So, you've just spent all your hard-earned cash on the black hole that is Christmas. Presents, fancy chocolates, festive booze and tacky decorations all cost big money, so that expensive PC upgrade is looking further away than ever. We share your pain, so...
Friday December 21, 2007
Competition - Win Alienware's Desktop Powerhouse
So, you've just spent all your hard-earned cash on the black hole that is Christmas. Presents, fancy chocolates, festive booze and tacky decorations all cost big money, so that expensive PC upgrade is looking further away than ever. We share your pain, so...
Competition - Win yourself an 8800GTX
We can spend all day trying to convince you that you don't really need to upgrade to DirectX 10 just yet, but the truth is you'd be mad to miss this opportunity to win an 8800 GTX, complete with 768mb of RAM - mainly because it'll power DX9 like a god. And...
Thursday December 13, 2007
Fastest XP ever?
Friends, Bloggers and countrymen, lend us your noggins. With reports that the latest service pack for Windows XP -the long-awaited SP3- is making XP perform around 10% faster than previously, coupled with the news that Vista's SP1 offers no noticeable...
Monday December 10, 2007
Quake Wars: Enemy Territory or Enema Territory?
Happy December bloggeroonies! It's your chance to step into the future and get into next year's magazine simply by scrawling down a few lines of (hopefully) printable ramblings. This month we want your views on Quake Wars: Enemy Territory, a multiplayer...
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...
