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By Carl Nelson on June 1, 2009
An overview of all the announcements made on Day 1 (or should we call it Day 0, since the floors aren’t open yet?) of E3 2009. Including a look back at Microsoft, Ubisoft, and EA’s press conferences and announcements and the full Project Natal trailer.
Posted in PC Gaming, Video Games
| Tagged E3, Microsoft, Project Natal
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By Carl Nelson on February 24, 2009
Quake Live begins its public beta, meaning anyone can register now and play Quake 3 online for free!
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| Tagged beta testing, first person shooters
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By Carl Nelson on December 18, 2008
I actually came across this problem last week, when I was performing the FPS tests in our Creative PCI-E X-Fi Fatal1ty review. Running the game in a low resolution to take the video card out of the equation as much as possible, frame rates were in the 200 FPS range. I found the control to [...]
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By Carl Nelson on December 5, 2008
I guess Christmas has put Intel in the giving mood, because they are offering not one, but three different ways to win some prizes. Here are some details:
The What’s Inside You contest has entrants share their stories on how they use their PC or Mac to do impressive things. I’m not sure I do anything [...]
Posted in PC Gaming, PC Hardware
| Tagged contests, Intel
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By Carl Nelson on April 21, 2008
If you’d bought a Playstation 3 in Hong Kong last week, you would have picked a 40gb model up for the MSRP of $2680 HKD ($348 USD) in any store (as long as you bought a game to go with it – one of the many things that makes shopping in Hong Kong unique).
However, [...]
Posted in PC Gaming, Video Game Hardware
| Tagged Playstation 3, shopping, Sony
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By Carl Nelson on February 1, 2008
In the latest Warhammer Online newsletter, Mythic have released a video showing what Realm vs. Realm combat will (somewhat) look like when the game is released (they took out magic spells). As soon as you watch it, you’ll see that it looks very much like a high-end World of Warcraft. That’s only fair, since Warcraft’s [...]
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| Tagged Game Previews, MMORPG, PC Games, Video
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By Trevor Flynn on January 9, 2008
Over the last year we’ve heard lots of buzz here in North America about competitive E-Sports with the emergence of CGS and the continued growth of MLG.
It is common knowledge however that anything the North American gaming scene has to offer pales in comparison to what is happening in Asia. A perfect example can [...]
Posted in PC Gaming, Video Games
| Tagged Game Politics, Online Gaming, Professional Gaming
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By Robert Park on December 19, 2007
I ran across this interesting video of Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision (and now Activision Blizzard), talking about his thoughts on the general future trends of gaming. I found the bit about planted advertising in games an interesting discussion.
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| Tagged Game Politics, Online Gaming
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By Carl Nelson on October 18, 2007
I think a lot of people would agree that the most pleasant surprize in gaming this year is Portal, the most underhyped portion of The Orange Box. Portal was actually the part we were looking forward to most, but little did we know that a simple puzzle game would be so immersive and contain [...]
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| Tagged first person shooters, h4x, PC Games
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By Robert Park on October 12, 2007
I once had this dream where my friends and I were hiking in the mountains. We stumbled on a mansion and explored inside. Upstairs, we found a coffin with Dracula in it. Dracula sat up and looked at us. We screamed and ran outside. Started running up the hill [...]
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| Tagged Online Gaming
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