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Crossfire, Eyefinity and You.

William Wallace — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:42:00 +0000

Recently, I upgraded my computers video card from a GTX275 to dual 5870’s to, hopefully, increase the framerate and overall enjoyment of having 3 monitors.

Prior, I was using SoftTH for 3×1 gaming. While the software was extremely flexible and, personally, a more preferred method of Mult-monitor gaming as it allowed far more customization. The [--Read Full Post--]

Holiday Buyers Guide.

William Wallace — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:55:00 +0000

That time is upon us again, when we start spending far more than we make, to make people like us…

I’m kidding.. but, we DO spend a lot of money this time of year for our loved ones. And since times are getting a little harder financially, I’ve decided to try and help out a little [--Read Full Post--]

Left4Dead2 Aussie Controversy

William Wallace — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:33:43 +0000

In case you missed it. Left 4 Dead 2 was released earlier this week. I won’t blame you if you did miss it since Modern Warfare 2 dominated everything in it’s wake. With this sequel came lots of new weapons, new lead characters, levels. And several new uncommon and special zombies. In addition to [--Read Full Post--]

Apple killing… Nintendo?

William Wallace — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:16 +0000

So ad this interesting post on ModMyi.com about how the reason that Nintendo’s sales have slumped is because of…. the iPhone/Touch?

Yeah, I… doubt that. Well, Maybe not that much, as I can see the iPhone digging into the DS sales. But not by much, and not for very long. The post goes on to show [--Read Full Post--]

N4L: DLConspiracy

William Wallace — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:59:00 +0000

With the rise of high-speed interconnection in today’s consoles. We’ve been given a theoretical unlimited amount of play to our favorite games. Not only can we get new cars in racers, but whole new adventures in other games. New weapons. Even overall enhancement in the form of better visuals, audio, and better controls. Along [--Read Full Post--]

Impressions of the PSPGo

William Wallace — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:52:20 +0000

Sony is getting ready to drop a new PSP on us in a couple days called the PSPGo. What is the big freaking deal you ask?

Well look at the thing!. it’s almost half the size of the original PSP!. This isn’t just a simple SKU refresh like all the other ones. (Let’s call those SKU [--Read Full Post--]

A Letter to NVIDIA:Why my Next video card will not be yours

William Wallace — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:40:52 +0000

1st off, I’ll give a dollar to anyone that can pin point what kind of freaking card that is!. I mean really..what sort of OCD, symmetrical nitpicker built that thing?

Ok, subject at hand.

The battle for the fastest card has been a heated affair ever since 3D acceleration took the mainstage of Computer display. 3Dfx (later [--Read Full Post--]

N4L: Ramifications of gaming in the future.

William Wallace — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:59:54 +0000

I may go a little crazy into the wild here. But stay with me.

Imagine for a second how far gaming has come in the last 30 years. from crude, simple lines on a screen that bounced a “ball” (Not even a ball, as it wasn’t possible to render anything more than a square.) back and [--Read Full Post--]

Batman: Arkham Asylum Impressions

William Wallace — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:39:56 +0000

Yeah, I dropped for the Collectors Edition. Got a problem with that?.

So, I went through a Marathon pace with little sleep and ended up beating Batman a Day after I got it in the mail from Amazon. And my 1st impressions is that.. if this thing had some kind of multiplayer to extend it’s [--Read Full Post--]

Activision rapes corpse of Kurt Cobain.

William Wallace — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:16:41 +0000

I refuse to post a pic of Kurt in the New Guitar Hero 5.. so here is an LOLcat rocking out.

Activision was able to purchase the likeness of Kurt Cobainfor use in Guitar Hero5, probably from a coke induced Courtney Love… who probably sold Kurt’s likeness for another bag of coke.

So, for everyone planning [--Read Full Post--]