Software News

Despite being much praised by its employees and by gamers alike, it seems that Valve, the company behind such franchises as Half-Life and Portal, has grown too big for at least one former employee who is now working at Arkane Studios. Viktor Antonov,...

Scientists at the Michigan State University (MSU) have determined in a new study that the human brain has a tough time learning a new task after the rules have changed. The process is prone to error, and it takes a longer time for people to master these skills...

Remember that time when Gerard Butler almost died while shooting a scene for a surfer movie? The first trailer for it, a passion project of Butler's called “Chasing Mavericks,” has finally arrived online. Check it out below in full. The film tells the story of real-life surfer Jay Moriarity whose love for the sport of surfing...

AMD is in no hurry to upgrade its Brazos 2.0 nettop and netbook platform as Intel’s own Atom is very much behind in performance and manufacturing technology. The A68 chipset has brought USB 3.0 support, but the company is working hard on the new Jaguar...

Colorful a Chinese video card manufacturer seems to be determined to make a strong and lasting impact in the video card market. Fortunately for video card enthusiasts, the company is not willing to do this by using lower prices, questionable quality or...

The two Softpedia reviews for this week are: Civilization V: Gods & Kings, the turn-based strategy from Firaxis, and Dead Trigger. When it comes to Quick Looks, we have one for Orcs Must Die 2. We also have the two Gamer Diaries, one wrapping up our...

You’d think that the shares of a company that has its factories under water would be dropping in value. Well, usually you’d be right, but when that company holds half of the world’s HDD supply in its pocket, the share price is only going up. You really...

Bing Gordon, one of the legendary figures of the video game industry, believes that the current strategy at Nintendo will see the company leave the hardware business after the launch of the Wii U home console. Gordon, who was one of the executives behind...

German company Xilence has just launched a new mini-ITX case featuring improved cooling and support for powerful video cards. The new case will perfectly fit mini-ITX mainboards and powerful processors. Xilence’s new mini-ITX computer case is called...

One of the studios in charge of the Silent Hill series is currently under review and might be closed down in the near future. Kuju has confirmed that it is evaluating the performance of Vatra and will arrive at a conclusion soon. A statement from the company reads: “The new management team at Kuju have been conducting a strategic...

The pair of developers who are currently leading work on Dishonored believe that the nature of the gaming industry makes innovation more difficult, but they are also pushing for titles to become more interactive. Raf Colantonio, the co-creative director...

An extremely active planetary system has been detected around the nearby star Eta Corvi, by astronomers using the infrared NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Its sensitive detectors identified signs of multiple collisions going on around the star, probably between...

Canonical today, July 18th, on the Ubuntu One blog, that they've just released a Java library that will allow access to files stored on your personal Ubuntu One cloud storage account. This means that using this Java library any developer can now build applications...

José Antonio Rey proudly announced a few hours ago, July 17th, that the Ubuntu on Air! project is now live. Ubuntu on Air is an idea discussed by some Ubuntu developers and contributors at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin),...

Made official back in February, Samsung Galaxy mini 2 hit shelves one month later in the UK. In the meantime, the Android smartphone was introduced in most regions. Vodafone Australia launched the Galaxy mini 2 a while ago with Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread onboard. Today, the carrier announced that a minor software update is available...

With yesterday's updates, Canonical made some changes to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, regarding the Date and Time Indicator. After revamping the Session menu Indicator last week, the Ubuntu developers added sorting support...

SSD manufacturer Silicon Power has accustomed us with affordable, yet modest-performing SSDs over the past years, and now the company is introducing a performance-optimized SSD based on LSI’s SandForce 2281 controller. The novelty is called Velox V70 and...

One of the leading developers working on the upcoming Total War: Rome 2 has revealed that there are no home consoles powerful enough to run the series and that the development team could easily create a control scheme adapted to the platforms if the hardware...

David Tavares, the developer of Pear Linux, has announced today, July 16th, that the fifth iteration of the Pear Linux operating system is now available for download. Pear Linux 5 (previously known as Pear OS and Comice OS) comes with thousands of free...

Well-known power supply unit (PSU) and computer case manufacturer Enermax has just shown four new case cooling fans using its patented Twister bearing technology. This new technology claims lower operating noise and longer mean time between failure (MTBF).We don’t really see what would prolong the life of these fans in real...

With Le Tour de France taking place in the real world, the big review on the Games section of Softpedia this week is that for Pro Cycling Manager 2012, the simulation and management game which has been created by Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive....