AMD’s Radeon HD 7700 graphics cards are now official. The series is based on the Cape Verde GPU that is made using the 28nm fab process and uses the Graphics CoreNext GPU architecture. Fully enabled, it features 10 GCN compute units resulting to a total of 640 stream processors accompanied by 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and a 128-bit wide GGDR5 memory interface.

THQ has confirmed the release date for its big title, Darksiders 2 which now focuses on the second horseman, Death.

Ubisoft has officially confirmed Assassin’s Creed 3 which is now slated for an October 30 release. The announcement was made by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in a conference call with investors just yesterday.

Origin PC proudly announces the availability of its EON17-X laptop that aims to be a replacement for a desktop system. This fully feature packed laptop is based on Intel’s X79 chipset and is powered by an Intel Sandy Bridge-E six core processor with the option of opting for a dual overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards in SLI setup.

Gigabyte has announced the S1081 Slate PC that is powered by the latest dual-core Intel Atom N2800 Cedar Trail CPU running at 1.86GHz and comes with an integrated GMA 3600 graphics. The S1081 features a 10.1-inch capacitive multi-touch panel 1024x600 with LED backlight and runs Windows 7 Home Premium/Professional.

PowerColor announced the launch of its Radeon HD 7970 graphics solution equipped with a custom cooler that features two 92mm fans and unique SSU-shape heat pipe design. The cooler can lower the card’s temperature by 10% and reduce operating noise by up to 15% compared to AMD’s reference cooler design.

Rumors and talks about Nvidia’s Kepler GPUs are becoming hotter and hotter as the predicted April launch is now nearing. The latest bit of information now comes from EVGA, Gearbox Software and Nvidia itself who will all be attending the PDXLan event this coming Friday, February 17 in Portland, Oregon.

Samsung almost became the first manufacturer to have officially put up the product page for its first Ivy Bridge powered notebook if the deed wasn’t an accident. The product page put up was for Samsung’s NP700G7C-S01US notebook – a 17.3-inch Ivy Bridge powered gaming notebook that is graciously loaded with features.

Thermalright announced its upcoming tower type CPU cooler for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E. Based on the Silver Arrow model released in 2010, the Silver Arrow SB-E features two large aluminum fin stacks, eight 6mm copper heatpipes and a 140mm and 150mm fans.

At the height of the launch of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores graphics card, EVGA went on and released two custom designed models – the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Classified and the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores FTW. Now a third model, the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Classified Ultra comes out bearing higher factory OCed specs.

VTX3D has launched its custom-cooled and factory overclocked Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 graphics cards. The cards feature two 92mm fans and SSU-shape heat pipes that provide better cooling performance compared to the reference design cooler while maintaining silent operation.

Blizzard and Valve, two of the biggest names in the PC gaming industry have now come face to face in a battle to determine who has the rights to use the title DOTA (Defence of the Ancients).

Throughout this year, AMD is scheduled to release its second generation APUs codenamed “Trinity” and at the same time, also the second generation FX-series CPUs. All these new chips will feature AMD’s new Piledriver CPU architecture that promises to bring better IPC performance compared to Bulldozer.

Blizzard has now announced that they are targeting a Q2 release windows for the much awaited title, Diablo 3.

Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs will not arrive until early April but as early as now the successor to the upcoming chips, the Haswell CPUs have now been given a launch time frame based on the information from a leaked Intel slide published by Turkish website, DonanimHaber.

The Radeon HD 7770 and HD 7750 graphic cards are scheduled to debut next week, on February 15 based on the leaked MSI slide that showed AMD’s roadmap for its remaining Southern Island GPUs. And just like how any product gets more detailed closer to official launch, the Cape Verde based cards; the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 have now been given their full specifications list.

Prolimatech, a known manufacturer of tower type CPU cooler is now working on two new unconventional CPU cooler designs for Intel’s LGA2011 platform that features the enthusiast grade Sandy Bridge-E CPUs.

Rambus and Nvidia will now be working together in the next five years as the two companies have now signed a patent license agreement, allowing Nvidia to use Rambus’ patented innovations in their product offerings.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way on how to boost a computer’s performance by making the CPU and GPU found on a single chip, work together more efficiently resulting to an increased performance average of 21.4%.

Aerocool has announced the European availability of its Strike-X and Strike-X Advance middle-tower PC cases. The two new additions to the Strike series features a steel structure, an all-black exterior and interior theme and can accommodate mATX and ATX form factor motherboards.

Alienware has not denied the fact that it has considered the concept of a gaming tablet much like Razer’s recently unveiled Project Fiona. But instead of going for the idea, the company has decided to wait longer until better technology and better means of transforming a tablet PC into a full pledge gaming platform comes up.

Shank 2 has been officially released and it is now available for download on PC, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.

Logitech is proud to announce the availability of its Touch Mouse M600. This new mouse from Logitech features a touch surface that lets users scroll, swipe and click just like how one would navigate using a tablet or smartphone’s touchscreen.

AMD adds to its product database two new quad-core Athlon II CPUs that carry the FM1 socket design. The two new chips are the addition to the two earlier released Athlon II CPUs, the Athlon II 631 and Athlon II 651 with the same FM1 socket on the second half of 2011. These CPUs are actually K10 Llano chips with their on-die GPU disabled.

Earlier this week, IBM was reported to have been signed by AMD as its new chip manufacturer. Mr. Rory Read, AMD’s CEO even gave a statement about the two company’s partnership. But a new statement from AMD’s representative now denies IBM manufacturing chips for the Sunnyvale-based company.

G.Skill has announced its brand new memory series, the Ares low profile performance memory kits that feature heat spreaders that are only 3.2 cm in height. The new memory series are ideal for small form factor desktop builds such as HTPCs and others with restricted space.

Things that are being made by people in Mincecraft are just really fascinating but this latest one is probably by far the best one yet as a hardcore Micecraft devotee that goes by the name of Rumsey, has now recreated World of Warcraft’s Karimdor Island.

Symantec’s source code for its pcAnywhere and Norton Antivirus tools software has been taken by a group of hackers who claims they are part of the hacktivist group, Anonymous. The source code has been in the hands of the hackers for some time now and is believed to have been taken as early as 2006 when the servers of the Indian Military Intelligence were breached.

Cooler Master adds to its Elite the series the new Elite 361 mini-tower chassis that can fit mATX and ATX form factor motherboards while having the ability to be placed vertically or horizontally, making it ideal for setups with limited space.

Spatial View has announced the availability of the 3DeeScreen, a lens that can be fitted to a 15.6-inch laptop to let the user view 3D content without the use of any 3D glasses.