decided to slash around a thousand bucks from this gadget's price. Know more about this development after the jump!

After more than three years in the making, Savage 2: A Tortured Soul finally rolled out of S2 Games' kitchen. And no, it didn't land with a bang, but it was definitely highly anticipated in the independent gaming scene. The PC online real-time strategy and first-person shooter game soon drew every able man and beast from the realms of Savage: Battle for Newerth, and we hopped on for the chance to tag along. Our review of the game follows at the full story.

Hold the presses! Apparently a new proposal is under review in the U.S. by the House of Representatives that may just be the people's ticket to purchasing unlocked iPhones from Apple and AT&T. The proposal is supposedly adopting the case observed when European service carrier T-Mobile was forced to sell iPhones without a T-Mobile-tied contract, though at more than twice the price of the MSRP. Read on to know more.

If you thought that all the StreamMyGame service can do is stream your video games from your PC to your console, then think again. StreamMyGame has announced that its software now allows you to run 2D applications like those found on Microsoft Office on your low spec Windows notebooks, Linux devices, and even your PlayStation 3. To find out more about this, check out the full article.

As the world draws closer to affordable broadband service and does away with easily scratched optical media, online distribution services, such as Valve Software's Steam, continue to reach a wider audience. Valve was able to look back to 2007 and discovered that their user base has just topped off to over 15 million registered accounts. And what's more, their sales growth peaked to approximately 160% year-on-year over the holidays.

There's a thorn with every rose, and in the line of broadband Internet, ain't that a fact? We've heard about Time Warner Cable and World of Warcraft connectivity issues before, but this new ISP issue is packing smoke. Subscribers of Tiscali are disgruntled at the apparent blocking of peer-to-peer (P2P) connections by their ISP. Even multiplayer connectivity is also hampered, as complaints roll in from players on EVE Online, CoD4, and ET: Quake Wars.

Less means more. This is the statement that Sony aims to prove true when the company revealed that it will be featuring its new 45 nm Cell processor at the upcoming International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco this February 3 to 7. The new Cell Broadband Engine will be nearly twice as efficient, consuming only around 40% the power compared to its older 65 nm model. Check out the full article for more details.