Life in TP so far

School has reopened and 1 week has passed. It feels great being back to school, seeing both new and familiar faces, meeting new lecturers, learning new subjects and so on. It’s refreshing to see new faces really. Due to subjects such as CARC and our CDSs, we get to meet new people in lectures and [...]

Gaming PCs – The Future?

What do some companies like Commodore Gaming, Alienware, and the Acer Predator have in common? That’s right. They all produce lines of high-end purpose-built gaming computers (well, except the Predator, it’s just a gaming computer). These computers are outfitted with devices that are normally never found in conventional computers. Examples include a liquid cooling system, [...]

Your Future in Gaming

For most of us freshmen, we’re well into our ‘n-th‘ month in our Diploma in GET already. By now, things would have settled down and we’d have adapted to our life in a polytechnic already. Submitted a couple of projects and went through the whole process of studying for (or cramming for) the term tests. [...]

Of Virtual Worlds

My wife was asking me the other night whether the RPG (Drakensang) I was playing on the computer was a single or multiplayer game.
Here’s the deal: ironically, while my major and life ‘defining’ work has been in multiplayer virtual worlds, since marriage I no longer spend as much time in those worlds as I once did.
Why? [...]

WCG 2009

Hi readers, been a while since I last blogged huh? Well anyways, I will be writing on WCG. I know Aaron has blogged about the WCG event he attended however, I would love to share my experience with you too. I was given the opportunity to be a student helper for WCG during those 3 [...]

The Sims 3

Since picking up the PS3 a year and a half ago, I have been playing a lot less PC games than I used to. I think it’s several things: for starters, console games look amazingly good on a Plasma TV, and playing games in a living room with a large sofa turns it into [...]

Restaurant Empire 2

Of all the games I’ve played over the last 26 years, there’s been a couple that I still load up every now and then for a go. One is Zeus: Master of Olympus, a city-building simulation that was published 8 years ago, and based on Greek mythology. Another is Restaurant Empire, a management simulation centered [...]

"I’m too old for this s**t!!" – Sgt. Murtaugh

For those of us who’re old enough to remember, there was a series of action-comedy films called Lethal Weapon starting from the late 80s. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover starred as two buddied cops: one a whacko and gun-happy nut-job, and the other a veteran approaching retirement respectively. Whenever the latter got dragged into another [...]

Can you ever be too old for games?

Interesting question isn’t it? Well it’s something I have pondered about for a while now. For those who play MMORPGs, you might know what I’m talking about. Have you ever had that encounter where you come across someone who is 40 maybe 50 years old and still playing computer games, say World of Warcraft (WoW) [...]

Xbox 360 vs PS3 LOL Part 2

Continued from the last post.:)
OK; we’re gonna try a little test here. Below are the list of staff in the Game and Entertainment Technology department who’re active gamers. Try guessing which of these consoles – Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, none (!) -  each of us play on.

Mr. Peter Choy
Mr. Jonathan Chee
Mr. Joshua Liew
Mr. Jet Lim
Mr. Michael Garry
Mr. Ng [...]