I never knew. I’d heard of people had done it themselves (very passionate people), even how to do it (using mineral oil acquired from a veterinarian). Still it’s a damned neat (and very unique in a good way) way to go about cooling a computer. In a way it kind of reminds me of those pre-made refrigerator cases. Hardcore Computers is the company to turn to, and for $5560 (presumably USD) you too can have an über 1337 gaming rig.

For that money it comes with a tri-SLI nVIDIA graphics solution (it’d want to). Check it out via Hardcore Computers, and read this review by Maximum PC to learn more.

Blizzard sure knows how to rake in the money - just look at how much they’re making from World of Warcraft. Possibly feeling they need to continue making incredible profits, Starcraft 2 (the single player campaign, anyway) will be released as a trilogy (first Terran, second Zerg, third Protoss) being three seperate products. I think the excuse that the experience is too big to release as one game isn’t really acceptable in this day and age, forcing consumers to purchase their game three times over. It could ship as a three dual layer DVD package (and I do doubt each “game” will be be dual layer, probably single) with a BD-ROM package available using only one disc (similar to Half Life 2, being either 5 CD’s or 1 DVD). It’s not a matter of storage. This game would want to ship at a good price point (which isn’t very likely), meaning to get the full experience you’d probably be up for over $150.

What do I think will end up happening? If the product allows full multiplayer from each “game” (featuring all sides) then people will purchase one “game”, then pirate the other two. Really, it’s been ten years since the first Starcraft game was released, couldn’t Blizzard have taken the time to make the game a single complete package like, oh I don’t know - Starcraft. I miss the days of Rock n’ Roll Racing.

You can read more via Kotaku.

Have you recently had the urge to play the original DooM on Windows Vista? I bet you have, and if you’ve tried I bet you got a plethora of incompatability messages. The reason is the original DooM executables were coded for MS-DOS and as such simply won’t run. The solution is to use a port. I hadn’t used a port in a few years (Legacy was my preference back then) so had to do a bit of research to see which one was still being actively updated. ZDoom it is then.

I like ZDoom because it has a lot of advanced features like a crosshair, mouselook and wheel support, 16:9 resolutions and heaps more. Too many to list, in fact. Check out their website here to learn more and download it. Note you need the original or shareware WAD files.

In this cool game the goal is to build a “contraption”, basically adding wheels and sticks to a shape to make it get from one point to the other. At first I was thinking it couldn’t be all that interesting, but I was wrong - it’s addictive.

Play it here (Flash required).

Posted: February 11th, 2007 (1:31pm) by Juzza

Posted: January 24th, 2007 (12:53pm) by Juzza