Innodisk is working on iSLC NAND flash memory, a new technology that should dramatically improve the endurance of conventional MLC NAND flash memory chips. Whereas today's MLC NAND memory chips have an endurance of 3,000 - 5,000 program/erase cycles, Innodisk claims it has figured out a way to reach an endurance of 30,000 program/erase. The company's iSLC promises performance close to SLC flash memory, at a considerably lower cost. The first iSLC-based products from Innodisk are expected to arrive in the second quarter of 2013.

Square Enix has released a teaser trailer for the new Thief game that is being developed by EIDOS Montreal. Thief should be available in 2014 for PC and PS4, and it is also planned for other next-generation consoles. 

Epic showed off its Unreal Engine 4 today at the Game Developers Conference.

ASUS today announced the P9X79-E WS motherboard, designed to offer highly scalable expandability with seven PCI Express 3.0 slots, with support for up to 4-way NVIDIA GeForce SLI or AMD CrossFireX in x16 links. The P9X79-E WS includes ASUS Dr. Power, which helps prevent sudden shutdowns using power supply health monitoring and event notifications, and new dual server-grade Intel Ethernet. The motherboard features 91% power efficiency, enhanced heat removal, plus high speed storage and data transfers.

The Guru3D Rig of the Month March 2013 is all about style and a quality build. Though I'm sure many will love it it remains to be one of these hate/love builds. We think it's impressive alright and the craftsmanship is just excellent. meet Conrad Yeo Kai Kee, at the age of 33 he build this creature and named it Project Rampage. This actually is his first first ever attempt in modding and also water cooling of rigs. Lots of time is spent in reading and sourcing out items needed for the build. Have a look and be amazed.

Check out the Rig of the Month March 2013 right here.

The Guru3D Rig of the Month March 2013 is all about style and a quality build. Though I'm sure many will love it it remains to be one of these hate/love builds. We think it's impressive alright and the craftsmanship is just excellent. meet Conrad Yeo Kai Kee, at the age of 33 he build this creature and named it Project Rampage. This actually is his first first ever attempt in modding and also water cooling of rigs. Lots of time is spent in reading and sourcing out items needed for the build. Have a look and be amazed.

Creative released a new Bluetooth 2.1 speaker system, the Creative T3150 Wireless. This 3-piece speaker system provides a working range up to 10 meters, comes with a wired remote control (power switch / volume control) and is compatible with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR enabled devices (iPad, iPhone, Android Smartphone). 

EK Water Blocks introduces the Supremacy PreciseMount Add-on Naked Ivy. This product is world-first of it's kind - it is the mounting mechanism upgrade for existing cooling device, designed to support delided 3rd Generation Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Ivy Bridge CPUs. This product is the perfect upgrade for all those EK-Supremacy users who want to use their delided 3rd Generation Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPU safely and squeeze the last megahertz out of their processors.

Razer announced today that the Razer Edge Gaming Tablet will soon come preinstalled with Steam software. The Razer Edge tablet will come with Valve's industry-leading software, enabling gamers around the world to launch their games more quickly. The Edge is optimized for demanding gameplay and, through its mobile console and home console modes, it works seamlessly with Steam Big Picture.

NEC has unveiled their new dual-band WiFi router, the AtermWG1800HP. Corresponding to the ‘Draft 11ac’ (the new standard for wireless LAN IEEE802.11ac), the AtermWG1800HP comes with a USB 2.0 port, four LAN ports, one Internet LAN port and dual-band WiFi access point (2.4GHz – 450Mbps and 5GHz – 1300Mbps), and provides security through encryption using WEP or WPA/WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES). 

DigiTimes claims that  rumors from notebook makers that Intel has three price groups in mind for ultrabooks based on the upcoming Haswell platform. These three price levels are $599-$798, $799-$998 and $999 and above. Display sizes will range from 11.6" to 15", and all models will have Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) and at least 4GB DDR3 memory.
For the US$599-798 segment, the ultrabooks will feature a clamshell industrial design, adopting an Intel Core i3 processor, Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU and 500GB hybrid drive (HDD/SSD). The devices will also have battery longevity of about eight hours and one week in idle mode.

