Peter Molyneux has announced Fable III but there’s still no sign of a PC release for the series’ sequels. Has his love affair with the PC ended? If this article was being written by Peter Molyneux, then odds are it would have been much hyped. “This is set to break newground in journalism,” the publicity would scream.“It will contain lots of excitingly fresh grammatical structures and will set out a standard for other hacks to follow for years to ...

Windows XP Mode RC has just been released for Windows 7 Release Candidate. For those of you that are are still nonplussed: it's the equivalent of opening up the DOS command line window in XP, except you'll have access to the fully fledged ancestor of Microsoft's latest operating system... and so what? The big deal is that it's intended for smaller businesses to facilitate the migration from one OS to the next, and this update includes features like ...

A good number of PC gamers are anticipating the release of Windows 7, given some of Windows Vista's more unstable traits, and Microsoft has finally announced pricing on the OS. Windows 7 is slated for release on the 22 of October, and anyone buying a new PC between now and then can get it installed for free. The Home Premium edition of Windows 7 will be £79.99 until 31 December 2009 but buying it after that date will cost £149.99 Unlike the rest ...

During their press conference at Computex 2009 AMD/ATI publicly demostrated the first ever DirectX 11 graphics card, which is said to debut before Christmas. As part of the keynote they detailed how the new ATI GPU will speed up  application performance and demonstrated some of the new gaming features the hardware will introduce. Details from the announcement include: Get ready for a revolution: Games and other applications are about to get a lot better as a result of AMD’s new graphics hardware and DirectX 11. DirectX 11 features such as ...

During a keynote address in Taipei's Computex 2009, Microsoft's OEM Division Corporate Vice President, Steve Guggenheimer, revealed that Windows 7 will be made available to purchase on October 22nd this year. “As we’ve said many times, quality is our primary goal,” Guggenheimer said. “We announce each milestone once we’re confident of where we are in the development cycle and that it is ready to be shared with customers and partners. We’ve received great feedback from our partners who are looking forward to offering Windows 7 to their customers in time for ...

Thousands of Microsoft and Sony employees face imminent lay-offs in a massive rescaling of the industry giants. According to an article on Fudzilla, Microsoft has informed its staff that 15,000 of them will face redundancy, most from online departments. In a similar reaction to global recession, Reuters reports that Sony is cutting 16,000 jobs and will likely close several Japanese factories. While video games growth is still strong for both companies and the re-structuring is unlikely to affect this sector, it does ...