Category: Video games
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STALKER goes gold
THQ Inc confirmed yesterday that the long-awaited “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Shadow of Chernobyl” FPS game has gone gold (it means that THQ transmitted the final version to the company in charge of manufacturing the CDs). So they confirm that it should be ready for the official launch on 23rd March.
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Commodore is back with gamer PC
This is a dear old brand name that is back: Commodore would be ready to announce a new line of PC for hard-core gamers. This morning, I’m waking up with 20 years less.
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A game for Friday afternoon
Thanks God It’s Friday! To celebrate this important event of the week, I offer you a special game: throw a ball of paper into the waste basket of your cubicle. It will soon be time to go back home.
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Best performance / noise ratio
As previously announced here, PowerColor just announced the launch of a graphics card based upon the AMD-ATI X1950 pro chipset in a totally silent version (PowerColor X1950 SCS3) that should immediately be awarded the title of the most powerful slinet grpahics card in the world. This is no small thing seeing the difficulty to cool…
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Video games on a wide screen
It seems clear that if you have interest in a video game that is not just out to the market (even if it is only a few months old), the addition of a new wide LCD display can be source of endless troubles. You may not find the game using all the nice display surface…
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Hard gamers choice: Athlon64 X2 5200+ vs. Core 2 Duo E6400
Steven Walton, of LegionHardware, has been doing a very interesting comparison. He’s interested in getting the best possible CPU for a gamer willing to pay around $220 for his CPU. This is a nice price point because it seems to be around what most gamers are ready to pay to have a fast machine, and…
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Silent X1950 pro
When you deal with high-end graphic cards (high-end both in terms of performance and price), you soon discover that you are spaeking about racing machines eating a lot of energy, needing a very efficient cooling solution and usually bragging about their performance through the sound of noisy fans. Here comes the announcement expected for very…
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Previews of STALKER and Crysis
Two of the most anticpated 2007 FPS PC video games just started to appear in the form of previews. They are not ready for the stores yet, but journalists start getting preview access to versions that are nearly definitive (the nearly word is critical here because it leaves a lot in between bugged version and…
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Repairing a PC
Among the various things I have been looking into while trying to identify the origin of PC crashes I have already been disucssing (I was looking for possible explanations in the possible death of RAM memory), I went and checked the graphics card. Apparently, there lies the origin of my recent PC problems. It appears…