Force Feedback for less than $100 A cheap joystick can ruin a game, just like any other piece of hardware. To win in the crowded controller market, today’s manufacturer must offer a comfortable grip, well placed buttons, while maintaining razor sharp accuracy. Did I mention keep the price down as well? AVB seems to have [...]

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This is the one you have been waiting for Many have wondered if it could be done. Some thought it impossible. But it has happened. Quake is no longer the preeminent force in the world of deathmatch. Unreal Tournament challenged Quake3, and has emerged as a worthy successor to the crown. Diverse gameplay, tough bots, [...]

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Its all in the details USAF is the latest survey sim from renowned developer Jane’s. A survey sim is a game that encompasses several aircraft, rather than focusing entirely on a single plane (such as the upcoming FA-18). Of course, in order to do this, and not release a six disc boxed set; some compromises [...]

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Brief Introduction I built my game rig about 2 months back, and like all performance freaks, I wanted to see how well my new system stacked up against the competition. So I did a little research to see how everybody “in the industry” tested their game systems. Now before I get too much further, let [...]

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A review of this nice ATX board from MSI.

http://wwwapps.ups.com/tracking/tracking.cgi?tracknum=1Z7123280394828039 With the advent of eBay, and online computer parts trading, I thought it appropriate to take this week to talk about shipping.  After all, we can’t e-mail each other sound cards, or laptop CMOS batteries. We all know that The United States Postal Service is more known to make shipping accidents than UPS, or [...]

There hasn’t been much controversy that has surfaced in the computing industry between Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and the others in the past few weeks.  Maybe it’s because it’s the beginning of summer, where people tend to spend more time outside, and thus, less time on their computers, and buying things for their computers.  Whatever the [...]

American Micro Devices (AMD) has recently announced that they have been sold out of all of their CPUs, the K6-2, K6-III, and AMD Athlon Processors for the second fiscal quarter of the year 2000.  This announcement comes on the heels of the recent winning finish in the race for 1GHz.  Anyone that has been in [...]

With the 8088 and 8086 processor, Intel brought the world into a new era, the era of the home computer.  Ever since then, the computer has grown into the main staple of every day life.  For the first time in history it seems, that Intel isn’t the only major supplier of computer processors.  AMD has [...]

Let’s take a look at a micro-ATX board that really doesn’t boast much.