If you are using the Steam gaming platform for some of your gaming, you might want to make it the central hub for all of your gaming programs. Adding all games to the game list in Steam could make it more comfortable to launch those games, especially if the Steam program is open anyway on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Game Booster has been designed for situations where you may benefit from additional resources of your computer when gaming. If you ever played a game with lag, freezes, pauses or stuttering sound, then you may be a candidate for the software. It basically closes unnecessary processes and services to free up system memory and sometimes [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

You might remember last month I reviewed the very sexy little Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable, their “Macbook Air killer” and absolutely loved it.  The latest box to arrive at my door from the company contained something very far removed from the Series 9.  This time they’d sent their top of the line RF711 gaming laptop. [...]

Categories: Hardware

I came into contact with E-Sports back in the day when UT99 was first released by Epic. I played several leagues, mostly CTF at that time and enjoyed the competition tremendously. Back then E-Sports was not really ready for mainstream, maybe with the exception of Korea and their state religion Starcraft. I quit after the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

When you are running high-end applications like games that benefit from every bit of extra computing power and memory they can get you may want to reduce the background processes and services to a minimum so that additional resources become available. Quite a few PC boosting applications have been released in the recent past, among [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It was a great idea that was sadly let down by poor implementation and poor support.  Games for Windows, which was launched with Windows Vista, was intended to be the marker by which consumers would know any games they bought would work happily on their Microsoft Windows computer. The seal of approval, that was carried [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Daniel back in April 2009 reviewed the first Game Booster release and came to the conclusion that it reduced some of the performance issues he was experiencing while playing GTA4. The developers of Game Booster have now published a beta version of the upcoming Game Booster 2, and boy have they changed the application. The [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Chance is you have some computer games installed on your computer. Even work related PCs have some games installed usually, even if it is only Solitaire or Minesweeper. Those games are usually accessed from the Windows start menu, or individual game shortcuts placed on the computer desktop. Most Windows users do not start games from [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Remember LAN gaming? Gaming on Local Area Networks was the way to play back in the 90s. You had to haul all your equipment to your friends or a central location if you were not lucky enough to have enough computer systems standing around for the weekly game of Quake, Half-life or Starcraft. Most games [...]

Categories: Games, Software, Windows