Angry Birds named most downloaded paid app of 2011

Rovio's Angry Birds has been named the most downloaded paid app for the smartphones and tablets in 2011. According to research firm Distimo, Angry Birds was downloaded more than any other application across all major operating systems including Android, iOS, Windows Phone and others. The only platform missing out on the list is BlackBerry. However, the game was recently made available on the BlackBerry's App World.

Garden of Time named top game on Facebook, ahead of CityVille

Social gaming was one of the big Internet trends this year. Social networking giant Facebook has been a destination for casual gaming for a long time, perhaps one of the major factors behind massive popularity of the site. Facebook has released its list of the most popular games for the year 2011. In what may come as a surprise for many, Playdom's Gardens of Time has been named as the most popular game on the social networking site. Disney-owned Garden of Times has toppled Zynga's Cityville for the top spot.

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Series GPU officially announced

This week the AMD Radeon HD 7970 series graphics processor series has been released (for $549 on January 9th, if you’d like to know,) and its codename family “Southern Islands” has been detailed in full to show the world what the company has planned for GPU power throughout the next few years, starting right here at the next: 2012. In a set of affirmations by the group that’s about to unleash their newest set of GPU units on the world of gaming, AMD said that PC gaming software sales on the whole were over $15 billion USD in 2011 and are estimated to blow past $20 billion inside 2012. Because of this, and because AMD loves its gaming following out there in gameland, they’ve also re-affirmed their dedication to their “Gamers Come First” credo, as well as their Gamers Manifesto which says, quite simply: Enablement, Not Disablement.

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Pictured without GPU Cooler - PCB Exposed

PCinLife has posted up a great picture of the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 7970 video card for all the world to see. What makes this picture so great is that they took the GPU cooler off and show not only the vapor chamber cooler, but also the 7970 PCB.

Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Review

Grand Theft Auto V has a lot to live up to. The last installment in this franchise was arguably the best, with a likeable protagonist, a variety of missions, and a huge city for gamers to explore. Having been impressed again and again by these games, we’re all anxiously awaiting the release of the next one while at the same time wondering if it can possible live up to our expectations. We’ve got the trailer below, as well as our take on how it all looks as of now.

AMD Radeon HD 7770 Pictures Leaked

Cape Verde is the direct replacement to Juniper - first sold as Radeon HD 5770 and then rebranded to HD 6770. AMD will finally give its mainstream performance class products an performance upgrade for the first time in over 2 years. 

AMD: We Are Shipping Our 28nm GPUs Now

Advanced Micro Devices said on Tuesday that it had begun to ship its next-generation graphics processing units (GPUs) made using 28nm fabrication process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's fabs for revenue. The company is projected to formally unveil its future graphics products at the Consumer Electronics Show early in 2012.