As many of you know, and by now figured out, I quit adding news to Game Spine. There are a number of reasons for this, so I’m not going to go into detail. Of course Game Spine will always host the community. Maybe I will do more with that, add some products, or… I don’t know you tell me. /shrug see you in the forums and in game.

    When Crysis was released in 2007, there wasn’t really a computer that could run the game on maximum graphical detail.  I still don’t think there is.  I recently tested the game on my friend’s brand-new $4,000 machine, only to find him dismayed when he discovered Crysis had low frame-rates when the anti-aliasing was turned on.  But at a resolution of 1920x1080, with settings and special effects turned up to “really high” (using DirectX 10), I couldn’t see the point in enabling anti-aliasing.  The game looks better than most other shooters even at low detail.  But, for the purposes of this article, I decided to run the game at different settings on my “Windows XP” computer and make comparisons of those settings.  I will also give a brief testament to what (little?) you’re missing out on if you aren’t playing this game on “Windows Vista.”

  Watching others play solo player video games can get dull and drawn out, yet Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (GH3) is an exception. We all know what it feels like gathering in a group of friends and watching one person play a game, long and dull. GH3 has solved this problem for all gamers. GH3 is both addictive as a solo game and as a group experience. Groups can gather around a television to watch and root each other along while listening to both classic and modern rock songs. For an added extra, at the conveniently “low” cost of roughly $80 you can buy a second guitar and be stars in a whole new world with GH3...

            “Hey dude.  Is that World of Warcraft you’re playing?”

            “No, it’s (insert non-WoW MMORPG here).”

            “It looks like World of Warcraft.”

            “Well, it’s (insert non-WoW MMORPG here).”

            “It looks pretty much the same.  What’s the difference?”

            “There are a lot of differences.  Different game mechanics, spells, classes, environments.”

            “So basically it’s WoW.”

            This is the common conversation I have with any of my roommates who catch me playing any MMORPG that isn’t World of Warcraft.  It infuriates me.  It makes me wish I had never played WoW...