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It looks like the guys over at OnLive are taking things seriously now. They are now the sole owners of the technology that streams PC games to gamers with less-than-magnificent hardware, which means any other service similar to OnLive now has the risk of getting sued. OnLive CEO Steve Perlman filed for the patent back in 2002 and after eight years, it’s finally in the books. Perlman also mentioned that he would be more likely try to reach some sort of agreement with another rival instead of pulling an all-out suefest, which is good to hear. For more information on the patent, you can view it in its entirety here.

via [VentureBeat]

Some of you may remember the fantastic “Humble Indie Bundle” that was released earlier this year. It seems that went well because it’s back again with a whole new round of games: Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. Just like before, you get to set your own price and even select how much of that money goes to the developers and how much goes to the charities (Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play) being supported by this awesome bundle.

This is the best chance you’ll get to support indie developers, donate to charity and get that indie gamer you know an awesome gift, all in one single purchase! Be quick, this bundle is only available for the next 7 days! Check out the bundle’s entertaining trailer/intro video after the break.

Get the second Bundle here!

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If you happen to be a Mac user (we know there are a few roaming around here somewhere), you might want to look into getting the Indie Mac Gift Pack and saving yourself a lot of cash. A group of independent Mac developers have joined forces to create a set of six Mac programs for the price of only $60. If you were to buy all of them at regular price you’d be paying $272 for them, so this is quite a deal you’re getting. The programs included in the pack are Delicious Library 2, Acorn 2, MarsEdit 3, Radioshift, SousChef, and Sound Studio 4. The sale still has well over two weeks left, so you have plenty of time to save up that $60.

[Indie Mac Gift Pack via TUAW]

It’s said that AMD‘s upcoming Radeon HD 6900 series will hit store shelves in just a couple of days, but if you have down on your wishlist, you might want to consider scratching it out because several rounds of tests done by Fudzilla have indicated that the upcoming “video card of all video cards” is slower than Nvidia‘s current flagship offering. In one of the tests done in 3DMark 2011, the HD 6970 scored just below an 8000 while the GTX 580 scored 8700. In some of the tests, the slightly less-powerful GTX 480 almost stood nose-to-nose with the HD 6970.

via [Fudzilla]

Image Credit: Fudzilla

Today Seagate announced what they say is the industry’s first 2.5-inch enterprise-class hard drive to boast a whopping 1TB storage capacity. The Constellation.2 series of hard drives from Seagate sport a 6Gbps interface with the option to go with either SATA or SAS and also come in 250GB and 500GB flavors. Seagate says the new drive will ship with Dell machines later this month.

[Press Release via Twitter]

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in this tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

This week’s Bargain Bin features a game that puts you in the seat of a major system admin. If system admins were built into servers, that is…

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Remember Defend The House‘s YouTube gaming Mythbusters series? Well, the second episode in their Black Ops series has released and you can educate yourself after the break.

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Thanks to my PC committing suicide during my most recent cleaning of fans and filters, I actually missed the live stream of this year’s VGAs. Luckily, I grabbed myself an HD recording of the event, so join us in playing a bit of “catch up”. What did this year’s Video Game Awards have to offer the PC gamers of the world? Read on to find out!
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The past week’s best news and featured content you might have missed, as well as a preview of the week ahead…

Game Informer Reveals Their Tomb Raider Reboot Cover Story
- According to Game Informer‘s exclusive January cover story, the most recent game series to jump on the reboot bandwagon is Tomb Raider. After the pace-changing downloadable Lara Croft title from earlier this year, many fans wondered just what would come of the core series. It seems we get our answer today: Complete series reboot.

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We had a feeling YouTube would do this eventually, seeing that they kept increasing the maximum video length over the last several months. They have now completely gotten rid of a maximum video length, which means you can now upload that 45-minute long video of your mom singing different renditions of ‘When the Saints Go Marching In.’ However, this only applies to YouTubers who have been good boys/girls.

“…we’ll begin allowing selected users with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and our copyright rules to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes.”

As of now, there’s really no quick way to see if the limit as been lifted for you except to upload a video longer than 15 minutes and just see if it applies the limit or not.

[Official YouTube Blog via Download Squad]