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A trifecta of gaming news shorts today, with the most important being about the much-rumored "always connected" aspect of the next Xbox. Never fear, you'll be able to play single player games without being online.

Unless you can get Anonymous on the case, probably not. I'd just turn off the WiFi when you're not using it. If he's truly going nuts with the bandwidth-hogging, that means he's using it a lot. If he finds he can't use it at all for long periods, he might get frustrated enough to get his own WiFi.

Danish runes, tricky terminology, and Polish marketing firms that try to pair you up in malls. Bluetooth is a hoot.

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them, maybe it's time to look into what bash can do on its own.

A large Twitter following can be yours if you follow these guidelines determined by a Georgia Institute of Technology study.

If you've left the Wii Fit fad behind but still have the hardware, here's a way to put the Balance Board to use that doesn't involve the Wii or a television.

We now know at least one title that Microsoft will be showing off on May 21st. Also GameStop is opening their summer expo to the public and says the PS4 will be on display. Details on how to register inside.

The answer, according to a couple of folks on this Apple support thread, is no:  

The conflicting information is due to there being two different support deadlines, as PCWorld explains:  

Dutch behavioral science professor Diederik Stapel was a highly respected researcher -- until it was discovered that he had fabricated data for dozens of experiments.

Microsoft research is working on a proof-of-concept system that uses a projector to extend video from a game or movie to the wall around your TV. Will this be the "Project Natal" of the Xbox 720 generation?

Try downloading and installing it from this Adobe page. Make sure it says "Installation successful" at the end.