April 2007
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The 10 best games on Virtual Console
Week-by-week, Nintendo’s list of Virtual Console titles keeps growing. As you can imagine, most of the games made available were huge hits back in the day when they were first introduced. But perhaps there are some games you might have missed – maybe you skipped the Nintendo 64, or were a Genesis fanboy [...]
Using the PS3 SixAxis controller in Linux (in Bluetooth mode!)
The folks over at pabr.org have figured out how to get the PS3 SixAxis controller to work in Linux – in Bluetooth mode! In USB mode, the controller is a standard USB HID device, so it works fine as a basic controller in Linux already. But when Bluetooth is used, you get to make full [...]
Vote Shigeru Miyamoto to the top
As I write this, Shigeru Miyamoto is currently at #2 on Time Magazine’s list of Most Influential People of the Year. He’s currently being beaten out by Stephen Colbert.
In case you didn’t know, Shigeru Miyamoto is the guy that brought us the Wii, and many of the classics (Super Mario, Zelda, etc). With [...]
Games and Movies
A couple of years ago, the video game industry surpassed the movie industry in terms of revenue. That was a watershed moment that proved that games were for real. Many people actually valued games for entertainment, not just the closet geeks. Some argued that Hollywood would have to take a smaller and [...]
AMD’s Worst Week Ever
Have you ever had one of those weeks? You know, when everything that could go wrong does go wrong? By the end of the week, you feel like that things are never going to be the same. Sometimes, you just want to give up.
AMD happened to have had one of those weeks last week. [...]
Free Streaming Television – 18,000 shows to choose from
With the increasing popularity of Media PC systems over the last couple years, there is now a huge database of Television media stored on the computers of the world. As with any other form of entertainment we store on our computers, we of course like to find ways to share it with our [...]
First Penryn Benchmarks
Intel has provided us with some benchmarks of their dual- and quad-core 45nm Penryn processors. We normally aren’t to keen on posting furnished benchmarks, but Intel has a proven history of being spot on with their benchmarks in the past, so here you go (click for full size):
As you can see, it is smoking fast. [...]
Nvidia Releases Mainstream DX10 Video Cards
Today Nvidia announced it new lineup of mid to low range DX10 video cards. The three main releases are the 8500GT along with the 8600GT and 8600GTS. Most major manufactures including ECS, Foxconn and Gigabyte are onboard and ready to ship.
The 8600 units come with DDR3 and are based on the 80nm G84 core. [...]
Retro Gamer: Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja
With our review of Dragon’s Lair Blu-Ray being so well-received, I thought it might be a good idea to talk about retro games more on HCW Tech Blog. I don’t know about you, but I love looking back to the games we loved – and hated – as a child. Everyone has done the [...]
“Wikipedia is broken beyond repair” – Wikipedia co-founder
In response to some high praise from British Education Secretary Alan Johnson, who recommended that students should use Wikipedia in their studies, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger stated that the site is no longer useful, and suffers from many problems ranging from “serious management problems, to an often dysfunctional community, to frequently unreliable content, and [...]
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