Through alliances with leading software providers, AMD LIVE!™ Entertainment Suite allows you to access, distribute, and enjoy your live and pre-recorded TV, music, photos, videos an more in bold new ways: AMD LIVE! Compress from the makers of Power Compress enables you to compress the TV shows and movies you’ve recorded using Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center [...]

The other day, I dropped in an Athlon X2 4200+, taking the opportunity to upgrade my socket 939 board before the opportunity is lost forever. At about the same time, though, my MCE started losing time when skipping. I barely noticed it at first, or just ignored it, but it’s a pervasive and annoying problem. [...]

At A Glance The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In several ways, better than Battlefield 2 for PC. Overall: 8 Graphics: 7 Sound: 7 Single Player: 8 Multiplayer: 8 Good: frenetic combat single player campaign generally good network play lots of neat graphical touches Bad: campaign can be inconsistently hard lots of pauses between [...]

If you’re like me, you’re probably quite well-used to avoiding banner ads. You see them, you recognize them, you ignore them. You never click them. I don’t actively use an ad-blocker (I use pop-up blockers), though. Well, I’m instituting a new policy – on Sundays, if a site rewards my presence with information that I find [...]

Via Kotaku, we hear about a “credibility budget” Gamedev website Gamasutra has a feature up that puts into words a concept I’ve been struggling to explain for years. The author modestly calls it “Ken Perlin’s Law”, but I venture that his own term, “credibility budget”, is far more catchy: That’s as good a word as [...]

It’s not Update Rollup 3, but it’s at least a cumulative update for Update Rollup 2. Auto Updates users may have this already, but if not, there’s a new list of fixes in it. As an Aussie Digital TV user, none of the fixes reminded me of any past experiences (which is good), and it [...]