Stories about: GT Interactive

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Growth in the games market for July was slow, as retailers felt the full impact of GST, according to market analyst Inform.

Rated on specs alone, ATI's latest board--the much-anticipated Radeon--would be a top contender. It packs an impressive technological résumé, with fill-rate specifications of over 1 gigatexel per second, a sophisticated new hardware transform-and-lighting engine, ATI's innovative Hyper-Z compression for faster frame rates at the highest resolutions, and the ability to process three texture units per pass (more than any other board). The version we tested comes with 64MB of fast Double Data Rate memory (the 32MB version uses a slightly slower version of DDR and has a slightly slower clock speed).

US-based games publisher THQ has opened a Melbourne sales office in a bid to ramp up its retail presence in Australia and New Zealand.

A real man-like me, for instance-knows when to admit he's wrong. I was mistaken, for example, when a few years ago I suggested to a friend-who had just joined a small Internet startup called eBay Inc.-that online auctions had no future. Likewise, I may have been hasty when a couple of months later I turned down my friend's offer of a job at this same little auction company. "No," say I in my all-knowing way, "I'd prefer to stick with something secure like freelance writing!"

War does funny things sometimes. today, we have the Internet-a redundant network of independent computers-because the federal government wanted to ensure communications even if one particular computer was wiped out by an atomic bomb. It started as the DARPAnet, a Department of Defense project, and today it's bolstering the global economy as never before. And since countries tend not to bomb their trading partners, this offshoot of war is a big contributor to peace.

The latest generation of graphics boards are fast, full-featured, and cost less than $300.We test their performance with the hottest 3D games and find ten that will make your screen come to life.

Dear Santa, I'm writing to you with a list of a few things I'd like for the holidays. First of all, I want time -- an unlimited amount of time.

Companies like Solution 6 and Microsoft are scrambling on board the ASP bandwagon for business software and solutions, but the games channel remains focused on selling software for PCs and gaming consoles. So how long before this distribution model becomes redundant? Caitlin Fitzsimmons investigates