TECH... 

• Alienware will ship first PhysX PPU boards in systems - AGEIA PhysX PCI cards will be available in selected Alienware desktop systems, inlcuding Area-51 7500, Aurora 7500 and ALX systems.
• NVIDIA introduces GeForce 7600 GS, 7300 LE - The GeForce 7600 GS is Vista-Ready, and are great Vista upgrade solutions for millions of existing PCs using substandard integrated graphics or old and slow discrete graphics
• Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 965 processor - The Extreme Edition 965 is almost certainly one of the last of its kind before the sun sets on the NetBurst microarchitecture and on the Pentium name, believe it or not. But even when the Intel CPU is overclocked at 4.26 GHz, the dualcore Athlon 64 FX processors still offer better results for most applications.
• XFX REVO64 NC3000 Gamer's Edition - The REVO64 in some areas actually surpasses the onboard ICH5-R controller that it was tested against.
• Twinhead's Durabook N15RI - Twinhead's Durabook N15RI is a quality business notebook computer.
• SIGNEO SN-A250, the luxury MP3 player - This player has a memory capacity between 256MB and 1GB packed into a 32x68.5x12.6mm and 31g housing.
• First Blu-ray/HD DVD players will lack managed copy support - The first round of players launched under the interim license agreement for AACS copy protection will not offer any managed copy support
• Gates admits IE7 delays are too long - "In a sense, we are saying that we waited too long for a browser release," Gates said in his keynote speech
• Nokia 6280 review - The Nokia 6280 easily outperforms the 6270 as a slim slider phone
• Yakov's 500-DVD server - This guy built a 5-terabyte media server with twenty 250GB hard drives!
• Cell processor gets Linux kernel support - Support for the Cell processor has been added to the latest 2.6.16 version of the Linux kernel.

GAMING... 

• Cossacks 2 preview  - GameSpot has taken a look at Cossacks II: Battle for Europe, the stand-alone RTS game expansion from GSC GameWorld which publisher CDV is showing off at the GDC in San Jose.
• INFERNAL Revealed - Metropolis developers are designing INFERNAL, an upcoming 3rd-person action game that will feature car chases, shootouts and high-tech gadgetry. The action takes place in a variety of settings, from Alpine villages and medieval castles to power plants and industrial sites.
• Auto Assault Goes Gold - NCsoft North America announced that Auto Assault has reached gold master status and will appear on retailers’ shelves in both North America and Europe April 13.
• SpellForce 2 - Shadow Wars Gold - JoWooD, Deep Silver, and Phenomic announce that SpellForce 2 is gold, and the RTS/RPG sequel will show up on U.K. shelves on April 20.
• Iron Warriors: T72 Tank Command Gold - Iron Warriors: T72 Tank Command is gold, and the European edition of the armored combat game also known as T-72: Balkans on Fire should be available by the end of this month
• Xpand Rally Goes Gold (North America) - Xpand Rally is set to ship to a retailer near you on 4/4 at "the unbelievable" price of $19.99.
• Battlefield 2: Euro Force review on GameSpot - 7.7/10 is the score awarded to Euro Force expansion at GameSpot in their review. They wrote: "Only three new maps, only one of which features China; airpower has become a huge balance issue; existing battlefield 2 quirks remain."
• The Sims 2: Open for Business Patch v1.3.0.280  - TheSims2.com Updates Page now offers a new patch for The Sims 2: Open for Business, updating the commerce-oriented add-on. This upgrade adds the usual large number of gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and other changes as detailed in the release notes.
• Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines unofficial patch v2.2 - As always, this is an unsupported, third-party patch, and this release includes another sizable set of gameplay tweaks and bug fixes as detailed in the meticulously formatted change notes.
• Call of Duty 2 360 Patch Released, PC Plans - Activision let us know that the long awaited update for the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 2 is now available. The multiplayer update offers significant enhancements, including improved multiplayer performance, the ability to reserve friend slots in private game lobbies, post-game lobbies so friends can play longer, configurable host options and more. A PC patch is coming as well, which will include Punkbuster support as well as two new multiplayer maps: Rhine and the longtime community favorite Harbor, from the original Call of Duty
• Local The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Forum - Here's the dedicated forum for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Talk about your character creation, your initial quests, game performance and anything else related to the game ~ Elder Scrolls Oblivion: Fragmented Cache Data Fix on Xbox 360 / cheats.