Recent content by skazz

Heavily offtopic, I know, but still: You should go and look for Virtual Pool 3 for the PC. Bargain bin game (in fact you might not be able to find it in a shop by now). Basically it did everything Wii Play billiards does 10 years ago, but better. It has an awesome...

Some of the reasoning in this thread is amazing.... All console makers have one goal in mind: Sell consoles, and sell games and peripherals for those consoles. Now game developers don't have endless resources, so they are only making games for a subset of the total platforms available. This...

Shot speed is important, and twisting the bat is important. It's mostly in the wrist, not in the swing. To be honest, table tennis is actually probably better practice for Wii Tennis than real tennis, since table tennis teaches you how those wrist flicks are used to impart spin on the ball...

I think you are misunderstanding the control mechanics they put into Wii Sports.... Tennis is built around purely timing shots, there is no directionality implemented. The earlier or later you time your shot determines where it goes. This is actually something I've seen before, implemented in...

This is a really interesting thread. Clearly nearly everyone posting is a long-term console gamer, and this shows in the analysis and the personal wishes. I'll throw in my perceptions as a non-console gamer, just for a bit of variety. I've always been a PC gamer, never learned to use console...

I think lots of people really are overestimating HDTV uptake rates outside U.S. At the moment across quite a lot of Europe there is next to no HD content. And besides that, the lion's share of TVs on sale at the moment are only 720, not even 1080! Almost everyone I know currently has a "wait...

After posting I read up on the actual tech involved (there's a big wiki page devoted to it), and realised how it works. So thanks for the corrections/explanations, I realise that my irritations came of a lack of understanding how the technology was implemented. So to clarify: Everything based...

I spent last night figuring out how to get movements towards and away from the TV behaving better. Turns out that they work best when you push directly towards the sensor bar, rather than just in the general direction towards it. So I moved my sensor bar down from on top of the TV (probably...

I've always been a PC gamer, and have previously never even considered buying a console. That's mostly because of brief attempts to use console controllers on demo stands and utterly hating them, but also because I've never seen the point of playing games on a console when my well-specced PC...

I couldn't wait until Conroe or AM2 was out and replaced my P4 northwood last month with a simple 3800+ X2. I bet I'm not the only one buying into S939 at the moment either, for 2 reasons: 1. I don't believe Conroe systems will get here (Europe) until at least September in serious quantities...

Well, I like the base on the 2005FPW more than the new 2007FPW. However, the buttons on the new screen look nicer. And I assume the newer panel is a decent improvement on an already excellent device.

I view a server as something which will be running for 3 years, or 4 in some cases. In 3 years time the state of the art in terms of virtualization software will have moved on dramatically (e.g. minikernel hypervisors relying on next wave CPU virtualization extensions), so considering a certain...

One other little issue among the enthusiast market : Intel is making a big push to get VT into places where it's needed. i.e. enabling Xen to virtualise without kernel changes needed in guest OS'es, enabling Intel Macs to run Windows XP in a VM with tools like Parallel Workstation. Yes, AMD's...

I agree that something in the price range of Sennheiser PX100s is a good choice for PC use. Not only decent sound but very light and comfortable. You can also consider getting a headset if you are likely to be thinking about either VoIP or online gaming (e.g. ventrillo, teamspeak). As for...

Current market options (I'll do this in euros due to not being American): Obviously beyond3d has a great video card specs overview site. However, for ease of use this page is also quite handy, even though of course the theoreticals don't tell one the whole story...