The Zone

Ever wanted to be in Tim Schafer's shoes as he prepare himself to host the GDC Awards? Stuck in the backstage room, players will have to guide Mr. Schafer and embark on an epic quest to locate all 22 jokes (or less) in order to win over the audience at the GDC awards.

Presented in glorious (and pixelated) point-n-click format reminiscent of LucasArt's classic adventure games, players are given 12 verb commands (remember those?) and a large inventory space to aid in their quest for humor. Have fun!

Unlike other LED manufacturers, Samsung made an outstanding effort to make its LEDs stand out, as evidenced in this video. Whether the video is digitally enhanced or not still stands open for discussion, although its funny effects will definitely lighten up your day

Hot on the heels of NVIDIA's littlest brother in its GTX 200 performance series graphic cards, we managed to snag an engineering sample for the up and coming GTS 250. With just the card sent in, we didn't have a chance to see what else came with the complete package but it definitely seems to be one of the higher end models. This is mainly because it comes with a custom Zalman fansink, built-in HDMI, DVI and VGA ports and about 1GB worth of GDDR3 memory. Here's our first sneak peak at its performance for both 3DMark06 as well as 3DMark Vantage. For a full in depth review check it out in our latest issue of HWM (HWM April 2009).

We managed to get our hands on a Samsung X460 and take it for a spin. Featuring an ultra slim design that may give the Macbook Air a run for its money, this new addition to Samsung's line of notebooks holds plenty of promise. Like its NC10 netbook counterpart, it is also rumoured to be competitively priced. Couple this with its excellent performance and we may have a sleeper hit on our hands. Check out the PCMark05 score it gave us below. For a full review, pick up the latest copy of HWM (HWM March 2009).

Originally made for the press in conjunction with the launch of Street Fighter IV, Capcom has graciously made a PDF version of the Street Fighter IV Training Manual for download at their Capcom Unity blog here.

Featuring great character illustration plus tips and techniques for each fighter, the Training Manual is also printer-friendly if you prefer to read your own printed copy. A nice little gift for the fans!

Ensuring that workers in office cubicles do not die of boredom whenever there's a lull in their workload, Casual Collective has compiled a bunch of free games which makes multiplayer gaming fun and easy. Requiring no high-end graphics card, large amounts of memory and gaming-grade input devices, all you need to do is to register (for free), build up a network of like-minded people and play!

As part of Samsung's renewed attempt at piercing the personal computer market they have introduced their take on the netbook. With a classy design and ultra light casing, the Samsung NC10 looks great. Rumoured to be priced much more competitively (as in cheaper!) to get into the already saturated market, this 10" netbook will be something to watch when it comes out in force. We managed to lay our hands on an advance version. So far we found that the NC10 has an awesome battery life, stays cooler under pressure and has more than reasonable performance. For a full review of the Samsung NC10, pick up a copy of HWM (HWM March 2009).