Hey all, just getting everything ready for the journey to Smackdown. Getting my servers all ready, my machine all preped (Yes, I AM going to get some games in.) Picking up my folks van tonight, and picking up Rune as well. Picking up Pappyz0r tomorrow morning at the train station and then heading for the London Hilton to game game game! WHOOOOOOTTT!

Regretably, Pappyz0r did inform me that apparently Rogers informed Cableguy and crew that there will be no internet for the party. Luckily I have an account with an ISP in London, and Pappy has a laptop with a modem. So, working together we can overcome adversity and post news. I'm not going to bother uploading pictures, cause it's just going to be to damned slow on dialup (yuck) but I'll be taking lots, and the full writeup with pics will be up mid week next week. I'm going to be very tired Monday I imagine, and unlike most of my friends I have to go to work that day. ;) Cyah there!

Got a few pieces of news for you today, first off, I can't WAIT to see Blade 2. Man the first one rocked and this one looks sweet as well.

Got a few cool links in from England (Thanks Generator!) like this: A great, family based game that mom and dad can enjoy along with the kids. Make sure to hide the bong well! Also in, this. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm disturbed by it. Also, I'm dancing. Dah dah dah.. dah dah dah... dah dah dah dah dah duh! duh!

Iceman sent me a link to Xeofreestyle awhile ago, but I can't remember if I posted it. If not, check their site. Such sweet flashage and tunage.

In from Darksiege. You think YOU'VE moded your machine out? Hah! Not untill you've added a Window to your hard drive! This is cool, but uh.... Very, very, very likely to kill the drive as far as I'm concerned.

While poking around online cartoons last night (Well, I wasn't I don't know how I found this.. But I did.) Check out Warp 9 to Hell. These guys just slay me. God they are funny. I especially liked the "Holy crap it's Jesus!" line :)

Look for more news tomorrow night, from Pappy's room @ the LAN. And if you can, get your sorry ass down there and join us!

Marauder out!

God I hate ATI. A customer is having a problem with an Ali mobo and a TV Wonder. Apparently ATI cards (suprise) have an issue with this board. No problem, do everything they suggest.. Doesn't work. Try to contact them via phone. Busy signals all afternoon. Tried to Email support@ati.com. Comes back with an automated message saying "Check out FAQs!" Go thru their "email tech support" link, which has apparently been improved to better serve you.. and guess what? No email options in there that I can find, everything leads to another FAQ. That didn't help you? FAQ off! Stupid ATI.

LAN PARTY LAN PARTY LAN PARTY! Smackdown smackdown! Getting all geared up for the big Smackdown weekend LAN at the Hilton in London, Ontario. Not going yet? Whatsamatta fo' you? Click here for all the details, and to sign your ass up! Runez0r and myself (Along with Symplicite, who won't be playing, but is driving, bless her little heart.) are going to pick up the infamoose Pappy-R down at the train station and then hit the Part-ahy. Should be an excellent weekend, and I'm much looking forward to it. I've never actually been to a big LAN party to play before, so this should be cool. Going to have coverage of the event on the site here, as well as a cam up all weekend at FRAGtopia.com/maraudercam so be sure to drop by and check it out. I'm also bringing some prizes to give away, and a few servers to lord over, as is my wont. I'm thinking of holding a Jumpman challenge on the 'ol C64 emulator. Beat me at Jumpman (Come on Goshwin. You know you want to TRY.) win a prize. Or a kick in the teeth, I'm not sure which. It will definately however be one of the two.

Please note that all Pappy-R fan boys will be severely beaten by Rune and Myself if The Great One is disturbed with questions like "When you invented Quake did the world come into existance?", "Why do you hang around with this Marauder loser.", or "What are you doing to that goat?" You know, those sorts of Karma distrurbing things.

That's all the news I'm going to post today. I have more, but I'm in too much of a hurry to post it. Work work. (gah)

Well, I've been playing a little Simgolf lately. Not bad. But you know what? After 4 days, I'm pretty bored with it, and I broke it already. :( I dunno, it's an interesting little game, and maybe if you're more of a Sim and Golf fan than myself you'd enjoy it more. Personally I hate Golf, and I hate the Sims. The only think I ever enjoyed in the Sims was creating serial killers, and burning down the house around the little bastards. Usually at the same time. What I was really disapointed with about Simgolf was the inability to actually get right down on the ground and play... you know, like stand behind your play, wind'er up and wack the ball. Also, the graphics suck. More in the review in a day or so. (And no, I couldn't figure out how to make a serial killer, burn anything/one down, and I was completely unable to locate anything resembling a gun or weapon of any sort. The closest I could come was ordering my groundkeepers to viciously exterminate dandilions...

