Category: Video games
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Game: Move your mouse
One of those silly little games you spend too much time with: RubyTooth mouse 1.0 Attention! This does heavy use of sound immediately after loading of the Flash plug-in. You may prefer to turn the sound off before clicking on the link.
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90% of games won’t run on Vista
If you regularly read the news on this site, you know that I am not fully in favor of buying an OS software that could well be more expensive than the computer holding it (more than 500€ for the richer version of Vista). But I did not expect the announcement made by Alex St. John,…
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Big FPS games for 2007
Everybody told you that 2007 will be the year to upgrade your PC configuration. But usually, this is supposedly because of the arrival of Windows Vista. I beg to differ. You can forget about Vista, but the upcoming games of 2007 will be a very good reason to shoot your old hardware down. 2007 will…
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Sony PS3 and HDCP: It’s a mess
We already talked about it here at length: Devices willing to handle High Definition (HD) video have to (or will have to) be all HDCP-compatible in order to be able to display anything. Recent Christmas holiday season sales will probably soon appear as somewhat lacking in this section (most of the HD-Ready TV sets don’t…
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Crysis expected Mid 2007
Crysis is going to be the hit game from Crytek (previously producer of the hit game FarCry). But there is the big issue of when such a game is going to appear on our screens. Today, we read an article in the Inquirer that gives some details about the launch. Or lack of. Crysis is…
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G80, G84: nVidia solutions for 2007
The year 2007 will be DirectX 10 graphics solution year. It will be significant because of the arrival of new video games arriving in Spring 07 that will be compatible with this new standard (don’t forget that Vista is only requiring Direct X 9 compatibility to support its spiffy new 3D graphics interface, Aero). Most…
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Free online games
RED is one slightly addictive video game that you can play freely online. But AmorGames has other Flash-based games to fill the long Winter night.
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Vista: Time for 64 bits
While Vista will soon be available in a 64-bit version (and that GNU/Linux went down this path several months ago), it is time to ponder the following question: “Do we need to go 64 bits?” And the answer is surprisingly simple if you look at it. Currently, PC are more and more often equiped with…
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Exploding batteries kill Sony profits
The last figures have now been published: Sony finished counting the beans after several months of news of exploding laptop PC batteries and of worldwide product recalls. instead of 130 billion yens, they forecast to dive into a loss of about 50 billion yens. It is left to be seen what impact it will have…