Western Digital has formally announced the availability of the new My Passport series of 2.5-inch external hard drives. The new series now features the higher 2TB capacity, a redesigned shell and new colors including white, black, silver, blue, and red.

AMD is now preparing to release two new FX-series Bulldozer CPUs. The two new models that will join the lineup are the FX-4130, a quad core part and the FX-6130, a six core part.

Asetek has now made it possible to water cool notebooks and other slim form factor systems such as All-In-One PCs through its ingenious design of a self-contained slim water cooling system.

The MSI R7970 Lightning graphics card that officially debuted late last week has now proven its might as it gets overclocked way beyond any HD 7970 graphics card has been. This was made possible by the card’s custom PCB design and of course the GPU reactor module that many did not pay that much attention to previously.

Lian-Li has announced the availability of the PC-Q15 mini-ITX chassis that the company claims takes its form from a miniature SUV. Aside from its rectangular shape, the only other reason for saying that is the chassis’ wheel-like stubs.

Telltale Games has released the official debut trailer for The Walking Dead game that is expected to hit gaming systems on April. The game will take on an episodic approach, having a total of five episodes that will be released separately.

AMD seems to be planning on keeping its monthly graphics card release scheduled in check as the company’s dual-GPU solution, the HD 7990 is now expected to be launched in April. In addition to this, it seems the monster card will make use of two Tahiti XT GPUs fully enabled with slightly decreased clock speeds.

EA has announced in a site post that it will shut down its online services for a number of its old games or rather, titles that are no longer selling.

In earlier reports, it was revealed that AMD is planning to release an FX-8150 that comes bundled with the company’s own liquid cooling solution. The information about such package was confirmed early in January after pre-order listings appeared online.

Seagate has announced its latest achievement and that is becoming the first hard drive manufacturer to reach the milestone storage density of 1TB (1 trillion bits) per square inch through the use of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), the next- generation recording technology.

Asus has now made official its Eee PC 1025 Flare series netbooks that features Intel’s Cedar Trail Atom processors and the Asus Super Hybrid Engine II (SHE II) with Instant functionality that enables a 2 second resume of the netbook from sleep mode similar with the feature found on Ultrabooks.

Intel’s Haswell CPUs, the successor to its Ivy Bridge CPUs will indeed come with much faster graphics than its predecessors. If you remember the previous report that there will be varying graphics for Haswell, that fact remains true and the performance increase is expected to start from 20% up to double that of the current Ivy Bridge graphics.

HP has quietly listed its upcoming notebooks based on Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs and AMD’s Trinity APUs. The notebooks feature mosaic designs similar to the current Pavillion series notebooks.

It seems it’s not only in performance that Nvidia will win over gamers and alike but also in terms of the quality of graphics that the new Kepler GPUs can provide thanks to three new technologies – TXAA, Adaptive V-Sync and the new and improved 3D Vision Surround.

Nvidia’s first Kepler GPU is just around the corner and because of that lots of information are starting to surface. The latest comes from a third party contributor who was one of the lucky ones to have his hands on a sample of the card and another from VR-Zone’s Chinese website who is even more luckier as it had two cards to test on SLI setup.

Intel’s enthusiast grade Ivy Bridge-E CPUs will most likely not appear this year according to a recent slide that was published by ComputerBase. The slide shows what is allegedly Intel’s most recent CPU road map and details the chip giant’s plan for this year until 2013 which clearly has no sign of the Ivy Bridge-E chips.

Cooler Master has finally decided to revive its water cooling business, well at least in Europe for the time-being as the company has now unveiled its soon to retail Eisberg series of water cooling solution for CPUs.

HIS has officially announced its custom cooled Radeon HD 7900 series graphics cards. The company’s HD 7970 graphics cards use the latest IceQ X² custom cooler which features three 6 mm and two 8 mm nickel-plated copper heat pipes that feed heat to the aluminum fin array cooled by two high airflow silent fans.

The USB 3.0 that is becoming a standard interface on almost any device at present will soon be joined by another interface that is also to become a standard in 2013. The interface is no other than the Thunderbolt which can effectively provide a 10Gbps bandwidth, double that of the USB 3.0 interface.

It has been reported that Bethesda together with ZeniMax will announce an MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Game) this coming May and the title will be based on the Elder Scrolls universe which will take back players to the world of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.

MSI has now officially launched its top of the line R7970 Lightning graphics card that features an Unlocked BIOS, Digital PWM Controller, and Enhanced Power Design and the company’s proprietary "GPU Reactor" power supply module which enhances the quality of current flowing to the GPU for better overclocking potential.

Overhaul Games has announced that they will be launching remake versions of the original Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 RPG game titles. The announcement was made on the new website that surface last week where the developer had a timer countdown to the announcement.

Powercolor has added to its lineup of Cape Verde GPU based graphics cards the PCS+ HD 7770 GHz edition graphics card that makes use of the company’s Professional Cooling System plus comes with factory overclocked settings.

Sapphire has made official its HD 7970 Dual-X OC edition graphics card based on AMD’s Tahiti XT GPU. The card features Sapphire’s Dual X cooler technology which features highly efficient dual fans and multiple copper heat pipes.

Western Digital has announced the availability of the My Book Thunderbolt Duo storage system that takes advantage of the latest Thunderbolt interface which gives out a maximum bandwidth of 10Gbps.

Here it is. Perhaps the most anticipated game of this year, Diablo III is finally coming to retail stores on May 15. This is no joke and definitely not a rumor as the one who announced the date this time is Blizzard itself.

AMD’s monster dual-GPU graphics card, the Radeon HD 7990 has been reported to be slated for an April release. Originally thought as an axed product, this graphics card will most likely pack two Tahiti XT GPUs that are linked together via CrossFireX.

RAIDMAX, a computer chassis provider, is pleased to announce a Gundam themed chassis with an unique HDD storage design. Designed for ATX and m-ATX motherboards, the AGUSTA is ideal for gamers seeking an aesthetically striking chassis with numerous tool-less features and impressive cooling.

While GeForce GTX 680 is taking the spotlight in the desktop high-end segment, Nvidia’s own Kepler offering for the mobile segment, the GT 640M mobile Kepler GPU is also starting to make its appearance as the first benchmarks of the card have already started rolling in.

Wasteland, the original game title that inspired the Fallout series and many other post-apocalyptic titles of the modern gaming world is finally getting its sequel after more than 20 years since the first game started everything.