Today Epic Games has announced the launch of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides community access to the award-winning toolset.

Anyone can start working with the Unreal Engine 3 toolset by downloading the UDK at UDK.com, where detailed product features, technical documentation, commercial licensing terms, support resources and more...

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Microsoft's Windows 7 isn't arriving until the October 22nd, however, details have surfaced over the weekend that indicate Windows 8 will come with 128-bit support.

This information was derived from Robert Morgan's LinkedIn Profile (Google cache), who is a senior research and development engineer at Microsoft.

Needless to say, the information has now been removed from his...

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Epic Games has great news for mod developers: Custom sounds can now be imported for Unreal Tournament 3 mods for PlayStation 3 using Epic Games’ ATRAC3 mod tools, which are free of charge and available now.

Download: PS3ModTools 2.1

Press Release: Unreal® Tournament 3 Mods for PS3 Get Custom Sound Support

CARY, N.C. (September 25, 2009) – Previously,...

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Although the patch doesn't appear to be available yet in Europe, the Bionic Commando: Rearmed PS3 Trophy patch is now live via PlayStation Network.

Below are some notes on the patch update and trophy list, to quote:

New “Normal” difficulty setting changes:

• When you die, you respawn at the last solid ground or checkpoint
• The level...

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The new Mesa 7.5 has been released recently.

The interesting thing about it is that it is first release to contain Gallium3D architecture for "OS-independent and API-independent 3D drivers" which in turn contains drivers for various devices such as:

• softpipe - a software/reference driver
• i915 - Intel 915/945 driver
• Cell - IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell processor driver
• nouveau (for...

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Today Eurogamer.es is reporting that PowerVR technology from Imagination Technologies will form the basis of the still-in-development PSP2.

The site claims to have insider sources that reckon that a quad core iteration of the low-power SGX543MP chip, codenamed "Hydra", will be present in the next generation handheld, not to be confused with the forthcoming PSPgo.

To...

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Will Intel's Atom chip make it into smartphones? That's an interesting question.

And it's one the company seemed intent on addressing at its investor conference earlier this week- and in particular, at a session focused on the next generation of Atom chips given by Anand Chandrasekher, head of the company's Ultra Mobility Group.

The next chip is called Moorestown, and it's...

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Moore's Law: More than 25 years ago, when Intel was developing the first microprocessor, company cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a microprocessor would double approximately every 18 months.

To date, Moore's law has proven remarkably accurate, however, some feel Moore's Law is maxing out.

The latest to chime in is an IBM fellow,...

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JoyStiq (linked above) checked out Ubisoft's new RTS slash board-game-on-steroids, R.U.S.E., and have made available a high-quality HD trailer, along with some screenshots, to show for it.

To quote: This thing must have been made by someone living in a giant mansion on a cliff in Monte Carlo.

You've got two Eurodudes jockeying for the winning position and...

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Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out... a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever.

OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system--seven years in the works--that will digitally distribute first-run,...

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