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			<title>The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Butcher Bay was a sexy first-person shooter, particularly if seeing a bloody shiv, a strip of sharpened poly, its handle made by wrapping the dull end with medical tape, lying there in a sewer drain gets you warm.  How does its sequel fare? ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:25:04 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Cooler Master HAF 922 Mid-Tower Case</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/645/Cooler-Master-HAF-922-MidTower-Case/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This is the kind of case designed for someone who wants to build a computer fast, make changes without hassle, and even kick it around a little.  The HAF can take it.  But it&#039;s not for someone looking to show off anything but the games the machine inside it plays.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Cases: Mid-Tower</category>
			<pubDate>Wed,  2 Dec 2009 15:27:45 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/642/ATI-Radeon-HD-5870-1GB/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Better adaptive anti-aliasing, better video playback, better performance, and priced in reach for anyone who wants one--seriously, for less than four hundred dollars, given how cheap everything else is now, anyone can afford it--the HD 5870 is the card to get for gaming performance, performance/ watt, low noise... there’s a whole host of good reasons.  ]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Hardware: Video Cards</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:45:37 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Section 8 Preview</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I played this stupid demo for something like 25 hours in less than a week.  What looks like a straightforward team deathmatch with a sci-fi backdrop turns out to be a nuanced title that could keep servers busy for a long time to come.  ]]></description>
			<category domain="">Articles: Editorials</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:49:06 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Must-Have Windows Apps</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is the list of stuff that separates Windows from Everyone Else.  And by separates, we mean is missing.

Microsoft is in an awkward position with Windows.  Because it&#039;s got such a huge share of the market, in order to appease the anti-trust people, it can&#039;t be complete.  Honestly, it&#039;s a very stripped-down operating system.  Nobody really worries about reinstalling OS X or most flavors of Linux because they come with all the applications built in, double standards notwithstanding. And people cringe when they realize it&#039;s time to install Windows again, because they know there&#039;s just a million things they&#039;re going to have to pick up, download, rather, before they can ever begin to relax with a little Hulu-based Stewart.  And I don&#039;t mean things like Shockwave Flash, I mean the whole list of utilities and applications you install over the course of the year or so of computing since that last clean install. It&#039;s no wonder people delight in playing with other operating systems.  Everything&#039;s there, installed, ready to go.  &#039;Course, the grass is always greener, and soon enough, you&#039;ve got to get Windows back on something so that you can get your Wine-free gaming on or, like, camera working.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:20:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As much as I’m fond of feature-rich devices, dense with macros and custom binds, and as much as I love a sexy peripheral, Razer keeps me loyal with one simple feat: their mice--as this is my first Razer keyboard--never get in my way.  They are extensions of me. Razer’s Arctosa keyboard promises that the same thing that’s true for my right hand can be true for my left.  That I can puppet my avatars as though there was no input device at all.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Peripherals: Gaming Devices</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:17:32 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>iRiver LPlayer MP3 Player</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I initially mistook the Lplayer for its older cousin, the Clix.  I had always been infatuated with the physical design of the original D*Click player, and iRiver has brought yet another product to market with this slick navigation method.  It reminded me of a Nano &quot;Phat&quot; without the navigation bits below the screen (and indeed, the 2-inch, 320x240 pixel screen is a dead ringer for that found in the Nano).  And clean lines and simple functionality are the kinds of things that get me hot.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Multimedia: Portable Media Players</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:16:08 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Corsair Flash Voyager GT USB Thumb Drive</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Corsair&#039;s got a cute rubber flash drive on their hands, I gotta say.  Black with red and yellow highlights, the GT looks fairly swift.  It&#039;s ruggedized and water-resistant, without frills, except maybe the blue LED. I like the design, although I do see a couple of points of failure.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Storage: Thumb Drives</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:48:36 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>PNY Attache USB Thumb Drive</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Not every flash drive can be fast, or can be pretty, or can be sturdy, big, small, capacious, easy to find, and discreet.  No, some are just a little ugly.  PNY’s Attache bears little of the elegance its name may be associated with, but it’s safe to say it does have a few things going for it.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Storage: Thumb Drives</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:42:04 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was a little noncommittal in recommending the 4670 and I suspect that I’m pretty much in the same boat with regards to the 4650.  On the one hand, these are inexpensive cards with impressive performance for the price, but on the other hand, for very little extra, much more capable cards can be had. But let’s say, for example, you had sixty bucks and only wanted to play WoW or the Orange Box.  Will this card do it?]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Hardware: Video Cards</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:16:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>OCZ Rally 2 USB Thumb Drive</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Though the flash drive doesn’t have the classic OCZ cheesegrater heatspreaders, it is completely clad in what looks to me to be lightly-powdercoated aluminum.  Which makes it one of the toughest, if simple, flash drives I’ve ever used.  The charcoal body has its decorations but nothing that stand out over the blazing orange activity light.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Storage: Thumb Drives</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:11:16 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512MB</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a video card needs to be just that.  A card for video.  Many high-end workstation motherboards don’t have integrated video, but what good is a computer without a display? The Intel i7 is just the perfect example.  A lot of people have the need for quad cores of number-crunching power, but they’re not gamers and, appropriately, have no desire to own a beautiful set of GTX 50 millions.  (But you’ll get there, we’ll see to that.)]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Hardware: Video Cards</category>
			<pubDate>Mon,  8 Jun 2009 16:30:46 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Corsair Flash Survivor</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/631/Corsair-Flash-Survivor/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Did you ever want to use a flash drive as a weapon?  Like, reach into your pocket as two shifty characters come towards you, and clutching it like a roll of quarters, use it to line up all your knuckles into a perfect, orbit-crushing fist?  Yeah, well, now that I’ve planted that idea in your head, let me introduce Corsair’s Flash Survivor to you. This flash drive is designed to withstand, or at the very least, designed to look like it withstands.  While I would say that it’s unnecessarily wrought, there probably is a market for undestroyable flash drives.  Without a doubt this flash drive is as solid as they come; if something could take out the case, then certainly it’s force that should worry its owner in an oncoming semi kind of way.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Storage: Thumb Drives</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:11:11 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Cooler Master Storm Scout Mid-Tower Case</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/629/Cooler-Master-Storm-Scout-MidTower-Case/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Cooler Master Storm has to be the coolest case I’ve played with in months.  There’s something about it that can only really be classified as cool.  It’s all black, it’s got a handle on it, it’s… sturdy.  OK, that description’s going off in a wild direction.]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Cases: Mid-Tower</category>
			<pubDate>Thu,  9 Apr 2009 23:20:20 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB OC</title>
			<link>http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/628/Sapphire-Radeon-HD-4890-1GB-OC/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Alright.  Time for a refresh, it&#039;s almost spring, and that&#039;s the season for growing video cards.  The HD 4890 is, for all intensive porpoises, a retooled HD 4870, which, in my humble opinion, is overdue.  Not that the 4870 was by any means a bad card, and it certainly got its deserved amount of press, but it had its failings and, when prices were even, I&#039;d generally recommend a GTX 260. AMD doesn&#039;t like losing on the price front, that&#039;s for damn sure.  But it never hurts to have a great high-end card, either.  Look, this card still isn&#039;t a match for the ridongulous GTX 285 or the limited 295, but it&#039;s an outstanding improvement over the HD 4870.  Enough to upgrade?]]></description>
			<category domain="">Reviews: Hardware: Video Cards</category>
			<pubDate>Mon,  6 Apr 2009 17:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
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