What were the gaming public buying last week via digital distribution platform Steam? Most of them are still buying Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Supreme Commander 2 is also continuing to sell quite a few copies. Assassin's Creed II managed to bump out Modern Warfare 2, and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising edged its way into the top five thanks to a sale. If you want to what else sold the most last week, you'll just have to check out the Steam Top Sellers for the week ending March 6th!

If you're a human being in the Western World, chances are high that you use Facebook. Waddya know, we've just launched our very own Facebook fan page. Whether you're keeping track of friend’s birthdays or becoming a fan of pickles, it couldn’t get any easier to get our news highlights covering exclusive events, competitions and stories while you're at it. As if that's not reason enough, we're giving away 5 copies of The Stronghold Collection to Facebook friends.

It's taken longer than expected, but after filtering through all of your submissions, we've found this week's Post of the Week. After reading all 2,236 words, it'd be more aptly titled "Novel of the Week".

Continuing this morning's Steam theme is the beginning of what looks set to be a stellar week of savings on the digital distribution front as the sales spotlight shines on Square Enix and Eidos. Thanks to the perfidies of timezones, Steam's "Monday" is our "Tuesday, mostly", so you have until about half past six this evening (Adelaide time) to get your paws on some excellent bargains in the Hitman and Deus Ex series.

Well, those iPod ad spoofs made it pretty clear, so this news shouldn't surprise any of you. Valve have just made their arrangement with Apple's platforms official by formally announcing Steam and Source for Mac. The first simultaneously-launched, cross-platform title will be... *drumroll* Portal 2!

With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro? ...

AVADirect, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their "most powerful notebook for gamers." The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7 and a GTX 285M SLI to provide a sizable bump in performance. The new model, NBK-CLV-X8100, uses the Clevo X8100...

The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware likely pales in comparison to the software it’s designed to run....

More cores (32 to 48) in medium-range servers results in 20 to 50 VMs on one virtualized server. We investigate if 10Gbit Ethernet is finally ready to solve the NIC I/O bottleneck. Is 10Gbit Ethernet still a technology for the happy few?...

As many of you are aware, NVIDIA has hit some snags with their latest round of WHQL drivers. The drivers have been interfering with the fan operation on certain NVIDIA video cards, resulting in the GPU overheating. NVIDIA has taken down the drivers in question, and has asked that we pass along the following message: We are aware that some customers...