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BLOG: Ondoy not enough to keep Filipino gamer from playing?
Technograph previously reported on a picture circulating the Internet featuring a Filipino playing Left 4 Dead in shin-deep flood. The image shows the gamer seated in front of the computer, waiting for the level to load, with his ankles and feet completely submerged: It's unclear how the gamer was able to power the computer. As the height of the average wall socket places it underwater in ... Read more
BLOG: What's wrong with online PC game store Steam
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: The Samsung UA-55B8000 LED HDTV
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
