Tag Archives: Gaming

Previously-Owned HD Coffins

Dear LucasArts, Thanks for releasing the Monkey Island special editions. It’s great to be able to play through the games again on modern systems, with all the beautiful new artwork and voice acting. They look beautiful, the second one especially. … Continue reading

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Welcome to the future

In the very first PC magazine I bought in 1993 there was a review of Syndicate. It featured a screenshot very much like the one above, with the caption “In the future it’s always 2am and raining.” Welcome to the … Continue reading

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Steam Mac Beta Framerate Comparison

As promised, I re-downloaded the Windows versions of Team Fortress 2 and Portal and ran some framerate comparisons. In Portal running on Vista under Boot Camp, I get a fairly steady mid 20s to low 30s FPS at 1680×1050, using … Continue reading

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Lets Play: Steam client for Mac OS X

Update 4:24am: The ‘not much to say’ thing is no longer true. See the last couple of paragraphs for details of the first third-party titles coming to Steam for the Mac My invitation to the Steam for Mac beta came … Continue reading

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I had dinner, I played GTA3, I went to the pub. Then I went to Pop Sox down in Escape, and now it’s rather later than I intended. Thus everything I’d planned to do when I came in is going … Continue reading

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Well, I finally decided to go ahead and sign up for Blogger. Somehow this seems like cheating, so maybe once I’m getting paid I’ll invest in some hosting I can run Moveable Type off. For the moment this will do. … Continue reading

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