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• eVGA 8800GT Video Card -- The Way Games Are Supposed To Be Played

  The title of this post is a blatant rip off of nVidia's current tagline; I felt it rings more true than ever with nVidia's newest offering: Their 8800GT is out of this world when it comes to price/performance in video cards. The story behind how I got mine is more interesting than it should be though. I was fortunate enough to purchase one from MWave the day after they were released (most eTailers sold out within hours), and had it overnighted to me for the very reasonable price of about... Posted Nov 10 2007, 02:24 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Links and News, Gameage, Being Jayson

• Valve's Orange Box -- A Great Way to Spend Less Time With Friends and Family

  First off, add me as friend over on Steam Community! If the little things in life like spending quality time with family, friends, pets, etc are important to you then I would highly recommend not purchasing the latest offering from Valve Software: The Orange Box . The majority of my weekend has been spent playing a smattering of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Of the 3, I've spent most of the time playing Portal which from a purely gameplay point of view is one of the more... Posted Oct 14 2007, 02:10 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Opinions, General, Gameage, Being Jayson

• Splinter Cell Double Agent -- Not On My System (Yet)

  Due to Santa being nice enough to stuff a gift certificate to Best Buy in my stocking this year, I recently picked up Splinter Cell: Double Agent . What I didn't do was read the fine print: You must have a video card that supports shader model version 3.0 . I have an ATI 800XL, which is a pretty bangin' card for the money I paid for it 2 years ago, however it doesn't support v3.0...SCDA comes crashing down within 30 seconds of firing it up. *sigh* The reviews over on the Newegg page aren't very encouraging... Posted Jan 02 2007, 10:58 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Gameage, Irks

• XNA Studio Express -- Requires C# Express?

  While I don't plan on being the next John Carmack , I was pretty stoked to see that XNA Studio Express went RTM recently. Except for one small problem...XNA will only run on machines with C# Express installed; the full blown non-express SKU's (Professional, VSTS, etc) aren't compatible. I do realize that an XNA Professional release is in the pipeline, but I'm not going to install C# Express just to play around with the XNA Express bits (even though it's very tempting). I think it's kind of silly... Posted Dec 13 2006, 02:32 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Gameage, Irks

• Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter -- Very Impressive

  My game playing has suffered a bit as of late (the whole not-spending-12-hours-a-day-in-front-of-a-computer-anymore thing prohibits it), I did recently stumble across a great special Circuit City was having last weekend ago and picked up Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter for $9.99 (it's currently $24.99 for anyone who's interested) which is an absolute steal for a game that retails at 50 bucks. The Ghost Recon series is number 3 on my list of favorite series: #1 being Half Life, and #2... Posted Nov 01 2006, 12:18 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Gameage

• Half Life 2: Episode 2 -- A Plethora Of New Videos

  I haven't even finished Episode 1 yet and already a whole slew of new videos showcasing HL2: Episode 2 are starting to make their way onto the internet. If you have Steam installed I highly recommend hitting the My Media tab, then click on Browse Media and hunt for the 2 trailers and 5 gameplay videos...your eyes will thank you. If you don't have Steam installed I'm sure you can find them on the web somewhere, though I haven't taken the time to track them down. Anyone know the ETA for EP2? Share... Posted Sep 26 2006, 04:31 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Links and News, Gameage

• Coming Up For Air

  Man oh man what a weekend. Like most geeks worldwide, I spent the majority of the weekend A) playing Half Life 2: Episode 1 and B) not getting nearly enough full meals and C) consuming too many beers. The game is a little repetitive at times (and I still haven’t finished it), but the graphics are unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a game. They aren’t quite as good as they were in the Lost Coast demo, but they are definitely stunning. In other news, the project I’m working on... Posted Jun 05 2006, 06:23 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General, Gameage

• I'm Scared...

  …to fire up Half Life 2: Episode One . It just finished downloading/decrypting a few minutes ago. I share my buddy Jacob’s pain in his post about just the same thing. I have work to do, an animal to pay attention to, meals to eat. Decisions decisions… Share this post: | | | | | Posted Jun 01 2006, 08:32 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Gameage

• Halo 3 Trailer -- Wow

  Sounds best on a big badass sound system . A little disappointing to see the release date is now sometime in 2007 though…I thought MS had made it very clear they would release Halo 3 on the same day that Sony releases their Playstation 3 console . Share this post: | | | | | Posted May 11 2006, 04:41 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Gameage

• XBox 360 -- Yes, It's Time To Make A Purchase

  In an effort to completely erode away the rest of my spare time, I’ve decided that it could indeed be time to upgrade my XBox v.original to the newer model. I’ve been searching around to see who has the best deals/packages/etc, but figured why do that when I can tap into the vast gameage power of my 4 readers. So, who has the best deals? Best packages? What are the must have games/accessories? Is it even worth buying one, or should I wait until MS makes their first round of price cuts? Free shipping... Posted Apr 15 2006, 04:48 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Gameage