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PC gaming, hardware reviews and opinions

Dead Island video short analysis

  I remember seeing this in some gaming magazine ages ago, and then hearing it being axed at some point in 2010. It is now back and being developed by Techland, and is looking very good. It definitely looks like a decent zombie-horror-survival game, with some scenes in the video looking very atmospheric. The whole [...]

Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Impression

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is getting an insane amount of praise from reviewers and ordinary folk. I have been playing the game now for a solid week, and it is easily the best rpg this decade. You can find out everywhere else how great the game is, but I want to touch on [...]

Black Prophecy Review/ first impression

  I have been playing BP (Black Prophecy) for the last week and a half. It is a free to play space MMO. If you ever played Freelancer, X3, or X-Wing, you have a game like BP. You use your mouse to look and direct your ship, left mouse button to fire, and w,s,a,d to [...]

Live Streaming for May

From now till the the middle of May, I will be streaming Black Prophecy. It is a free to play sci-fi MMO. You use the mouse and keyboard to directly control your ship, fly around and blow stuff up. It has only been released in the past few weeks, so its lacking in content, but [...]

Section 8: Prejudice Review for PC

While browsing the Steam store for an impulse buy, I came across Section 8: Prejudice. I never played the first one, and normally these kind of games do not interest me at all. After checking the game out on a few forums, it seems for 13 euro, its a pretty good game (or at least [...]

Might and Magic Heroes 6 trailer

Amazing trailer for Might and Magic Heroes 6 (or is it, Heroes of might and magic 6?). Really cant wait for this one! (I know its old, but its the first time Ive seen it.)

What’s new for May? New CPU, new games.

I stopped playing Shogun 2 after reading the eta for the patch being the beginning of May. I bought Arma II: Operation Arrowhead for the singleplayer campaign, and got sucked into the multiplayer (of which I highly recommend if you want a real military simulator experience). I also stopped streaming. My i3 530 @ 4.0GHz [...]

Shogun 2: TW Tokugawa legendary campaign

  After completing my Oda campaign on Hard, I wanted a new campaign somewhere else on the map, or at least try and play the game differently from my Oda campaign. Leading the Oda was alot of fun, with massive Ashigaru armies always expanding my clan’s territory out of necessity rather then aggressive expansion. It [...]

The end of Shogun 2 vanilla? Darthmod 1.0

Darth Vader (the great tw modder at twcenter.net) has released his first mod for Shogun 2: Total war. Many people would be familiar with Darth Vader’s mods, especially for Empire: Total war, where his extensive mod  was fully supported and upgraded as time went on, radically changed the game from vanilla into a completely different [...]

DX9 and DX11 cpu usage on shogun 2

  Before CA release their patch DX11 patch sometime in the next few weeks, I thought it would be interesting to see how switching from DX 9 to DX 11 would effect CPU usage. DX11 should let the GPU handle some of the tasks designed for the CPU depending how each are under load. Without [...]

Total War: Shogun 2 live stream this week

  On Wednesday 16th of March I will be streaming Total War: Shogun 2 from 11am to 8pm. It will be a good opportunity to see the game properly before you buy. I have played the game about an hour and so far its pretty amazing. Hopefully by the end of the stream we will [...]