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Half-Life: Opposing Force – 13 years later

How many of you have fond memories of playing Half-Life and it’s expansions? I do. The other day I was bored so I started up Opposing Force, the expansion from Gearbox where you play as a soldier that shows up … Continue reading

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2012-01-23_00005

Review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC)

In 1996 John Romero left id Software and formed Ion Storm. You may remember that it was Ion Storm which released Daikatana, a game that was almost universally considered a failure. That’s not all they did though. Some time before … Continue reading

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Does your Lenovo Ideapad U400 run hot under Ubuntu 11.10?

It turns out the excessive heat and constant fan on my U400 was being caused by the switchable graphics, which so far have proven themselves to be more effort than their worth. The situation isn’t even that much better under … Continue reading

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Lagview – Trine (PC)

One of the games featured in the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle was Trine, it took me a while to get around to playing it but I’m glad I finally did. Trine is a side-scrolling game with RPG elements and some interesting … Continue reading

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Quake Live Review (PC)

Quake Live is far from being a new game, it was officially released to the public in February 2009 but it’s really just a more refined re-release of a game that was released in 1999, Quake 3. I wasn’t really … Continue reading

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Lagview – Metro 2033 (PC)

80/100 A little over a year and a half now I was at work. Well, I still often am at work, but this day was special. A friend there told me that he had recently finished a game called Metro … Continue reading

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Expose/Mission Control in action. You can see all the windows I currently have open and I can simply click the one I was to focus on. Great if you have a bunch of stuff open at once. Does not display minimized windows, though.

Mac vs. PC (A review of my early 2009 Macbook)

What this Lagview/review is is a resource for those of you who are on the fence about whether or not to make the transition from PC to Mac. Despite the review being for a Macbook a few years old now, … Continue reading

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Review of the Lenovo Ideapad U400

I recently purchased an Ideapad U400 for myself as my next laptop. From what I gather, this is part of a new class of laptop referred to as an “Ultrabook”. I think the idea is that they’re supposed to be … Continue reading

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Lagview – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC)

Bethesda’s fifth Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, came out earlier last month and so far I’ve logged well over 40 hours of gameplay. The game takes place 200 years after the events of the Oblivion crisis, which you will remember if … Continue reading

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Lagview – Rage (PC)

Rage is a post apocalyptic FPS/RPG/Racing game from id Software, and their first new game since Doom 3 was released way back in 2004. Rage takes place a few hundred years into future, after an asteroid has impacted earth, turning … Continue reading

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