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Gaming

New releases for The Week of The Brooding Heavy Weapons Mistress

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SodaStream’s Penguin Home Carbonator: Very cool, relatively practical, and even a touch green

SodaStream USA sells home carbonation systems that allow people to make their own soft-drinks. They sent me one to try out. This is what I thought about it. 10 comments

Gaming

Price increase for Xbox Live Gold

Microsoft is raising the prices for Xbox Live Gold on November 1st. In other news, PS3 fanboys take to the streets to riot and burn couches. 15 comments

Tech

ECS P55H-AK Black review

The ECS P55H-AK Black motherboard is targeted at the enthusiast overclocking and gaming crowd. Does it have what it takes to compete in this segment? 3 comments

Tech

AMD Catalyst 10.8 released

AMD released Catalyst 10.8 today, with the usual raft of bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. 11 comments

Oracle kills OpenSolaris officially. Unofficially.

A leaked memo reveals that Oracle has no future plans for OpenSolaris, leaving in a lurch many customers who bought in when Sun aggressively pushed it. 7 comments

NVIDIA's bottom line not looking so good

NVIDIA's latest quarterly financial results were announced last night, and ... well, they're not looking so good. 29 comments

The NVIDIA Quadro 6000: it's even faster than we said

We messed up: NVIDIA's Quadro 6000 performed even faster than our benchmarks indicated in our review. With updated numbers, the Quadro 6000 gives another amazing show in the workstation market. 10 comments

The NZXT Vulcan case reviewed: A microATX dreamboat

The NZXT Vulcan mATX case makes it possible to cram quite a bit of power into a tiny, portable package. 12 comments

A hands-on look at iClone4's new 3D stereoscopy features

Reallusion took time to show Icrontic their new 3D steroscopy features for iClone 4 at SIGGRAPH 2010 1 comment

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Portal 2 co-op teaser video revealed

Valve has released an HD teaser of co-op play for Portal 2 4 comments

New Releases for The Week of Red Birds and Made Men

Icrontic's tyrannical CB Droege brings us the interesting video game releases of the week: Ship Simulator Extremes, Ivy the Kiwi?, And Yet It Moves, and this week's spotlight—Mafia II Add comment

New Releases for The Week of Unlucky Outlaws and Dual Pistols

Icrontic's rubbery CB Droege brings us this week's interesting new video game releases, which includes Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Add comment

Combine every cool NES game from the 80s and 90s, and get Retro City Rampage

Retro City Rampage is a crazy 8-bit mashup of many games from the 80s and 90s. 7 comments

Victora II: A newer Empire under the sun

Seven years after the first, Paradox Interactive has unleashed a title that is worthy of its ancestors in every way, shape, and form. Introducing Victoria II. 3 comments

Widgets Odyssey II review

Widgets Odyssey II is one of the new PlayStation Minis games. For $2, you're getting quite a bit of fun Add comment

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Life

Social media to table: Camarena Tequila

By the power of free food and Twitter combined, Familia Camarena is making a splash in the tequila world with their innovative marketing methods. 2 comments

Icrontic Summer Shindig 2010

It's just about time for Icrontic Summer Shindig 2010 50 comments

Yelp, community management, Detroit, and the Icrontic community

Sometimes you just have to admit to yourself that it's time for a major life change. Today was that day for me. 29 comments

Icrontic's community: the first decade

August 08, 2000: Icrontic's community was born. 17 comments

Peas: a love poem

Icrontic's photography cheerleader brightens our day with a love poem in the form of a photo series on peas growing in her garden. 6 comments

Redemption! A new Avatar is born. "The Legend of Korra" announced by Nickelodeon

The Last Airbender may have been a flop at the box office, but Avatar creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are not sitting down. A new animated series, named The Legend of Korra, has been announced. 19 comments

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