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Issue: 99 | April, 2009

Atomic is a magazine aimed squarely at computer enthusiasts, gamers, and serious PC upgraders.

Every month we bring you the latest reviews of new technology and PC components, in depth features on everything from overclocking to console hacking, and gaming previews and interviews.

Essential Linkage: The terrifying Cylons of the past, in the future of the past. Or something.

Video: New World War 2 RTS, RUSE, looks set to make deception a mainstay of warfare.

Metallic blue, glossy black and a whopping 1GB of memory!

Steam, Valve's online distribution service, to offer alternative to 'draconian' DRM practices.

Caustic Graphics claims real time ray tracing not far away.

Video: Go behind the scene with the band and learn about their music, how they made Guitar Hero: Metallica, and more.

New card from EVGA takes load from CPU, meaning faster games, faster connections.

Colbert even nudged out Serenity!

Beep Beep Whistle Click Beep!

The very next leap away from silicon.

Incredibly high prices paid by the publishers of games for the PS3.

AMD's answer to NVIDIA's PhysX spreads its wings.

Say hello to ATI's 0x9710, 0x9711, 0x9714, 0x9712 and 0x9713. All found in a new Linux driver.

Section 92A's three strikes rule being reworked.

Hold on to your cranky face - Max Payne returns this summer, thanks to Rockstar.

Essential Culture: For all those Internet fiends out there with a burning need for more to read.

Blizzard says no to money-grubbing app developers.

Essential Linkage: Inherent coding restrictions holding back performance.

Flaw in the design makes virtualisation a security risk - but to who?

Plug a pc into your car's dashboard and surf the web while out on the town.

Two cards so similar, it takes nothing but a BIOS flash to get you the 'latest' one.

Blizzard's multiplayer matching service underwent a major revision last week. We've got the details on all the Battle.net changes.

EVGA claims new motherboard is the ultimate in X58 mobos.

AMD VP calls Intel's social media strategy "offensive". Fight, fight, fight!

Friday afternoon YouTube: Samsung's bright idea will make you sheepish.

Imma Chargin Mah Lazer! - Powerful enough to zap midflight mortars!

The bitter court rivalry between Intel and AMD continues.

Essential linkage: Admiral Adama gives the United Nations a piece of his mind.

AMD is already looking beyond Vista with its latest Catalyst release.

SXSW 2009: Pr0n, caught between a rock and a hard place, takes a pounding.

Essential linkage: UPDATED 4.39pm: Wikileaks posts ACMA black list, site now appears to be 'down'. Talk about odd coincidences...

Issue Update: Big bad bots monitoring activity online.

Essential linkage: Making a dumb AI for computer games - it's harder than it sounds!

For when your X58 doesn't support SLI in the BIOS - get a new BIOS!

It's a sign of the financial times, as THQ warns of one closure, and lets two other devs go free.

Using the almighty power of bubbles to cool the CPU?

Essential Linkage: What interacting with your PC could look like in ten years from now.

The PS3 had PhysX nearly three years ago - so why is Nvidia making it sound like a new development?

Cloud computing outage has no silver lining for MS.