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  1. Rob Williams

    Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI Cables Could Be Recalled

    If you've been meaning to pick up a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable, you may want to accelerate things and pick one up as soon as possible. The folks behind HDMI's licensing have deemed that such cables cannot be licensed, and thus shouldn't (read: can't) be sold. As a result, it's expected that...
  2. Rob Williams

    TG Asks: What Are Some of the Best Music Games for the PC?

    Thanks to some console best-sellers such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band, the music genre has literally exploded with new games over the last couple of years. While many of the games that require a special peripheral exist on a console, there are still a ton of great music games available for the...
  3. Rob Williams

    Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 FleX Edition Review

    It's not often that we see a new graphics card get released that's no different than its predecessor, but with the Radeon HD 6770, that's just the case. We're already familiar with HD 5770 performance, but let's take a look at how this $140 card compares to its similarly-priced competition...
  4. Rob Williams

    Dirt 3 First Impressions

    Are you SURE that you're not just overlooking something? Games for Windows Live, in my honest experience, has been nothing but super-stable and ultra-reliable. ;) Of course, I kid. Because of GFWLose, I need to spend 15 minutes getting Dirt 2 to work on the GPU benchmarking rig each time...
  5. Rob Williams

    1,200W

    The other night, Kayden mentioned that someone asked him if a GTX 590 could be paired up with a GTX 580 (for tri-GPU), and after a bit of laughter, an idea came to mind. While such a configuration isn't possible with NVIDIA, it is possible with AMD. So, I decided to see how many fuses I could...
  6. Rob Williams

    The good ole days?

    Agreed! I loaded it up the other night and so far I am liking it quite a bit, though I am just two and a half hours in, so I have a ways to go. Hoping to get back into it soon. Here's a quick shot of the game running at 1920x1200: (Some elements are brighter than need be... the captured...
  7. Rob Williams

    EVGA X58 SLI

    I've used about forty motherboards since that review, so I can barely remember what it even looks like. I stand by my comments at the time nonetheless. I am not huge on overclocking and it's pretty much the reason I don't focus on it much in any of our more recent content.
  8. Rob Williams

    Macgo Brings Blu-ray Playback to OS X

    Apple users who've wanted to watch Blu-ray movies natively in their OS of choice have been left in the dark thanks to either licensing issues or Apple's preference to focus on its own streaming content, but any way you spin it, the deliberate lack of Blu-ray functionality sucks. Fortunately...
  9. Rob Williams

    The good ole days?

    When I saw Deus Ex 1 and 2 on sale for $5 together at Steam earlier this week, I had to jump all over it. When the original first came out, I tried the demo and couldn't quite get into it, but with the 3rd game coming up, I felt compelled to want to go back and revisit it. Plus, TG's Senior...
  10. Rob Williams

    Alice: Madness Returns Review

    I've been meaning to load up my copy of the game for a while, so I think I am going to have to soon. The thought of using the keyboard and mouse with the setup it gives you sounds like hell, so I am just going to start from the get-go with the Xbox gamepad. Given your opinion on the repetition...
  11. Rob Williams

    Making a Living Developing Xbox Live Indie Games? Don't Count On It

    Given that the top content on the App Store is consistently games, many from indie developers just starting out, I'd have to say that's likely to be the case. And look where it has gotten Apple... the App Store turned out to become a major success. And again, it's also proven to be a major...
  12. Rob Williams

    UK Store Wants to See an End to the 'Cable Con'

    No kidding. It's so offensive to the senses to look at a display of HDMI cables and see it say that "Cables make a difference!"... it's just an out-right lie.
  13. Rob Williams

    EA's Origin - Right move or epic fail for gamers?

    From a business perspective, EA's position on this makes total sense. On a consumer-level, though, it's not fair at all. Valve has worked hard to establish itself as the premier game distribution service, and as a result, millions of gamers call Steam home. So when a company like EA denies their...
  14. Rob Williams

    Capcom Disallows Deleting Save Progress with Latest NDS Title

    That's the funny thing. Usually these rash decisions are a result of some method to curb piracy, but this move has nothing at all to do with that. It all boils down to screwing over the customer in order to (hopefully) earn more revenue. It's pathetic. Ahh yes, Bobby Kotick. Given people keep...
  15. Rob Williams

    Steam kicks off summer camp sales!

    Wow. Next time it goes on sale, get it ;-) I've purchased Deus Ex 1 and 2 so far. Hoping to see some more games hit the deals list that I've been contemplating for a while. Purchasing Deus Ex reminded me that some other classis games of that era have yet to hit Steam, though. Where's Omikron?!
  16. Rob Williams

    AMD's First Llano Desktop Processors Hit E-tail

    I really wish I could say that would be coming soon, but I've discovered a couple of issues (personal errors) that's forcing me to re-benchmark everything. There's also something else I found out that will require me to do my gaming tests a little bit different as well. *sigh* why is it that...
  17. Rob Williams

    Thermaltake Level 10 GT Full-Tower Chassis Review

    When Thermaltake released its Level 10 chassis, it was unique in both its design and price-point - the latter of which kept it out of the hands of the regular enthusiast. Enter the Level 10 GT, a ~$270 variant that retains much of the aesthetic appeal of the original, but is easier to build with...
  18. Rob Williams

    MSI Radeon HD 6950 Twin Frozr III Review

    Thanks a ton for letting us know that... do you happen to have a URL to back it up? It'd make sense, but NVIDIA has never mentioned this to us, and of course AMD didn't either. Fortunately, we're planning to introduce an overhaul on our game suite soon, so I am hoping we will not be publishing...
  19. Rob Williams

    Sentey Arvina Full-Tower Chassis Review

    Sentey is a name you may not heard of before, but the company has been around for quite a while. It's recently been focusing on its chassis line-up, and with its full-tower Arvina, it hopes to deliver gamers and enthusiasts a feature-packed offering for around $150. Let's take a look and see if...
  20. Rob Williams

    Steam kicks off summer camp sales!

    If you were hoping to not spend much money on games this summer, don't look here: http://store.steampowered.com/ New deals each day.
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