Category: Video games

  • Half Life 2 dominos

    Getting a kill the hard way in Half Life 2: Using dominos. In Windows Media video format.

  • Small online video games for the family

    You don’t always find nice little online video games that would appeal to all members of the family. Nonetheless, this is what I found on the nice little Orisinal web site (Morning Sunshine). Recommended to the whole family (really from the youngest to the more mature).

  • D&D baby (is he a NPC?)

    Ron Davis has a very nice picture of a baby fully ready to play in Dungeons & Dragons (or ready to be a NPC).

  • MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface

    MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface

    It has been a long time since I started to tell you about the lack of HDMI-ready PC graphics cards on the market. It leads to the impossibility to display correctly HD-TV from a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD from your PC (even with the most powerful graphics cards). But, today, MSI announces such a card.…

  • Crysis: FarCRY, the FPS was only the beginning

    FarCry, one of the best First Person Shooter video game (a game in the old shoot-them-all category of Doom or Quake), spent a lot of time on my PC. I played with it at day and at night. But Crytek, the game authoring company, is preparing Crysis as a follow-up, sequel, or renewed FPS video…

  • No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista

    No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista

    News from The Inquirer: Vista will be the only Operating System supporting DirectX 10 (the latest version of the video-game-oriented graphic support software). This is bad news for those intending to keep WindowsXP and willing to use the latest video games and entertainment software in 2007. You will have to switch to Vista, like it…

  • The fastest Flash memory card

    This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…

  • Al Qaeda may not be using video games to recruit terrorists

    While the American Congress saw earlier this month a video seemingly proving that extreme muslim militants used modified American video games to recruit kids and teenagers in the fight against the great American Satan (Reuters news), it appears that this was a kind of hoax. As a matter of fact, we just learned that the…

  • E3, Los Angeles game show

    This is not a full review of this great game show, but I wanted to point at a few of the important items that could be extracted from this event. Crysis, the new First Person Shooter (FPS) of Crytek (previously author of the much acclaimed FarCry) seems to be totally impressive with a crazy jungle…