I was screwing around with Photoshop last night, and came up with a FRAGtopia background for those of you who are really bored. I just needed a little something for my desktop for Smackdown, and figured I'd post it here. It's simple, it's dull, but it'll do. ;) Download it by right clicking HERE and chosing "save as" Have a nice day. Thanks to the drunken world of Donut911 (Keir!) for the donation of the grenade graphic I'm going to use for everything from now on, including my boxers. He made the grenade, I added a happy face and made it funny. It'll also be used for rating games, our logo, cooking meals and yes, even painting walls and web design. In other excellent news, we suspect that Keir may have actually had sex with someone other than himself, which is why the 'nade was delayed several days.

The inital reason for the 'nade was so I could do a rating system on reviews. I've been going over some of the refering sites for our reviews, and visiting them. Apparently when I called Renegade "A frustrating mess" and suggested that people buy another game... One that works, quite a number of Renegade fan sites see this as a "75%", "90%" and "Positive" review. Now, it may be just my poor grasp of English, not being from England and all... but that does NOT sound like a positive review to me. So just to be sure, I've added a rating of 60% to the review. 3 outta 5 'nades. (60%)

Speaking of Smackdown, we're less than a week away from peparing to journey to London for the LAN party. It's a three day event, held at the Hilton (oooohhhhhh!) and it's a puny $45 for the weekend. I'm looking forward to it. Won't be playing in any of the tournaments, but I am bringing my own server, so there'll be some Wolfenstien and Renegade LAN action going on all weekend, as well as covering the event. Look for lots of photos, as well as news posts during the weekened.

My wife is dragging me off on Sunday apparently, but Friday and Saturday I'll be there. Oh yeah. Alot of the local guys, and many who attended the two FRAGtopia events are going as well, from the looks of it. If you see anyone in a FRAGtopia Tshirt, come on over and say "HI!" I'm bringing along some stuff for donation to the Smackdown effort as well.

Found some cool linkage. First off, I know there's quite a few people out there still playing Total Annihilation.. Which according to ME is the greatest frickin' RTS to ever bless our screens with it's presence, despite being... Well... Ancient. I believe it came out in... 1997 or '98..... And it still Rocks.... There's a Battletech mod for it. Woot! I love, LOVE TA, and I really love the 'Mechwarrior universe. So here's something that combines it for y'all.

Hey, forget having people donate money or advertising to your site! Have them donate Oral Sex! Oh yeah baby, this is WHERE the future of online support is going!

It always amazes me how hard the guys at Lucasfilm work on their background stuff. Check this page out for all the stuff inside the Death Star. Shesh you know, you'd think after the first one they'd have learned eh? When i build my Death Star, it will be truly invulnerable to attack! It's papermache armor and coridors will be impervious to everything other than water. I'm hoping the Rebel Alliance won't learn of it's one weakness. Don't tell anyone, or I'll be forced to kill you.

Got an email in from Twisted Metal Case Mods, asking for donations/items for review. :) Didn't hear back from them when I explained that I ran a review site, and anything I got my hot little hands on stayed there and got posted on my own site. Ah well, check their site out, it's very sweet. I also found this link off their site. Wow. This guy is a bloody Rembrandt of case modification! Never seen anything like that!

Dunno if I mentioned this, but Loki Games is dead as hell. They're the guys making the game conversions for Linux. I wondered when it would happen. Not if, when.

Now, far be it from me to criticise (hah!) but most linux users I know aren't willing to pay for anything. Not to mention there's not all that many of them, when compared to main stream Windows gamers, and Linux just isn't a user friendly OS. It's getting alot better... but untill there's one version of Linux, and it's as easy to use as Windows... And SOMEONE spends a few billion on marketting, it ain't gonna happen.

This is so damned cool. A VR journey through the great pyramid of Khufu. Man, I'd love to visit in real life... But if you can't, here's the next best thing.

I've been getting alot of emails lately from people looking for hosting. We do provide hosting, mostly for people that I like. ;) You also really have to have a gaming related site, and put work into it. Don't ask me for hosting if you're going to quit when you realise how much work it is to do a good site, and keep it updated. I'm not interested in wasting my time or yours. Also, as I mentioned.. We're a gaming site. We give hosting to gaming related material.

