Despite being permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court last year due to "abusive and frivolous filings", Jack Thompson is back. This time, however, he isn't going after the video game industry, but rather social networking juggernaut, Facebook.

AMD's very own self-proclaimed bad boy Ian McNaughton took a direct swing at NVIDIA and The Way it's Meant to be Played program today in a blog post that is worth taking a look at. Ian calls out some issues with several TWIMTBP titles, which is something you don't see being done everyday. If you already own or are thinking about getting Batman: Arkham Asylum, Need for Speed: Shift or Resident Evil 5 then you might want to see what Ian is upset about.

In exactly one week from now, AMD is expected to launch its ATI Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 videocards, which as it turns out will be a precursor of more 5000 series cards to come. And you won't have to wait long, either.

Google has launched a project to bring the benefits of its Chrome rendering and JavaScript engines to the benighted masses forced to use Internet Explorer - and Microsoft isn't happy.

The first USB 3.0 controller was just recently certified, and now there's a speedy external hard drive to go with it. Freecom has announced their "Hard Drive XS 3.0" as the first to support the new USB SuperSpeed standard.