Nexuiz is free and open-source OpenGL game that runs natively on Linux. In 2009, Phoronix described version 2.5 of Nexuiz as the best open source FPS they had played, with refined gameplay and graphics that take advantage of modern hardware.

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Yesterday the very first official Kinect devices for Windows went on sale in 12 different countries all over the world including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain and the US. The initial retail price is  $249 and Microsoft announced plans to have a special discounted price of $149 for qualified education users in the near future. In a blog post over at MSDN ,  Craig Eisler, The general manager for Kinect wrote about the improvements that Microsoft have made in the recent Kinect SDK and developer tools.

The Kinect for Windows and Kinect SDK have launched officially. The hardware costs $249, and the development license includes commercial usage. Read More: Kinect SDK , Previous coverage Read the comments on this post

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Microsofts Kinect has certainly been popular among consumers and hackers a like.

This test proves once more that Windows 7 comes with better GPU drivers, as it is proven to be 50% faster than anything that Linux has to offer while running on the same hardware. System Specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.10 GHz Intel GM 965 (X3100) Graphics 3 GB of RAM Software used: Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit Linux Mint 12 32 bit Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1 NOTICE: This test was done on the same hardware as the hoax videos that were uploaded by user/powerpenguin1 “powerpenguin1″. Videos on his channel are obsolete and irrelevant since he did not enable hardware acceleration on Firefox on Windows, while enabled it on Linux.

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips The bad economy notwithstanding, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been very successful. For 12 straight months, the Xbox 360 has been a successful selling console

Microsoft Kinect has been a revolution of sorts since it was launched and continues to be. With NUI (Natural User Interface) tracking features like motion-control, gesture-tracking, voice recognition…

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips It seems like a long time ago that I was reporting on a hacker winning a prize fund after he created a driver that allowed him to use Microsofts Kinect sensor with Windows 7. Then not too long after that Microsoft announced that they were officially going to support Kinect on Windows and they released a developers kit for it. Microsoft have since given us a few little bits of information like the fact that the Kinect sensor for Windows will be slightly smaller and better at close range than the current Kinect Sensor for Xbox 360

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Xbox 360 was released in November 2010, since then it has become a sensation. The Xbox 360 is great for playing games. But it does more than that