I have no idea who sent me this.. but... Well, must be nice to have money to burn. Look at the size of that bastard. Sorry man, but I wouldn't pay $100 for one of those cards. At least Iceman wasn't in on the bidding, that i know of.

Anyhows, I think that's enough for today. I'm the hell outta here. (Off to work, HAH HAH!)

Not much to report today, as I'm busy at work. Just got this in tho, take a look, the screenshots are.. Well.. Just go look. Thanks to Delphi for the link.

Prepare to put your trigger finger on the pulse of modern military warfare.

-The new Command & Conquer RTS is coming.
-New 3D game engine.
-New units and tactics.
-New fiction.

Visit GameSpot (www.gamespot.com) for the full update on the next generation of C&C RTS gaming.

Regards Chris Rubyor (aka Delphi)
Online Community Manager Command & Conquer
Electronic Arts/Westwood Studios

I was reading some stuff the other day about "violence and video games" and stumbled across the Media Family website. Being a complete prick of course I had to cause some trouble, and hopefully amuse myself at the same time. (Not a hard thing to acomplish really.) So I sent in this:

Greetings,

I was just reading the little article on your site regarding children playing Video games. I have recently become concerned with my child David. We've always supported him in his interest in computers, but since he's discovered games like Quake and Doom, he seems to spend most of his time in his room playing them online against other people on the internet. My wife and I are increasingly concerned that this sort of thing may cause violent behavior, and perhaps even turn him towards drugs and alchol as he seeks more and more to escape reality. We're looking for help, are there any resources you can suggest?

Thank you for your time,

Mar Audr Zor
Chief Account Manager
Wilco, Ouver and Roger Ltd.

And I got this in reply:

I have attached a research study that we did here at the Institute. I hope it helps. You can also find good information in our Research Library on our web site at www.mediafamily.org .

Thank you,
Laura Laura R. A.
Torgerud National Institute on Media and the Family
(612)672-4829 (888)672-5437

Here's the file she attached. LOL I'm tempted to keep this going.

Marauder out.

I hurt my back last night, and I'm in a lot of pain right now. As such, I'm in no mood to post news that scrap pilfering little grabasses such as yourself will fail to appreciate the humor and wit in anyhows. So here's a few brief things:

First off, we've all played the Warcraft 3 beta right? I mean even God and Bin Laden have their own Battle Net servers running by this time. I asked Blizzard for an opinion on this.

We said:

Greetings, I run a news/review site (FRAGtopia.com) and recieved a screenshot from a report from a reader regarding the number of pirated Beta copies of Warcraft III, and huge (one had over 8,000 listed accounts) pirate servers that are up and running. I was just wondering, if someone there had time to comment on the situation for me. Thanks for your time!

They said:

Hello,

Certain programs have been developed that allow users to bypass Battle.net's CD-Key authentication process. This directly promotes software piracy by allowing users who have illegitimately obtained our games to play them as if they had been legitimately acquired. Furthermore, because these programs allow access without a valid CD-Key, they render malicious users unaccountable, thereby eliminating Blizzard's ability to protect legitimate customers. Therefore, Blizzard has taken an aggressive stance opposing the use of these programs.

Many customers have expressed dissatisfaction over not being randomly selected for the Warcraft III Beta. The primary purposes of the Beta are to get play-balance feedback and to test our Battle.net servers. Our servers are not being tested if people are playing on rogue servers. Additionally, the Warcraft III Beta is not intended to be a product demo. When testing ends, we need the ability to terminate the Beta's functionality. Rogue servers eliminate our ability to expire beta versions of our products. Remember, Battle.net is a free service that does not directly allow the distribution of viruses or allow someone to steal your account information.

Some customers feel that this is an attack on the Linux community, which is untrue. Although Blizzard currently does not develop for the Linux platform, we are keeping an eye on the progress of Linux and may change in the future. We encourage total conversions of our games for personal use as long as they do not infringe upon the End User License Agreement included in our games, nor the rights of any other parties including copyrights, trademarks or other rights.

We want to preserve our high level of quality and continue to create the finest products, therefore we must protect our intellectual property rights. Software piracy needs to be combated at all levels, and at Blizzard we intend to do our part to fight piracy and the illegal distribution of copyrighted media.

