December Hotbox winner announced! December 2006's Hotbox winner is here. Find out who won! More...

WoW TBC dates and prices Blizzard confirm when you can throw even more of your life away, and how much it'll cost you to do it. More...
Atomic’s Game News Roundup -- 9/11/06 Xbox 360 bundles announced in time for Christmas and Sony’s PSP media manager. More...
An evening of great game music 'Passion' -Anime and Video game music, jumps off the screen December 16th at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. More...
Atomic Podcast: World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade interview We recently travelled to Blizzard's HQ and interviewed World of Warcraft developer Jeff Kaplan about The Burning Crusade. More...
Blizzard's Burning Crusade The phenomenon that is World of Warcraft is about to blast into new worlds and summon furious gameplay enhancements. Ben Mansill visited Blizzard’s HQ in Irvine, California to get the goods. More...
NVIDIA releases GeForce 8800GTX, 8800GTS, 680i, 680a The first DirectX 10 graphics cards have hit us. Everything's changed. Here's the lowdown. More...

Optoma Movie Time Projector Good picture, built in DVD player, easy to use -- all at a price you won't believe. More...
Creative X-Mod Better sound for your laptop from Creative, plus the little white lies about its heritage exposed. More...

Medieval II Total War Majestic visuals, proper strategy and clever well-rounded gameplay design. More...
Gears of War Logan Booker tries out Epic's foray into the world of next-gen consoles, wars and gears. More...

'Universal' next-gen DVD players on way A new chip from Broadcom will pave the way for DVD players which handle both of the new, high-definition formats - HD DVD and Blu-ray - in one unit. More...
Google says sorry for virus email blast Google announced that a member of its video team had sent the worm, which wipes out files, to members of a Google Video Blog discussion list. More...
New devices sought to stem handheld slide In the third quarter, shipments of handheld devices dropped 21 percent from the year-earlier period, and one analyst says the situation is at least partly due to a lack of new models. More...
Google video-sharing service sued over copyright The company did not say how many suits were filed or where they were filed, and did not name the plaintiffs. More...
Adobe donates Flash code to Mozilla ActionScript virtual machine contribution expected to speed up Web 2.0 development. More...
Core 2 Duo chips land on Apple MacBook Consumer laptops upgraded with Core 2 chips. More...
Firefox gains ground on Internet Explorer Mozilla outpaces Microsoft in browser growth during October. More...
Korean Internet TV battle turns ugly TV-on-demand company reports losses as rivals cut off access. More...
Yahoo to offer instant messaging inside email SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo is making it easier to choose between email and instant-messaging tools by bringing the two together in its popular free Yahoo Mail program, an executive has said. More...
HP putting plug on greenhouse gases Green must be the new black. HP is pledges to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in its worldwide facilities, while also working to make its products more energy efficient. More...
Vista prepped for manufacturing Microsoft on Wednesday released Windows Vista to manufacturing, in advance of an expected official unveiling on 30 November. More...
Adware vendor in fake YouTube fracas Just days after the US FTC reached an agreement with adware distributor Zango that requires the company to pay a US$3 million settlement, security vendor Websense reported it has spotted adult videos that require installation of Zango software from a site posing as YouTube. More...
Competitions
Win 1 of 5 copies of FEAR: Extraction Point We have five copies of the expansion pack to Monolith’s killer FPS, FEAR, thanks to Vivendi.
Win 1 of 10 ZBoards + Burning Crusade keysets You can’t go around Azeroth without the right keys, and the kind lads at WaveTech have provided us with some ZBoards with included Buring Crusade keysets to make sure you’re ready for the World of Warcraft expansion.
Win a special Collector’s Edition of Burning Crusade! One very special copy of The Burning Crusade up for grabs!
Win one of ten copies of Eragon for PC Thanks to Vivendi, we have 10x copies of Eragon for PC to give away.
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