>An interesting article – blue eyes are related to Melanoma. EA announced “Battlefield Heros”, due out this summer. It’s from the Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 team and it’s FREE. However before you go screaming in delight like a little girl… it’s cartoon (cell shaded?) and there will most likely be a ton of kids playing. They’ll probably use it as a springboard for all their other games and/or something 12 year olds like.
>SLi x 3
>I think I’m done with computer gaming. I just don’t have the money to do it well. I invested for the monitor – and it’s served me well, but I just can’t believe what NVidia just announced – SLi x 3. I have 3 major problems with this: 1.) Cost – If you want 3 8800 GTX Ultra cards you are spending 3 x $700, that’s $3000 just on video cards. I’ve never been one for building a $5000 PC, and this is hands down the way to do it. 2.) Space – Who has room for 3 oversized, extra…
>Bogus!
>Check out these results of the Crysis DEMO.Crysis x32 vs x64 DX9Crysis x32 vs x64 DX10 Granted, it’s the DEMO but if you’re going to include separate bin32 and bin64 directories then why isn’t it native? I think Crysis intended to do it right and then EA swoopt down with their bagful of money… and pooped out the game.
>New Games
>So I had heard about “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.” a while back and was quite excited by it. I looked it up and wow… it was already out, and had been out since March! That meant it was only $30 now, so I went to go pick it up. It ran like crap, and ran even worse at lower resolutions which shouldn’t happen. Every other time I’d run it I’d get really good frame rates in the rendered intro scene and then it would get better rates in the game but still nothing too good.I was rather disappointed by the whole thing… I…
>All I Want for XMAS
>I know this is impossible, but I wish I could get this for XMAS. The reviews show better performance out of 1 of these 8800 GTS cards then 2 7950GTs in SLI. Plus… this one comes with a free copy of Crysis… and Crysis runs natively under XP64.
>BioShock – EtchASketch Style Sooooo much to blog: weddings So first there was my own wedding… then then Justin’s… and now Jon’s on Saturday. baby Not mine, Matt and Jenn had a baby – Charlotte is the baby’s name and she’s my new niece!Of course everyone wants to talk about the young recently married couple’s plans for children… undoubtedly comes up in any conversation within a given square footage of any given newborn, but for the moment (most of) the spotlight has shifted…“Before we’re 30” is the basic mantra, but who knows. I was amazed at how small the baby…
>Bioshock DX9 vs DX10
>This whole review is good, but this part about Bioshock DX9 vs DX10 screenshots is pretty apparent that it’s not worth another $800.
>Stardust Review
>I saw Stardust yesterday, had to get out of the house for a few hours while there was babyshowering going on for Nicole’s sister’s baby’s stomach birth.So yes – I went by myself, to the movies. It wasn’t anything like I thought it would be from the previews. There was adventure, there was magic, but no where near what they made it out to be. An epic battle between worlds, magic flooshing here and there – no, it was much more realistic, and I think it was better that way. Just outside of England exists a magic world, there is…
>BioShock
>I played BIOSHOCK last night – loved it, in fact, here’s another bioshock screenshot I got “on the way down”. I purchased it on the way home today. It is a very very nice looking game. I enjoy the concept, and I LOVE the art deco. The artists who created this masterpiece should be congratulated and hugged. I’ll be posting more of the interesting screenshots as I go. I’ll be replaying the demo levels so I’ll know when to snap. Hopefully XFire grabs them this time – last night it didn’t want to work so I had to use print…
>BioShock DEMO
>I downloaded the BioShock DEMO while I was at work today, just installed it and haven’t even gotten around to a main screen yet – literally just got in the building and I have to post this screenshot of the Bioshock demo. I’ve got everything turned up, only DX9, and only 1280 x 800 resolution. I’ll post a few later at full. The frame rate might give you an indication as to why I didn’t start there right off. It’s on VSYNC though for the LCD so it could be higher =)
>3D Glasses for LCD
>Apparently 3D gaming glasses went byebye with the CRT. I found out after cruizing a bit, my interest sparked by a detail line in the nVidia drivers readme. I had a pair of glasses built into my old GeForce3. It was pretty cool, it could turn any 3D game into 3D. Of course it worked better with some games then others. Sometimes you could tell that they only made a sprite where a 3D shape should be, and that just sent things all askew. I’m sure the technology is about where it used to be, but with my 30″ monitor…
>Best TV for Gaming
>I saw this article about the best HDTVs for gaming on MSN. It caught my eye and it started out with just what I wanted to know: response time and refresh rate averages.Apparently Plasma is 4ms, LCD is 8ms, and refresh rate with the new LCDs is effectively 120hz (120 updates per seccond). It doesn’t really go into what else you may need, but review the models they chose on the seccond page, and compare those stats and you may just learn what makes them better then the others for HD gaming.
>Tomb Raider: Legends for PC
>Jay’s Birthday party / Cinco De Mayo was fun.I can’t download Rockstar Table Tennis, but I can download Tomb Raider: Legend for PC. I did just that, and it plays (with my XBOX 360 Controller) just like XBOX 360.Take a look, I may take another pic at a full 2560 x 1600, but this one is 1600 x 1024.
>Old Video Games
>I’m collecting old PC games. I’ve been collecting them for some time, but each time I do a major hardware upgrade, or come upon games I forgot about – I like to pop them in and see what used to pass for “good”. Over the past couple weeks I’ve tried the following:Metal Gear Solid 2Wing Commander ProphecyStart Trek: Next Generation – New WorldsSacrificeMech Commander 4 – Black KnightsTrue Crime I’m still installing True Crime. 4 CDs of waiting. Console games play right off the disk, but since all consoles have predicible read speed – they can do that.Metal Gear Solid…