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Surround Gaming

Surround Gaming is Matrox's push for widescreen taken to new widths. Surround Gaming uses three monitors to deliver an immersive experience on three screens at up to 3840x1024 resolution and a 45" total diagonal (three 19" LCDs). Surround setups run an aspect ratio of 16:4 (for 3x4:3 configurations) or 15:4 (for 3x5:4). Compare this to 4:3 for a "regular" monitor, and 16:10 for a widescreen. Surround Gaming fully engages your peripheral vision with games running at up to (and above) 135 degree wide-angle field of view.

Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear is a tactical first-person shooter computer game developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment. It is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Rainbow Six game based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name.

Painkiller

You play as Daniel Garner, a seemingly regular guy who has just been killed in a horrific car accident. Trapped in a dark and unwelcoming world between heaven and hell, you struggle to uncover the reasons why you've been denied entry into heaven. Awaiting your purification, you must fight through an endless number of demon soldiers as you attempt to stop the imminent war.

Unreal Tournament 2004

Unreal Tournament 2004 is an online FPS from Epic Games and Infogrames, and the follow-up to the previous entry Unreal Tournament 2003. Assault mode returns, and a new strategy-oriented mode called Onslaught is added. Possibly more notable are vehicles throughout the maps, some of which require multiple pilots to operate completely.

Unreal Tournament 2003

Unreal Tournament 2003 is an online FPS from Epic Games and Infogrames, and the follow-up to the highly successful Unreal Tournament. UT2003 features improved graphics, improved physics, faster gameplay, and a higher emphasis on teamplay over its predecessor.

Darwinia

Dawinia is a strategy game from Introversion Software. The game takes place inside a computer network called Darwinia, which is inhabited by evolving digital life forms called Darwinians, and is infested with a virus that threatens to destroy the Darwinians and years of research along with them. You control various program-generated units to seek and destroy the virus.

Hex Editing Tutorial (with SimCity 4 Example)

How to change the resolution within your "Simcity4 Deluxe" config file to something widescreen. Along the way you'll learn some basics about hex editing. This article was inspired by Komoto on the forums. There are three things you need to do before starting.

First, you need a Hex editor program. I use a program called EditPad, which gets the job done and is free. I'll be using this editor from here on out.

Matrox TripleHead2Go Review

Ever since I first saw “Surround Gaming” using a Matrox Parhelia video card, I’ve been a huge fan. But sadly over the years, the Parhelia’s ability to perform with the latest games fell behind other graphics cards. Recently, I discovered that Matrox had developed the TripleHead2Go, a small external device known as a Graphics eXpansion Module. It enables you use three 19" monitors with a combined resolution of up to 3840x1024, with your PC (or laptop even) if that system only supports a single display output.

Well, was I excited or what? (I was. ^_^)

Wildlife Park 2

Second game in the Wildlife Park series of park management games.