Futurelooks has been involved with many different LAN parties, tech shows, and gaming events all over including Infernalan. This past weekend, I attended this event to get a little game time in and thank the Intel family that selflessly work their butts off for several days to make an event like this a success. These are the same folks …
Did you buy a Windows 8 machine? Or did you upgrade an existing machine or install it new on your latest DIY build? I’m sure a lot of you were thought about two things when you first booted up: How do I boot into the desktop, skipping this “Metro” apps stuff and where the heck did my Start Button go? …
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If you’ve been keeping an eye on our Twitter and Facebook pages, then you’ll know that after our very successful BitFenix Alchemy Sleeved Cable giveaway, we had to figure out a way to top ourselves. So instead of …
Once again, thank you to all our readers on Futurelooks, viewers on YouTube, followers on Twitter and of course, of fans on Facebook, for entering our latest and greatest contest. This contest truly would not be possible if it wasn’t for BitFenix and their generosity. Especially their flexibility in being able to fulfil a wish by many of our fans that don’t …
One of the coolest things that Futurelooks does is go out and support events that show great potential to be more than they are today. Over the past year, we’ve gone out and supported the BCIT Student Association (BCITSA) LAN Party at the BCIT Burnaby Campus in Canada, first in Spring of 2012 and again in the Fall of 2012…
Technology is constantly evolving, this much is sure, and it seems that we are moving increasingly away from physical media and toward just having digital storage. One of the best examples would be your photo collection. You may have once had a film camera and you would print out every one of those exposures into a physical photo print that …
For two years, I held the record build time for the Tiger Direct Charity PC Race (2011 and 2012). And at CES 2013, I put that record on the line at one of the fastest races to date. Unfortunately, this year, I wasn’t able to defend my record and ended up placing 8th overall with a time of 6:22, which …
So what the heck is a GOTTACON? Well, according to their website, it offers “tournaments in miniatures, collectible trading cards, role playing games, board games, and video games as well demonstrations, contests, discussion panels, a variety of exhibitors” and more. The event itself takes place in Victoria, BC Canada this weekend (February 1 – 3, 2013) which is an …
First of all, on behalf of Sapphire USA, NCIX PC and the team at Futurelooks, thank you to all our fans for entering this amazing contest that we started on December 14th, 2012! As a result of your enthusiasm, we managed to grab over 1824 entries in less than a month. That’s why Futurelooks fans totally rule and …
I remember when certain 8xxx series NVIDIA video cards developed an issue where the GPU would actually de-solder themselves from the PCB. The solution was to cook them in an oven to “reflow” the solder and re-establish the GPU’s connection to the PCB. Although this isn’t quite the same, it does involve heating up damaged parts. In the case of flash based …
This weekend Futurelooks was out at the Vancouver Gaming Expo, which is the close cousin to the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo which took place back in March. Because of the huge success of the first event, the organizers decided to create another event that celebrated more modern gaming and combined vendors, fun tournaments, educational panels, a bit of cosplay, and …
For the launch of Windows 8, our friends over at NCIX created two events to allow the public to touch and feel Microsoft’s latest operating system. The new operating system is radically different than previous versions due to its unique hybridization of both touch screen mobile OS and the conventional mouse and keyboard desktop. That’s why it’s so very important …
