As I wrote last week, Steam is the reason I don't play pirated games. The online game store regularly offers the latest games and classics at very reasonable prices, usually close enough to what you'd usually pay for pirated PC game CDs/DVDs. Yet Steam has numerous issues that users have grumbled about for a long time. Here are some of them: You have to download the game. After you p... Read more
BLOG: Why I don't play pirated games on the PC
Last April, I signed up for an account at Steam, an online PC game store maintained by Valve, the makers of the popular Half-Life series. Through Steam, I bought The Orange Box, an award-winning PC gaming bundle. For $20, I got the following games: Half-Life 2Half-Life 2: Episode OneHalf-Life 2: Episode TwoHalf-Life 2: Lost CoastTeam Fortress 2Portal ... Read more
BLOG: You call these iPhone apps games?
What's going on here? You call these things games? Recently, the video game industry has taken a turn towards casual gaming: small, cheap games that appeal to your sister, your girlfriend, and your kids. You know, the demographic that's not usually associated with gaming. Everyone's doing it nowadays: Apple's iPhone apps, PSP Minis, Xbox Live Arcade, and you can argue that Nint... Read more
BLOG: The Samsung UA-55B8000 LED HDTV
Posted on: 10/13 by Rico Mossesgeld
Tagged as Samsung UA-55B8000, Samsung, Samsung LED TV, LED TV, 55-inch
Tagged as Samsung UA-55B8000, Samsung, Samsung LED TV, LED TV, 55-inch
Yesterday saw us getting introduced to the Samsung UA55B8000, a 55-inch LED TV that features a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 (16:9 aspect ratio). Despite the display size and the P240,000 SRP, this Series 8 TV is literally as thick as the diameter of a P5 coin. The pictures in this article don't really do justice to the TV's picture quality, and they definitely don't capture th... Read more
BLOG: Typhoon Ondoy techie postscript
I'll admit this post about the biblical flood that hit Manila is a little late, but as we're still feeling the effects of the devastation, I'll venture that it's not too late. If anything, Typhoon Ondoy has opened our eyes to how vulnerable we are to the ravages of nature and reawakened the indestructible spirit of the Filipino – our hard-nosed survival instincts and ge... Read more
