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In
the new PCFormat
February
2009
Budget
Big
Screen Supertest – 6 pixel-pumping panels are put to the test.
Take a look at which monitor not only suits
your eyes but also your pocket.
Build
a
DX11 rig for only R6 400 – DirectX 11
has burst onto the scene and demands a lot more from your PC. We show
you which
parts to pick in order to build a DX11 rig that can play the games you
want to
play but still keep to your budget.
Google:
Good
or Bad? – PCF takes a closer look at the Google and
ponders
what would happen if the big G decided to use all your information
against you.
Not all is doom and gloom as Brett also looks at how Google has helped
in our
daily lives.
Games!
Dragon
Age:
Origins is decreed to be the must have RPG of the season while Left 4
Dead
2 has the office wielding shotguns in an effort to stave off zombie
invasion. We
also take a look at the latest football titles PES 2010 and Football
Manager
2010. Top top it all off we take an in-depth look at Borderlands and the
intricacies of level designs in games.
Wired!
The
new ATI Radeon HD5970 is put through its paces and yield some exciting
results
with pants stretching effects. We take a look at Evetech’s new custom
rig which
features two HD5850s in CrossFire. Asus’ and Gigabyte’s latest USB 3.0
motherboards which also feature SATA 3. The new Garmin Nuvi 1410 is put
through
its paces and helps to navigate the PCF guys around Jozi.
The Usual Suspects
Brett
watches a girl in her PJs play on a Wii and shrugs it off as a new meme
and
then breaks down the origin of Om Nom Nom Nom. Asus is giving away two
awesome
motherboards in this month’s competition. Luis takes a stab at your tech
problems and adds his own mixture of annoyance and sarcasm to the mix.
On Sale Now!
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A South Australian law came into effect earlier this year that will
force anyone in the region posting online comments about the upcoming
20 March elections to place their real name and postal code along with
the comment. This would apply to anyone posting comments on news
websites as well as social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook
The Minnesota Zoo in partnership with Eduweb, an educational games
company, has released a second instalment of a wildlife simulator
revolving around being a wolf at Yellowstone National Park. The first
release, called WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountain, sees the player exploring
the wilderness, hunting elk and interacting with other wolves with the
aim of finding a mate.
Mozilla has officially released Firefox Mobile v1.0 for the Nokia
N900’s Maemo OS. The Maemo OS has been developed by Nokia and is based
on the Debian Linux distribution. Mozilla has decided to disable the
Flash plugin do to performance degradation but does welcome users who
are interested in re—enabling this feature
If behind your human exterior pumps the green blood of a Vulcan then
there is no doubt that you have worked yourself into a frenzy over the
release of Star Trek: Online. Star Trek: Online is set 30 years after
the Star Trek: Nemesis movie. Cryptic has crafted a full back story
which is available on 
Inspired
Instruments Inc have announced a new Guitar Hero/Rock Band peripheral
at CES this year. The You Rock guitar is not only designed to be used
as a Guitar Hero/
Rock Band peripheral but also to be used as a MIDI controller or as a
proper guitar when plugged into an amplifier or headphones
Ubisoft is revealing a new DRM measure with the launch of the Settlers
7 beta with will apparently be replacing their previous Starforce DRM
solution. Players will be required to log into their Ubi.com account
every time they wish to play Settlers 7, in what may become a model for
all Ubisoft titles
Hebz al-Islam, an Islamic insurgency group in Somalia, banned video
games late last week, claiming that the pastime is eroding the
country’s social norms. This came via a statement that was distributed
around the areas of Somalia that the insurgents currently control.
The U.S. Department of Defence (Defense if you are an American) has
posted a story about the Office of Naval Research’s work with videogame
training. It appears that exposure to video games improves perceptual
and cognitive ability in soldiers, according to Program Officer Ray
Perez.
A recent CNN video report on the suicide of a nine year old American
boy named Montana Lance has seen Clinical Psychologist Dr Brenda Wade
dropping at least part of the blame on violent video games. The child,
a fourth grade pupil at Steward Creek Elementary School in Texas, hung
himself in the school bathrooms after asking the school nurse to be
allowed to go to the restroom before locking himself in.
Interplay announced via a press release last week that they are
continuing work on the Fallout MMO (we assume) codenamed Project V13.
Interplay have apparently signed a deal with Bulgarian MMO developer
Masthead Studios, allowing them to uses the proprietary engine that
Masthead used to create Earthrise, a post-apocalyptic MMO
Assassin’s Creed II will be getting its first load of DLC later on this
week. The official release date for the Xbox 360 and PS3 downloadable
content is 28 January and the first DLC pack will be The Battle of
Forli.
