Good ‘ol Worms

Wednesday, 09. 17. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

With all the new 3D games coming out that aren’t filling that spot of boredom I decided to get out the dusty copy or Worms Armageddon. Surprisingly supporting a resolution up to 1920 x 1200 with no problems too.
Why do all the old games seem to be more fun years and years on when the [...]

After nearly 5 years of no updates, the ePSXe team have released v1.7.0 of their very popular Playstation emulator for Windows.  The Linux version is still at 1.6.0.
You can download the new updated version from the ePSXe website and clicking Downloads on the left.
It has been long time since the previous ePSXe status update. During [...]

Race Driver: Grid - Xbox 360 vs PC

Sunday, 05. 25. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

Race Driver: GRID demo was released for Xbox 360 and PC (also possibly PS3 but I don’t have one…so I don’t know).
I have played it on PC and Xbox 360 and I would personally say PC is better.

Gears of War 2 Debut Gameplay Video

Sunday, 05. 25. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

A gameplay video on Game Trailers of the new Gears of War 2 which is due out November 2008.
Gametrailers HD
Gametrailers SD

Zero Punctuation: Grand Theft Auto IV

Wednesday, 05. 14. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

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Zero Punctuation: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Wednesday, 04. 30. 2008  –  Category: Gaming


Grand Theft Auto IV - Already hit some UK shelves

Sunday, 04. 27. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

An Asda store in the UK has started to sell GTA IV before it’s release data according to a post on Qj.net.  The game has now been taken off the shelves and the incident put down to an error.
Keep an eye out at stores for a prereleased copy.

Zero Punctuation: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Wednesday, 04. 23. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

An honest review from Yahtzee on Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Nothing is held back…

Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn’t talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for [...]

Far Cry 2

Friday, 03. 28. 2008  –  Category: Gaming

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of a semi-private viewing of Far Cry 2 in action.  Unfortunately no camera’s were allowed but there wasn’t really much more to see than what it already on the Internet.  The demo that was shown was a November 2007 build.

Source of image: Far Cry 2 [...]

[FIX] UT3.exe - kernel32.dll - Unreal Tournament 3

Tuesday, 03. 18. 2008  –  Category: Gaming, Windows

If you are getting the following error message when you open Unreal Tournament 3 do the following steps which should stop the problem happening.

If you do get this error, the first thing to do is to download and install the latest graphics drivers for your graphics card. I am assuming that you have checked [...]

Crysis - 32bit vs 64bit on Windows Vista x64

Sunday, 12. 23. 2007  –  Category: Gaming, PCs

After finding out the performance of Crysis on a Windows Vista x64 machine running in x64 mode in DX10, I wondered about how much different it made over 32-bit.

Excellent New Stats from Valve for Team Fortress 2

Tuesday, 12. 18. 2007  –  Category: Gaming

Often praised for their outstanding games winning awards for all their games, but also critised for their failure to keep hackers out of their online games and some huge glitches that prevent people from enjoying the masterpieces and also Steam have released statistics for Team Fortress 2.
The stats can be found on the Valve website. [...]

Crysis Benchmark - DX10 Vista x64

Thursday, 12. 13. 2007  –  Category: Gaming, PCs

Here are some benchmark results for a medium-high spec PC running Crysis on Microsoft Windows Vista x64.
The PC in question is the following specification:

Intel Core2Duo E6750 overclocked to 3.2GHz
4GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM
250GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB overclocked to 560MHz core, 850MHz memory

This including case and PSU etc, excluding monitor and [...]

Unreal Tournament 3 - Preview

Thursday, 11. 22. 2007  –  Category: Gaming

I finally received my copy of Unreal Tournament 3 today from Play.com after waiting years for it’s release. And I must say I am impressed, more than I thought I would be.

Are current FPS trends ruining PC gaming?

Wednesday, 11. 21. 2007  –  Category: Gaming

With a large amount of first person shooters reaching stores around the world for the Winter sales, I can’t help but think that the vast majority of the current fps games are generic and all feel roughly the same.  By genre they should be similar but they all seem to have that same soft of [...]