Refer to this link for more information: http://www.blizzard.com/legalfaq.shtml

Thanks Tim. We wub j00. The game looks and plays great, or so we've heard. Keep up the great work.

Gezerman seems to be the only person in the world who's not having any problems running Renegade. This may because he's sleeping with Westwood, so they're keeping his game running smoothly. I posted this on their forums last night, had a crap load of replies. Looks like someone deleted the post today tho. Ahhh well. I thought it was pretty well written. Hell, I even used sentances, and didn't call them f(*&(g idiots who released an incomplete, buggy game.

We said:

Welcome to the pay per play Beta of Command n' Conquer your pocket book: Renegade. For the honor of beta testing this game for us, you will pay $65 Canadian. That's right, it's an expensive game, which may or may not work. I'm working on a review for this one right now, for fragtopia.com. One of my reviews usually gets several thousand reads within the first few days of release. So far, there's going to be several thousand people unlikely to buy this game.

Test system specs: Athlon XP 1700+, ASUS A7V266e mobo, 512 meg DDR, geforce 3 (latest official drivers, also tried the good old 12.41s) SB live! Value.

Here's my list of bitches so far, I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks/has experianced:

1) Extrememely frequent crashes to desktop (CTD) I HATE CTD. Renegade is CTD'ing on me several times an hour, and generally I have to load the game 3-4 times to actually get it any further than the initial video reset. I even tried running the game in Win98 compat mode, won't run at all like that.

2) Unground shadows. Ever notice that a plane or chopper will fly over a tunnel you are in.. and the shadow hovers over you? (Interesting that the shadows sometimes also follow you around.... Smart AI, very good ears?)

\3) You are unable to change your video options in game. This is annoying, as if you're tweaking you have to change, load, change load.... Stupid.

4) Sound effects just suddenly stop. (Ex. I'm running around in a tank... suddenly the tank is silent.... it just floats I guess... Or the gun sounds stop.. but everything else continues... Reload, problem solved.)

5) You can't skip the in game movies.

6) If you screw up a save game, and then chose "restart level" it doesn't remember which gear you entered the level with. It gives you a default load out. On some of the maps (Ex. Oblisk) you REALLY need those extra Ion and rocket rounds to kill the vehicles. I was then unable to beat the level untill I remember the autosave, thank god it worked. Stupid.

7) I'd like NOT to be able to switch to out of ammo weapons thanks. (This gets me killed quite a bit, considering when I hit '2' to pull out my chaingun, i have to cycle thru my little assault rifle.. which is usually out of ammo....)

8) I don't have a mouse in game untill I hit a movement key.. then my mouse works.

9) The AI is dumb as dirt, unless they're set up in an abvious ambush position.

10) I got yelled at for shooting a chef in the first mission you run into them.. Apparently that "friendly" was trying to kill me.. but that didn't matter.

11) Can't logon to Westwood Online. For some reason (I've forgotten my password) it's not sending me the email with my password.

12) Does anyone else find it annoying that you can't aim way up with the vehicle guns without your hull blocking the view? Bad design on Westwood's part.

Needless to say, I REALLY think Westwood (*coughEA*cough*should have kept this one in studio a little longer.

Welp, I'm off to feel sorry for myself.

Marauder out.

Time to dig out that Quake 3 CD! Apparently Quake 3 rally is finally going to be released at 7 pm EST tonight! (6 pm CST) An IRC release party will also be going on in #quakerally at irc.chatbear.com about a half hour before it will be released. Thanks to Shacknews for the tip on that one. Of course we will have a list of mirrors updated here as soon as they become availble so watch for more on this a little later!

update:

Here's a list of mirrors:

Quake Rally.com East Coast US

Quake Rally.com East Coast US 2

Quake Rally.com East Coast US 3

Shacknews (reg required)

Extreme Players

PlanetQuake3.net

AusGamers

Fileplanet

Speaking of Quake, ever wanted to build your own railgun? Now you can!

Looks like the xbox is getting a new controller. The zany marketing guys have named it the "S controller" despite the fact that there seems to be no reason for it whatsoever (maybe it's a model number or something?). At any rate this is cause for celebration for xbox junkies as it seems to fix the wacked button placement of the original controllers and it is a little smaller in size.

