The well known, Far Cry 2 game bundled with its GeForce 9 series of graphics cards is now being offered by XFX. The Indian users will get the game for free with the GeForce 9600GT card, read a press release. A number of features are boasted by the XFX GeForce 9 series that includes Nvidia's physics engine, PhysX; CUDA technology, in order to improve performance in graphical applications and Hybrid Power technology, which saves the power usage by shutting off the graphics card when it is not needed.

Hamburg  - Even though modern mobile phones can take good photos, they are no match for a good digital camera, according to a test by Germany's Computer Bild magazine.

The test compared six mobile phone cameras ranging in price from 170 to 500 euros (229 dollars to 675 dollars) and Sony's DSC-H3 camera, which costs just under 280 euros.

The best camera scored a good grade of 2.3. Nonetheless, the best mobile phone, the Nokia 6220 Classic, scored a satisfactory grade of 3.4.

Redmond, Washington  - Microsoft has announced an overhaul of its internet-based Windows Live communications platform. Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail in particular have been equipped with a new user interface and added functionality, Microsoft reports.

Hamburg  - Avid TV fans, who do not want to miss an episode of their favourite programmes, are now in a conundrum over video disc recorders.

Duesseldorf, Germany  - Sensitive data should not be stored online, Germany's PC Praxis magazine reported.

The release of the tilt puzzle game called Balance, for Mac, has been announced by Balance Game, Mac Logo Interactive, which the users can enjoy playing by just titling their laptop.

The users can comfortably use the built-in accelerometers of all Apple notebooks including MacBook, PowerBook and iBook models, apart from the mouse and trackpad. In order to play in this game; the players have to tilt the playfield to guide one or more balls between various 3D obstacles to their destinations.