Anyone who’s even remotely into first person shooters on the PC has probably heard of, or come across, the Battlefield series from Electronic Arts. The first one was release way back in September of 2002, and its captivating online multiplayer scheme enthralled thousands. So, it wasn’t much of a surprise when EA followed up on [...]

A couple of months ago, I got so fed up with iTunes and its unstable nature that I completely abandoned it as my primary music player. iTunes was giving me all sorts of problems: it would crash unpredictably, it would halt podcast downloads without reason, it would require my processor’s full attention for extended periods [...]

It’s not all too often that you’ll be playing a game that does something new; something that hasn’t been done over and over again in almost every other game. One such game is Portal, a clever three dimensional puzzler based on the incredibly popular Half-Life universe.
Portal got its beginnings when a group of students from [...]

Ever wondered what all the “Web 2.0″ fuss is all about? Sure, it’s often described as the second generation of online services and applications designed to keep people social; but what does that actually mean for the average user? For an answer that leaves little doubt about the usefulness and inevitable need for powerful, interlinked [...]

I’ve been in the market for a new laptop for about half a year now and I’ve finally made up my mind and purchased an HP DV6500t. I was looking for a widescreen laptop of about 15″ in diameter with a decently fast “Santa Rosa” Intel chip and a decent nVidia graphics card. I also [...]