PC Games over in germany has just released a short movie of the gameplay in Counter-Strike Condition Zero. While the video is in german (duh) it shows off a bit of what you can expect in this new single player CS game. It appears that Gearbox has upped the detail of the levels quite a bit so maybe playing CS with bots won't be so bad after all. ;)

Tasty new 27.70 Nvidia Detonator drivers for Windows 2000/XP have been released/leaked and according to the guys over at NVnews they offer a big performance increase with anisotropic filtering! w000!! Check out their results here.

SUPR3M3 at Warp2search has also done up a little comparison action for your viewing pleasure. He conpares the 27.42, 27.50, 27.51, and the latest 27.70 drivers. You can also grab most of the latest Nvidia driver releases at their archieve right over here.

Well first off, must apologize for my absence, took a short vacation from the stresses of work, the been a bit busy helping the parents move into town, but enough of that now, on with the real news.

Working on a review for that new case I was talking about, the lian li pc-65, will be posted on my regular post day which is next wednesday.

Seems like AMD doesn't want their new processors being overclocked so they have been doing extra damage to cut the little bridges on their Athlon XP cpus, now I myself don't do any overclocking anymore, but isn't this why most people by AMD cpus? they used to overclock so nicely and for such a cheap price. Though here is one guy that will not be stopped by amd's feeble attempts to stop us from our dreams.

Here's one for the pet lovers, make sure you teach your pets what not to fetch, ya know just incase you end up in the hospital or something ;)

Now this stuffs freaking cool, imagine your sitting in front of your desk fraggin some lamer for the past couple hours, your bored, your huge flat monitor looks boring, well want to play all your games in REAL 3d? or should I say, volumetric display. Check out this sweet article on how one company could make this possible.

Well I guess I better have some sort of explanation for my news title, no I'm not trying to relive the early 90's of MC Hammer, I was referring more to the closely kept under wraps cpu that AMD has been working on. The Hammer is AMDs answer to the 64bit world of cpus, still using the 'ol x86 architecture, this one is sure to turn a few heads. No real specs on it so we'll have to wait closer to the release date to find anyting out, but you can read a few small tid bits here.

Uhh yea, hey I know pcmods are a big thing now, and I'm into them too... but isn't this a little odd? well actually kinda cool if you can get everything to fit.

Anyways don't want to take up to much more space, rune will be posting later on today.l8r.

First off today, I have some great links from Shiloh, uber cutie and all around nice grrl. She's hooked me up with Progress Quest, a wonderfull RPG that takes all the best parts of a Traditional Role playing game, and carefull pares away all the rancid peel micromanagment and walking around, leaving behind only the tasty core of fighting, geting items and gold, and leveling your tin plated ass up. It's the ultimate expression of computer role playing. You are to be checking it out HERE, thank you.

Also from Shiloh comes Dr. Vulture's Laboratory of evil. Just look at the guy on the intro page. Man, that's just EVIL incarnate. The eyes, and the hair. I'm scared, and he's only a JPG... Mind you, as Planet Romero has proven in the past, with some hair and an image editor, you can pack a whole lotta evil into a .JPG.

Need that little extra edge in your gaming? That little something to push you to new levels? Well, now we know Machaveli's secret. Yes indeed, here it is.

One last Shiloh related piece of news.... Hello Mittens.

In from iLL Techneeqs we've got a few things, coolest of all is this sweet clock. Stick in as your active background, never wonder what time it is again. Also, if you've ever wondered what a CD aimbot looks like in action, wonder no more. And as a last piece of news, don't you wish that stupid n00b would just STFU? Thanks for all the linkage iLL :)

LOL! There's nothing I like better than a good Sonique Skin, unless it's Camp Chaos cartoons. Well! Kingpin just found the thing that ties them both together in an orgy of hillarity.

From Krage comes some not-so-shocking news that... Well, I've been telling you this for years.. They're everywhere!

Also just in, comes the fate of Rune one day.... I just know it's going to happen. He's at a LAN party, when suddenly he snaps.... He was always such a quiet gamer... Never said much in chat... In the same vein, watch out! Your kids could be... playing games! (insert dramatic musical score here.) Somehow I'm guessing that "Making punk bitches suck it down" in Quake III is not the "Quality video/computer game playing" of which they speak.

Personally I love this line: "Feelings of mastery occur in a video world that is not real. Playing violent games may contribute more to aggressive behavior than passively watching television." Yeah, there's nothing quite like staring mindlessly at a stupid televison for hours on end. Just to prove these people wrong, I went over to their head office and kicked all their asses, screaming "Duke for President!" the whole time.

