World’s Best Online Casinos

Posted on 9 November 2007 by FoxTwo

I’ve been asked by quite a few friends in the past about Online Casinos actually. First, because I’m a gaming freak. To them, I must know everything there is to know about gaming, from PC to playstations, from Nitendo to Xbox. To them, “gaming” is a universal term – it applies to every single sort of “game”.

So anyway, since I’m “such a guru with games”, therefore I must know something about which is a good online casino. Well, that’s what they keep thinking anyway, even when I tell them I don’t know much about these. They all knew I play online games, ie MMORPGs, and they know I play with other human players all over the world, not just in Singapore. Hence, I automatically know which Online Casinos are good and which aren’t.

Also, due to the recent hype about Singapore’s upcoming IRs, or “Integrated Resorts”, the chief attraction there being the casinos, I get asked about this more often lately. Some of them are turned off by Singapore’s rule to impose a $100 entry fee (“Haven’t play already lose $100 leow!”) as a “deterrent” for “gamblers”. Honestly, if they are hardcore gamblers, I doubt a measely $100 entrance fee is going to discourage them.

So, as I was saying, these friends wanted an online alternative.

Well, they, and you, my readers, are in luck! There’s a website that actually bothers to sift through the hundreds of casino websites around the world, and gives them rankings, and even reviews them! The website is Pro360.com. I happen to think the best part of the whole website is their “Best Online Casino List“, where it lists the world’s best-rated online casinos. The ratings are given by both the site staff, as well as actual players, so the opinions there are real, and are from the ground.

Now, personally I don’t gamble, much less gamble online. However, if I were looking for a site that compares online casinos like how Cnet compares gadgets, Pro360.com is the one I’d go to. The “summary” list on their ranking pages even shows you which online casinos are accepting US players only, or worldwide, how much their bonuses are, and other perks. There are also screenshots of the gaming clients (yeah everything being played online needs a gaming client, even online casinos!) so you can see if the screen display suits you 🙂

I’d advise readers to carefully read their reviews of each site before signing up with any of the online casinos, though. Much in the same way as I’d advise people to research the product or gadget they want to purchase first before actually buying. It’s just common sense.

As always, don’t become an addict – moderation is key to everything. Compulsive, obsessive gambling will ruin you financially. Play within your limits.

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Call Of Duty 4 – Mission 1 Video

Posted on 8 November 2007 by FoxTwo

Being sick sucks. It totally screws up my internal body clock for example. I’ve been sleeping the whole day, and now, right in the middle of the night, I wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

So I take my meds, and wait for them to kick in and make me go to sleep again. In the meantime, I fired up COD4 and thought I’d record mission 1. Note that I used FRAPS and it DOES impact framerates. Without FRAPS running, it’s smoother. Even so, as I say time and again, it’s pretty amazing how smooth it is on a single-core, 4 year old PC.

Mission 1, part 1

Mission 1, part 2

Again, I have to break the video up into 2 parts to get around Youtube’s 10 minute limit. By the way, anyone knows of an alternative website where videos do not have a 10 minute limit?

You’d also notice that in the video, I fired on friendlies twice (“friendly fire” is an oxymoron). My excuse is I’m sick and it’s war! 🙂 Sick people shouldn’t be fighting in battles! That’s why we have Attend-C in SAF hah!

Hope you guys enjoy the videos. I’m off to bed…

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Call Of Duty 4 Retail Video Captures

Posted on 6 November 2007 by FoxTwo

Well I splurged today. I went down to Sim Lim, and snapped up BOTH Call Of Duty 4, as well as Hellgate London.

Seeing as Hellgate is an RPG, which would take a much longer time to complete (yeah look at Bioshock, I still haven’t finished THAT!), I opted to install COD4 first. Well actually I’ll install both but I will start to “get into it” on COD 4 first.

To my pleasant surprise when all the installation is done, the retail game is nothing like the demo. You are brought through the story via cinematics (as discussed in the previous blog post), and then you’re dropped into training.

By the way, I found it neat that the game tries to gauge your skill level while you’re completing your training. Right at the end it’ll suggest the difficulty of the game to be set, as you can see in the video above.

Right after training, you’re hurled smack into the middle of the introduction mission (technically not even mission 1, more like a Prologue). I broke this up into 2 parts to get around Youtube’s 10 minute restriction.

As you can see, the story’s pretty gripping, and we’re just past the Prologue!

For those who might be curious, here’s a screenshot of the graphic settings on my system. It’s not much different from the auto-detect on the demo, except I bumped the resolution down to 1024×768 instead of having it stay at 1280×1024.


The videos captures do show a slight lag due to FRAPS running and capturing the action, and I can say that the system requirements for the retail game seems to be more than the demo. I will probably try to turn some stuff off and see if it gets as smooth as it did during the demo.

Since I’m tired of listing my system specs in every blog post, look on the sidebar for my system specs 🙂

I hope you enjoyed the clips! I think I’m gonna be busy this coming week till the weekend, perhaps even more!

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