To celebrate the release of Peep Show Series 4 on DVD, we have five copies to give away, worth £19.99 each. This series sees Mark, after accidentally proposing to Sophie, facing the horror of having to go through with it, while Jeremy does something...
Wednesday November 21, 2007
Competition - Win Peep Show Series 4 DVDs!
To celebrate the release of Peep Show Series 4 on DVD, we have five copies to give away, worth £19.99 each. This series sees Mark, after accidentally proposing to Sophie, facing the horror of having to go through with it, while Jeremy does something...
Monday November 19, 2007
Medal of Hono[u]r: Airbo[u]rne or Airbiscuit?
So, the latest installment of increasingly geriatric WWII shooter series Medal of Honor has air-dropped into the PCF office and submitted itself to our reasoned scrutiny. You know what we think, but what did you think a) about the game and b)about our review...
Friday November 16, 2007
Competition - BT Home IT Support
Are you always the one everyone calls with their IT problems? Are you sick of desperate calls from your family about how to use the new digital camera, of friends who are having problems with their laptop?
Well PCFormat has teamed up with BT...
Friday November 09, 2007
Vote for your favourite gear of 2007!
Wishlist 2007 is a brand new annual awards event from the team behind Windows Vista: The Official Magazine, and by taking part, you could win a fantastic prize. Prizes include digital photo frames, MP3 players and more.
As we look back on the...
Tuesday October 30, 2007
Portal Puzzles
A third 'creative solution' to Portal's notoriously perplexing vent puzzle. ...
Thursday October 25, 2007
Facebook - do you love it or hate it?
So, Facebook. It's been around for a while. Everybody's had a play with it and been spammed to death by Zombie, Movie Trivia and other pointless invitations. So the question is, do you love it or hate it? Me, I used it for a while. I liked the concept - an...
Tuesday October 23, 2007
World in Conflict, or world-wide con?
You know the drill you lucky, lucky people; it's time to get your rant on! This month we want you to tell us what you thought of World in Conflict and our super-duper review of it. Obviously we're biased, but you're not.
Agree with us?...
Tuesday October 09, 2007
Turn your PC into a digibox with Compro's E700
Compro VideoMate E700 dual PCI-E DVB-T tuner ...
Friday September 28, 2007
All your cores are belong to us
Ah, noble bloggos, we wish to pick your
combined intellect and ask what you lot think of the current processor
shenanigans of the two big chip makers.
With AMD coming out and announcing that it is about to start
manufacturing triple core CPUs to...
Wednesday September 26, 2007
PCF 207: Gremlins
Sometimes the gremlins get in at night. Sometimes they do bad things. Sometimes they do quite nice things as well, but this wasn't the case when it came to a certain photograph in the latest copy of PC Format. Basically, to cut a ridiculous story short...
Monday September 17, 2007
Lost Planet or lost opportunity?
So it's time again for you luverly people out there at the end of the internet tubes to let us know what you thought of a particular review from a couple of issues ago. Now, there was hardly a shining beacon of gaming joy up for review in issue 204, but...
Tuesday September 04, 2007
Issue 205 on sale
It's rare that you’ll get the entire PCF office playing just one game as we’re all hooked into our own genres, but that’s exactly what’s happened this month thanks to World in Conflict. This wonderfully accessible RTS had us all clambering to send in our...
Thursday August 30, 2007
8800GTX obsolete already?
S o Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to announce the latest update to DirectX 10. All well and good, updates are a fine and laudable thing. Unfortunately this new one, DX10.1, is doing things that renders the current round of DX10 hardware...
Tuesday August 28, 2007
Colin McRae DiRT or utter filth?
So yes, the time has come once again to have your opinions about our reviews shouted out for the whole world to read. And get them in our venerable mag. This month we're taking a look at our review of the latest mud-sliding racer from Codemasters: Colin McRae...
Friday August 24, 2007
New S.T.A.L.K.E.R patch - it works and everything...
There's a new patch that's just been released for radioactive shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R, patching it up to version 1.0004 (why the need for all the zeros?). The update does wonders for performance, reputedly giving a 10-15% extra jump in framerates - a godsend for...
Wednesday August 22, 2007
How to make gold in WoW: Part 2
Daily quests aren't the only way of getting cash - until the introduction of dailies the main way of actually propping up your bank balance was performing an altogether different kind of grind – mote farming. It's the old classic of supply and demand, and the...
Monday August 20, 2007
How to make gold in WoW: Part 1
Like a lot of people in WoW, I want an epic flying mount. I've been trying to sort one out for a while now, but other things have managed to get in the way. It's not something I'd say is essential, but it's pretty much the only thing left that I can actually...
Thursday August 16, 2007
Bounty Bay Online: Open Beta
Fancy donning an eye patch, slapping a stuffed pigeon on your shoulder and hobbling round on the stump of an old broom? Well don't embarrass yourself, simply head to the virtual world of Bounty Bay Online , and be a 15th Century pirate in the privacy of your...
Monday August 13, 2007
Loki's Large Load
A single player demo of the Diablo-esque hack-em-up, Loki, has been released for those with a hankering for busty wenches, evil critters and screen-filling bosses. It is however a little on the large side. If you've got a capped quote on your interweb pipes,...
Thursday August 09, 2007
Virginal Vista
I've finally cracked, given into the pressure, and installed Vista onto my test rig. No, not as a dual-boot, as the sole OS. Actually, to be honest there's no pressure to install Vista from my learned colleagues - we're all of the opinion that Microsoft's...
