Thursday Just as I was still settling into my relatively new abode of two years, eleven months and twenty six days, it dawned on me over my second coffee of the morning that the landlord of my computer shop still hadn’t replied to my counter-offer […]
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Head teachers at a British local education authority have warned parents that they will report them to the police if they allow their children to play 18+ video games. If your child is allowed to have inappropriate access to any game or associated product that
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Well shiver me timbers me hearties and pass the grog! Just when you thought the decks had been nicely cleared for your hornpipes and buxom wenches, Microsoft hoists its colours and decides that you’ll be walking the plank after all, ye olde sea dogs!
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The BBC announced today that it would not be renewing Jeremy Clarkson’s contract following “an unprovoked physical attack” on a Top Gear producer, which is said to have been provoked by Jeremy being served with cold ham sandwiches at a Yorkshire hotel after a long day
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Publisher: Sega Developer: The Creative Assembly Review platform : PC Review Rig: AMD FX 8320, 16Gb ram, MSI GTX 970 4Gb, Windows 7 x64 Release date : October 2014 I’m not entirely sure why I play survival horror games at all. They scare the pants off
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We are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10 ~ Microsoft spokesman As if being free of charge for users of Windows 7 and above wasn’t enough to get us dancing in the streets, Microsoft now says Windows 10 will be free
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I stopped watching TV on a regular basis about ten years ago but have now returned to it with a vengeance thanks to Netflix. I clearly remember when having a television in your house was considered a luxury and most of them were set in
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First off, I don’t use any Apple products. I neither own an iPhone, iPad or any other gadget that is iBranded. Not that I’m bitter and twisted; it’s partly through choice, partly through simple economics, but mainly because of a deep seated aversion on my
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A calculated decision By a stroke of good fortune and beneficial planetary alignment, I was able to acquire an MSI GTX 970 a few days ago and I have to say that this GPU has exceeded my expectations and then some. I was previously sporting
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I reckon it depends on your definition of cheating and to put your mind at rest, I’m not banging on about two-timing your girlfriend, keeping a mistress in a love nest or falsifying your tax return. Having said that, in certain countries such as France
Also known as geolocation, this perverse and absurd practice isn’t just confined to The Oscars of course, as anyone who uses Youtube will be painfully aware. I choose Oscar, as in a moment of misguided magnanimity, I acceded to my better half’s request to watch the
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Wednesday A tale of two hard drives They say that Wednesdays are the quietest of all days in hospital emergency departments for the simple reason that Mondays are standing room only for everyone who got banged up over the weekend and Fridays are reserved for
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It’s now easier than ever to record your gameplay and as I mentioned in Part One of this series, it’s no longer a question of churning out massive AVI files and rendering them through a codec to achieve a manageable size for uploading. We know that Fraps generates a
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Do you ever see stuff on the net and say to yourself ‘I wonder how they do that’? I know I do all the time and usually when watching Youtube game walkthrough videos, because I’m a bit of a pussy really and it’s always handy
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