Built my first HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer)
26 October 2008 – Category: PCs
The idea of an HTPC is to have a PC that can fit in with your amplifier/receiver underneath your TV which will act as a DVD player but with more features.
Hardware wise it is identical to a normal PC with CPU, RAM, motherboard etc etc but generally put in to more stylish cases specially built [...]
Google Chrome annoyances
9 October 2008 – Category: Other
It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs
The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]
Good ‘ol Worms
17 September 2008 – Category: Gaming
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 [...]
Zero Punctuation: Ninja Gaiden 2
7 August 2008 – Category: Other
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Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn’t talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for PC Gamer, who are too important to mention us. His personal site [...]
New version of the Playstation Emulation software ePSXe has been released
26 May 2008 – Category: Gaming
After nearly 5 years of no updates, the ePSXe team have released v1.7.0 of their very popular Playstation emulator for Windows. The Linux version is still at 1.6.0.
You can download the new updated version from the ePSXe website and clicking Downloads on the left.
It has been long time since the previous ePSXe status update. During [...]
Race Driver: Grid – Xbox 360 vs PC
25 May 2008 – Category: Gaming
Race Driver: GRID demo was released for Xbox 360 and PC (also possibly PS3 but I don’t have one…so I don’t know).
I have played it on PC and Xbox 360 and I would personally say PC is better.
Gears of War 2 Debut Gameplay Video
25 May 2008 – Category: Gaming
A gameplay video on Game Trailers of the new Gears of War 2 which is due out November 2008.
Gametrailers HD
Gametrailers SD
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 [...]
How to add games to the Games panel of Windows Vista
6 January 2008 – Category: Other
This tutorial will show you how to add a game in to the Games panel in Windows Vista.
For this tutorial I will be adding Call of Duty 4 to the Games panel which is not put on automatically.
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.
Excellent New Stats from Valve for Team Fortress 2
18 December 2007 – Category: Gaming
Often praised for their outstanding games winning awards for all their games, but also critised for their failure to keep hackers out of their online games and some huge glitches that prevent people from enjoying the masterpieces and also Steam have released statistics for Team Fortress 2.
The stats can be found on the Valve website. [...]
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 [...]
Unreal Tournament 3 – Preview
22 November 2007 – Category: Gaming
I finally received my copy of Unreal Tournament 3 today from Play.com after waiting years for it’s release. And I must say I am impressed, more than I thought I would be.
Are current FPS trends ruining PC gaming?
21 November 2007 – Category: 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 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 [...]
