Posted 07/01/2009 at 09:49:35am

Great Article Mr. McDonald, thank you for writing about the grassroots of gaming.  I am definitely going to check out Hinterland, sounds like it’s right up my alley.  :)

Does anyone else remember “Slay”?  A great little plug’n play strat game.  I think I played the first one maybe 12 years ago or so, it was on a “free” games disk from Best Buy I got when I bought Warcraft II or Lord of the Realms or something.  I loved it so much that a couple years ago when I saw that there was a new one, I downloaded the demo, played it to see the new stuff/make sure I would like it, and paid my $20 bucks for the full version.  These small games developers typically have a higher chance of peaking my interest with games and keeping it long term with the exceptions of RoN, Starcraft, Diablo II, and, to a certain extent, WoW (which I've played off and on for the last 4 years).

 

Thanks again for the article!

http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/slay.html

 

Posted 06/26/2009 at 10:26:06pm

Just stupid.  CoolerMaster is a great company but this completely misses the mark.  I can't imagine that me nor any of my friends that build PCs, would seriously consider this for a build.

Posted 06/01/2009 at 12:24:16pm

Wow, those look as sweet as the specs read.  Maybe this will be the reason I finally fork over the money and build me an i7 machine.  God I love gadget pr0n.

Posted 05/22/2009 at 10:32:02am

A similar undercover news sting happened here in MSP with similar results.  It was a couple years ago now so I don't remember the details nor could I find an interweb link to the story.  Wasn't it last year when some Geek Squad outfit in TX got busted for stealing pics, music or vids from customers computers using flash drives?  gg Geek Squad.  Geek Squad (and Best Buy IMO) fail on many levels, not just tech support.  Need Parts? yeah, New Egg and Amazon ftw.