• 10Sep 08

  Free Steam Games

  Steam - valve's online game distribution service, still painfully slow but you have to agree it's growing very rapidly. Some people doesn't like that at all. Anyways i just notice that steam official site giving away some free games, there is no catch; the only thing you need a steam account, that's all. And one more thing you have to use ATI or NVIDIA card and i think most of you using either one of the cards.

  

  Here is the link: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

  Steam offering total 4 games - Half Life 2: Deathmatch, Half Life 2: Lost Coast, Peggle Extreme and Portal: first slice which has 11 levels from full game. ATI card owner can download first 2 games - HL2 Deathmatch and HL2: Coast to Coast.

  
  

  Here is the link: http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

  On the other hand NVIDIA card owner can download 2 additional games beside those 2 offered for ATI users - Peggle Exteme and Portal. If you haven't played Peggle - just try it, awesome puzzle game and i don't think i need to say anything about Portal. I already have Orange Box, so only game i downloaded is HL2: Deathmatch, FYI other games are included in the Orange Box. And one more thing you can't download NVIDIA games if you have an ATI card.

  Check my site @ www.tadevil.com

  I still have one Team Fortress 2 guess pass and it's going to be expired on 21st this month, so if anyone wants to play TF2 - just PM me.

  • Posted Sep 10, 2008 6:59 pm PT
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• 3Sep 08

  Warhammer Online

  

  Anyone here interested about Warhammer games? I am not a huge Warhammer fan more like Warcraft, Age of empire enthusiast when it comes to RTS games. But i have to agree i enjoyed Warhammer 40k games. The online reason now i am downloading the beta cause i read GameInformer( June 08 ) article on this game and several gameplay features made me a future fan. I want to add some quote from GI - "...the focus has shifted toward encouraging players to taka part in large public PvP areas that can be found in nearly every zone." Check the IGNs beta preview if you want to learn more about the almost finished game. http://pc.ign.com/articles/906/906266p2.html

  

  

  From the sceenshots and gameplay video game is looking exceptionally polished and ready to go. I am hoping to post another blog after playing the game for several hours. i never played World of warcraft and only MMORPG i played for over 100 hours is Dungeon Runners. i never like the monthly subscription fee that is $15, warhammer will have same kinda fee, so i am sure i am not going to play the full game even if i like the game, in my opinion online game should follow the fps game rule like Team Fortress, Call of Duty, where you buy a game and play as long as you wish without paying extra money.

  
  

  if you are wondering from where i am downloading the beta, the answer is on the image above - Fileplanet. From their site beta will be playable from September 7th so i am going to play that game 12 days before most the gamers and also i don't have to pay a dime. It will take some time to finish the downloading - it's almost 10 GB (9.38 exactly). According to the official site so far almost 900K people applied for beta participation, not bad for game that is not related with WOW.

  Check my site @ www.tadevil.com

  • Posted Sep 3, 2008 7:23 pm PT
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• 7Aug 08

  Summer Almost Over

  Summer is almost over here in States. I had a mixed summer this year. Bought some new electronics, broke one. I have been working in a motel for last two months here in IL, it's time to go back to Missouri. Most probably next Tuesday. First - i broke my PSP - not completely, it fell from my hands and now power switch doesn't work anymore and i am going to repair that when i go back to town. I always had plan to buy a camera, just waiting for a good deal, after browing through camera review websites, i decided to go for Kodak MD863. Obviously it's not the best but for a casual photographer like me it was perfect. It cost me $140 plus i bought one 2 GB SD card.

  I had some other option like Nikon, Canon but most of the cameras in that price range use AAA battery and i simply didn't like that and looking for Li-ion and after using it for over 2 weeks i have to say i am impressed, both image and video quality are quite good. I will recommended this camera to everyone looking for a camera within that price range.

  As a told you before, i broke my PSP that i also used for mp3 player and if anyone worked in a motel knows that you get plenty free time and some music helps during work time, so i needed to buy a player and didn't want to spend $150 - 200 for an Ipod. but i was also looking for a tiny but player with great functionalities. After checking out couple of players i decided to get Creative Zen - 4 GB.

  

  i like the SD card slot, that means i can put my huge collection of english, hindi, bangla songs in that. Beside having regular features like FM radio, Picture and microphone option, the video quality is really good for small screen (320 x 240). Battery life span is incredible and it's tiny and very light. It cost me ~$100. The only 2 objections i have about this player are - there is no external speaker so it's not possible to hear with an ear bud and no direct switch for changing the volume - otherwise it's a near perfect mp3 player.

  One thing i should write that i had to return the first Zen i bought from Walmart cause it was not functioning properly but i haven't had any problem with this one. And i think Creative customer support deserves a praise for super fast and helpful info.

  Check My Site @ http://tadevil.com

  • Posted Aug 7, 2008 5:57 pm PT
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