The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
A lot of people out there are unsure about which gaming system they should purchase. Let’s examine the practical pros and cons all four major gaming rigs so you can make an unbiased decision of which one to buy. Gaming PC Advantages:-Games will typically have superior graphics and sound to console counterparts and games can…
It turns out that casual gamers aren’t as easily accepting of abuse and have forced EA to backtrack on their increasingly intrusive DRM-schemes. For the Sims 3, EA plans to go back to disc based copy protection schemes involving serial numbers. Rod Humble noted that “the game will have disc-based copy protection — there is…
Imagine being able to play video games from any laptop, any TV, and desktop PC or Mac. Ok, you can already do that but imagine doing that without having to buy expensive gaming hardware. A new gaming service called OnLive was introduced today at GDC 09. The service is similar to Steam except the games…
I’ve normally countered complaints about Apple’s high prices by saying that the high quality and durability of their products is the reasoning for this. However, I must say that they’ve taken the price thing a bit too far this time. American telecom giant AT&T is going to start offering no-contract iPhones starting in April 2009….
There was a rumour going around that Apple’s new buds for the Shuffle G3 contained an authentication chip that would essentially limit the device to only Apple approved accessories. The rumour appeared on several credible tech sites such as CNET and EFF. I never took this rumour seriously until I was looking through iFixIt’s disassembly…
Another top ten list for today, this time we look back at gaming’s greatest failures. First of all, this list doesn’t deal with bad games but with everything else that makes gaming possible, or impossible. What is a failure in gaming? Well, it’s something so bad that nobody ever wants to make that mistake again….
Thin and light seems to be in, with the netbook craze and the Macbook Air. Dell released it’s Adamo today, and all the tech pundits are putting it forth as an Air killer. Well, maybe if the Air were castrated and got fat eating a bucket of ice cream after loosing it’s manhood. Dell doesn’t…
The environment is big these days so we all know how important is to recycle. Sega is doing just that with yet another compilation package of Genesis titles. I really don’t have a lot to say about this game collection other than it’s pretty much identical to the Sega Genesis Collection that was released on…
There has been some recent controversy over Capcom preparing costly DLC for Resident Evil V, which will be available on release. Many gamers feel it is unfair to have new content so soon after release, that could have been on the game disc, for extra money. When it comes to gaming, my background is as…
Ok, every gaming website has their top ten list of the best games they’ve ever played. Then in 2006, things changed when James “Angry Video Game Nerd” Rolfe became an Internet phenomenon. His character reviews some of the worst games of all time. So, in tribute to the AVGN, I thought I’d compile my own…