BIStudio look like they’re in Publisher Limbo with Armed Assault, but the release dates are trickling out. Through a forum thread. Tres professional. Getting the word out to the community is all well and good, but perhaps it’d be worth getting someone to actually get release information onto their website. Expand your audience, BIStudio. Not everyone [...]

Take one physics engine. Provide some basic materials – cloth, metal bars, rope, elastic, rubber and metal sheeting, and some rockets. Slap a minimal but functional 3D user interface on it. Then add a yellow bowling ball called “Armadillo” and an exit spot where the Armadillo must come to rest, and pow! You’ve got a game! Remember The Incredible [...]

If you’re finding yourself a little disappointed that you can’t squeeze 1600×1200 out of your new 19″ LCD, despair no more! By sacrificing the odd pixel, you can experience the squintiness that you so justly wanted to remember. Simply open Display properties (right click the desktop and choose properties), click Settings tab, Advanced button, and [...]

For Kasie, who wants to put her skydiving video on myspace. This post describes how to convert an unprotected DVD into a format that can be uploaded to myspace, YouTube, Google Video or any other web video host. Protected DVDs such as store-bought or rented movies require extra steps that are not covered in this post. [...]

I saw Xtreme Rally and GTI Racing - new releases on Steam – for $US30. Read some good reviews, so I bought them. Now here’s the rub – they don’t seem to be particularly good, in a “they are quite jerky when the framerate is otherwise good” sort of way. The sort of way I’d usually [...]

…was going to be the title of this post, but it’s not any more! Tricky, hey? See, it wasn’t X3′s fault, as it turns out, despite every other game seemingly running fine. At least, there were other contributing factors, so it wasn’t just X3. X3 had been coyly winking at me from Steam for a little [...]