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Are Consoles dragging down PC Gaming

Nov30
2010 Written by Tom Mac

While Console are considered the Gaming item of choice, it is agreed that PC’s are already a generation ahead of the consoles in terms of hard core numbers. If a desktop computer can run at a higher resolution, have more frames per second and look better, why it is that games are held back and also on the decline in the pc market? There is many reasons why this is the case and there is shouts of Piracy, sales, floor space and multi platform. If you look back over time, the tables have turned many times, first the PC was the gaming machine of choice and then there was a whole bunch of new consoles and finally the PC came back to fame – so what is holding the PC back?

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Streaming Sites suffer downtime

Nov29
2010 Written by Tom Mac

First the issue started with Justin.TV and then later on visiting the Ustream main page – I got the above error. This leads me to believe that they may be swapping things around on the back end, introducing new features maybe? This is probably the first time I have come across the sites displaying this type of info and having actual downtime. Did this stop anybody from broadcasting? Did you notice the numbers much lower than normal? Did you get some warning of this before it happened?

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Tunngle – Peer to Peer VPN

Nov28
2010 Written by Tom Mac

The best way to describe what Tunngle does is let you play games on-line with your mates but to the game it looks like the game is running from the LAN Interface. The other program that Springs to mind is Hamanchi - my memory of Hamanchi is you add people to a group, one create a server in the game and the rest join. Tunngle works by having rooms (organized by game name) and you join the room with people in, start the game and you will be presented with a list of servers people are running. I thought I would try this out and this is my very quick overview of how it works.

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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit

Nov26
2010 Written by Tom Mac

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Broken Toshiba 37″ LCD TV

Nov21
2010 Written by Tom Mac

About two years ago I went out and bought a Toshiba 37″ LCD TV and it cost back then in the region of £650. The reason why I bought 37″ by the way was I had to fit it into a gap and 42″ was just too big. The TV lasted for Two years and I had started to switch everything off at night to save electricity. One day while watching something – the picture went off, the sound was still in and you could still see it lit up. One I was happy that the TV was never going to come on again, we replaced the TV with a much better 42″ LG model – which only cost £450. I was about to scrap this TV as it just sat doing nothing in the garage but I gave it one last chance, how much to get it fixed.

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First Batch of PS3 games

Nov20
2010 Written by Tom Mac

I set off today to get my hands on some games for the Sony Playstation 3 and I had already in my head a collection of games that I would like to buy depending of course on the price. I visited various stores while I was out anyhow doing the weekend shop and this included Morrisons, Game, Curry’s and Gamestation along with a couple of trade in shops (They sell second hand equipment). While I would have loved to have bought many of the games I saw, I had to keep the price down and settle for a handful of games in the end.

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And the Winner is – Sony Playstation 3

Nov18
2010 Written by Tom Mac

The battle was long, the research laborious and the choice was fraught with danger but finally I took the plunge and bought myself a shiny new  Playstation 3 Slim 160GB. How did I come to this conclusion and did I make the right choice? I worked out after watching so many different video’s and reading countless reviews that the console were equal – while one lacked something the other had, it flipped back and forth and at the end of the day – both can play games equally as well.

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Have I choosen a console yet?

Nov15
2010 Written by Tom Mac

What seems like an age, I wrote about me wondering what system to get – Xbox360 or PS3 and am I sorry to tell you all that I have not bought either of them yet (arghhhh). What makes it even worse (in my eyes) was the varied systems to choose from, what bundle I want to get, do I need to Move or Kinect System and so forth and so on. I even sat through 12 long videos which compared these systems to death – the end result of this one was they come out equal – shoot.

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Steam versus Retail Store

Nov15
2010 Written by Tom Mac

Steam is the service created by Vale who in turn make games such as Half-Life and TeamFortress (plus many others of course). Recently over at Tom’s Hardware I read a story about Game Stores View Valve’s Steam as the Devil - The basics of the story is that a Major UK Game Retailer in the UK are upset enough by Steam to threaten that they will not carry any product that carry any Steam integration – I am having a guess here that the store in question is Game maybe? I might be wrong, but how about we look at buying a game via a store verus buying the same title over the Steam Service.

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Linux Mint 10 Released

Nov12
2010 Written by Tom Mac

Yes folks – Today the fine people over Linux Mint have released there next version entitled Linux Mint 10, which is based on Ubuntu 10.10 but with the added goodness that is Mint. You can find all the relevant Info www.linuxmint.com, which at the time of writing this post is slow due to the large number of people hitting the site.

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