Building a Gaming PC on a Budget – Fall 2009

Once more it’s time for our seasonal Budget Gaming PCs. In this recurring feature I assemble two new gaming PCs for gamers on a budget to give you an idea of what’s good to get nowadays.
The Genuine Budget System is built with a maximum budget of 600 euro. For that kind of money you can [...]

10 Reasons Why Aion Will Fail

Aion launched to more than 400.000 pre-order copies last week and has seen an enormous amount of players logging in over the past couple of days.
Much of the feedback thus far has been overwhelmingly positive, in spite of prevalent server queues. There have been no major game-breaking bugs, server crashes or glaring gameplay omissions and [...]

10 Reasons Why Aion Will Succeed

Aion launched to more than 400.000 pre-order copies last week and has seen an enormous amount of players logging in over the past couple of days.
Thus far the servers have mostly held up, although the queues are still pretty miserable. In any event, it looks like Aion has been a resounding success thus far. Countless [...]

Queuing up for Aion

Aion’s head start event has ended and the game has launched in Europe! Hurray!
Now it would be nice if NCSoft were to allow us to actually play the game. It’s been suffering from horrendous server queues all week long and many gamers have barely been able to play at all. In fact, the only time [...]