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I wasn't sure if I should put this in the PC gaming section or not, but if the mods feel it should be moved, I won't complain. :p I currently am running a Q6600/GTX280 setup and was thinking about getting a second card to allow me to turn the PhysX effects to their highest. I haven't been...

With Steam having the entire series of Company of Heroes games bundled together for $40, I decided there was no excuse for me not to have played this game after all the good things I've heard about it. It's installing now. I've never really played a strategy game before. I hope it's good. :eek:

I know I'm late to the party on this, but I just got done playing this on the Wii. I have to say that the first few episodes were kind of boring, but the second half of the season was utterly hilarious, and the Reality 2.0 episode in particular was simply brilliant, especially when it turned...

So a coworker tells me that she would like a password on her computer. Fairly easy thing to do, right? Well, I'm able to set a password, but find out that her account is set as a Guest account. This the default account that she set up when we first got the laptop for her, a Dell Vostro 1500...

I kind of fell away from the computer hardware scene a couple years ago, but I've got the bug again and was wondering what would be a good upgrade for me. I'm looking forward to playing FEAR 2 and DragonAge early next year. Right now I've got 2 7900GT's in SLI, a 1600 x 1200 LCD monitor, and a...

http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9882510-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2008/02/28/windows-vista-is-about-to-get-cheaper.aspx The retail upgrade version of Vista Ultimate will go for $219 and Home Premium will go for $129.

So I never got around to finishing GoW, and kinda want to now that the sequel has been announced. I also wanted to go through and get the co-op achievements. So anyone feel like playing through on hardcore and maybe insanity? I'm not the best player so I'm sure I'll die often, but if you can put...

I picked it up this morning bright and early at 6 AM at Wal-Mart with my friend. All told there were actually 5 people in line for the game. It took about half an hour to unbox everything and set it all up. Had to do some creative rearranging of furniture to give the drum kit its space. I played...

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/827/827831p1.html I'm not much of a multiplayer person but GRAW2 has been something i really enjoyed online. Looks like new co-op and adversarial maps are on the way, along with new Achievements totalling 125 points. Should be enough to get me back into the game...

I haven't played my DS is ages and it kind of bugs me, so I thought I'd look into some more games for it. I've been reading about Super Mario Galaxy and how it's supposed to be a worthy successor to Super Mario 64. I never played it, so I was wondering how well it works on the DS. Is it fun to...

When i play a game with any semblance of a plot, the reason i keep playing the game is to get to the end of the story and find out what happens next. I rarely play games on the hardest difficulty to start with, and i've been known to switch to the easiest difficulty when even medium difficulty...

Hi all. I need to either upgrade or build a few machines here at work for 3ds Max work. I'm not familiar with the hardware requirements for this sort of thing so i'm hoping for some general recommendations. After searching around here for a while, it seems that the general consensus is that fast...

I picked this up tonight at Best Buy and have started making my way through the new realm. So far i'm having fun, though i haven't gotten too far. You start out in the Fringe area of the realm and have to defeat the Gatekeeper to get the keys to enter the main realm. You have two different...

Yeah, a PS2. Not a PS3. I'm a little behind on things. I've got STALKER and Shivering Isles to keep me busy on the PC, but for the 360 i'm pretty much waiting for Mass Effect this summer. It's only been out for almost 7 years now, but i'm thinking of picking up a PS2 so i can catch up on some...

We're looking to embed Excel in a VB2005 form, and since OLE doesn't seem to be supported anymore, we started hunting around for alternatives. MS says to use the embedded web browser control, but then you have to save the file as an mhtml document and/or jump through other hoops to get it to...

I've been looking forward to playing Jade Empire for a while now, and when i fired up Steam today I was happy to see that they're offering it for preloading and preordering. I didn't play this game on the Xbox so i'm excited to play what looks like a completely redone version of the game. I'm...

I'm playing with different ways to show simulation output in a VB form. I've been messing around with the Office Web Components Chart component, but i'm having trouble getting my data to show up. First off, i've had a hard time finding decent documentation and/or examples, but i finally found...

The official expansion for Oblivion has been announced. Looks like it'll be a crazy madhouse in Sheogorath's domain. I can't wait. Looks like i'll have to pick up this and finally get around to getting the Knights of the Nine collection. I think it says a lot though that i haven't rushed out to...

I just read this blog post by one of the Windows Vista developers, and he claims that doing a clean install when upgrading will no longer be necessary because of how the setup works. I know most people here always do a clean install when upgrading, myself included. Has anybody tried doing an...

I've been hearing a lot about Gears of War, like everyone, and i can't help but wonder what's so great about this game. I'm sure it'll be polished and fun, but why are people calling this the 360's Halo? Because Epic's making it? I'm not saying it's gonna be bad, i'll probably pick it up in a...

