On Wednesday, we hooked up with Ageia and BFG for a bite and a chat about the state of play with PhysX at the moment. We spoke with Michael Steele (VP of Marketing), Peter Evers (from Aegia’s US PR agency) and Paul Davies from BFG UK. We wanted to...
Friday June 30, 2006
Aegia and PhysX - the state of play
On Wednesday, we hooked up with Ageia and BFG for a bite and a chat about the state of play with PhysX at the moment. We spoke with Michael Steele (VP of Marketing), Peter Evers (from Aegia’s US PR agency) and Paul Davies from BFG UK. We wanted to...
Tuesday June 27, 2006
Depth Of Field in Call of Juarez
Check out the great Depth Of Field shader effects in Ascaron's upcoming Call of Juarez.
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Give Us Your Overclocking Horror Stories!
Share your pain, or even someone else's, over the perilous world of overclocking and get yourself in this wonderful magazine!
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Friday June 23, 2006
Win a Bag of Stuff!
It's Friday. It's a quarter to four, the sun is shining and we've just been given a bag full of crap from Codemasters, that makes WIN O'CLOCK! That's right, they offloaded it on us, now we're going to offload it on you, it's a whole bag of stuff from...
Dark Messiah Warrior Video
Ubisoft have released a new Dark Messiah video showing off some of the perks of following the way of the warrior. Watch the stream below or grab the large version here ...
Wednesday June 21, 2006
Outrun 2006 + Ferrari wheel = sideways
Is this the formula for fun? It could well be... ...
Friday June 16, 2006
How to install XGL for Ubuntu on PCs with ATI cards
As promised in the mag - unfortunately I'm off on two weeks of out-of-office frolicking after today, and I'm afraid that admidst all the careful buttresses I've had to erect to stop the mag falling apart in my absence, I've run out of time to pen a new guide.
So instead, here's a link that should get Linux's uber-fancy 3D effects running on your Radeon card. Largely the same principles as in the NVIDIA-specific tutorial we ran in PCF 189, but with a few key differences. Good luck!
Thursday June 15, 2006
The pain of windows auto update
I'm not ashamed to admit, i'll stand up and be counted. I am hopelessly addicted to Football Manager 2006. It's no secret. My laptop is almost solely used for that particular pleasure and as such I rarely close the game down, generally leaving it happily...
Bootleg Optimus Prime sez "Show your support"
There's always some idiot in the background...
Armed Assault TrackIR Video
We've put together a little video showing off some of the things you can do with Naturalpoint's TrackIR head tracking system. This first video was made with the Track IR 3 and shows the basic head movements. Hopefully tomorrow we'll post one showing off the...
Wednesday June 14, 2006
A day at the races
In keeping with the enormous preview of GTR2 that will appear in issue 190 (on sale 13th July) and, of course, my galloping addiction to all things petrol propelled, I decided to mosey on over to Silverstone this weekend for the 2006 British Grand Prix. On...
New issue on sale tomorrow!
We hope you'll join Bootleg Optimus Prime in celebrating this fact. 
PCF 190 cover shoot
There's a new issue of PCFormat due out tomorrow (subscribers should already have their copies), which we'll be posting more about in the morning. Looking even further ahead, though, we had our cover shoot for PCF 190 at the beginning of the week, and this month's star is the delightful Krystle (with a K and everything). She looks a bit like this (click for larger image).
Tuesday June 13, 2006
Competition: win random Apple software
We've tried to think of a use a leisure PC magazine might have for a piece of software designed for Macintosh network administrators, but we've resolutely failed. It was very kind of Apple to send Remote Desktop 3 to us, but, uh...
Anyway, here it is, as demonstrated by my lovely assistant Bootleg Optimus Prime:
So, we're gonna send it out to the person who, to our addled minds, presents the best case for having it. In the comments thread below, explain just what you would do with your copy of Remote Desktop 3 (serious or funny) , and a little bit later we'll pick a winner. Gentlefolk, start your engines...
Monday June 12, 2006
Duke finally due?
It seems a tad unlikely, all things considered, but there's an interesting theory over on Slashdot at the moment that Duke Nukem Forever might be released by the end of the year. The theory is based on a half million dollar bonus offered to 3DRealms by Take...
Friday June 09, 2006
Updated: PhysX - the response
We've yet to hear back from Ageia about the issue of running Cell Factor without a dedicated PhysX card - odd, as the company was very keen to talk to us pre-release, and we think the command line hacks actually demostrated which bits of the engine the PhysX...
Thursday June 08, 2006
It's your Duty to check this out!
We all like to think we're at the bleeding edge of PC games, and know all the big hitters on their way into town, but we've just found out that there's one game that slipped beneath our sophisticated radar. It only came to light through a chance email...
No accounting for taste...
Amusing news this morning, Flextech is launching a broadband TV service in association with Living TV and Bravo, and if ever there was proof that we get a rum deal when it comes to IPTV, this is it .
Knowing that citizens of the good old US of...
Wednesday June 07, 2006
More PR tat insanity
Other random junk currently populating the office...
The official Windows pig!
The official Google fanny pack/bum bag [delete as nationally appropriate]!
Fact for the day
In what's becoming an increasingly random day here at PCF towers, the following information has become public.
Your favourite Conroe manufacturer and ours, Intel, owns an enormous number of patents, copyrights and registered marks - like Pentium, Xeon et al. But did you know the chip giant has actually trademarked the non-gender specific term 'BunnyPeople', refering to the colloqial name for chip engineers dressed in their atmospherically protective, dust free suits.
With the relationship to rabbits this assumes, it makes the collective noun a 'colony'. So for your viewing pleasure here we have a colony of BunnyPeople(TM). 
Image copyrighted Intel, natch.
EDIT: Ninja-Edit by PCFShins.
Spot the difference? :D
