2012, the year I will finally manage to succeed in fulfilling my New Year resolution. I’ve set many goals in the past, none of which I have even got closed to. This time around, I swear it will be different. This time around I will, with much confidence, succeed. Look, I’ve even gotten my resolution written down minutes before the New Year. This just shows my resolute and determined attitude. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Hauppauge Colossus: How To Record Live Commentary (PC)
After learning how to record your PC footage, we will now touch on the topic of recording live commentary. Recording commentary is simple. Get whatever footage recorded first and then record your commentary. You will then place your commentary over the audio of your footage using whatever software that you are comfortable with. Live commentary can be as simple. However, it will require a bit more tweaking and additional tools over a normal commentary. Read on for some viable methods for recording live commentary. Continue reading
Left 4 Dead Fan Movie Teaser
Fans are often the case for value adding in the gaming and entertainment industry. We have communities that make mods that change your gaming experience entirely for the better, we have people who come out with fixes and workarounds to ease certain burdens, and we also have people who go the extra mile to show their love for a particular game by creating a fan movie film. Inspired by the well received Left 4 Dead, a survival horror zombie FPS game, Northern Five Entertainment together with Airsoft GI are producing a fan film. Read on for the teaser video. Continue reading
Hauppauge Colossus: How To Record PC Footage
Previously in my review of Hauppauge Colossus, I mentioned about having a series of How Tos that revolve around using the colossus for recording footages etc. To start of this particular series, I will first be demonstrating the different possibilities of recording PC footage. Yes the colossus can capture your desktop display as well. It works like a screen capture software and if you’re using it to record gameplay footages, it works something like Fraps. Read on for the video or written guide. Continue reading
Hauppauge Colossus Review
Hauppauge Colossus is an internal PCI Express HD-PVR. In simpler terms, it is an internal card that is fixed within your computer that records high-definition footage from a video source. As such, the name HD-PVR stands for, High Definition Personal Video Recorder. I am mainly using the Colossus to record gameplay footage from my PS3 as well as my PC. This review will thus revolve around mainly my experience in using the Colossus for gameplay recording rather than other types of recording such as TV footage and others. If you’re in the market looking for a new capture card, read on for my review and some test footages of the Colossus. Continue reading
PC The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review
Skyrim is the fifth instalment to the well acclaimed The Elder Scrolls series and is set in a time roughly two hundred years after the previous game Oblivion. Skyrim is not a direct sequel to Oblivion but do have some references here and there as it takes place in a similar world but at a different part and time. The land of Skyrim is facing two major problems at this particular time. Firstly, the dragons seem to have returned and secondly, there is a civil war between the Empire and Stormcloaks. How exactly does Skyrim fair in terms of it being a game, a product of Bethesda Softworks as well as being part of the Elder Scrolls series? Read on for my review of the game (based solely on experience on the PC version) Continue reading

