Good ‘ol Worms

With all the new 3D games coming out that aren’t filling that spot of boredom I decided to get out the dusty copy or Worms Armageddon. Surprisingly supporting a resolution up to 1920 x 1200 with no problems too.
Why do all the old games seem to be more fun years and years on when the [...]

Far Cry 2

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of a semi-private viewing of Far Cry 2 in action.  Unfortunately no camera’s were allowed but there wasn’t really much more to see than what it already on the Internet.  The demo that was shown was a November 2007 build.

Source of image: Far Cry 2 [...]

Crysis – 32bit vs 64bit on Windows Vista x64

After finding out the performance of Crysis on a Windows Vista x64 machine running in x64 mode in DX10, I wondered about how much different it made over 32-bit.

Crysis Benchmark – DX10 Vista x64

Here are some benchmark results for a medium-high spec PC running Crysis on Microsoft Windows Vista x64.
The PC in question is the following specification:

Intel Core2Duo E6750 overclocked to 3.2GHz
4GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM
250GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB overclocked to 560MHz core, 850MHz memory

This including case and PSU etc, excluding monitor and [...]

Are current FPS trends ruining PC gaming?

With a large amount of first person shooters reaching stores around the world for the Winter sales, I can’t help but think that the vast majority of the current fps games are generic and all feel roughly the same.  By genre they should be similar but they all seem to have that same soft of [...]

Timeshift

Timeshift is a science fiction first person shooter for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game has already been released for PC and Xbox but the release for Playstation 3 is scheduled for December.
Timeshift is not completely revolutionary but it is somewhat different to a lot of the generic FPS’s that have been coming [...]

Crysis Demo Review

Right, this is my first review so I will type it up how I like to read reviews. If you don’t care about all the minor details skip to the end for my conclusive opinion.

Crysis Demo Fiasco

Well EA know how to screw with people don’t they.
The long awaited demo for Crysis was set to be released today with no information saying otherwise.
Many are aware that the demo was due out on the 26th September but was held back a month, with no reason given.  There were beta releases through EA [...]