The Best of Bit-tech 2009

The Best of bit-tech 2009

It’s been a busy year at bit-tech.net, and there’s been plenty of stuff happening on the site, in the community and behind the scenes – the most notable of which has been our complete incorporation to Dennis Publishing’s London offices and the merger of the bit-tech and Custom PC Magazine teams. We think it’s gone pretty well, and we're definitely looking forward to next year.

On-site we’ve rolled out plenty of new features and enhancements, such as the new Staff Blogs and the Competitions Hub, as well as a tracker so you can see What We’re Reading. All that on top of the usual features, mods and reviews! As the year draws to a close we thought we’d recap quickly on what we’ve seen this year, the work we’re most proud of, and what you seemed to have enjoyed the most. If you’re a newcomer to the site, or just can’t be bothered to traipse back through all the indices, then this is a great place to catch up on the best content of the year too!

Features

From explorations into the future of the games industry to round-ups that aim to decide what the best gaming keyboards or chassis fans are, we’ve written plenty of unique content this year – here are some of the highlights.

Gaming

• Abandonware: The Ethics and Essentials
  
• How AI in Games Works
  
• Does Professional Gaming Have A Future?
  
• The Future of Artificial Intelligence
  
• Success and Failure in MMOs
  
• The Problem with Porting Games
  
• Is PC Gaming Dying?
  
• Is Console Gaming Dying?
  
• Remembering the Sega Dreamcast
  
• How Far Has PC Gaming Come?
  
• DirectX 11 Performance First Look: Dirt 2
  
• Windows 7 Games Compatibility Testing

Hardware

• The Dark Side of Overdrive
  
• Toughened Technology
  
• A Brief Introduction To Taiwan
  
• Does Nvidia Have a Future?
  
• What’s The Fastest Graphics Card?
  
• Overclocking Intel’s Core i5-750
  
• Intel Lynnfield Memory Performance Analysis

Guides

• What is Folding and Why Does it Matter?
  
• How to Build the Best Folding Rig
  
• How to set up Folding@Home
  
• How to Make a Mac Killer
  
• How to Reuse an Old Waterblock
  
• How to Clean Your Keyboard
  
• Building an Ion-Powered Linux Media PC

Lists

• 30 PC Games to Play Before You Die
  
• Top 10 Games Based on Movies
  
• The Ten Best Gaming Moves…Ever!

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