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John McAfee Posts Quirky Video in Response to Uninstall Requests

Posted 06/19/2013 at 9:16am | by Paul Lilly

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Um, yeah. John McAfee, British-American programmer and founder of McAfee (now owned by Intel), is an eccentric individual, to say the least. He also remains a person of interest in a murder investigation in Belize where he used to live. That's before he fled to Guatemala, played the crazy card and faked a heart attack to avoid being deported, and was ultimately shuttled back to the United States. If you thought his bizarre escapades were over, however, think again.

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Fuel Entertainment to Go Digging for Buried Atari Games and Prototype Systems in Landfill

Posted 06/19/2013 at 7:39am | by Paul Lilly

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Go ahead and leave the E.T. cartridges in the landfill.

A landfill in New Mexico may be a goldmine of Atari nostalgia, filled with old game cartridges, prototypes of systems that never saw the light of day, and other hardware from 30 years ago. As the story goes, Atari was sitting on millions of games and other goods that it couldn't sell, so one day the company decided to load them all onto a fleet of trucks and bury them in the desert.

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Adobe Officially Launches Subscription-Only Creative Cloud Desktop Apps

Posted 06/19/2013 at 1:06am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Despite opposition, company abandons pay-once, use-forever Creative Suite

The Creative Cloud desktops apps Adobe announced at Adobe MAX back in May are now here. With the company halting the development of its Creative Suite applications, the subscription-based Creative Cloud desktop apps will now be the only way for people to access the company’s latest flagship creativity apps.

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Next Generation Consoles Needed to Save Slumping Game Sales

Posted 06/18/2013 at 8:49am | by Paul Lilly

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Decline In game sales just par for course.

Another month is in the books, and yet again, NPD Group noted a drop in overall game sales compared to the same period a year ago. No minor decline, total game related sales dropped 25 percent to $386.3 million from May of last year when hardwre, software, and accessories totaled $517 million, according to NPD Group's data. Breaking it down by category, software sales fell 31 percent to $175.1 million and system sales declined by the same percentage, raking in just $96 million.

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Were Xbox One E3 Demos Powered by Windows 7 and Nvidia Graphics?

Posted 06/17/2013 at 8:36am | by Paul Lilly

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Things that make you go hmmm.

Microsoft made a splash at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last week by showing off a number of fantastic looking games for its upcoming Xbox One console. It was hard not to get excited by some of the titles, including Dead Rising 3 and Forza Motorsport 5, but as it turns out, the game demos we saw might have actually been running on Hewlett-Packard PCs running Windows 7.

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Microsoft is Paying Upwards of $100,000 To Secure Key Windows Phone 8 Apps

Posted 06/16/2013 at 9:22am | by Justin Kerr

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Microsoft throws money at the problem.

Sources close to Microsoft have confirmed that the tech giant is determined to prop up its Windows Phone 8 App Store, and it’s willing to bust out the big boy checkbook to do it. According to Business Insider, Microsoft has offered several top tier developers upwards of $100,000 to bring key apps to its mobile platform, and that’s in addition to smaller incentives currently open to anyone.

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Microsoft Office Casually Moseys Over to iPhone, Caveats Follow

Posted 06/14/2013 at 7:57am | by Paul Lilly

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"You have to call me Dragon."

Remember that scene in Step Brothers when Dale Doback and Brennan Huff meet for the first time? They stare each other down and insist on being called Dragon (Dale) and Nighthawk (Brennan). It's a scene that immediately came to mind when we found out Microsoft's Office productivity suite had wandered over to iOS to meet the iPhone -- and only the iPhone -- in the form of Office Mobile.

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Nvidia E3 2013 Highlights

Posted 06/13/2013 at 11:43am | by Paul Lilly

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Nvidia shows off Warframe, Witcher 3, and more!

Folks, PC gaming is alive and well. That's the big takeaway from our time spent with Nvidia at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), in which the GPU maker declared that the PC is the "most important gaming platform." To prove it, Nvidia hit us with some statistics from GDC indicating that 48 percent of game developers are focusing their efforts on the PC, versus 13 percent who are working on titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, 11 percent on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and 5 percent for the Wii U. That's only one example.

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ESET Nod32 Antivirus 7 and Smart Security 7 Blasts Into Beta

Posted 06/13/2013 at 8:34am | by Paul Lilly

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Solid AV solution updated with another layer of protection.

If you're a longtime reader of Maximum PC, you know that we run an antivirus roundup each year, along with intermittent standalone reviews in between. One company that, for the most part, has consistently performed well is ESET, which again had a strong showing in our most recent roundup. ESET also just announced that its NOD32 Antivirus 7 and Smart Security 7 products are now available in beta trim.

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E3 2013: Arma III

Posted 06/12/2013 at 11:49am | by Paul Lilly

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Arma III game footage.

In just less than two weeks from now -- June 25, 2013 -- Arma III will release to PC in beta form, though you don't have to wait until then to see what the upcoming open world tactical shooter is all about. Maximum PC Online Managing Editor Jimmy Thang made his way over to Arma III's booth at E3, where he was able to record several minutes of gameplay footage and extract some information about the title.

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