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Splinter Cell DLC maps on Steam

As I have posted on the Steam forums (here) there is a way to get the DLC maps (Kolacell, Vselka Infiltration, Vselka Submarine) on your Steam copy of Splinter Cell. This may also apply to you if you have a copy of Splinter Cell and cannot get the DLC maps/update to install. This fix requires using regedit, [...]

On Acceleration and Sensitivity

In our universe we have many forces–gravity, magnetism and acceleration. I could go on. No force is as hard to master as mouse acceleration. You see, mouse acceleration is one of those things like wide-screen support–only some developers understand it. It takes a little bit of effort to implement, and makes every one’s lives easier when [...]

PS3 and why it is a failure

Released in late 2006, the PS3 was billed by many as being the next generation of gaming because of its fancy Cell and Blu-ray technology, there was so much bullshit PR hype about the Cell processor, yet few even cared to read the details. In short it was going to kill every other gaming system [...]

Full Throttle review

I first recall playing Full Throttle in primary school on an old mac; it was absolutely great then however I cannot recall ever playing through the entire game. It has been at least 13 long years since I last played this game. I was visiting my regular game store and I saw 2 copies of Full [...]

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars review

I first played Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (alternatively titled Circle of Blood in the US) on a mac; it was included on a demo disk with a magazine around the time of its release (1996). The scenes of Paris in the game are absolutely stunning and I can still recall the scenes [...]