AMD HD 4770: Update

We’ve had a bit more time to play around with a HD 4770 and continue to be very impressed. We bought in at the £80/ $120 point with a Sapphire Radeon 512Mb. So far, we’ve no complaints. It runs cool, and runs WoW, Sims 3, Assassin’s Creed and the like with plenty of [...]

Comic Life

Comic Life has been around on Macs for a while but the Windows copy arrived later. We’ve been trying it out for several months and it’s a lot of fun. Which is more than I can say for any other page layout or DTP software I’ve used.

The idea is to let [...]

AD&D 4e: One Year On

AD&D 4e has been out for a year and it continues to get mixed reactions from RPG players. Some players see changes from AD&D 3.5e as unnecessary and feel that the game has moved closer to videogames like WoW and Diablo. Others like the emphasis on combat and seem more than happy to [...]

Sims 3: No More Homework

Well not so much homework. Sims 2 and its many add-ons have sold millions of copies but the franchise was definitely due for an update. Too many repetitive tasks, impossible targets, ‘more of the same’ expansions and moody Sims have made each successive Sims 2 expansion more tired than the last.

The [...]

AMD HD 4770

Sub-£100 graphics cards are often a disappointment to gamers hoping to play the latest titles. New games may run on cheap cards but the chances are that a lot of effects are going to have to be switched off. Enter AMD’s Radeon HD 4770, a technologically advanced card that comes in at well [...]