Stories by Darren Gladstone

Article | 5/09/2008 LAN party survival guide
Don't know what a LAN party is? It's a room full of folks getting together to play games. Also, to check out each other's case mods. And occasionally ...
Article | 1/09/2008 The Specs that matter (and the specs that don't)
It usually goes like this: An ad in the paper (or online) catches your eye. It lists a few product specs and claims some special features, but that's ...
Article | 22/08/2008 Intel's Core 2 Extreme mobile chips: a new speed king
How do you define "Extreme"? How about as a high-velocity, quad-core processor packed into a mobile platform? That's what Intel announced this afterno...
Article | 29/07/2008 The episodic game guide
So many games ask you to shell out 50 or 60 bucks, and for what? Thirty or so hours of playtime? Great, but what if you don't want to spend a whole we...
Article | 18/07/2008 10 great free games
I'm all for celebrating slack on a weekly basis here at PC World, but there's something more tangible that I like just as much: free games.
Article | 16/07/2008 Sony's big gaming announcements
Blu-ray may have won the HD wars, but Sony has a lot to prove this year at E3.
Article | 16/07/2008 Sony ups $US399 PS3 to 80GB, unveils new PSP, PS2 bundles
Sony Computer Entertainment America's Jack Tretton has plans to get more PlayStation 3s and PlayStation Portables in gamers' hands.
Article | 16/07/2008 Coming Soon: Wii Resort, Wii Music and Clone Wars
Showing off what the new advanced Wii MotionPlus attachment can do: Wii Sports Resort. The first activity Nintendo demonstrated: Disc Dog, chuck a Fri...
Article | 16/06/2008 This season's mini-laptops
A new breed of extremely small and light (2 pounds or so) laptop has emerged just in time for summer travel. Called mobile Internet devices (MIDs), an...
Article | 3/06/2008 Conan fights four free MMOs
Welcome back to PC World's ongoing effort to celebrate sloth. This week, we're monkeying around in one epic, action-heavy online game for which you wo...
Article | 3/06/2008 Sci-Fi channel has head in cloud (computing)
The buzzword: cloud computing. The technique harnesses servers' power to share the workload, run Web-based Google apps or combine CPUs for cancer rese...
Article | 28/05/2008 17 sweet smartphone tweaks and games
Games on your cell phone - lame, you say?
Article | 26/05/2008 Taking Nintendo's Wii Fit for a test run
Senior Writer Darren Gladstone takes a look at Nintendo's new Wii Fit exercise and weight-loss programs, assisted by the Wii Balance Board.
Article | 12/05/2008 Can Grand Theft Auto teach you Russian?
Olaf Kopetsch, who lives in Germany, always tries to get his hands on American video games and movies--partly because he wants to play the unedited ve...
Article | 21/02/2008 Online gaming gets cheaper
The online gaming universe takes a page from Radiohead's book as big companies like EA tinker with "pay-what-you-want" gaming experiences.

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