Ep.14 Why Lan Parties are a blast… and other game topics
by BlackThunder on Mar.30, 2010, under Gaming, Hardware, Podcast, Review
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This podcast is all in the spirit of gaming as a community. We talk quite a bit about the Lan Party of last weekend. But there is quite a few other PC gaming related topics we touch on, such as:
- Lan Party Details
- I wanna be the Guy
- Battlefield Bad Company 2 Gaming
- People that where at the Lan
- Kommie and Brownies
- Just Cause 2
- The Lan Playlist
- Quad Crossfire… pros and cons
- Borderlands on Eyefinity
- Ruse
- Fermi, Nvidia and GTX480
- Metro 2033
- Great March Game Specials
- Even EA employees don’t like C&C4′s online requirements
- And more DRM woes
- Newegg Special Hardware Review
- Listener Mail
- Old school gaming (Dreamcast, Commodore64 and Amiga FTW)
- Global Agenda
- Starcraft 2 (HD)
3 comments for this entry:
March 30th, 2010 on 8:17 am
For the Nvidia Fermi you neglected to mention the high amount of heat that it produces.
To have a little fun, and go extreme with required precautions for your motherboard with a couple of fermi cards in yours case i would want:
Case: Lian li 343b with 3 full watercooling loops.
*Snicker*
Great podcast guys.
March 30th, 2010 on 12:28 pm
A big thanks goes out to you guys on discussing my Dreamcast article and new rig.
Regarding some info on the whole Sega/Dreamcast thing:
One – Sega chose a proprietary storage media called GD-ROM (Giga Disc) that was developed by Sega and Yamaha.And yes, it held up to 1GB of data.
Two – you guys are correct on all accounts of why the Dreamcast died and Sega left the hardware business. Sega lost tons of money on the Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn systems. Sony whomped on Sega pretty badly during the 32-bit era and then crushed them in the 128-bit era by simply introducing the DVD drive in the PS2. Sony knew that they would recoup any loses from hardware sales through their software sales.
Three – Sonic Team developed Sonic and other great games for Sega. They were Sega’s in-house development team along with AM-2. Sega has since disbanded Sonic Team. Why? Not sure.
Anyways, great podcast as usual.
Thanks for posting my complete review on the new system.
I am now off to do a game review for the Sega Dreamcast. Which game? Which game? There are so many good ones to choose from.
November 23rd, 2010 on 5:39 pm
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