The gaming arena is in constant flux with innovations on all fronts to produce games that are visually captivating and reach a large base of gamers. Having been a gamer for nearly two decades now, I remember the days of games arriving on 360K floppy disks to the more rigid 1.44MB 3.5″ floppy disks. Apart [...]
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Jan 30 2009
Gears of Wars Expires on the PC
Owners of Epic’s Gears of War were in for quite a interesting predicament when they tried to play the game on January 28th. Turns out that the DRM that came bundled with the program had a digital certificate that deactivated on that date and thus rendered the game useless.
If we’ve learned anything from the debacle [...]
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Oct 25 2008
The Dreaded RROD
The dreaded RROD (Red Ring of Death) has hit my XBOX 360 console. A few months back I experieced the disc unreadable error while playing Mass Effect. The error was quite annoying as it happened at key parts of the game where I didn’t have a checkpoint to revert to. However, I could take the [...]
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Aug 24 2008
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (SW: TFU) has a demo up on the XBOX Live and I grabbed it today to check out the gameplay for myself. The game was previewed some time ago with spectacular force powers. It also has particle and physics technologies like DMM and Havoc which are said to heighten the [...]
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Mar 30 2008
Call it a Mulligan
Well darn it, I died again.
In the little gaming time that I get these days I’ve been slowly traversing the massive world of Mass Effect. Without giving any of the plot away, I’m on the planet of Noveria and have essentially been stuck at the pivotal part of the game for the past couple of [...]
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Jul 05 2007
Microsoft Extends XBOX 360 Warranty
Microsoft has announced that they’re going to extend the warranty of all XBOX 360’s to three years from the date of purchase. This includes issues of the 3-rings and any other faults. They will handle the repair free of charge, including the shipping.
I wonder how the people who’ve already paid for the shipping and repair [...]
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May 15 2007
Classic Gaming Goodness
I have fond memories of playing the original Prince of Persia on my PC in the early 90’s and enjoyed it immensely. The games involved some hair-raising moments and a fun game play. The newer 3D iteration of the game, in my opinion, were no where near the hits that the original was. The graphics [...]
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May 09 2007
XBOX 360 Dashboard Update Available
The XBOX 360 dashboard update has been released on XBOX Live and there are already people griping about some of it’s features. The full feature list is listed in my previous post here.
Turns out that the IM feature that everyone was looking forward to is unavailable for any account that is deemed a Child account, [...]
May 04 2007
PC Gaming Dilemma
I got into PC gaming shortly after my introduction to computers in my early teens back in the early 90’s. During that time, MS-DOS was the OS of choice and all games required some level of tinkering before they would function. Anyone from that era should have fond memories of EMM386 and counter-parts used to [...]
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Apr 09 2007
XBOX 360 Spring Update
Microsoft has an announcement of the upcoming Spring update to the XBOX 360. Amongst the plethora of new features, some of the interesting ones are Windows Live Instant Messaging support. You’re probably thinking how you’re going to type out those IMs with the keypad or if you’ll have to create a new shorter-than-SMS style of [...]