Is the mighty Quake franchise becoming tired and repetitive? Or is this the best one yet?

Consistently attracting one of the largest online groups is the first person shooter (FPS) genre. While the flavours vary, most FPSes boil down to the player moving around three-dimensional maps, pick

The final code release of Quake 3 Arena/Team Arena.

The final code release of Quake 3 Arena/Team Arena.

Six weeks of repairs cost tens of millions.

Fantastically fun and balanced play, especially if you don't Rambo your way through the game

Tim Dean reminisces over nearly seven years of PC Authority, and then he logs out.

Benchmarking PCs is a tricky business. You need to ensure that you stress the systems, but also that the results you get will be relevant in the real world. Previously we have relied heavily on BAPCo's SYSmark2002 for simulating home and office use, with programs such as Excel, Word, Outlook, and web content through Adobe Premiere and Macromedia Dreamweaver. However, due to SYSmark's history of instability as well as the sheer length of time it takes to complete a run, we have put it on the backburner in favour of PCMark04 for this Labs.

The GeForce3 chip is quite an incredible thing.

Back in September Hercules impressed us all by blowing away the competition in our 3D graphics card Labs..

The Labs team always likes a good Christmas PC roundup. It gives us a chance to down the callipers, and off the lab coats for a short time, and really experience the fun side of PC technology. And thi

There is quite simply no holding nVidia back. Hot on the heels of the top-performance GeForce2 GTS chipset, with its capacity for up to 64Mb of fast DDR...

The latest iteration of the Pentium 4, code named Prescott, is an interesting development for a few reasons. First off, it represents Intel's entry to the world of 90nm (90 nanometre, or 0.09 micron) fabrication for processors. For the uninitiated, all this means is the size of individual components on the processor core have been shrunk to even smaller levels. It's a natural part of processor evolution to shrink the size of components, as it allows more transistors to be packed into a smaller space, reduces heat and resistance, and this all leads to faster CPUs.

In this line of work, there's really nothing quite like the all-too-occasional experience of opening a box from Apple, and unveiling the shiny wonders squirreled away inside. In fact, it's the only event that never fails to draw all and sundry AJB staff from throughout the office into the Labs to catch a glimpse of what the tech company with only 3 percent market share worldwide has managed to innovate this time.

This is a game that pushes PC hardware to the limit, and puts so called ‘next-gen’ consoles to shame.

It's time to get ready for the return of SiN, Ritual Entertainment's resplendent first-person shooter.

A potentially stunning card -- but don't buy one just yet.

Half-life to share its platform with Doom.

Half-life to share its platform with Doom.

Half-life to share its platform with Doom.