The times when annual computer upgrades were common practice have long passed. Nowadays most PC games tend to be conservative in the graphics department, which has resulted in years old PCs still handling anything recent quite easily in maximum detail. But the hardware market hasn’t stagnated to the same extent and some of you may [...]

Call of Duty: Black Ops’ menu screen is an annoying affair where you’re strapped into the interrogation chair featured in the singleplayer campaign. This results in a cumbersome menu system that can only be controlled with the keyboard, but Treyarch have compensated for this by including some nice easter eggs: it’s actually possible to get [...]

I’ve made it abundantly clear that Call of Duty: Black Ops has been released in a bug-riddled state during these past few days, but while I’ve already written up a troubleshooting guide for the more serious bugs, there are also a lot of people suffering from general performance issues! These people will get the attention [...]

As you can read in my previous article there are dozens of problems plaguing the latest entry in the Call of Duty franchise on the PC. These vary from heavy stuttering in multiplayer games even on the most capable gaming systems to ridiculously low performance in singleplayer. In this guide I’ll cover several ways to [...]

A new Good Old Games version of Planescape: Torment may have been released only yesterday in a completely up-to-date format, but even that version isn’t quite complete without some vital community mods and fixes. These mods do anything from introducing high resolution graphics to introducing scrapped content and gameplay tweaks to make the game more [...]

The times when annual computer upgrades were common practice have long passed. Nowadays most PC games tend to be conservative in the graphics department, which has resulted in years old PCs still handling anything recent quite easily in maximum detail. But the hardware market hasn’t stagnated to the same extent and some of you may [...]

StarCraft 2 will be available this Tuesday, so I determined that now would be a good time to refresh my memory of StarCraft and its Brood War expansion pack. And it wasn’t much of a surprise to find out that the resolution is fixed at 640×480 and the graphics aren’t quite up to modern standards, [...]

The diabolical entity known as Windows has finally finished installing and now you’re faced with the daunting task of getting your system ready for gaming. This process obviously involves installing the latest drivers for your devices and your favorite games, but why stop there? A proper gaming system can really benefit from a few simple [...]

Good Old Games recently released an updated version of Outcast that works well with modern operating systems, contrary to the old CD version. This old action-adventure game is amongst the very best games I’ve ever played and is worth a go just for the incredibly detailed and engaging world it presents, but it also offers [...]

In my previous comparison of streaming platforms I indicated that Livestream was the easier and less demanding option. This is entirely true, but some of you may have a few issues with the default ProCaster settings, as I have had. Livestream ProCaster can have a tendency to disconnect in the middle of a broadcast and [...]

After my comparison of the two prime game streaming services, you may be interested in streaming game footage with Ustream‘s higher quality broadcast potential. Unfortunately the service wasn’t made with streaming on-screen action in mind, so it takes a variety of third party applications in order to get things working properly. It’s not an easy [...]

The WarCraft 3 games stem from a time in which every gamer still used CRT monitors with 4:3 aspect ratios, which has resulted in an utterly widescreen/high-resolution unfriendly game. There are no options for modern resolutions such as 1680×1050 or 1920×1080 and the game doesn’t support non-4:3 aspect ratios. So when I got to playing [...]