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Harman Kardon SoundSticks

Harman Kardon SoundSticks

Harman Kardon’s SoundSticks are the near-ideal complement for any Mac computer system. From style (they’re beautiful!) to sound (precision your ears deserve) it’s an obvious match. Macintosh users are known for not going gaga over complex hardware and software installation procedures – leave that for the PC. Here, the soundsticks live up to that ease-of-use [...]

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XFX GeForce4 Ti4400 Video Card Review

XFX GeForce4 Ti4400 Video Card Review

    The tag line of XFX Graphics is simple, in your face, and provocative – “Video Cards That Kick Ass.” Don’t believe me? Then check out the box sometime, it’s right on there! XFX recently released their powerful GeForce4 Ti4400 board, and we must admit, this card is one mighty piece of hardware action. [...]

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Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 – PS2 Review

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 – PS2 Review

You know a game has its hooks in you when, as you drift off to sleep, you’re still thinking about the game’s button combinations you’ll need to pull off. Then, you leap out of bed to try them. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 (THPS3) is that type of game. I have not been this addicted [...]

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Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card Review

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card Review

If you’re anything like this reviewer, you are one to enjoy healthy competition within the industry of consumer electronics. For PC people (and MAC for that matter), there’s been pretty much one major vendor when it comes to Sound Card technology – Creative Labs. One other thing you might have in common with this reviewer [...]

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Battle Realms Review

Battle Realms Review

Oh look, a fantasy RTS game…why am I not excited. Well, since Red Alert I haven’t played a single RTS game, apart from the glorious Shogun, that has done anything remarkably different to Westwood’s classic to make me want to play it. Battle Realms is the name of the game, an oriental flavoured RTS revolving [...]

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Jak and Daxter

Jak and Daxter

In the beginning, there was Mario. And Mario saw the barrel and he jumped. And gamers saw the jump and, lo, it was good. A couple of decades of video game evolution later, a new pair of leaping adventurers have emerged from the creative minds at Naughty Dog, and while the jump is essentially the [...]

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Icewind Dale 2 Designer J.E. Sawyer Interview

Icewind Dale 2 Designer J.E. Sawyer Interview

Black Isle Studios, the role-playing game division of Interplay Entertainment Corp., announced on February 4th 2002, that a sequel to the award-winning computer role-playing game Icewind Dale is currently in development and will be distributed by Vivendi Universal Games in North America. Icewind Dale II is scheduled to ship to retail on May 28, 2002. [...]

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls series of games (Arena; Daggerfall) has long been a favorite in the cult of the computer role player. Developer Bethesda’s design philosophy with their role playing games is to allow a completely open-ended system where a player can do what they want. Morrowind, the third in the series, not only provides that [...]

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Solider Of Fortune 2 : Double Helix

Solider Of Fortune 2 : Double Helix

Now I don’t live in a trailer park, neither am I a ‘god-darn’ hillbilly dressed in a lumberjack shirt and body warmer, most of all I am not American and therefore, overall, I know nothing about guns. But, Soldier of Fortune is THE game for all those of you who like to ‘lock n load’, [...]

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Blinx Xbox

Blinx Xbox

It comes to a point when you have to stop playing a game and seriously ask yourself ‘what am I doing?’. Playing Blinx I found myself asking this question a few times…I am sat trying to collect ‘time’ while playing as a cat with a big vacuum cleaner, launching rubbish at my enemies. Odd is [...]

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