Mac games added to GOG download store Apple users can now access 50 retro and not-so-retro titles from the service, including eight absolutely free DRM-free games download service GOG has begun offering titles for Mac OS X as well as Windows. The service deals almost exclusively in retro titles (its name stands for Good Old Games, you see), but until now has been Windows only. From today that changes, with 50 Mac titles available right now....
MacBook Pro 2012 gets the Intel Ivy Bridge treatment The 13in and 15in MacBook Pros have been updated with Intel’s latest chips for extra power Apple has announced a refreshed line of MacBook Pros with Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processors that go up to 2.7GHz quad core i7s or turbo boosted to 3.7GHz. These new powerful laptops come with up to 8GB RAM at 1600MHz and 60 percent faster integrated graphics....
MaKey MaKey turns any old junk into a keyboard, mouse and joystick Hook any object up to this DIY circuit board – then say hello to Play Doh gamepads and goodbye to boring peripherals We’re just going to throw some words at you, see what happens. Piano stairs! Pencil joystick! Play Doh gamepad! OK now we’ve got your attention, head over to theMaKey MaKey Kickstarter pageand throw some money at MIT Media Lab graduates Jay Silver and Eric Rosembaum’s cracking lo-fi DIY accessory....
Mass Effect 3: Omega launch trailer released More of the single-player DLC, due out tomorrow, revealed in teaser trailer Mass Effect 3gets a new slice of single-player DLC tomorrow in Mass Effect 3: Omega – and Bioware has just released a new trailer that reveals a bit of the action. Coming in at just under two minutes, the teaser shows off some of the new enemies that Shepard will be facing, as well as his/her new companions in Aria T’Loak and the female Turian Nyreen Kandros....
Metamaterial is the circuit board of the future Oxford University has come up with a way to ditch the traditional circuit board… and it could change technology as we know it Circuit boards? Dull, dull, dull Yep. But what if you had a circuit board made of Velcro? instead of wires and solder, science has worked out how to make conductive paths in an otherwise uniform material. Instead of carefully inserting components into pre-ordained slots, you dump them onto a surface and tell them how to connect using radio frequencies....
Microsoft set to announce Xbox Music Centre at E3 Will we see a Spotify-style music service for Xbox LIVE at the biggest gaming event of the year in LA? Hard-core gamers might not like it but Microsoft is courting their nemeses – casual gaming fans and entertainment addicts – with its plans for Xbox. JoiningLovefilm movies streamed in HDis a new cross-platform music service that could soon be joining the hordes of family-friendly apps on Xbox LIVE....
Microsoft Surface tablet computers announced Finally, a Windows tablet that’s not a wash-out as Microsoft primes its own hardware, called Surface, to go head-to-head with the Apple iPad Microsoft has announced its first tablet (that’s not a giant table) andit’s got nothing to do with Barnes & Noble. Like the giant table, the Windows tablet is called Surface and – like theAsus Transformer Prime– it’s both a tablet and a computer....
