Monthly Archives: May 2007
Paradox Interactive – Frontline: Fields of Thunder
Thank goodness for WWII, or companies like Nival Interactive wouldn’t have found such a fertile creative source for their games. The Russian developers have earned a respected niche in the RTS wargame market with their Blitzkrieg series and, despite going through a few name change developments (the last was Frontline Kursk), their latest war baby…
VCOM – Fix-It Utilities Pro 7
The latest version of Fix-It Utilities offers up a suite of programs to keep your PC running as smoothly as possible. Along with the central diagnostic and maintenance software, a virus scanner and anti-spyware program (courtesy of Trend Micro) are included, which is beyond the standard remit of this sort of package. Of course, most…
Kyocera Mita – FS-4000DN
The one thing you really pay for in laser printers is speed. If you want a fast machine, suitable to share across a workgroup, there’s a considerable price premium. The FS-4000DN from Kyocera Mita is rated at 45ppm (pages per minute) and, even at street prices, costs well over £700. The design is conventional enough;…
Codemasters – Brian Lara International Cricket 2007
Cricket and video games are a combination that has so far failed to convincingly gel, so it’s to the credit of Codemasters’ Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 that it gets closer than most. Released to coincide with the Cricket World Cup, it’s unsurprising that a mode to recreate the tournament is present and correct from…
BenQ – MP611
First impressions of the BenQ MP611 are favourable. It has a smart, shiny casing that is dark blue in colour, while the nine control buttons on the top of the casing come in a variety of shapes and sizes and certainly catch the eye. It’s reasonably small at 278 x 220 x 94mm and is…
Mio – DigiWalker H610
Over the last six months or so we’ve seen the traditional in-car GPS updated to include a range of extra features, including MP3 players, walking modes and travel guides. With devices shrinking in size and compatible GPS modules now available for mobile phones, this form of navigation is clearly one of the hottest developments of…
Lexicon Entertainment – Another World 15th Anniversary
Let’s have a moment of nostalgia (which is, after all, the reason we’re looking at the 15th anniversary edition of an old game). Back when Another World first appeared on the trusty, beloved Commodore Amiga (PC gamers may remember it as Out of this World), it looked the business. The then-terrific opening animation was widely…
Foxconn – GeForce 8800GTS 320 Overclocked Edition
When Nvidia unleashed the mighty G80 core on an unsuspecting world, the first choruses of approval for the DirectX 10 capable card were dampened down by the fierce price tag it carried (around the £400 mark) for the high end 8800GTX. Even its less capable sibling, the 8800GTS, had a price of around £300. To…
BHV Software – PC Aquarium Deluxe 4
Fish. We watch them to feel better about ourselves. They help us to relax, to unwind, and generally to remember that however bad life might be, at least we’re not swimming around in a one foot cube sucking up other folk’s poop twenty-four hours a day. A real aquarium is quite a hassle to look…
RIM – BlackBerry 8800
RIM has a fight on its hands with the BlackBerry. There was a time when, as a mobile e-mail device, it was in a very small group indeed. But not today. Nokia’s Series 60 and Windows Mobile make mobile e-mail a breeze, and the smartphones they power are also competent multimedia devices. RIM’s challenge is…