DigiTimes writes Microsoft will no longer launch products under its Windows RT brand. Instead, the software giant will merge the product into its next Windows release, codenamed Blue. Although the PC supply chain had pushed the Windows on ARM (WoA) platform aggressively, the Windows RT's name, which has misled most consumers into believing that the operating system is able to support all existing x86 Windows programs, the lack of apps, as well as compatibility issues have all significantly damaged demand.

A study from the PC Gaming Alliance, the PC gaming market saw an overall growth of 8 percent in 2012 to a market value of $20 billion. Interestingly, despite various claims that PC gaming is dead, the market grew 90 percent over the past five years. The alliance claims there are over a billion PC gamers and notes China now accounts for 34 percent of PC gaming revenue.

It remains to be an impressive one. Activision - Real-Time Character tech demo. This is the same source data from ICT used by Nvidia at GTC, but rendered using a completely different tech.

In an interview Frank Gibeau, head of their labels division of Electronic Arts, stated that digital rights management is a 'failed dead-end strategy' is. He also stated that DRM was not an intentional move for Sim City turning it into an online only game. He puts his foot down when it comes to DRM With the Sim City launch problems EA moved as fast as it could to rectify the situation, but some players felt EA's real intent was to force DRM on its customers. Maxis head Lucy Bradshaw's blog post seemed to only stir the pot, but EA Labels president Frank Gibeau now insists that DRM had absolutely nothing to do with the game's design whatsoever.

NEC outs  another one of its upcoming LCD monitor namely the MultiSync MD242C2. Designed specifically for displaying medical images, this new 24.1-inch IPS LED-backlight monitor provides 1920 x 1200 native resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 350 cd/m2 brightness, 8ms GTG response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles. What’s more, it also features two-screen display function (Picture by Picture & Picture in Picture) and comes with a number of connectivity ports including DVI-D, D-Sub, HDMI and DisplayPort. 

Rockstar has released a new batch of GTA V screens showing scuba diving, skydiving and a minigun, among other things. Check the screenshots after the break of course. I added ten of them.

I swear I remembered I already posted this ? Ah well, Corsiar sends out a press-release announcing a new driver update for its Vengeance 2000 gaming headset that adds Dolby 7.1 channel surround sound. Corsair today announced the release of a free software driver update which adds Dolby Headphone 2.0 and Dolby Pro Logic IIx to the Vengeance 2000 wireless gaming headset. The addition of Dolby Headphone to the Vengeance 2000 improves both surround sound quality and game compatibility. 

SamMobile is reporting that the Plus tablet will be a high end tablet with a 10.1inch or 11.6inch Super AMOLED HD display. Although the latter choice sounds a bit large, it is still a possibility with pixel resolutions going through the roof. Moving to the inside, SamMobile has confirmed that this tablet will be carrying the full Exynos 5 generation chip. 

Battlefield 4 will release Fall 2013. The "Fishing in Baku" video is shot entirely in-game and is the first glimpse of the human, dramatic, and believable single player campaign in Battlefield 4. 

The 8,000-member Hispalinux, which represents users and developers of the Linux operating system in Spain, said Microsoft had made it difficult for users of computers sold with its Windows 8 platform to switch to Linux and other operating systems. Lawyer and Hispalinux head Jose Maria Lancho said he delivered the complaint to the Madrid office of the European Commission at 0900 GMT (4 a.m. EST) on Tuesday. In its 14-page complaint, Hispalinux said Windows 8 contained an "obstruction mechanism" called UEFI Secure Boot that controls the start-up of the computer and means users must seek keys from Microsoft to install another operating system. The group said it was "a de facto technological jail for computer booting systems ... making Microsoft's Windows platform less neutral than ever". "This is absolutely anti-competitive," Lancho told Reuters. "It's really bad for the user and for the European software industry."