Touching is good
sonictempest Bill Gates and He Who Flings Chairs apparently just gave a brief demo of some of the new features that will be in the successor to Windows Vista. Click here…
The scaling question
I\’ve mentioned before that scaling performance in PC games to lower-end systems is very important. Upon reading Sheba\’s post on the same subject, I thought it would be apt to…
How to fix Soul Calibur IV
A long time ago, in an IRC channel far, far away: <@SonicTempest> at this rate to balance the number of new female characters in SFIV they need to add someone…
Doug Lombardi thinks Crytek are a bunch of idiots
Well, no, he doesn\’t. But at least this snippet from this interview with him from Shacknews suggests that he thinks that sane system requirements are entirely a developers\’ responsibility: Shack:…
Yahtzee, free publicist
Yesterday\’s Zero Punctuation featured Painkiller, a first-person shooter from 2004 that somehow flew under my radar. He seemed highly appreciative of the fact that it was an FPS cut from…
The answer to the programming problem I posted
Well, AN answer, at any rate. Click through if you want to see it, but hold off if you want to try it out for yourself.
Riddle me this
A few of the guys in my team have a fairly regular ritual of going to the espresso bar on the first floor to swap anecdotes and design/programming problems over…
Some clarification as to aforementioned spastic monkeys
Since you\’ve had to stare at my three-line essay for about three days now, I figured I should explain my position in more detail 😛 As I\’ve mentioned in the…
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GOD THE DAMN CAMERA IN SANDS OF TIME IS PISSING ME OFF STOP CHANGING PERSPECTIVES LIKE A SPASTIC MONKEY DAMN YOU AAAAAAARGH
Time to take the plunge?
This test by ExtremeTech appears to suggest that Windows Vista has finally reached performance parity with XP as far as gaming goes. Another interesting note – Ars Technica has also…