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San Francisco - Mozilla has published a release candidate for the Firefox 3.5 browser that is downloadable from the Mozilla Web site, a company representative said on Monday.

The browser upgrade features improvements in performance, compatibility, and speed. A key feature is the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, offering better performance and stability, Mozilla said. The general release is due at the end of this month, depending on whether any bugs are found in the release candidate.

In a live interview from the world's largest computer festival DreamHack, Blizzard's two leading men on Starcraft 2 answered tough questions from the interviewers for entertainment site Press2Play.TV, exclusively giving away many new details about the game.

Live in front of 7 000 people, lead designer Chris Sigaty, sitting at Blizzard headquarters in California, answered the eternal question about the Starcraft 2 release date, revealing that they're aiming for this year. This is the first real statement regarding the release of Starcraft 2 since Blizzard announced the title in Seoul 2007.

"3M Pet Party Pack" Granted to All Three Million Players

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced that more than three million unique users have registered for Free Realms™ (www.FreeRealms.com), the free-to-play, family-friendly online video game that launched on April 28, 2009. Recently awarded recognition by Guinness World Records for conducting the first concert to take place simultaneously in the real world and a virtual space during E3 in Los Angeles last week, Free Realms continues to redefine the scope and pace of online games.

Konami takes the Castlevania series in a bold, new direction as European Product Planning team unites with Mercury Steam and Kojima Productions to deliver an epic fantasy adventure!

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has used the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) event in Los Angeles to premiere the first footage of a brand new Castlevania title: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Developed by Madrid-based Mercury Steam, the game also marks a ‘dream’ development collaboration with Konami’s lauded Kojima Productions studio, led by Hideo Kojima.

Cutting-edge technologies for smarter, cooler and safer computing from the Leader in Motherboard Innovation

Taipei, Taiwan, June 2, 2009 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions will showcase their latest range of innovative motherboards featuring GIGABYTE’s 24-phase power VRM design and Smart 6 technologies at Computex 2009. Also on offer will be a sneak peek at various motherboard models featuring the highly anticipated Intel® P55 chipset series, as well as the GA-MA785G-UD3H based on the exciting AMD 785G chipset.

The second batch of E3 2009 screenshots are now live on the site.

Recently uploaded screenshots include, Need for Speed Shift, Need for Speed Nitro, Lost Planet 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Mass Effect 2.

View more screenshots under the Screenshots section of the site.

There will be more screenshots and videos to follow in the coming days as E3 winds down.