Game BlogYou know, the “other” stuff your PC can do… Back when I started my career with ATI, I was working in marketing for a product called the ATI All-in-WonderTM HD Card (AIW) –basically a high performance graphics card for gaming coupled with a TV tuner to allow you watch, record, and edit HD content. It [...]
It has to be about the “Future”… “Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out that he’d melt my brain”. – George McFly Well, its day 2 at Quakecon 2009 and my brain hasn’t melted, but I have seen a Darth Vader or two… [...]
Did you skip Windows Vista waiting for Windows 7 with bated breath? Let’s call out the “white elephant” in the room: Gamers have resisted Windows Vista in favour of Windows XP. I have to admit, I was one of those gamers, just didn’t see the benefit vs. cost to upgrade my OS, [...]
Will we soon game from the Cloud? While social media has been the “new shiny toy” for some time, attracting the headlines and the VC dollars as companies and individuals try to monetize this phenomenon, another, related subject may be about to thunder and lightning. Yes, I’m talking about the “Cloud”. For this hardcore audience, [...]
Does an Ultrathin Notebook ‘got GAME?’ Recently I got my mitts on a DV2 and I thought I’d have some fun gaming with it. Now you may not consider the HP Pavilion dv2 a “gaming” notebook, but hold that thought for a few moments… My HP Pavilion dv2 config as given to me was: [...]
Athena is ready and delivers – There can be only one! If you thought gaming was for dark rooms and late nights, you could not be more wrong! As I wrote in this blog, I got my butt kicked in gaming by these twins, Athena and Athena Twin. Well, when WCG went looking for the [...]
It’s funny what a change in seasons can do to put a spring in your step. For some it’s the warmer days and the new leaves budding on trees, but for me, the change in seasons represents something bigger: it’s “showtime” in the games industry. Following its big holiday push months ago, March is typically [...]
Old adages are thrown out the window! Remember back in the day when you frowned if/when someone called you a “gamer”, it usually had a negative connotation, like nerd or geek: GEEK n. 1. a. A person regarded as a foolish, inept or clumsy. b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or [...]
Is big business utilizing “gaming” as the new medium to reach millions? Do “Games” have a place in big corporations and big business? I received a tweet the other day from Dean Takahashi, lead writer for Venture Beat, about an article written by David Ederly. Ederly is co-author of a very cool book Changing the [...]
“Plug ‘n’ Pulverize” gaming graphics upgrade for notebook PCs For millions of notebook PC users, it’s been nothing more than a frustrated wish. A portable performance possibility never realized. A mobile multi-monitor dream unfulfilled. An unreachable itch that laptop-toting PC gamers could never scratch -until now. Thanks to AMD, notebook buyers will finally get what [...]
