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After 3 months of usage, I am finally writing a review for this great product.  My previous mouse, a Logitech MX600, was not good enough for what I was doing, I needed more raw power and precision for my mouse.  The mouse styling is nice and sleek.  The curvature of the mouse is perfect for ergonomics and it feels like the mouse was molded for your hand.  When you have sweaty hands, this mouse seems to “wicks” the sweat away so that it always stays nice and dry while doing your intense gaming or work.

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It’s time to get excited. Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up for one of their best years yet. With 3 hugely anticipated PC titles: Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard will definitely control the PC gaming market. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the 2nd expansion to Blizzard’s hugely popular game, World of Warcraft, is estimated to hit store shelves Fall this year. With over 10 million subscribers to World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King will definitely be a huge success.

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Sub $500 dollar gaming computer.

This configuration is for people who don’t have the cold hard cash to buy a $2k+ computer or for those who like to do some casual gaming while having the horsepower to do their workstation work.  I present to you, my friends, [laatedaa]?’s $400 dollar build.  It works great and fine as I just built one myself for a friend and it runs modern games without a hitch.  Also it is “future-proof” meaning that you can always upgrade when these parts go haywire.  I took many things into consideration when looking for these products and what goes with what.  I found out that this combination of products works best.

In the beginning, I was debating whether or not to use AMD w/ ATi, AMD w/ nVidia, Intel w/ nVidia, or Intel w/ ATi.  I found out the most cost-effective, or as many of you guys like to call it, BANG for the buck, I went with an Intel / nVidia path.  It worked out fine as Intel’s processors do a strong doing while nVidia’s high end cards are not very pricey, although this particular model is almost half of the $400.

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Hey guys, I have recruited three new people to help write content on the blog.  The first one is Mike, he is the Editor of the blog and will be writing about Xbox 360 games, reviews and stuff in the gaming realm.  Daniel is an author of this blog and will also write about games and will be reviewing them as he plays through the single player missions and levels.  On the other hand, Brandon another author, he is going to write about whatever he wishes.

This is a guide on how to setup a Counter-Strike Source server or most Source powered game for the PC on Windows XP / Vista.

You have that spare computer that is laying around and want to turn it into a server? Well it is easy to do. Follow these simple steps to have your server up and running for the whole world to play with you! You only need a Pentium 4 computer or faster, fast DSL / cable (upload speeds) and that’s about it!

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DL.TV is a tech show where at least 100,000 people watch their podcast when it comes out Thursday. They have a Tech Pic section where viewers can submit their pictures of whatever cool tech things they have.

I decided it would be cool to recreate the DL.TV set in Garry’s Mod and take pictures and send it to them. Low and Behold! They feature my (crappy) Garry’s Mod DL.TV show set on their podcast! I am soo happy!!!

Do you have trouble installing your games for your Xbox 360? Does your Xbox 360 fan noise tend to scare you at night or when putting in that Halo 3? Luckily, Best Buy can install an Xbox 360 game for you. Best part is, they can even come to your house to do it. What a bogus trick.

I got this MMOR (Massively Multiplayer Online Race), called Test Drive Unlimited last year. They recently came out with a carpack called PC Megacar Pack and I purchased it. I thought I film some in-game footage of me in a Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe that is from the car pack. I filmed this via Fraps.

Many people, nowadays, when they buy a new game for their computer to play, they normally check the system requirements first to make sure that their rig can handle it. This happened to me when I recently bought the new game, Call of Duty 4. Although it is not a graphically or CPU intense game, it is a new release based on many advanced shaders and models. I myself, have a Pentium 4(I know it’s aging, getting a dual core soon) 2.6 ghz with 1 gb of RAM, and a x1600 Pro 512 mb graphics card. When I installed the game and launched it, there was a button that said optimize graphics automatically, which means to test the cpu and graphic card speed and set configurations based on what the computer tells it. It gave me horrible results, 640×480, 2x antialiasing, and everything else on low. I thought to myself, my computer can’t be this bad can it? Many people think that if you put your game on the lowest resolution, then everything will run fine, but no, this is not the case for most games. So, I did the first few missions in Call of Duty 4 and realized, yes, its bad as it seems like it, 20 frames when looking at simple objects and that drops to 8-10 fps when doing those city missions. The quality of the graphics sucked because of the resolution i was playing in. After 20 minutes of choppy play, I couldn’t stand it. I quickly turned the resolution to 1280×900 (I have a 22in widescreen 1680×1050 native). Upon playing the mission, I noticed much better playability. I was getting around 40 to 50 frames per second during intense battles and 60 frames in simple environments. Turns out that if you have a slow CPU like me, and a moderate graphics card, you should set your resolution to the native res. of your monitor, or inbetween it somewhere. When you play a game on low resolution, it eats your CPU more than the graphics card and if you do it on higher resolution, the graphics card is taking more the load and the CPU less, therefore, making less of a bottleneck and higher game quality.

Halo 3, responsible for over 3.3 million copies of the game sold and over 528,000 consoles sold in September, just to play Halo 3.