My Top 10 Favourite Games of All Time

I've played a lot of games (trust me, a-l-o-t!). So to compile them into a list of the Top 10 was a hard decision! So after a lot of thinking and tinkering, here it is!

1. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II
2. Warcraft III
3. Half Life 2
4. NFS
5. Dog's Life (PS2)
6. Jak III (PS2)
7. The Settlers V - Heritage of Kings
8. Star Wars Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
9. Battlefield 1942
10. Sims

Make sure you leave your Top 10 favourite games list in the comment box!

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AMD buys ATI

So, yes, what you’ve heard is true: CPU maker AMD bought GPU maker ATI for more money than you, your children, and your grandchildren combined will ever see, with plenty left over to buy round-trip tickets on Virgin Galactic for everyone attending the Los Angeles premiere of Snakes on a Plane.

But the merger won’t even receive the OK from the government until later this year, so it won’t be until well into 2007 before we start seeing plans form as a result of the acquisition.

And when we do, the first pups the two companies will raise are likely to be less interesting to hardcore gamers; namely, CPU and GPU combination processors for mobile computing. There’s good reason to believe, however, that AMD’s friendliness to gamers and the open-source community may spill over into ATI’s heart, possibly leading to driver packages for Linux. And if Linux starts looking like a burgeoning platform for gamers, Microsoft, and Windows Vista, will have a very interesting year ahead of them, with lots of chair-throwing from Mr. Ballmer.

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The Worst Copyright Infringement Ever

Ever since Gamers World Bangladesh started (first as a magazine and then this website) we have a few copycats on our tails. But by far, this is the worst attempt to copy our website ever!

With fame comes headaches. Recently, Gamers World Bangladesh has been a popular target for copycats. A few sites like us have sprung up (even they publish their non-professional magazine) but a recent search at Yahoo groups revealed the worst attempt, ever.

A certain Yahoo group (I am not mentioning their name), has been claiming that they have published the first ever Online Bangladeshi Games Magazine. Okay, like whatever. We all know who was the first one, right? Anyway, they were so amazed with our articles that they are collecting it and putting it up as a magazine at their forum, claiming that we(!) stole it from them! They are also blaming us about a lot of things that even I cannot relate.

Next month they are going to publish a collection of our articles saying that it was stolen from them. Way to go LOSERS!

And so pathetic they are that the whole group is devoid of real members. The owner has made a couple of Yahoo IDs and have added them to his group to boost his groups membership numbers. Even if you post a message, no real reply will come. Only the owner trying to act like a different person - and the similarities are always obvious.

Recently, he has taken matters to the extreme. Now he has turned to hacking other Yahoo accounts in order to add them to his group. He even hacked mine, once or twice. No matter how much they try, good always wins over evil.

So readers, remember. Gamers World Bangladesh is the first ever magazine (online or off) and now we are the first website in Bangladesh dedicated to games only (see Prothom-Alo). That's a lot of firsts, right?

And we have only one forum at http://forum.gamersworldbd.com/ which redirects you to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gamers-world_bd/ If you see any work(s) and/or article(s) that you think that might have been taken from Gamers World Bangladesh, then please report it immediately. We need the help of the public to battle this ongoing war against copyright infringement.

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The Search for a Good ISP

Fed up with the worst service that I came across, I decided to switch my ISP. When all hope was lost, an unbelievable offer came up - which I couldn't resist.

Yesterday, I just reached the end of my patience with my current ISP, Dtech Ltd. from whom I took a broadband connection. The speed was unbearably slow. Everything seemed to take ages to load. Trust me, it took forever. Worse still the connection would drop suddenly and I would not be able to go online for days.

After not receiving the connection for three consecutive days, I got fed up. I decided to call in tech support. There didn't seem to be any good reason for the connection to keep dropping continually. The tech support wasn't of great help either.

"We're doing the very best we can, Mr. Rahman. I will at once increase the bandwidth of your connection."

After receiving a temporary boost of about two hours or so, my connection resumed its previous state. Again. Agh. That was the last straw, I thought. I need to switch my ISP.

A search on Goolge revealed several ISPs near my home. Most of them offered more or less the same packages to home users. a 28.8 kbps shared bandwidth at 1,500 taka (the same service as I had from Dtech Ltd.). Once or twice, I even considered getting a corporate package in my home!

I feared that the end was nigh. There didn't seem to be any good ISP available in all of Dhaka city. So it was a chance of luck that I landed on www.zipbd.com Now, what they were offering to home users was unbelievable. A 128 kbps (average) shared fibre optic connection at 1,500 taka per month! Moreover, they offered other ancillary services, such as Video over IP, a gaming server (yummy) and 30 or so free videos on demand. It seemed too good to be true. I even contacted customer support to make sure that all the details were accurate!

So fast forward to today, and I have a delicious fibre optic connection pumping at more than 128 kbps. Now everything loads faster and downloads don't take forever. I do not have to wait overnight for a 1GB game demo to near completion and suffer from little or no lag while I play Battlefield 2 online. Well see you slow-pokes later, I've got a date with my Battlefield 2 clan, online.

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Welcome to the Gamers World Bangladesh™ blog, where all the editors will talk about the latest trends in the gaming and technology front.

If you do not know what Gamers World Bangladesh™ is, then you haven't been paying enough attention lately! We are the first ever games site of Bangladesh. Enough said. Check us out at www.gamersworldbd.com

Make sure to bookmark us as we take you through a wild roller coaster ride of games and technology!

Sincerely,
The Gamers World Bangladesh™ Team

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