ZT group’s Pro Gaming PC X6647 looks like a fast PC on paper, but it doesn’t live up to expectations. With Intel’s new 3.73GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPU and ATI’s 256MB Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition graphics card, we expected better results. The X6647’s 90.5 frames per second on Half-Life 2 (1,024×768) benchmark test
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Sony Online Entertainment is launching an online marketplace where fans of its multiplayer games can buy and sell virtual artifacts, a practice it previously discouraged. The Station Exchange site is apparently in response to the growing underground market for such items. The site will first offer subscribers to Sony’s EverQuest III the option to buy,
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My Pet Hotel is a people simulation that replaces most of the human characters with pets. The purpose of the game is to take care of animals for their owners, from cleaning and feeding the animals to teaching them new tricks. The pets in question range from the expected cats,dogs and rabbits to more tricky
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Many won’t recognize her name,but to followers of equine events,PippaFunnell is something of a legend.This second PC game to bear her name will probably be as much interest to non-horsey types as Championship Manager is to football haters, but it’s a fun little title that’s especially good for children. You play one of five characters
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Microsoft’s Viva Pinata X360 scrapped it out against Capcom’s Dead Rising for third-place, and Viva Pinata came out on top for its addictive, original gameplay, beautifully stylized graphics, innovative Xbox Live! integration, and family-friendly content. This is the 360’s sleeper game of the year; it also managed to be the most interesting and enjoyable game
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There were a number of great games for the PS2 in 2006 despite developers’ eagerness to jump on the next-gen bandwagon, including especially Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, which improved on 2004’s fantastic MGS3 by adding a ridiculous variety of new gameplay modes and bonus content all for $29.99, and Activision’s Guitar Hero II.
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Transition years usually are tough on the video game industry. When last-generation machines lose their luster and the installed base of next-gen consoles slowly ramps up, game sales suffer. Not this time. NPD reports that games sales were up 11% so far in 2007, and that was before a holiday season that will see the
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