I played GTA IV without going postal in real life
If, like me, you are fed up of the seemingly continual string of easy headliner stories in the red top and serious press alike which blame video games for the increasing problems of violence,...
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Flashing with Pros
I’ve just spent the greater part of this week writing a flash games roundup for the web, which you can find here. Not only is doing stuff like this and getting paid for it an utterly brilliant part of...
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Introducing Predatron, Acer’s new Gaming PC
We’ve seen some pretty ridiculous systems at PC Pro aimed at gamers. Without naming the main culprits, it’s obvious that plenty of marketing departments think that those who play games on their PCs...
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The true cost of a lifetime of gaming
How much do you reckon you’ve spent on games in your life? A few quid? A few hundred? Absolutely no idea? That final option was my immediate answer, and probably yours too, so the results of a recent...
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First Look: HP Blackbird 002
When a system arrives in the PC Pro Labs, we don’t often hear rambling tales about its birth and development – instead, the machine arrives in the back of a large van in a big box and normally leaves...
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First look: Nvidia’s integrated graphics
Intel beware: Nvidia has its scope trained squarely on your dominance in the notebook graphics market. With an estimated 140 million laptops in the wild in 2008, more than two-thirds of which feature...
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In defence of patching, crashing and tinkering
PC gaming gets a bad rap, especially from the console crowd – whereas they rock up, slide a disk into their slot-loading optical drive and play away, enjoying the latest games on the PC is, well, a...
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HP’s new Firebird 803: a revolution waiting to happen?
Rahul Sood is an influential man: he’s the founder of boutique system-builder VoodooPC and now head of HP’s Global Gaming business. So when he posts a couple of blogs about how the gaming PC as we...
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Eyefinity: nice demo, but I won’t play games on it
The new ATI Eyefinity system has created quite an online buzz. Otherwise sane-sounding people have been openly drooling over the idea of combining six monitors into a vast 7,680 x 3,200 display; and,...
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Play it again: Berlin’s Computer Game Museum
For someone whose first computing experience was a clunky corporate laptop my dad brought home from the office for us to use, I’m always surprised how intrigued I am by ancient PCs – as regular PC Pro...
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