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What We're Playing: CPU Wars & Stronghold

Posted on 30th Dec 2012 at 12:34 by Paul Goodhead with 8 comments

Paul Goodhead
It’s been a little while since we last spoke board games, so we thought we'd have a quick festive round up of what we've been playing over the Christmas break. We’ve got two games to show you today, and you will not want to miss this first one, we guarantee.

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The death of Warcraft

Posted on 20th Dec 2012 at 07:42 by David Hing with 39 comments

David Hing
I feel a great sympathy for the City of Heroes players who have recently lost their favourite MMO to the grim abyss of cancellation. There is something incredibly final about an online game being pulled as there is so very rarely any way of clawing that experience back. Instead, all that remains is an inert double-figure-gigabyte folder sat on your hard drive and mere memories of your polygon-formed world.

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Games I'd like to unplay

Posted on 13th Dec 2012 at 09:06 by Antony Leather with 63 comments

Antony Leather
I had an interesting if slightly odd thought the other day. I like pondering about ‘what ifs’ and considering things like ‘what if this piece of hardware had been around 10 years ago?’ What difference would it have made? I realised that games are actually even more diverse than hardware when it comes to working and being good value for money or even enjoyable.

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Custom PC Issue 117

Custom PC Issue 117

Our latest issue is stuffed full of solid state goodness, with 19 of the latest SSDs put to the test. What's more we've also investigated how much memory your PC needs, and analysed the differences between desktop and tablet GPUs.

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PC Hardware Buyer's Guide August 2012

PC Hardware Buyer's Guide August 2012

Our regular guide to getting the best components for your PC build,...
Hardware 29 – We are not Server Admins

Hardware 29 – We are not Server Admins

Now that both Intel and AMD have released their next-gen, super-fast...
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