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Interesting poll results on PC gaming and sales

Published on Feb 21st, 2008 in blog, techspot, the web, interesting links, gaming | 1 Comment »

When time came to think about a new topic for TechSpot’s biweekly poll, I thought that doing something about the state of PC gaming and how sales are being generated was very timely considering the many recent headlines about just that…
The results have been very surprising to an extent:

The poll is not over yet and […]

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Untapping Wii’s hidden potential (video)

Published on Jan 29th, 2008 in blog, interesting links, gaming, hardware, video, thumbs up | 2 Comments »

Erik posted this on his NATW (News around the web) post yesterday, but in case you missed it, this is too cool to bypass just like that - see the video after my comments below…
In case you haven’t noticed, every week day we have in our frontpage the “News around the web” coverage with 4-5 […]

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3dmarks per $

Published on Jan 28th, 2008 in blog, the web, interesting links, gaming, hardware, thumbs up | 1 Comment »

The guys at Futuremark (developers of the popular 3dmark benchmark) emailed me late last week letting me know of the launch of a new service available through their YouGamers portal that gathers submitted benchmark results, system specs, and ultimately pricing information to build a table of the best values in videocard and processors.
There are obvious […]

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Motivations for an upgrade & Far Cry 2 eye candy video

Published on Jan 25th, 2008 in blog, techspot, gaming, hardware, video | 1 Comment »

While I barely touched on the subject of high system requirements yesterday on my post about Vista and gaming, it got me thinking about my plans of upgrading my desktop system, where gaming Crysis is basically my only justification for upgrading an otherwise very responsive system. And I know what you are thinking, as TechSpot’s […]

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Vista and gaming, a bad combination?

Published on Jan 24th, 2008 in blog, techspot, windows, interesting links, gaming, hardware | 1 Comment »

Last week we posted a new poll on the main site asking readers if they thought Vista is hurting PC gaming, and while I don’t necessarily agree that the question is a completely fair and valid one to ask just like that, looking at the partial results I have to say my experiment has gone […]

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Drivers and Windows Vista

Published on Jan 3rd, 2008 in windows, software, gaming, hardware, thumbs down | 2 Comments »

Mostly when people post something about Vista it’s either bashing it or praising it, however those two camps generally agree on one thing; that drivers have matured quite well since its release.
I’m gonna create a third group now; they are both wrong!
UAC, admin accounts, memory requirements and all other stuff aside, I’ve concluded one thing: […]

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Unlike Creative’s SB X-Fi, the Auzentech X-Meridian works fine with 4gb+ RAM

Published on Dec 7th, 2007 in blog, gaming, hardware | 4 Comments »

Just got me a new computer, went with 8GB RAM.
Felt sensible since it costs about as much as a day’s lunch. Put it in my Asus Maximus Formula, along with a Creative SB X-Fi ExtremeGamer.
Took the absolutely latest WinXP x64 drivers off Creative’s site, only over 1 year old.
Launched up Crysis and was greeted with […]

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Halo 3 is a modern MDK

Published on Nov 23rd, 2007 in blog, gaming | 4 Comments »

While spending some vacations away from home for Thanksgiving I had the chance to play a few Xbox 360 games that my relatives owned and I personally hadn’t give them a chance for trying or buying myself. As always it was pretty fun playing Guitar Hero in a large group, and once again, Fifa was […]

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Crysis is AMAZING

Published on Nov 18th, 2007 in blog, gaming, hardware, video | 4 Comments »

Every true PC gamer had this week marked on their calendars, Crysis the spiritual successor to Far Cry is out and I can tell you this is one game that will live up to the hype. By now you have probably read some of the reviews, even played the demo yourselves, and seen our videocard […]

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ATI’s new Radeon HD 3870 is no 8800 GT killer…

Published on Nov 15th, 2007 in gaming, hardware | 5 Comments »

Our friends at Legion Hardware were the first website in the whole net to post official benchmark numbers for AMD/ATI’s latest videocard the ATI Radeon HD 3870. It definitely paid off living in Australia for our good friends as they were almost 18 hours early to the game…
The bad news are however that the Radeon […]

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