Posts tagged with "games"

June 07's gaming update 1

Tudball is no longer Minesweeper champion of the universe and Paul has released a new testing version of his first person shooter: Shooter.

Posted by Oli 14 months ago in games & personal. Continue reading »

Running XP's Solitaire in Vista 22

Considering the lower performance of Vista's games for power-players, I'm taking a look at how to grab older versions from an existing XP installation and get them working on Vista.

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in microsoft, vista, xp, games & technology. Continue reading »

Old games you really should play 10

Mark from Nutter's Mark has just posted up his "Top 5 PC-Games You Probably Didn't Play". I've got a few more that I think deserve your attention.

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in games & technology. Continue reading »

Reason 172: Solitaire 9

Everybody and their brother seems to want to give you a reason not to upgrade to Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista Apple have cited their own inability to keep the iTunes software working for Vista (no doubt, to keep keen early-adopters from the platform) and

Posted by Oli 19 months ago in vista, microsoft, games & windows. Continue reading »

Sol in 47 seconds 0

I've been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica recently. I've always avoided it until now and I'm glad I did. Not because it's rubbish, by any accounts, but because leaving it until now has let me pummel through so much so fast. Good series have good cliffhangers and I'm not a patient man.

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in games & funny. Continue reading »

Your Mum Collapses! Yes She Does 1

They said it was only a matter of time and they were right... Coming on three years after it was finished, the Floor-5 powered remix of a classic game has been released in a format that some people might actually be able to play. [image] It has taken

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in games, java & news. Continue reading »

The Net Makes For Lazy Game Dev 1

This stems from a rant I had the other day about a brand new PC game, Neverwinter Nights 2, needing (well wanting, at any rate) an 82.7megabyte patch within 24 hours of release. In the last 10 years there have been two increasing trends that pose

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in games, programming, internet & other. Continue reading »

82 meg updates for brand new games 6

[image] I have no problem with patching in general. It's a very good thing for companies to improve their products for the people that have already bought them. My "beef" starts when you buy a game the day it's released and you run the updater to find a whopping great big 82meg patchfile

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in nwn2, patches, games & <rant>. Continue reading »

10 Worst Gaming Controllers 1

There's a great IGN article on their top 10 worst game controllers. Its all very good but I think they missed one out that you just cant omit from a chart like this. [image] Possibly the most uncomfortable

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in games, consoles & funny. Continue reading »

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