HAF-X Computer Case Still Rocks

In case you didn’t know HAF-X, it is a 8 year old computer case from Cooler Master. This case came out in 2010~, and it ruled the roost for years after that. When you look into the PC case scene today, the practice, the technology, the offerings, the prices, especially…

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Modding Community, Game Companies and Profits

You know about mods, right – the user-made modifications which bring MASSIVE changes to games to the extent that you can consider a sufficiently modded game a new game in itself. They do SO much to improve, extend, enrich and polish any given game. Not to mention unofficial patches which…

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Swords – Not so Honorable. Not Cool.

You probably have a high idea of swords. You think they are noble, knightly, honorable or something. Like many book readers, movie enthusiasts, gamers. Like many people who like period movies like Robin Hood, Three Musketeers, medieval stuff and whatnot. That fast, witty, heroic – rogue like – characters use…

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Lockpicking : The Unnecessary and Unrealistic Skill in RPGs

Lockpicking. Skyrim has it. World of Warcraft has it. Many other RPG games have it. They force you to take it either through your class, or through game-world features, or through rewards. You lockpick boxes in Wow, lockpick doors in instances, or say, you lockpick chests, doors in Skyrim. But…

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