Archive for the 'Games' Category
Microsoft to open gaming to Vista users
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Microsoft said Wednesday that its Live online service, which has attracted 6 million Xbox 360 console gamers, will be open in May to PC gamers who use its new Windows Vista operating system. The move comes nearly a year after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the company’s vision was for "anywhere" gaming that would link [...]
How to Install Windows Games in Windows Vista
Sunday, February 4th, 2007If you like to play the little games that Microsoft includes in Windows Vista like Chess, Hearts and more but you just can’t seem to find the games it could be that they didn’t install when you moved to Vista. When I installed Vista Business on my computer the games did not install. To check [...]
Vista Security Breaks Casual Games
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Windows Vista’s added security makes it impossible to play some of the Web’s most popular games, a former Microsoft developer charged Tuesday. The new operating system — it debuted to consumers Tuesday — is incompatible with scores of so-called "casual games" available for download, including some on Microsoft’s own MSN portal, said Alex St. John, [...]
Does Vista herald a Gaming Renaissance?
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Microsoft VP of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore says that the company will lead a PC gaming “Renaissance” with the release of Vista, which is being touted as a gaming platform as much as an OS. Just as he believes Microsoft was “derelict in its duty” to seriously get behind PC gaming and expand the market [...]
Windows Vista Gaming Performance - NVIDIA and ATI Compared
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007I decided to take the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, got the latest drivers from both AMD and NVIDIA as of Friday and began to spend my weekend testing. What is important to note here is that my intention is NOT to compare the ATI Radeon cards against NVIDIA GeForce cards — rather [...]
Vista Gaming: 10 Reasons Why It Will Be Hot, 5 Reasons Why We are Worried
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Old school computers gamers can tell you of the time when the best games were actually developed for the PC. This was long after the crash of 1983 when the first great consoles including the Atari 2600 and Intellivision systems died out, and even after the heyday of those classic Commodore 64 games. In the [...]
Carmack questions games for Vista initiative
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007id Software development legend John Carmack believes Microsoft is "grasping at straws" in an attempt to get gamers to upgrade to next-gen PC operating system Windows Vista. "Nothing is going to help a new game by going to a new operating system. There were some clear wins going from Windows 95 to Windows XP for [...]
Vista and Games for Windows Update
Saturday, December 9th, 2006Microsoft stopped by the office today to give us a quick update on the progress being made with Windows Vista as well as chat a bit about the future of PC gaming and how they’re hoping to help advance its popularity with gamers. Most of what we were shown today were features that we’ve seen [...]
Microsoft clarifies: Halo 2 Vista wont be Direct X 10
Thursday, December 7th, 2006A Microsoft representative contacted GamePro today to clear up a few matters concerning the upcoming Windows Vista port of Halo 2…namely, that the game will support Direct X 9 visual effects, not the Direct X 10 effects. GamePro.com, as well as many other game media outlets, have reported that Halo 2 will support Direct X [...]
What Can Gamers Expect from Vista?
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006The year 2006 is slowly drawing to a close. Waving goodbye to all the games behind us, we are gradually making room for the onslaught of next-generation gaming technologies. Accordingly, terms like Unreal 3 engine, GeForce 8800, Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 come to mind. It’s patently obvious that next-generation consoles continue to dominate the [...]
