More than 15000 crazed Blizzard Entertainment fans packed will pack into the Anaheim Convention Center this weekend for the 3rd Blizzcon convention.  Attendees braved long lines to grab their badges, but they didn’t seem to mind as a playable demo of Diablo 3 awaited them inside.  Content teases of the upcoming Starcraft II and World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King also soothed the savage fans.

Apple TV could be in big trouble when Microsoft unveils its new Xbox LIVE service in six weeks - with a revamped UI and a much broader focus on Hollywood. The software maker is betting on entertainment content in an effort to push Xbox 360 sales. And it seems that the Xbox 360 is the currently best-positioned gadget to become an all purpose gaming and entertainment platform for the living room.

Apple took an unusually hard shot at Nvidia’s credibility yesterday: Apple said that it found that GeForce GPUs used in some Macbook Pro systems are failing, while Nvidia “assured” the company that the supply to Apple was not affected by what appears to be a GPU packaging issue.

The world’s dominant hard drive manufacturer will begin offering flash-based solid state disk (SSD) drives next year. Seagate told Cnet that the drives will be offered to enterprise customers first, while consumer drives will be sold “later.”

Speculating what products Apple may introduce at one of its secretive events has become a popular game on the Internet. And since Apple announced such an event, since it indicated that it will focus on notebooks and since mysterious pictures of potentially new Apple products are making their rounds on the Internet, it is not really a surprise that the Apple rumor mill has gone crazy once again. There are reasonable expectations what Apple is most likely to introduce – a refreshed notebook family with upgraded hardware – but there is lots of speculation about a mysterious “Brick” manufacturing process that could result in sub-$800 notebooks as well. Join us for an overview of current rumors. Extra: SLIDESHOW

Feature - The holiday season is approaching quickly: If you have children or if you are an avid gamer yourself then you know there are tons of video games you could buy. This Christmas season is jam-packed with a few very interesting titles and sequels to some of the most popular games already on the market for both the PC and console game systems. Here are our recommendations as a guideline which games you can expect to appear on most wishlists of gamers. Be sure to check out our slideshow to see screenshots of the games listed below. 

Sony will begin offering the 80 GB Playstation 3 with a rumble pack wireless controller this month in Japan. The 40 GB version will be transitioned into “open” pricing.

The first image to ever been captured by the GeoEye-1, the highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, was Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.

With catastrophic messages hitting the financial world each day now, the battered DRAM industry has become a negligible topic even in IT lately. And while DRAM manufacturers are dealing with one of most severe market environments in their history, there is always something positive for someone else – in this case the consumer: Nam Kim from iSuppli told TG Daily that DRAM prices may be about as low as they can get and if you are in need of some extra memory for your PC it may be a good time to shop.

Mozilla Labs recently released an experimental extension called Geode, which adds location based features to the Firefox browser. Just as location-based services can enhance the feature set of a cellphone, Geode is now just as capable wherever it is you take your laptop or use your PC.