Last week, the New York-based Equality Now launched a campaign this week “against rape simulator games and the normalisation of sexual violence in Japan.” One developer of such rape simulator games wasn’t impressed.In fact, the developer in question, Illusion Studio, was the focus of an earlier post of ours, written about the game “RapeLay,” which simulates the rape of a mother and her two daughters.The game appeared on Amazon.com U.S. site, but was pulled after protests and common sense sunk in. RapeLay was

We’ve looked at rugged digital cameras, now let’s talk about rugged GPS. Garmin recently launched the Oregon 550 and Oregon 550t touchscreen handheld GPS devices. These GPS handhelds combine a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with a 3-axis compass and a 3-inch sunlight readable touchscreen display. What’s more, these GPS handhelds are waterproof. As you might expect from a GPS device with a built-in camera, the Oregon 550 can automatically geotag photos with the location of where it was taken making it easy to mark,

Nokia is attempting to make up for some lost time by making a big splash with its upcoming Ovi Store. With over 20,000 titles ready to go at launch, Nokia is in a good position to compete with Apple’s App Store which has about 40,000 apps. Nokia’s number of titles at launch is a sharp contrast to many of today’s first app stores. For example, the Android Market started with a mere 50 applications. Even Apple’s popular App Store only offered about 500 applications at launch. You’ll notice we’ve said Nokia will

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It’s the second Sunday in May, which as you all should know, makes today Mother’s Day. News is flowing rather slowly, and most of the HotHardware team is spending time with their families, but we wanted to check in any way to wish all of the mother’s out there a great day. If you’re not a mom–and let’s face it, most of you reading this aren’t–we also wanted to ask that you give your mom’s some extra props for giving birth to a technology fan. Because without you all, there would be no HotHardware.Oh, and just

As it turns out, Swine Flu just might be the least of our worries on a national scale; according to a top official within the US government, cyber espionage and attacks from terror groups are the biggest threats to the country’s military computer networks. We’ve seen time and time again that attacks on our network infrastructure can bring down entire branches or departments and paralyze security personnel, so we suppose the news isn’t all that surprising. Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who heads U.S. Strategic

MSI is busting out another bag of tricks today, deviating from its usual onslaught of notebooks and graphics cards to offer up a number of audio products. The appropriately named Syren series aims to deliver dream-worthy sound, and at least initially, the family will consist of the SyrenSound X-Fi high-end sound card, the SyrenPhone Gaming headphones and the SyrenSpeaker mini speaker system.The SyrenSound X-Fi sound card is powered by Creative Audio Processor CA0110, optimized for PCI Express to deliver accelerated

NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Company grows revenue 38 percent and reduces inventory days from 144 to 64 compared with prior quarter SANTA CLARA, CA — NVIDIA Corporation today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended April 26, 2009. For the first quarter of fiscal 2010, revenue was $664.2 million compared with $1.2 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, a decrease of 42 percent. During the first quarter of fiscal 2010, NVIDIA recorded

Fans of the best-selling Guitar Hero video game series will have even more songs to fuel their fantasies of pop glory. Activision Blizzard has confirmed that Guitar Hero: Van Halen is in the works according to video-game blog Joystiq. No specific tracks have been named, but Activision has said it will include music from guest bands such as Queen, Weezer, blink-182, The Offspring, and Queens of the Stone Age. The company also plans to release three new music-based video games this year: DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5,

It’s been some time yet since we’ve heard anything new regarding Intel’s homegrown Moblin operating system, but just when you thought that Intel (and the industry at large, really) was letting go of all hope when it comes to UMPCs and MIDs, in flies this. Despite the fact that netbooks have entirely overshadowed highly portable pocket PCs, Intel and Novell are still forging ahead with plans to produce Moblin-based products with Intel’s Atom processors. The two companies recently decided to partner up in order