September 2007
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MIT Pays Homage to Halo 3
MIT plays pranks on rival Harvard all the time. Here’s the latest. Enjoy. :)
Halo 3 is apparently pretty good
Here’s me being brutally honest: The Halo 3 hype is driving me insane.
You see, I never owned an XBOX 1. I never got into Halo at all. Personally, I can’t stand playing First Person Shooters with a gamepad. I don’t know if I will ever get good at it. One of the reasons I loved [...]
Windows Vista’s Memory Management is a Little Different from XP
Flunk, from our forums, has explained some of the differences between Vista and XP’s memory management, and I wanted to highlight his comments here.
I think you may be a bit confused by the way that Vista manages memory. The memory management system in Vista is completely new it is actually designed to fill almost all [...]
Downgrading to XP from Vista is what the customer wants
I bought a new laptop for my dad a little while ago. Works okay. Like many laptops, it came standard configuration with 1 GB. I decided to order 2 GB, for the heck of it. Besides, it came with Vista. Now, I’ve heard the stories that Vista was a [...]
Sony announces Dualshock 3 controller at TGS – full lineup of supported games listed here
One of the not-anticipated (but not unexpected) announcements coming out of Tokyo Game Show 2007 is today’s announcement of the Dual Shock 3 controller by Sony.
Coming this November to Japan, the Dual Shock 3 will combine SixAxis support with RUMBLE~! They weren’t able to include this feature at launch, due to litigation from a controller [...]
Zune 2 release date rumor
According to an ‘anonymous source inside Microsoft‘, the Zune 2 and Zune Flash portable audio players will be hitting stores on October 16. Also according to this source, the Zune 2 will come in a capacity of 80GB, and the flash version will be either 4GB or 8GB. This puts all Zune products an entire [...]
Jack Thompson Allegedly Target of In-Game Assassination
I freakin’ love it. This is one of those things you really think someone made up…
Game Politics says in a recent article that Jack Thompson is whining yet again after reading a recent preview article in Game Informer that alludes to one of the missions in the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. In [...]
Quad-core CPU’s too much for you? AMD will have the solution
Triple core CPU’s.
Yup, not four cores, not two cores – three cores. AMD has announced that they’ll be adding triple-core processors to their Phenom processor for Q1 next year.
AMD’s reasoning for this is that quad-core processors only make up about 2% of the desktop market this year. I guess they assume that people who didn’t [...]
Intel buys Havok
I’m not really into just posting news blurbs here at HCW Tech Blog, but this is probably going to be a slow weekend anyway, as I am still settling in from vacation (and suffering some jetlag). This press release just popped up on Friday night, regarding Intel’s impending purchase of Irish company Havok, the makers [...]
Playstation 3 80GB’s PS2 backwards compatibility sucks
UPDATE: For full details on Playstation 2 compatibility, and which consoles support PS2 games, please see this PS3 model guide for details.
We’ve hinted at it in the past, that removing the Emotion Engine chip from the 80GB (and future) Playstation 3 consoles would ruin backwards compatibility with many Playstation 2 games. Without it, the console [...]
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