Marauder outz0r.

Hey all, and welcome. I posted a little review of the CnC Renegade demo, check it out here. I tried the new patch out tonight, and I'm happy to report that.. Boss, boss, zee lag zee lag! IS MUCH BETTER! One hell of a lot better actually. Damned good thing with the entire game only a few days away from retail release.... You'll see a review on it about a week after it comes out.

Runez0r just sent me this. I must say I've never EVER set my computer on fire. Oponents in Wolf, yes. Computer, no. I found this quite funny:

"There are two phases to Net rage - it starts in the mind then becomes physical, with shaking, eyes dilating, sweating, and increased heart rate. You are preparing to have a fight, with no one to fight against. That can have harmful longer-term effects."

That sounds more like Rune and Goshwin playing LAN games, not like Net rage. They just forgot the uncontrolable cursing, convulsing and foaming at the mouth. I told Rune we're going to tape him and make an outake video. He warned me off gently.

Huh. Seems Blizzard is a little annoyed about people pirating the beta of Warcraft III. Not that I'd EVER stoop to something so low myself, but I got a real good look at some hours of gameplay the other day, and wow. Wonderfull graphics, great sayings and animations, and sweet, sweet menus..... And no crashes that I could see. Very, very nice work Blizzard! I can hardly wait to get my hands on it when it comes out. I found it quite amusing to see that the Battlenet code got leaked as well, so there's tons of huge servers pirate up and running. (The one I saw had over 8,000 registered users, with over 900 playing at 3 in the afternoon. :) I asked Blizzard for an official comment on this situation, but they've never gotten back to me.. Ahhh well, the price of being small I guess.

Dopper always swore that he'd never, EVER pay to play a game online... DAOC proved that wrong.. But we talked about something interesting. What if companies charged per month, but allowed you to download the game? That'd be a sweet deal. Well, check out Mimesis Online. A MMPORG that does just that. And looks like it might be pretty sweet as well!

Just got an email from the lads over at Laser Squad Nemesis.... They were kind enough to donate a few accounts so we could do a review of their game. We're working on it as we speak. (Interestingly enough, this is the first time anyone's ever actually ASKED us to review anything. I'm all impressed.) It's a turn based strategy game that... Is played VIA email. Interesting, no? Cost for the game is $30 USD per year... Quite reasonable for something that you can play quickly. I mean VERY quickly at work. ;) Not of course that ANY of us play games at work. *gasp*

Woohoo! After an 8 year abscence, ZZap64! Magazine is back. Back in the day, ZZap was a review/news mag for the C64. Check this link out. Pretty shweet.

Well today was the day that Japanese xbox junkies have been looking forward to for months. Yes, that's right, the xbox was just released in Japan and so far it seems to be doing very well. Have a look here at Console War for pics of some of the launch frenzy. Take a look at some of the lineups.

Those wacky Japanese will do anything for games. The marketing blitz has apparently been going on for months over there.;-)

If you thought that the Japanese were nuts you should head over to HardOCP and check out the water cooling xbox action that they have going on over there. Definately not for the faint of heart... I wonder if they'll figure out how to overclock it next?

Oh and contrary to what the Inquirer is saying reports from Japan say that the new Japanese xbox controllers will work with the american version of the console.

Getting ready to enjoy that new DVD on your computer with Windows Media Player? There's something that you might want to know.

Well the people at Transgaming (the people behind the WINE windows emulator for Linux) have just put up word that they've managed to get Max Payne running under Linux with WINE ! This comes as good news for Linux gamers as previously the game has only been playable under DirectX 8.1 on Windows (along with the console versions of the game of course).

"We're very excited about these advances and the ability for a game the calibre of Max Payne to function on Linux, " explains TransGaming's CEO and CTO Gavriel State. "While the game isn't 100 percent yet, these developments demonstrate how rapidly our team is able to add support for new multimedia APIs. As we refine our technology, gamers can expect to be able to play more and more top-rated games on Linux."

Tom's Hardware takes a look at the current state of OpenGL 2.0. Has it fallen behind it's DirectX counterpart? Can it make a support resurgance with 3D card vendors? What is it's future role as a hardware and vendor independant API? Inquiring minds want to know. Find out the answers to these and more of your burning questions right over here.