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Wednesday May 31, 2006
Prizes for Posts Scandal!
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You can have these canvas-printed pieces of artwork, t-shirts and 3D glass objet d'art from The Chronicles of Spellborn right NOW! All I want you to do is post a comment below answering this tricksy riddle:
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AMD launches Live!
Despite the exclamation mark in the title, AMD's Live! isn't really much to get excited about. It's the chip company's less aggressive response to Intel's Viiv branding, and in the same way, I welcome the millions of marketing dollars that will be spent...
Friday May 26, 2006
Gorilla Film Making
It's been on the web since the 11th but I've only just found it. Check out the excellent machinima video for Jonathan Coulton's superb CodeMonkey track over on Trash Talk Sit through the interesting intro, but you MUST wait for the CodeMonkey music...
Unobtrusive Footie - while you work!
Yes, that time is almost upon us. That time when every advert, broadcastable or printed media has a football reference crudely tacked onto it. Brilliant! Thank the maker for the World Cup.
Unfortunately unless you have the most understanding, or football...
Satire is Dead. Gov' Game proves it.
I remember Rory Bremner saying sometime last year that satire was dead [ Wasn't that Tom Lehrer? - Ed ] . When politicians and society in general act so ludicrously how can comics possibly take the mick? They just become news reporters. Anyway, head on...
Thursday May 25, 2006
Football Crazy
The PCF office rang to the sound of thumping chip music this lunchtime as we decided to completely abuse the widescreen HD TV that is currently sitting on top of the PCF hack your home desk. Never has an LCD panel looked as awful as when we started up the...
Why you shouldn't play 'Taxi Driver' in front of mirrors
Why do you need a bullet-proof vest to play WoW? You couldn't make this story up - man sitting playing Warcraft in comfort of own home, man almost killed by gun-nut neighbour playing in front of his bathroom mirror. Click here for the full story.
Regular readers - opinions sought
I have a dilemma that I am hoping regular readers of the mag can help out with, which I've posited over on the forum. Want to have your say about our cover DVD? Click here .
He doesn't just do games
Regular PCF word-whore and the world's foremost Deus Ex 2 apologist, Kieron Gillen , has written a comic. A proper, paper'n'ink'n'everything comicbook, to be released by major US publisher Image this August. As the cover above should imply to those with...
Apple iPod lawsuit an accident?
The guy that the world thinks is behind the iPod Nano class action lawsuit - which claimed Apple's lollipop-sized MP3 player was unreasonably prone to damage - wants out. In an open letter he explains that the suit wasn't his idea, and how he ended up...
Microsoft vs JPEG
As part of its tireless quest to prefix everything with 'Windows Media', Microsoft has just announced a proprietary photo format. You guessed it - it's Windows Media Photo. Next month, Windows Media Games, Windows Media Hats, and Windows Media Media. WMP is...
New ATI drivers out
Word from ATI is that the latest Catalyst drivers - 6.5 - are now available from the company's download site. The usual improvements include better performance in Splinter Cell, UT2004 and some hi-def video decoding, but the more interesting points for...
Wednesday May 24, 2006
Unusual iPod content
We're fairly sick of new Pod-related jargon here on PCF, so I almost binned the press release from public school 'packer's favourite publisher Rough Guides before it had even finished downloading to my in box. PodScrolls. That's what all the long haired...
Flash wheels
Seeing as how I'm still waiting for my Sensible Soccer Plug 'n' Play to arrive (that T shirt is so me), I found an idle five minutes over lunch to tinker with this little flash game. Being someone who systematically fails to...
Oblivion Domino Day (No Pizza)
Domino Rally Action Alley! Clever Oblivion fan Secumfex has created this physicalized (it's a word...) masterpiece. He's my hero. Why hasn't anyone done this in Gmod yet?
Tuesday May 23, 2006
AM2 - the technical truth
Here's a full breakdown of AMD's AM2 chipset technology - announced today. This article fell out of issue 188 (on sale now) due to lack of space, so is provided here in its entirety.
Full benchmarks of the FX62 AM2 chip and Intel's first Conroe CPUs will...
Friday May 19, 2006
Minimum specs to run Vista revealed
To run Windows Vista you need... (Drumroll) A PC apparently. Because any machine that falls below the minimum spec of 800Mhz CPU/512MB RAM really should be retired to the duties of Linux-based media server by now anyway. Still, 15GB free space is quite a...
Da Vinci Code teaser review
Not the film, obviously... The Da Vinci Code we're talking about is a third-person puzzler cum art-appreciate-em-up (yet another entry in PCF’s big red book of genre classification), and puts you in the middle of a desperate race across the globe to discover…...
PC Games Rule E3
For those of you worried about how next gen consoles are going to kill the PC gaming market, and there seems to be a few of you out there, I refer you to 1Up's multiformat Best of E3 round up.
Of the twelve categories for games they had set up, five of...
Thursday May 18, 2006
Ve have vays of making you vatch ads
A worrying -and hopefully unlikely to pass- patent has been filed by the electronics bods, Philips. They are planning to take away the opportunity for us to change TV channels mid-advert break.
With concern growing that not enough people are...
