Archive for the 'Games' Category

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. [...]

Nintendo Themed Urban Clothing Line

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

This is good news to all male gadget geeks; Torrell LLC has just released a licensed Nintendo Urban Clothing Line that is available for sale. So to those nostalgic persons, who are still in touch with their NES youthhood, this Nintendo themed urban clothing is definitely made just for you. The said clothing line will [...]

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 [...]

The 10 Greatest Family Computer Games of All Time

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

 

The title might mislead you, dear readers, so let me inform you that I have based my results on my own experience, mixed with bias and extreme prejudice. I was a hard-core, family computer gamer. I started playing the thing when I was around 6 and was hooked until I was introduced to the Sega [...]

Badminton: No Sport for Pussies

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A lot of people, who have accustomed themselves into seeing boxing and basketball as the manliest sport for men, have deemed badminton as a game for men with no cojones. Okay, so badminton players wear short shorts and physical contact is highly unlikely. But that does not mean that they (ehem, we) do not put [...]

Celebrity Gamblers

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Everyone loves to see a prominent person having a bet - and winning. Think of it, every people waiting to see them losing and what their reactions will be when they win.
More famous and celebrities nowadays share there passion for gambling, they could make more money in a day than most of us make in [...]

Classic Games : Ancient or not?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Classic games… ahh… nostalgia. I still remember the times when I was in the 6th grade when I first received my first PC and its cache of games. In those bygone years when a PC that had a Pentium 3, 128 MB of mem, and an 8-megabyte vid card was considered high-end, I was addicted [...]

Cell Phone Replicas

Monday, February 11th, 2008

2007 is the year when cell phone replicas were exposed in the Philippine market, Nokia is perhaps the most replicable mobile phone there is, much discussed of which is the Nokia N95, where the replica name is spelled ‘Nokla n95.’ Since the original phone is quite expensive, costing you a hefty Php20,000 - 30,000, [...]