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Matrix Sunglasses

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Unarguably, The Matrix is THE reality warp movie of all time. It took the cyberpunk genre up by several levels by introducing nonstop action, conspiracy theories, and a robot apocalypse that had already transpired when the film begins. Hell, the film even makes multiple references to Lewis Caroll’s masterpiece, further heightening the palpable sense of [...]

Things to Keep in Mind when Buying Homes in Canada

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

With the country having grown into one of the world’s wealthiest in terms of per-capita income, Canada homes are becoming more desirable for prospective real estate buyers. Canada is one of the top 10 trading nations and has a mixed market, ranking just lower than the United States but ranking higher than European nations.
So what [...]

Intel Core i7 — a CPU That can Overclock Itself

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

What is the world coming to these days?
There is a video card that has two GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) in the form of the Radeon HD 4870 X2. For those who can’t understand geek speak, here’s how to set it in the proper perspective: it’s like two video cards in one. Yep, it’s a monster. [...]

PC Games’ Graphics Settings - Toning them Down Before the Dogs of War get Unleashed

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Pushing the Envelope
Games nowadays are mostly all about eye candy — they are about blinding the consumers with bleeding edge graphics that most of the time their background stories have been all but left out.

My article for today however, is not about the debatable intricacies of eye-candy vs. plots but by how [...]

Doom 4 is Coming

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

The last three years or so saw me visiting my friends’ now-defunct Internet café, where I played Doom 3 and completed its single player campaign no less than three times — the first in beginner mode, the 2nd in Veteran and the third (also in Veteran) when they upgraded their computers. (I just had to [...]

For Gamers: Getting the Most Out of Your PC

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

 
 
 
 
“35-46 frames per second at this level of eye-candy. Not bad for a 4-year old piece of junk. It still astounds me why some PC owners don’t tweak their systems even if you show them how.“
So read my YM message yesterday.
Do you know that you may not be getting the most out of that rig [...]

DotA vs Warcraft III

Monday, February 11th, 2008

That’s right, they are not the same. I just had to voice this out: DotA is not Warcraft III. It’s now starting to vex me every time conversations invariably follow this routine:
“Warcraft ta bai!” (Let’s play Warcraft man/dude!)
“Unsa na hero imo gamiton? Puck?” (What hero are you going to use? Puck?)
It’s at this point that [...]