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You definitely shouldn’t buy GTA IV.

By spamfest | Published: December 7, 2008
The other day I mentioned that you probably shouldn’t buy GTA IV for PC. Well, today I’m upgrading that probably to a definitely. I made that post before any reports of just how terrible and painful the installation procedure actually was started coming in. My post was mostly related to how Rockstar ignorantly thought [...]
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ASCII Wars

By spamfest | Published: December 6, 2008
Fresh off the back of posting that last bit about the ever-present possibility of being unjustly banned from a server, it actually happened. No, seriously. Not even 48 hours after posting, me and my totally awesome in-game alias of S P A M F E S T found ourselves perma-banned from a CoD4 server I’d [...]
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You probably shouldn’t buy GTA IV.

By spamfest | Published: November 28, 2008
Sigh. Will it never end? If you’re a PC gamer, you’re probably well aware of the problems with DRM and copy protection in the past few years. It’s gotten quite out of hand recently with Mass Effect, Spore, and others, and it shows no signs of slowing down. If you’ve had any doubts, let me [...]
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Because 60 FPS is never enough.

By spamfest | Published: November 22, 2008
A few days ago I noticed this post on Gizmodo highlighting that Falcon Northwest is now selling a gaming PC capable of running Crysis on its highest settings at 60 FPS. That’s cool, I guess, because it’s apparently the first ever to manage this, but it should come as no surprise how they pulled it off [...]
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