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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’
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 [...]
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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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Jul 09 2007
Sony PS3 Price Drop
Sony has cut the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100, or 17 percent, in the United States, a move that should boost the video game console’s lackluster sales. The PlayStation 3, which includes a 60-gigabyte hard drive and a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, will now cost $500, or $20 more than the most expensive [...]
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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 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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Mar 28 2007
XBOX 360 Elite
After quite a lot of speculation and rumor mongering, the XBOX 360 Elite has been announced by Microsoft. The basic summary of changes include a console in black, a HDMI port, 120 GB hard drive, but still no official word on the small 65nm processor which supposedly runs cooler. The only “upgrade” here that I [...]
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Dec 12 2006
It’s All Fun And Games
Until more than just your poor TV, window or other household items start getting hurt by people swinging those Wiimotes with too much gusto and involved in some destructive gaming. I saw a picture of a boy with the Wiimote shaped welt across his face when his cousin lost control of the remote. And now, [...]
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Nov 21 2006
Destructive Gaming
The Next-gen consoles are all trying to make their game controllers better than the previous generation. The XBOX 360 only added wireless capability, the Sony PS3 SIXAXIS controller added wireless capability with motion sensing, and the Nintendo Wii employs the most revolutionary controller. The Wii allows users to use its Wiimote to control the action [...]