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  1. Rob Williams

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to Offer Dedicated Servers for the PC

    Well, here's something I never expected to see. Either Activision (and/or Infinity Ward) has lightened up a bit, or it's begun to consider Battlefield 3 a serious threat to its bottom-line, because the company has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will support dedicated servers on...
  2. Rob Williams

    World of Warcraft's Subscription Numbers Continue to Decline

    Since its release in late 2004, World of Warcraft has become the envy of all other MMO-makers out there. Thanks to Blizzard's creating of a game that was both welcoming to light and heavy game players alike, not to mention one that's quite captivating, subscription numbers skyrocketed like no...
  3. Rob Williams

    Apple Begins Selling Mac OS X 'Lion' USB Thumb Drive

    This argument never gets old. OS X fans love to call their OS inexpensive, while at the same time they pay twice as much money as PC users to get decent hardware. Unless you go Mac Pro and want to spend $4,000 on it, at least, no performance hardware Apple puts in its computers would ever make...
  4. Rob Williams

    The Witcher 2 for $29.99

    During the Gamescom event (ending Sunday), GOG.com is offering The Witcher 2 for $29.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_witcher_2?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=game_subject&utm_campaign=tw2_gamescom_promo Jamie reviewed the game in May and highly recommended it...
  5. Rob Williams

    Intel's MLAA Techniques Use the CPU, not GPU

    Graphics buzzwords - love 'em or hate 'em, we're sure treated to a lot of them. One of the more recent, and most prevalent, is 'Morphological Anti-Aliasing'. This is a unique technique that aims to provide quality AA effects in games where AA is either not possible in the engine, or just wasn't...
  6. Rob Williams

    First Impressions: From Dust

    I've never been a big fan of god games, and with the last one I played being Black & White, it's been a good ten years since I last touched one. But when a friend linked me to a From Dust gameplay video a couple of weeks ago, the game grabbed my attention, and I had a good feeling that my god...
  7. Rob Williams

    AMD Releases Catalyst 11.8; Introduces CPU Overclocking

    AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver, 11.8, and with it come the usual slew of bug fixes and game performance improvements, in addition to a new feature that Black Edition processor users will enjoy - CPU overclocking. That's right, in the major first step of...
  8. Rob Williams

    SteelSeries' Sensei Gaming Mouse Packs a Real Punch

    How was it referenced? Like, how many mickeys would a mouse like this be? :D Oh, an actual review will come! Since I am in such dire need of a new mouse, I am going to take this one on and see if I can overclock the ARM CPU. Alright not really. I've just heard such great things about the...
  9. Rob Williams

    Crysis 2 DX11: Where Tessellation Becomes Overkill

    Fair points, marfig. I guess I forgot about a lot of the goings-on when Crysis was released, but thinking back, there was quite a bit of flak sent Crytek's way. I do feel the flak from this debacle is even worse though. A lot of people I knew who liked the original didn't pick up this one, once...
  10. Rob Williams

    First Borderlands 2 Trailer Released; Introduces Gunzerker Class

    I'll just leave these here.
  11. Rob Williams

    Who's played Dead Space 2?

    Bah, I've been meaning to give this one a go. Friend of mine is a huge fan of both games, though I couldn't quite get hooked to the original. You BEAT it since that promotion was announced? You must've been quite dedicated, or it's just a short game!
  12. Rob Williams

    Cooler Master Launches GeminII S524 CPU Cooler

    This looks like the perfect sort of cooler I'd like to get for an HTPC I am thinking of building, using the SilverStone GD06 chassis. Could remove the ODD from it and use this cooler with a 140mm quiet fan... would offer some good performance no doubt.
  13. Rob Williams

    From Dust

    I just got it installed and am hoping to take it for a spin tonight, at least for an hour. Can't wait :D
  14. Rob Williams

    Sony Drops Price of PlayStation 3; Unveils WiFi-less PSP for EU

    At the conclusion of its Gamescom keynote, Sony surprised everyone by announcing worldwide price drops on all models of the PlayStation 3. The base model, including a 160GB hard drive, will retail for $249.99 in the US and Canada, €249.99 in Europe and ¥24,980 in Japan. Other models that either...
  15. Rob Williams

    PNY Releases Self-Contained Liquid Cooled XLR8 GeForce GTX 580s

    Care to own a GeForce GTX 580, but don't care for the added heat that such a beastly graphics card can add to a PC? For quite some time, EVGA has been no stranger to releasing its high-end GPUs with water-blocks built-in, and now it seems that PNY is getting in on the action as well. Its latest...
  16. Rob Williams

    Crysis 2 DX11: Where Tessellation Becomes Overkill

    The story of Crysis 2 is one of pain and anguish - as long as we're talking about its launch, and PC gamers. While many believed that the game should have become a true successor to the title that became its own meme ("Can it run Crysis"), what we saw instead was a game that was heavily...
  17. Rob Williams

    Cooler Master Launches GeminII S524 CPU Cooler

    The hottest days of the summer may be behind us, and Cooler Master wants to make sure that the temperature of your CPU follows. Not soon after the launch of the Hyper 612 S/PWM CPU cooler comes another release, the GeminII S524. Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here!
  18. Rob Williams

    Kingston Digital Announces Rock the Bells Festival Giveaway

    This is a bit different! Full press release: Fountain Valley, CA -- August 16, 2011 -- Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is sponsoring a ticket package and product...
  19. Rob Williams

    Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB Review

    Mobile warriors have their advantages, but storage isn't one of them. It's not uncommon to see desktop users with multiple TBs of hard drives, but notebook users tend to suffer with 500 or 750GB options. Western Digital, with its 9.5mm tall WD10JPVT, wants to change that - and trust us when we...
  20. Rob Williams

    SteelSeries' Sensei Gaming Mouse Packs a Real Punch

    Here's a couple of videos that SteelSeries launched with this mouse: <object width="560" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ALPox-q8Lw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"...
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