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? 8 comments
Gaming
New Releases for The Week of Colorful Kingdoms and Tangled Skeins
Icrontic's terse CB Droege turns his eye to the interesting video game releases of the week. Featured are King's Bounty: Armored Princess, R.U.S.E., Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, and the spotlight—Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions 2 comments
Gaming
New Mega Man Universe footage
A new Mega Man Universe gameplay teaser came out of PAX today. Keiji Inafune explains more about the game. 3 comments
Life
A hashtag does not a community make
A community sprouts up around a hashtag on Twitter, but now what? 2 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
Gaming
New releases for The Week of The Brooding Heavy Weapons Mistress
Icrontic's ceaseless CB Droege brings us this week's only interesting video game release: Metroid Other M 7 comments
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
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
Life
Foursquare needs a community
Foursquare is great, but it's getting boring... Mostly because there's no community behind it. 12 comments
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
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. 30 comments
Icrontic's community: the first decade
August 08, 2000: Icrontic's community was born. 18 comments
Rob Updegrove holds down Fort West Coast for Icrontic; besides offering interesting anecdotes and stories for Icrontic Life, he also covers gaming and tech news. In addition, he helps organize and run the annual Duck Tape Engineering Challenge at Expo Icrontic. He reviewed a toilet once. That was awesome.
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