Over two-thirds of US online gamers are women.

Could you really replace your home or business broadband with a mobile dongle? Our broadband buyer's guide names the best plans, the most attractive deals and the best value for money.

Gamers begin priming their trigger fingers.

Professionals can earn four times that of government employees.

Gender imbalance evening out.

To help you find the best plan for your needs, we've split up users into the following common profiles and provided recommended plans for each. Note that many ISPs have more plans than we could list in the table. We chose to only include the plans from each ISP that were the most competitive compared to the rest of the industry. This means there might be a more suitable plan for you that we didn't list, so be sure to check out the complete range of plans from an ISP if you don't find a good fit.

Gamers likely to take wait-and-see approach.

PC gamers are among those most likely to benefit from any improvement in raw performance, so does Windows 7 bring any glad tidings for 3D action aficionados?

The female of the species is more deadly than the male

Windows gamers linked into Xbox Live network.

Components bring Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3 and Call of Duty 4 to laptops.

Microsoft has confirmed it has cut a "small percentage", thought to be around 600,000 gamers, off from Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games

New platform guns for enthusiast users with four graphics cards.

Samsung Euro Championship offers US$100,000 in prize money.

New drivers introduce CrossFireX for Windows Vista and ATI Hybrid Graphics support for Windows Vista.

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

3D Power is a relative newcomer to the graphics scene, though many that comprise 3D Power are ex-3dfx veterans from the ill-fated companys European wing. In partnership with Korean board manufacturing company Absolute Multimedia, comes the genesis of the Morpheus range of graphics cards Made by Gamers, for Gamers, or so the slogan goes.

It would be misleading to imply that FPS games are the only game in town when talking about player numbers. While the total number of gamers who could be classed as online role-playing gamers first an

First GPU in GeForce 9 range unveiled.