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  • CTS 2005: Saitek, cool in bloo

    15 April 2005, 00:00

    The X52 has been designed using feedback from the gamers using the X45, addresses many of the niggles from the previous stick and adds a few totally new touches. For ...

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  • ACON5: Warcraft 3 Top Ten players for ACON5 announced

    15 April 2005, 00:00

    So there’s a real spread from right across the country, with Squeex making a strong showing with 3 players in the top ten, closely followed by Cyber Emporium with two ...

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  • ACON5: ABIT release ACON5 prize list

    15 April 2005, 00:00

    Having thoroughly pilfered their partners store cupboards, warehouse managers at ATI, Chenbro, Corsair, Intel, Creative and Logitech are scratching their heads wondering where some serious amounts of hardware have gone ...

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  • Review: Sony Playstation Portable

    14 April 2005, 00:00

    It’s not often that anything remotely techie raises more than a resigned sigh from the missus, but even she was impressed by the look of the PSP.

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  • Gizmondo price drop

    12 April 2005, 00:00

    At £229 a pop, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Gizmondo would need to shift roughly 3,500 units in a fairly short space of time to break ...

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  • ACON5: Birmingham Qualifier

    10 April 2005, 00:00

    With this being an open tournament, winning a regional was all that a team needs to get to the UK finals, so you’d expect the gaming centres hosting the events ...

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  • Review: TrackMania: Sunrise

    7 April 2005, 00:00

    So, what did I think of TM:Sunrise as a game? Is it worth your dosh? Well, that is actually far trickier to answer than you’d expect, as I’ve now got ...

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  • ACON5: Interview with Sujoy Roy

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    At the Harrow Arena yesterday I was lucky enough to buttonhole Sujoy Roy, famously the UK’s first professional gamer. He’s a very down to earth chap who now spends his ...

  • Review: Will Of Steel

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Now, I’ve really have given the headset and voice control a fair crack as a game that can be near completely voice controlled is a superb idea and allows for ...

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  • TrackMania Sunrise

    19 March 2005, 00:00

    The basic premise of the game remains the same… fling your vehicle around race tracks featuring completely OTT jumps, ramps and pipes and cross the finish line first. That’s in ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: Gizmondo out this week

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    There’s plenty else to talk about with the Gizmondo, which seems to me to be smaller and lighter than the units I saw running at Gamestars in 2004. With Gizmondo ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: FIRST LOOK - RAPTOR-GAMING M2 Mouse

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    But the M2 goes much farther than simple ergonomics, it has two innovations that make it stand out from the crowd.

  • CEBIT 2005: Team AMD

    13 March 2005, 00:00

    It sounds like a dream job, doesn’t it? Someone pays your costs to fly around the world, play some games, maybe win a bit of cash and then come home. ...

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  • Review: Pro Rugby Manager 2

    9 March 2005, 00:00

    You can sort out sponsorship deals for the club, give post match interviews and try and poach promising players from other clubs. If you’re particularly nasty, you could give a ...

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  • Linux Gaming

    4 March 2005, 00:00

    Linux has proper 3D support - at Bloodline I was equipped with a GeForce 6800. Linux is 100% compatible with your £50 Pro Gamer mouse mat, ultra-high precision mouse, and ...

  • Preview - Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich

    2 March 2005, 00:00

    From the 2D artwork and lettering prevalent through the non-game screens through to the super-cheesy square jawed, deep voiced heroic dialogue, FFvsTTR just roars out with fun and light heartedness ...

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  • Pariah

    25 February 2005, 00:00

    Earlier this week I found myself back in London, freezing cold and wandering around outside Victoria station on my way to a preview session of Pariah, the new game from ...

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  • Punisher

    17 February 2005, 00:00

    Now it’s not often that you’ll find me hanging around Soho, well, not in daylight hours anyway, but today was a little different. I’d been given the privilege of an ...

  • Review: Call of Duty: United Offensive Expansion Pack

    2 February 2005, 00:00

    Anyone who’s played CoD won’t have forgotten the Pegasus Bridge mission where, as things get more desperate, time is ticking down and the attacks become more ferocious, then up comes ...

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  • Review: Commodore 64 DTV

    13 January 2005, 00:00

    What can I say? I'm a nostalgia junkie when it comes to reliving my childhood, and this product has caught me hook, line and sinker in that respect. If you ...

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  • Taking SLI and X850 XT PE to Bloodline

    15 December 2004, 00:00

    Both running with 19 inch AG Neovo LCD monitors that are absolutely gorgeous, they weren't just for show, gamers able to play a few games on them too, to see ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III - HEXUS at Bloodline

    9 December 2004, 00:00

    This is the first large-scale LAN event that I have ever been to, and I must say I was quite impressed. LANning it up with such a large number of ...

  • Review: Far Cry

    8 December 2004, 00:00

    Not only are the graphics great, the physics are wonderful too. Far Cry is a testament to getting the physics of a game right. Crytek must have put some serious ...

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  • Review: Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War

    1 December 2004, 00:00

    The missions themselves usually start with your commander and a few troops securing an area and this is where the resource management and building aspects of the game come in. ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III - Bloodline - Lan Guide!

    29 November 2004, 00:00

    Ok, so you’ve booked your ticket and you’re already to go to your first commercial LAN. This is going to be a big event with more than the usual few ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III - Bloodline - CPL - The History

    28 November 2004, 00:00

    In a few days time, the Bloodline LAN will be host to the deciding round in the Intel Extreme Challenge, a competition to find two players worthy of joining the ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III - Bloodline - Interview with Nick Knupffer

    28 November 2004, 00:00

    We managed to get Nick Knupffer, Intel UK PR Manager and organiser of the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Challenge III - Bloodline to get a few answers about Intel, ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III - Bloodline

    27 November 2004, 00:00

    Clear your calendar, take a sickie from work and excuse yourself from your loved ones, you’ve got some serious gaming to do. Sure, you’ve read about massive LANs before, perhaps ...

  • Review: Resident Evil: Outbreak

    26 November 2004, 00:00

    The Resident Evil series has been so popular because of its action/puzzle style of gameplay. If you were looking for fast and frantic blasting, you’ll have to go elsewhere. Sure, ...

  • Review: Doom 3

    24 November 2004, 00:00

    Doom 3 casts you as an un-named marine posted to a Mars of the future, around 150 years from now. A mega-corporation called UAC has established a base on the ...

  • Review: Half Life 2

    21 November 2004, 00:00

    So, do we have the masterpiece that everyone else is crowing about? Is this a great leap forward from the first instalment? Is it better than Doom 3 or Far ...

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  • Review: Pacific Fighters

    1 November 2004, 00:00

    All in all, this effort from 1C Maddox positively reeks of being a rushed job. No doubt UbiSoft's thinking is to get the game out before people go and blow ...

  • ACON Fatal1ty Great Wall Shootout

    29 October 2004, 00:00

    Fatal1ty has an envyable lifestyle: Travel the world playing games, shattering the egos of many wannabe gaming kings and queens. Recently, Fatal1ty's gaming conquest took him to the Great Wall ...