PC gaming is starting to undergo somewhat of a renaissance, with some long anticipated titles finally seeing the light of day.

Half-Life 2, the most anticipated PC game in recent years, has finally been released to the joy of eager gamers across the globe.

Games publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has won the rights to distribute Half Life 2 and other games from developer Valve.

Highly anticipated PC game Half-Life 2 has broken Australian sales records.

The other half were in the pub.

And one in five of them play games every day.

Early sales figures dwarf analyst estimates.

The Large Hadron Collider(LHC) will be restarting this winter, but only operating at half power until building problems are sorted out..

Service Pack 3 release moved to first half of 2008.

Most would work longer hours for less pay.

IBM and its "technology alliance" have announced they'll be moving to 28nm process technology, perfect for small, low-powered, consumer devices and delivering a swift sharp kick to Intel's shins.

18 million handsets sold as customers demand new features.

Technology companies losing out, says PwC survey.

Survey respondents fear application incompatibility.

IT execs looking to open source options, says Novell.

Company continues to increase market share.

Nvidia was responsible for almost half the Vista crashes reported to Microsoft in in a graphics-related crash report.

New technology claims to cuts storage array power and cooling costs in half.