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In an exciting development and confirmation to long-standing rumors, developer Zenimax Online Studios today announced The Elder Scrolls Online, a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set for release in 2013.

Initially revealed by Game Informer, the long-anticipated game offers a massive world "set a millennium before the events of Skyrim as the daedric prince Molag Bal tries to pull all of Tamriel into his demonic realm," according to the magazine. … Read more

Those of you craving more details about the upcoming Skyrim expansion -- officially titled Dawnguard -- are going to have to sit tight until the E3 gaming convention on June 5-7.

The only information available so far suggests the expansion will arrive this summer and will be first available exclusively on the Xbox 360. Other gaming consoles (PlayStation 3 and PC) will get it a month later, according to Eurogamer. Bethesda did not announce any sort of pricing scheme.

Looking at the teaser image, everything seems standard about the picture of Dragonborn except his eyes. In the original Skyrim images … Read more

OS X Lion comes with a number of new and altered features, some of which, like Mission Control and full-screen options, can be avoided if you don't find them useful. However, Apple has also included a couple of alterations that cannot be quickly avoided and that new users might find a bit frustrating.

The first of these is the default scroll direction on Apple's multitouch trackpads. In prior versions of OS X the scroll direction mirrored that of scroll wheels on mice, which when rolled toward the user cause the page to scroll down. The trackpad likewise would … Read more

If you've ever used the popular microblogging site Tumblr, you're familiar with the handy little button that appears in the upper-right corner of the screen after you've scrolled down a bit, making it easy to return to the top of the page after reading a seemingly endless stream of posts. If you'd like to add that functionality to all Web pages, trying Scroll to Top Button. This simple Chrome extension does exactly what the name suggests, letting users quickly jump back to the top of a page after a lengthy period of scrolling down.

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The Xbox 360 is still scoring big amidst a slump in overall gaming sales.

Microsoft's hot gaming console was the best-selling platform in the U.S. in January, its 13th month in a row at the top of the charts, NPD Group said yesterday.

For January, Microsoft sold 270,000 Xbox 360s,  grabbing 49 percent of the console market last month. The Xbox accounted for $310 million in total sales (hardware, software, and accessories), the highest number for any console in the U.S. January also marked the 11th month in a row in which the Xbox grabbed … Read more

The program that you use to edit or organize your digital images may not be the best option for viewing or displaying them. ModernView is a program made especially for this task, with a variety of panning and zooming features. Although it doesn't do everything we'd expect an image viewer to do, it provides an interesting set of tools that might be especially useful when dealing with large images.

ModernView has a pane down the left side that lets you preview images in a chosen directory. Across the top there are buttons for navigating through the directory and … Read more

In OS X Lion, Apple has increased and enhanced the operating system's scrolling behaviors, with one aspect being that when you scroll beyond the extent of the window contents, the window will show a textured background followed by bouncing back in a smooth fashion.

You can see this behavior clearly in Safari, where if you scroll up and down quickly, when you get to the end of the page you will see the textured backdrop appear, followed by the page moving back to cover this up. This behavior also works in the horizontal direction, and should spring back to … Read more

Zombieville USA 2 is a side-scrolling arcade shooter that expands on the potential of the original Zombieville USA by adding tons of weapons, more unlockable content (including playable characters), and an upgradable skill system that makes for some fun RPG elements.

The gameplay has remained gratifyingly simple: you run from left to right, kill as many zombies as possible in 2.5 minutes (or longer, if you want to push your luck), and smash boxes and other objects for money and ammo. The RPG elements come in as you choose your buildout for each level, picking three weapons and three … Read more

Tomorrow, the highly anticipated role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim debuts for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, marking the fifth chapter in the 17-year-old saga.

Game creator Bethesda Softworks has released a series of videos over the last week detailing more of the sights and sounds of the epic experience, and we've collected some of the clips together for your enjoyment.… Read more