Feb 23 2012
Here’s something for those Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike: Source fans out there. A new version in the CS series, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is in the making and is undergoing a limited beta stage at present. In order to have a chance of being a part of the beta you need to complete a survey in …
Feb 15 2012
It’s been in the news today but I thought this topic was worth mentioning. I’ve also written about this in the past, specifically: R18+ Video Games – One Step Closer R18+ Computer Games Classification – Its Time Will Come Draft R18+ Guidelines for Computer Games Released Today, a bill was introduced into Federal Parliament to …
Jan 28 2012
For about a month now my desktop computer has been working fine after I had dropped in the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive but since then I have experienced some instability when playing games on it (particularly Team Fortress 2 or TF2 for short). The system wouldn’t crash but the screen would go blank …
Jul 30 2011
Just a quick one for tonight (and a bit of nostalgia for me too). Back in school I remember the time when we moved away from our fleet of Apple IIe computers (and a sole Macintosh which the school had won in a Coles shopping docket collection competition) and upgraded to IBM compatible machines (can’t …
Jun 07 2011
As a bit of a gamer and someone that fancies Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 it really got me annoyed when I couldn’t play them after a recent update to Steam or one of the games themselves (my hunch is the recent Saxxy Award update for TF2). What I did find was that reducing …
Nov 26 2010
Another quick blog for tonight. If you like scrabble but don’t feel like forking out for the paid app on your iOS device there is a similar version called “Words with Friends”. There is one difference compared to Scrabble (presumably to avoid litigation) which is the placement of the bonus tiles on the board (for …
Feb 17 2010
In a story picked up by SMH today, the South Australian Attorney-General has been quoted having said: “I feel that my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs who also hate me.” Leading on from my earlier blogs on video game classification and the attack …
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