Ah the New Year. Feels nice, doesn’t it? I know mine does. And then, dria forwards this article from Boing Boing about Coldplay’s record company, Virgin Records, with a ridiculous set of rules on their new CD: Coldplay’s new CD has rules… The rules explicitly prohibit the encoding of the contents to harddrive or computer. [...]
By the sounds of it, the developers of Civ4 have been hard at work to bring us a new patch. This one chiefly addresses late-game memory starvation issues in multi-player games. I’m looking forward to testing whether or not it works. Official Civ4 Patch 1.52 Readme download: ftp://ftp.take2.de/patches/civ4_update_v152.exe thanks to boondoggler for the link! Technorati [...]
This guy has a solution to remapping the triggers and other functions on the Xbox 360 controller in windows. Matt Brett ยป Configuring Your Xbox 360 Controller For Windows: Pinnacle Game Profiler (shareware, $20) lets a user remap various functions on their controller including mapping to keyboard and mouse events. I haven’t tried this yet. [...]
While hunting around for my Xbox 360 hard-drive, I’d noticed a number of packages containing Xbox 360 Controllers with packaging stating “For Windows”. I seem to recall most of these packages selling for $5 more than the standard wired controllers for the Xbox. Don’t be fooled! They’re supposed to be exactly the same price and [...]
Last week I said some things I regret. There was some swearing and name-calling and quoting stupid internet people… All induced by the hunt for a copy of CivIV to play. We finally lucked-out with the Future Shop on Friday afternoon. They got 27 copies and I took two, one for me and one for [...]
This weekend has seen something of a rekindling in PC gaming for me. I picked up F.E.A.R. last week and have been playing a fair bit of it. It’s atmospheric and creepy, the action sequences are intense and the visuals are very impressive. The one criticism I’ve read is that it’s somewhat repetitive and that [...]
This fellow did a pretty good review of Guild Wars and manages to explain the good and the bad in fair terms. Guild Wars : Page 1
Yesterday was fun. I’ve wanted an Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 for some time now. They’re supposedly very quiet and keep the video card cool. I think on Sunday I finally decided I was going to get one, after messing around with my PC and finding the noise on the stock card was bothering me. [...]
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