Breathe a sigh of relief – the weekend is almost here! During the busy holiday season it can be difficult to find ways to relieve stress. Gaming has always been a great way for me to unwind – whether it’s getting lost in another world, blasting enemies or solving puzzles. Did you know that there [...] Continue reading →

Just a quick update on Intel at Dreamhack, take a look at this video and see how DreamHackers are getting down and dirty with technology at the world’s biggest LAN fest, watch the video and you’ll get an idea of what 15,000 gamers look like when the get together for a little friendly competition, and [...] Continue reading →

Did you know that Dreamhack holds the official world record as the world’s largest LAN party in the Guinness Book of Records? Intel will be there starting today with tons of exciting activities to celebrate the arrival of the new 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition. If you can’t make it to Dreamhack [...] Continue reading →

Another week gone and another weekend coming up! Like millions of other gamers, I have gotten myself sucked into the world of Skyrim. Since the game launched last Friday, I have clocked over 40 hours in the world, but my adventure is still only just starting. If you haven’t heard of the game before, it [...] Continue reading →

The 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 Extreme (codenamed SandyBridge E) processor launches today. This beast of a CPU has 6 cores and includes Hyper-Threading – that’s up to 12 threads at your disposal. There is also the benefit of the newer architecture, a HUGE 15MB cache and 4 channels of memory. Impressive specs, no doubt, [...] Continue reading →

Remember these numbers; 3930K, 3960X and X79 because if you are a serious gamer and/or computer enthusiast into photo, video or music creation you are gonna want one. The 3930K and 3960X are the latest Intel 2nd Generation Core i7 processors being released today for the enthusiast, and X79 Express is the chipset that supports [...] Continue reading →

It might seem a bit ironic me being bursting with pride at being a member of a sisterhood, what with me being a guy who never even had a sister, but I am. The Sisterhood of CS is the fifth Computer Science club for which I am advisor. Perhaps being advisor means I am not [...] Continue reading →

The Global Challenge NY competition here at IEM Comic Con has been intense, the preliminary qualifiers have taken place and the finals have been set with WinFakt vs SK Gaming battling it out for the Counter Strike 1.6 championship, FruitDealer faces off against DongRaeGu in StarCraft II and fnatic goes up against SK Gaming for [...] Continue reading →

We have brought the show to the Big Apple, Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge is packing in the crowds here at Comic Con. Gaming enthusiasts from all over NYC and the world have converged on the Intel Tournament Arena to watch the best eSports professionals compete for $93,000 in prize money. League of Legends, Starcraft [...] Continue reading →

This weekend gamers all over the country will be participating in Extra Life, a video-gaming marathon that raises money to help kids at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The concept is very simple – gamers pledge to spend 24 hours playing games of any and all kinds and find four sponsors their game playing for just [...] Continue reading →

The Global Challenge here at Intel Extreme Masters is moving right along, Starcraft II, League of Legends and Counter Strike 1.6 brackets are slowly determining who will play in the finals on Wednesday October 5th. To try and describe the action in my blog would be a disservice to the competition so to stay up [...] Continue reading →

Round two of Intel Extreme Masters Season VI has kicked off here in Guangzhou, China. Competitors from around the world have converged on the Intel Extreme Masters arena here at the Ani-Com and Games show to do battle. Featured games are Starcraft II, League of Legends and counter Strike 1.6. Competitors will be doing battle [...] Continue reading →

As you can see by the picture, Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge here in Cologne is pretty darn popular, this was Fridays crowd watching the competition, Saturdays was bigger! So you may wonder what goes into putting on an Intel Extreme Masters? A lot of work, and literally, a ton of computers. Typically we start [...] Continue reading →

I could write about Intel Extreme Masters day 3 but I’m not going to. As I’m sitting here thinking about what to write I wonder what the readers of this blog would want to know, what interest and excites them about Intel Extreme Masters. Is it information about the competitors? Is it about Star Craft [...] Continue reading →

I could write about Intel Extreme Masters day 3 but I’m not going to. As I’m sitting here thinking about what to write I wonder what the readers of this blog would want to know, what interest and excites them about Intel Extreme Masters. Is it information about the competitors? Is it about Star Craft [...] Continue reading →

Day two here at IEM consisted of more Star Craft II and League of Legends ranking matches, there was some intense competition determining who would make the quarter finals for Star Craft II and who would come out on top in League of Legends Group A raniking. After the dust settled On the Star Craft [...] Continue reading →

Day one here at Intel Extreme Masters is wrapping up as I type this entry. Things were kind of slow today, gamescom was limited to press and industry types so traffic in the Intel Gaming area was light. The competition today consisted of Star Craft II matches between groups A and B with winners advancing. [...] Continue reading →

It seems like only last week I was writing my last entry for Intel’s Extreme Masters season V and here we are at the kick off of season VI, wow, time really does fly when you are having fun! This season promises to be even more exciting than last year beginning with the Global Challenge [...] Continue reading →

This past week I attended the Electronic Entertainment Expo, otherwise known as “E3″, held in the Los Angeles Convention Center. This industry tradeshow is all about gaming, and most of the upcoming games, gaming hardware and accessories are announced and on display at the show. This year’s show was particularly interesting, as several pieces of [...] Continue reading →

The weekend is upon yet, once again! This week I have spent quite a few hours playing L.A. Noire, the latest entry by Rockstar Games, and I plan to spend much of the weekend playing through it as well. In L.A. Noire, you play as a police detective named Cole Phelps as he makes his [...] Continue reading →