Hauppauge have been in the PC-based video capture business for years. With a wide variety of products, they have always provided a device to capture the latest video standards at a consumer-level price point. The software side has tended to be a bit of a mine-field though, and the HD PVR is no exception to this. Hopefully this guide will lessen the pain for anyone who just wants to record some beastly gameplay from their HD games console. Continue reading »
After a bit of tinkering with the developer build of OS X 10.7 LION, here are my initial thoughts: New features are as follows: Facetime, Launchpad, Airdrop, Fullscreen Apps., iPad style Mail and a new look and feel to the Finder. That appears to be it. Facetime is self-explanatory. Internet video calls from your mac to … Continue reading »
(More about Minecraft ‘seeds’…) (Get Dr. Zoidberg skin…) (What’s seed 404?) The main character in Minecraft is a cheerful chap but if you play multi-player or you just fancy a change you may want to change the way he looks. You can change the complete texture for the character model but remember you can’t change … Continue reading »
Here Comes a New Challenger!! Quite possibly the best game available in the UK on launch day, Super Street Fighter IV manages to capture all the excitement and freshness of SFIV’s original release back in July 2009 on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Epic. This is a game about epic scales of proportion. The amount of fun you have, the amount of damage you do, the depth of the battle system, your interest in the story and the conceited characters, the size of the monsters, the amount of hit points the enemies have, the amount of strategic options … Continue reading »
Having joined the Playstation revolution late in the day, picking up a copy of Resistance1 several months after release, and still not having put the disc in the tray by the time Resistance 2 hit the stores, it would be fair to say the Resistance franchise doesn’t excite me as much as the next FPS … Continue reading »
As gaming descends ever closer to the cloud based world of the current generation, I have embarked on the dream of gathering a retro collection. This article is a brief overview of the considerations and thought process I went through when trying to work out what the hell it was that I wanted to collect. … Continue reading »
Having recently decided to invest in some additional video capture and editing software, it became apparent that much of the markets leading tools were still stuck in the dark ages, supporting a Windows only environment. A few years ago this may have resulted in yet another device to clutter my now streamlined setup, in one … Continue reading »
Having launched in November 2010 I thought it was about time I gave my 2 pennies worth for one of the flagship Windows Phone 7 devices, the HTC HD7. Having previously owned and flogged to death the iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS, the HTC Desire and Google Nexus One, I have experienced my fair share … Continue reading »
War… What is good for? Several multi-million dollar video game franchises, apparently. 2011 has been unofficially dubbed by certain cynical members of the video games press as “The Year of the Shooter”, not that 2010 was necessarily a dry spell, and sequels are looking to make-up the bulk of the pack. Why so many … Continue reading »
So all 10 additional characters are final announced. They are all varied and each either bring a twist to an existing character type or bring something completely fresh to the Street Fighter IV series. Read on further down the page to find out what you can expect from this fairly hefty update to SF4, my … Continue reading »
