I've got an Athlon XP 3000+ PC with 1GB RAM and an nVidia 6800GT.
I might be able to get my hands on a server which is being replaced -
it has a dual Xeon setup with 2GB RAM. The Xeons are the 3.4GHz
Prestonia revision, i.e. based on the Pentium 4.

I was really looking forward to STALKER for months, but when it finally
came out, it was bad timing all around.  Too many other games to play,
real-life circumstances cutting into my gaming time...
Then, when I did load it up, I found it to be so difficult, even with the

Yeah, I know, there has been numerous of these but, still...
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/07/18/bioshock_hands-on_preview/1
"I'm sitting down to write this and it's just gone 2:30 PM GMT. I've
been back from my hands-on preview of Bioshock for about two and a

Riku a veteran and regular Usenet posters has a flaw which sometimes
can become a big impediment... he doesn't understand that the majority
of us don't read inside threads
I can only remember in the last 2 years Riku starting up a thread once

Have you noticed that "pc games" rants have become more illogical and
his personal verbal assaults have become seriously tainted with
obscenity? Expanding his knowledge of the English vocabulary?
I doubt it. I suspect something a lot more sinister....

A short story - please read if you've got some time, it's an insight
into my brain-damaged and warped mind:
Several months ago, I decided to pack it all in and move entirely to
Linux, or at least attempted to. I've wanted to for some time, being the

Watch out Top 10 Up Coming Games
http://videogameplus.blogspot.com/2007/07/top-10-up-coming-games.html

Many by only playing the demo wrongly judged "Alpha Prime"
http://www.alpha-prime.com/
Not only "Alpha Prime" is a solid, very well made FPS for the PC but
it has a unique level.

...since THQ are now distributing through Valve.
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1115
£15 for Company of Heroes is tempting as I never did pick that one up.
Cheaper than play.com too - they have it at £18.50.  That said however

Careful with Vince he is BAD intentioned!
Yesterday I received a email from him, a reply from one of the posts I
did in this group
So if he used email I though he wanted to continue the discussion by

Yes as along time contributor I know this suggestion comes up every now and
then but being a 56 year old gamer since pong and primarily a pc gamer I
have never seen it like this.  Summer and Christmas just like the movies is
Pc gaming season and there is nothing notable this ...

I've been spending many a late night trying to finish this game. I
KNOW I'm really close. I'm in "ground zero," I just jumped off a
balcony and was surrounded by ghosts as though  I was Paris Hilton and
they were the photographers. I finally killed them all and now I'm

Well, after viewing the 'new' (apparently it is many months old) Crysis vid
on fileshack, you can certainly make this argument.  Same old patrols
walking around the beach, same jungle plants, same brackets around the
targets, same boats patrolling the bay.

Anyone here got to unlock any of the additional weapons yet? I have made it to
Lance Corporal so far but still no dice. I have the basic medals for all
classes. Bronze, Silver and Gold stars and some kind of combat ribbon but it
doesn't want to know.

Is it just me, or has this newsgroup been suffering an increase in spam
threads over the last few weeks/months? Not including our resident
troll, but moreso the bots posting thing about selling gold, surveys and
etc.