Archive for February, 2007

Preview: Lord of the Rings Online

I have had the pleasure of joining thousands of other players in the land of Middle Earth for the LOTRO stress-test event this past weekend. LOTRO has been in the beta stage for a month or so and I completely forgot to apply for it so I had to wait for an open event to [...]

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Demo Available

It seems like lately there has been a flurry of releases with demos and open betas. The enormous Command and Conquer franchise will be getting another addition with Tiberium Wars which looks to be a great counter-point to Supreme Commander. Funny how all the old games are coming back, Command and Conquer, Total Annihilation, maybe [...]

Memory Timing and Frequency Comparison

Rarely does the RAM in a computer receive all that much attention, normally the processors and video cards get all the hype with their 3D and numbercrunching benchmarks. Traditional desktop processors normally have a small amount of highspeed onboard memory or cache but this cache isn’t nearly enough memory to store all the variables necessary [...]

I’ve been sick :(

Sorry guys but I have some sort of wicked combination of about 50 different respritory and ENT problems right now. About a week ago I started feeling stuffy and now it is fullblown swollen throat, stuffy nose, light headache, and screwed up hearing so I’ve really slacked off writing here. Two all-night coding sessions this [...]

Preview: Supreme Commander

Earlier I stated that Supreme Commander would be the end of the rest of my life and that pretty much sums up how addicting I have found this game to be. Between the eery similarities with Total Annihilation and the fantastic gameplay with shocking graphics, Supreme Commander has managed to deliver on all accounts with [...]

Maintenance

Over the next 6 hours I will be working through all my previous articles and updating the image links and other smaller bits of code to try and streamline my writing process. In the past I had a rather jumbled image organization but now I’m trying to file everything away in a more easily browsed [...]