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I loved this trailer.... even though its not actual game footage The original Elite was one of those games that got me into gaming as kid... was slightly different on the C64 and Amiga 500. Anyhoo - the trailer also made me check out Royal Blood's self-titled album.... couple of pearler tracks on it, very…
Continue readingAs per the title - I've been playing Far Cry 3 - not a new game I know, but instead of buying new games (such as elite dangerous) I'm trying to actually play some of the games I have already purchased - generally in steam summer sales. I know I am not alone in this…
Continue readingI, like many nerds around the world, awaited the release of Starcraft 2: Heart of the swarm - had pre-purchased it and was pretty excited to play it. Just finished the campaign - and geez, that was was disappointing. To put this in context, Wings of Liberty is, in my opinion, the best RTS ever…
Continue readinghttp://www.shacknews.com/article/75104/rise-of-the-triad-revival-announced-at-quakecon cool! old-school shooter with lots of boomies..... thats what us old-timers want! :-)
Continue readinga few days ago, i saw over at shacknews that Doom3 BFG edition has been announced.... Updated gfx, new maps etc.... I think this is a great thing.... along with the re-mastered versions of monkey island, upcoming baulders gate 1 & 2 etc... updating solid games with new engines etc is a great thing in…
Continue readinghttp://www.shacknews.com/article/73886/dice-64-bit-only-frostbite-games-coming-in-2013 considering its been impossible to buy a 32 bit processor for a number of years.... im also of the opinion that win8 should be 64 bit only....... as places that still have 32-bit only apps will still have the supported OS, Win7 to use for a number of years yet.... but meh - thats…
Continue readingSo i grabbed an Xbox wireless receiever last week - so i can play PC games with a 1/2 reasonable wireless controller... for those that are better with controller. Plugged it in, no PNP recognition (and its an MS devce - thats kinda odd...) - so select the device driver manually as is documented about…
Continue readingi finally grabbed this all-in-one remote the other day.... it happened to be there as i was grabbing some other stuff.... so that reminded me... (and Bayls' previous comment on my other blog post about crappy HDMI compat) Anyhoo - i grabbed it, got it home, grabbed my make/models and plugged it in to the…
Continue readingIt's been many many years since i played games online.... i used to play a lot of Quake 2 online, many years ago. I also got into Starcraft 2 when released - great game... and very addictive multiplayer. I stopped playing it for a few months, as i found i was addicted! Re-installed it and…
Continue readingA few weeks a go, a mate of mine mentioned that he was looking a getting a network TV tuner.... "they're readily available these days?" i asked.... as i just hadnt thought about it for many years.... sure enough he pointed me to http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/accessories/kaiser-baas/network-tv-tuner-sku-67777/ http://www.kaiserbaas.com/kaiser-baas-product-page/tv-tuners/network-tv-tuner picked one up, installed it today (was waiting on some…
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