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Archive for February, 2010

Disk Space Fan Analyzes Hard Drive Space with a Dash of Eye Candy [Downloads]

Windows only: Free utility Disk Space Fan analyzes your hard drive usage to help you determine what’s taking up space on your hard drive, representing it all with fancy visualization eye candy.
Disk Space Fan joins a long line of disk visualization tools, from the classic WinDirStat to DriveSpacio, Disktective, and others. WinDirStat has always had [...]

Direct2Drive indie award finalists named, threatened with Chobot lick

Aside from a spot on Sony’s The Tester, we can’t imagine a contest in the game industry with a much more ominous prize than Direct2Drive’s Vision Award winner. Aside from the $10,000 bounty, apparently the trophy will be presented onstage at the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival by IGN’s one and only lick-happy reporter, Jessica [...]

Three new ‘Battle Areas’ coming to Final Fantasy XI

Square Enix knows exactly what the players of its flagship MMO, Final Fantasy XI, want: New things to kill, which drop new things to wear. The company will fulfill these primal urges with three “Battle Area Add-On Scenarios” which will be released throughout the year. The first expansion, Vision of Abyssea, will go live during [...]

Final Fantasy XIV closed beta goes live March 11

If you’re anything like us (or our partners over at Massively), you were hurriedly clicking refresh on the official VanaFest 2010 website for news about the now eight-year-old Final Fantasy XI MMO last night. If you were, then you might’ve caught the momentary mention that the first wave of (closed) beta testing for the next [...]

A Keyboard Designed For Germaphobes

Cold and flu season isn't over yet. For those of you who want to avoid germs at all costs, Cleankeys recently introduced a keyboard that can easily be cleaned from germs. Whereas a traditional keyboard has lots of nooks and crannies that can harbor all sorts of bacteria and germs, the Cleankeys keyboard eliminates all [...]