Mine would probably have to be a clan match in Halo 2 from around 2005 or 2006. It was an 8 vs 8 Capture The Flag (which makes me think it was a nonstandard match, but I seem to remember Big Team Battle being included for a brief time in the clan fights). Anyway, it was on Coagulation (Halo 2's version of Blood…

I’m gonna disagree. Nod can’t even really use stealth and guerilla tactics in this environment, which is what they were known for in the original games.

Why is General Soloman no longer James Earl Jones?

Also a fan since Red Alert, right as Counterstrike and Aftermath launched. I was shocked to see EA’s emblem on Red Alert 2 when it came out and could only think “This isn’t going to end well...” EA earned a new hater that day. And that loathing has only grown snowballed like a Katamari ever since.

That is almost my favorite thing to come out of Red Alert 3. Second only to the U.S. President’s campaign ads.

In the mid to late 90s, my dad actually worked at Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas and he was one of the main programmers for the Osprey’s avionics and flight data systems. And then, sometime around 99 or 2000, new management came in and as their first action they replaced a bunch of staff, including him and his…

As someone who liked the story enough to read the books since the Fall of Reach came out and played all the games, gotta agree on Reach being the best, with Bungie going out on a high note. I didn’t really care for 4's story, nor change in aesthetic, but I couldn’t believe how bad 5 was. I watched all the cutscenes on…

Man, Afterbirth+ ramped up the bonkers like Rebirth did to the original Flash-based game. It’s well worth it.

I’ve been reading these stories for a couple years now, and I guess I feel like adding one of mine. This takes place in summer of 2003, around the time I would have turned 17 years old, in one of the suburbs to the North of Dallas, Texas. Around this time, coyotes had started becoming problems in several cities. Not a…

That must not have been recently or a very good model. We’ve been using a fairly cheap HD unit in our living room for two years on a white wall (not even a screen) and the picture has always looked pretty good. With the lights on, the picture doesn’t look as good, but it’s far from bad. Aside from about a 2 minute…

I don’t know if I agree with that, since that AMD thwomps my Intel in nearly every category. The only real advantage the 920 has is having the PCIe lanes controlled by what’s left of the North Bridge, and even that is debatable as I’m restricted to PCIe 2.0.

I really like Corsair’s cases and want to get one for whenever I eventually replace my current rig, but I have to admit I have an unrequited, and possibly unnatural, love affair with the 200mm fans on my HAF-X. I go by the same philosophy as you, every fan mount is occupied, but instead of an AIO on the processor I…

Just out of curiosity, what case do you have?

Never know man, advances in programming haven’t really stressed CPUs as hard as they have in past decades. I have an i7-920 pushing damn near 7 years old and I haven’t encountered any games that give it much grief. Granted, a current-gen i7 would beat the unholy hell out of it (having built two 5820K machines at work…

Could always use one to run dedicated PhysX and take some strain off the potential 970. I have a friend’s old 570 in mine doing that (card can’t render video properly and seizes, but running PhysX calculations doesn’t seem to bother it) and it does make a difference in some games. I’ve been able to push it a bit…

Heh, it didn’t even occur to me that you had the same specs across the sticks, just in different capacities. For some reason, my brain just automatically assumed they were entirely different.

I have my 920 mildly overclocked to 3.5, but the RAM is still set to the default 1333, even though the DIMMs are technically…

Ah, okay. It’s been a while since I did much overclocking, do more modern BIOSes allow for individual clocks on each stick/channel?

I have to ask, what is your RAM setup? I have 24GB myself, but that’s on an old 1366 i7-920, which has 6 DIMM slots and maxes out there.

As a counterpoint, Forbes has published many articles about Nintendo’s imminent downfall, which have all been poorly researched at best. Not saying you don’t have a point in your statement, just that Forbes has a historically bad track record when it comes to reports on gaming in general.

I really do hope that WB does something to redeem themselves for this whole debacle. This is a good, though definitely heavy handed, first step.