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  • News: PC Advisor's 10 most popular products of 2007

    A year is a long time in technology, but little hype gets past PC Advisor readers. This year 10 product reviews have attracted more attention than any of the other 1,500 and more you can read online all day, every day.

  • News: PC Advisor Games: best free stuff

    PC Advisor Games is the perfect place for playing and discussing computer games, viewing video trailers and getting the latest games news, as well as trying and buying literally hundreds of the latest titles.

  • News: PC Advisor Games: latest games video

    PC Advisor Games brings you the latest previews and trailers for upcoming video games:

  • News: 2007's most offensive computer games

    It's a story as old as the gaming industry itself. Developer releases game, throws in a 'controversy' and sits back to enjoy instant teen kudos and masses of publicity. But this year has seen a bumper crop of political incorrectness, shameless publicity seeking and unfortunate slip-ups. Here are the best/worst.

  • News: Microsoft: Nintendo Wii faces troubled future

    The runaway success of the Nintendo Wii cannot continue, as third-party developers have yet to show they can make money on the consoles, according to Xbox-maker Microsoft.

  • News: PS3 ousting Xbox as lead development platform

    Developers are increasingly using the PlayStation 3 (PS3) over Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the primary development platform for games, according to a Sony executive.

  • News: Venue set for E3 2008 games show

    The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit will take place from 15-17 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

  • News: Sony gets aggressive with PS3 sales target

    Sony hopes to sell 11m PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles by April 1 2008, claiming a recent US price drop in November has helped shipments triple.

  • News: Sony claims PS3 is 'more fun' than Wii

    Sony CEO Howard Stringer claims the PlayStation 3 (PS3) will defeat Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in the long term as it's "infinitely more fun, demanding and exciting".

  • News: Google says iPod will hold all the world's data

    Google says all the world's content will soon fit in an iPod, the result of a drop in the price of data storage by a factor of 3.6 million since 1982.

  • News: Sony announces new PS3 & PSP games

    Sony has announced an impressive line-up of first-party games for PlayStation 3 (PS3), PlayStation Network (PSN), PlayStation 2 (PS2), and PlayStation Portable (PSP). Highlights include Hot Shots Golf 5, Wipeout HD, Grant Turismo 5: Prologue and God of War: Chains of Olympus - all shipping in the spring. Great news for PS3 owners. Full list below:

  • News: PS3 sales to catch up with Nintendo Wii

    Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will catch up with the Nintendo Wii in sales by 2011, according to analyst Piers Harding-Rolls.

  • News: Microsoft launches Xbox 360 movie downloads

    Microsoft’s Xbox 360 movie download service for the Xbox 360 is now available in the UK.

  • News: Time names Halo 3 best game of 2007

    Time magazine has named Halo 3 as the best video game of 2007. "In one of the greatest years video gaming has ever seen, Halo 3 is the very best of the bunch," writes Lev Grossman, author of Time's 'Top 10 Video Games of 2007'. Grossman called Bungie's latest effort the "perfect" shooter and "graphically gorgeous".

  • News: AMD delays shipment of Barcelona chips

    AMD yesterday said that in order to some fine-tuning it has delayed volume shipments of its quad-core Opteron processors.

  • News: Sony admits PS3 failed in 2007

    Sony has admitted that sales of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console failed to match its expectations this year, but stressed this is "hardly cause for panic".

  • News: Vivendi & Activision merge to create gaming giant

    European media group Vivendi plans to acquire a majority stake in Activision and merge with the company to create what will likely be the world's largest third-party publisher of computer games.

  • News: Samsung plans superfast graphics memory

    Samsung Electronics is to start mass-producing Graphics Double Data Rate 5 (GDDR5) memory, claiming it consumes less power and is significantly faster than existing chips.

  • News: PC Advisor's Christmas gift guide 2007

    When choosing a gift for yourself, your friends or your family, you want to be sure you’re getting a present worth paying for. PC Advisor’s hands-on reviews help you make some wise Yuletide buys.

  • News: Microsoft hails Xbox 360 'victory' over PS3

    Microsoft Yesterday claimed that in the previous week its Xbox 360 games console had outsold the PlayStation 3 by a ratio of 2:1 in the US. The week of Thanksgiving is generally considered an important pointer to the Christmas season.