So the judge in Jack Thompson's latest case didn't see anything particularly wrong with Bully when it was played in front of him for a couple hours. I'm glad that the ruling was favorable toward the game, but it seriously bugs me that a judge had to decide this. Will every game in Florida...

http://www.sierra.com/en/home/news/product_news/091206_-_fear_exp.html 10 AM PST, 1PM EST on 9/13/2006 This is unexpectedly good news. Too bad i have work till 5 then class till 10. :( I can't seem to remember a demo for an expansion pack before so i wonder how much they'll include...

So i picked up Tomb Raider Legend from Best Buy a few days ago and have been enjoying it. Apparently, though, i've run into a bug. I'm in the England level and got to King Arthur's tomb. I'm to the part where i have to face the water boss now. I know i'm supposed to drop the cages on the serpent...

http://www.aperturescience.com/ This is fun. Type in "user" then the username is "portal" and the password is "portal" It'll definitely keep you entertained.

Anyone picked up Enchanted Arms for the 360 yet? It looked interesting at first, but then Tycho from Penny Arcade said "I played it just long enough to see a gay man attack a prom queen with a magic saxophone. I decided to return to that one by the light of day." :eek: Sounds a bit odd.. Any...

So i noticed that Steve from the front page (gamertag of Hypothermia) is close to breaking 10,000 points for his gamerscore. He plays a lot of games. :p I was happy i broke 3000 today. While it's obviously not something of earthshaking importance, it's always fun to watch my score go up as i...

I saw a gameplay video on Steam last night and this game looks really cool. I just finished reading IGN's latest preview and i think i''ve been conviinced to buy this game. I haven't played a Might and Magic game before but it sounds like this is completely different from the other games. Anyone...

We've got a VB.NET 2005 program that's connecting to an MS Access 2003 DB using an OLEDB connection and ADO.NET 2.0. Since i'm new to database programming, i'm using a local copy of the database to create queries within Access then modifying them if needed in Visual Studio using TableAdapters...

I left my 360 on last night to download some stuff, usually i turn it off when i'm not using it. I came downstairs this morning and saw that three corners of the ring were flashing red. :eek: I turned it off and turned it back on, and it seemed to work fine, but i had to go to work so i...

At work we've started a new project using a Subversion repository. Everyone keeps their local copy wherever they want on their machine, but the file structure of the project has three folders: GUI, Database, and Model. The GUI folder holds the Visual Studio project and the Database folder holds...

To try to keep it out of the other threads, i'm starting this story thread to talk about what happened in the newest episode. I'm very surprised that it was the Vortigaunts that got Gordon and Alyx out of the explosion. I was expecting it to be a completely new force. Did anybody notice the...

Just downloaded it in Steam. I gotta say that these teasers don't make the game look all that compelling. I already preloaded and bought it, but it seems like it's supposed to be kind of like the Halo 3 trailer: for the fans who already know what it is, not for people new to the series (not sure...

A coworker of mine has a laptop and she says that when she leaves it unplugged and lets it go to standby, it makes a wheezing noise in time with the blinking power light indicating it's in standby. However, when she plugs the power adapter back in, the wheezing stops. Any ideas? I'm thinking the...

My boss just dropped off his laptop saying he's getting popups and home page hijacks after connecting to a hotel's wireless network a couple days ago. I'm doing the standard scans and such, but i need to update some of the spyware definitions for some programs, and i don't want to connect the...

Recently i built my sister a new computer so she could play WoW. It's got an X2 3800, 6600GT, and LCD monitor with native res of 1280x1024. It works great for WoW. The other day, she informed me that she picked up Oblivion. I cringed a little inside.when she told me this. I have the game, but...

..judging by the slow download speeds for trailors and demos. I thought maybe it was me then i saw Steve's post on the front page and realized what was going on. I even saw my name blurred out on that image. Personally, i was downloading the Sonic the Hedgehog and Bullet Witch trailers. I'm...

Shacknews has a post about the announcement of FEAR Extraction Point. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/42018 Part of me is excited for new FEAR action, but part of me i apprehensive about a different company than Monolith working on it. I know Monolith gave up the trademark to the...

So, based on your ABS reviews, i convinced work to give them a try. We have a new guy starting soon and we needed to get a laptop for him, so we ordered one of their Mayhem laptops. It arrived today in excellent condition, and after buying Dells, Compaqs, and HP's, i felt positively spoiled to...

A guy here at work has a laptop, and he had Outlook 2003 open when he closed the laptop and sent Windows into Hibernate mode. He usually doesn't have it maximized. Well here's what happens now when he doesn't have it maximized: You can't resize it, while i guess he could just keep it...