Samsung hasn’t yet abased itself to competing head-on with the lowest price netbooks out there, but its Samsung Go can at least vaguely keep up with the times spec-wise, notching up from the N310 to the N315 model name in the process. The $429 rubber-clad netbook has been bumped to an Atom N450 processor, along with Windows 7 Starter, 1GB of RAM and Intel GMA 1350 graphics. Just in case you were scared of getting bored, Samsung and The New York Times are keeping up with their chummy relationship, pre-installing …

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is an isometric arcade platformer. How about that? Didn’t see that one coming, did you? Tomb Raider may be responsible for helping to craft the third-person action/adventure, but it seems that she’s given up trying to be relevant to the genre, and has taken a dramatic turn for the retro. 
The arcade atmosphere is crucial to Guardian of Light, with replay value and high scores being the primary focus. Lara and new buddy Totec race to find the Mirror of Smoke and keep its …

In one of the coolest moves within the last two years, a developer has decided not to slap an MP component into its shooter. In a recent conversation with Eurogamer at a Tokyo event, Platinum Games’ Shinji Mikami confirmed that Vanquish would not have a competitive online component for fear of stripping down the title.
“Vanquish is very intense, full of action. There are just so many things going on,” Mikami told Eurogamer. “When you take that into a multiplayer environment, then you have to realistically consider shaving a lot of …

Want to know what’s going down in Metro 2033‘s tunnels? The wait for the FPS isn’t much longer.  The title hits North American shelves on March 16. And if you needed proof that the date is in stone, well, here you go: publisher THQ announced that the game has gone gold. It’s been pressed and all of that business.
Hitting alongside the announcement this morning was a cool little teaser trailer that shows off a bit of Metro 2033‘s post-apocalyptic world. From experience, I can say that they got the whole …

It seems unwise to use a keyboard and mouse with Street Fighter IV PC. Something tells us that spinning kicks and fireballs just won’t feel the same. But if you’ve got a Mad Catz Fight Stick lying around, and 20 extra bucks, you could be kicking it like a pro in a matter of a download. Capcom’s popular fighter is the next Games on Demand sale item, hitting at $19.99 instead of the usual price.
It’s also $19.99 on Stardock’s Impulse platform, which we’ve heard is actually kind of cool if …

For a few reasons, more people are flocking towards EA DICE and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 than ever showed up to cheer on the original Bad Company. The big factor, as far as I can tell, directly relates to a certain other big-name first-person shooter losing a portion of its following because of some sketchy decisions that were made.
More importantly, Bad Company 2 looked promising from the moment we caught our very first glimpse. That’s what it’s really about; forget the politics, just this once. Most of us played either …

If you weren’t happy with the 105 tracks that hit Rock Band Network yesterday, don’t worry — Harmonix and MTV Games are still supplying your weekly does of “regular” old DLC. Here’s what to expect next week:

The White Stripes Pack 02 ($5.49/440 MS Points for the pack, or $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points)

“Fell in Love with a Girl” +
“Seven Nation Army”
“You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)” +

Single Tracks

The Futureheads – “Decent Days & Nights” + ($1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points)
The Futureheads – “Hounds …

You’ve probably seen sketches like the one above promising you complete cable independence since what, 1996? We’re not about to tell you this is the one technology that finally delivers on that utopian dream, but it’s surely one of the zanier attempts at it. By converting “ultra fast laser pulses” into radio frequency waves, the researchers claim they’ve overcome a significant hurdle to making wireless communications ubiquitous — signal interference. The rapid (each laser burst lasts a mere 100 femtoseconds), pulsing nature of their approach purportedly makes their signal extremely …

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Sami, who apparently thinks that touchscreens are totally useful even in the frigid wilds of (gorgeous) Finland. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

“I have a 13-inch MacBook and I love it. But I’m beginning to think it might be a little too big …

Valtteri Halla — Nokia employee and one-half of MeeGo’s Technical Steering Group — has blogged up a storm this week about the first baby steps that’ll get the platform off the ground from its Moblin and Maemo roots, and from the sounds of things, we’ll be able to get our first glimpse at it on production hardware before the month’s out. Currently, the plan is to open up MeeGo’s code repository to all comers “by the end of this month,” targeting both Atom boards and the N900. Now, we certainly …