Celebrating five years of Firefox!

Firefox has served me since my good old Pentium 4, and has seen me play games from Battlefield Vietnam and Aliens vs Predator 2 to F.E.A.R. and Battlefield 2, to Crysis, CoD4 and Fallout 3. Firefox has always been the browser of choice for me, and has downloaded patches for all these games, be it at my home computer or at TAFE to my iPod with Firefox Portable.

I have never had a problem with it and even today, it's still saving me from downloading viruses from random websites; "This web site at has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences". Just another line of defense between the internet's maliciousness and my precious gaming computer.

The addons are endless, nowadays. If you feel you want a scrollbar for your endless row of tabs? Or how about an internet usage meter that shows you how much you have left before you're capped? Firefox addons have almost anything you can think of to help you customize your experience while surfing the web.

If you've never used Firefox as your web browser, I suggest you look no further for your next candidate. Give it a shot, it can't hurt! You can always uninstall and go back to your preferred browser, be it IE or Chrome or any of the other randoms out there, but trust me, you'll be mad if you do!

Big Cat's MW2 Review (Singleplayer)

This review was originally written by Big Cat, who posted it on the Infinity Ward (MW2 PC) forums. All credits for this writing-piece go to him.

All questions or comments in response to the review itself should be made on the original thread, here. Any other, general comments, may be made in the comment section attached to this post.

Please note that this is currently unedited and may contain things such as spoilers related to the campaign of said game. I am not the author of this content so if you have any problems with how this reads prior to my editing, I suggest you take it up with Big Cat (see link above). 

Big Cat's MW2 Review (Multiplayer)

This review was originally written by Big Cat, who posted it on the Infinity Ward (MW2 PC) forums. All credits for this writing-piece go to him.

All questions or comments in response to the review itself should be made on the original thread, here. Any other, general comments, may be made in the comment section attached to this post.

When will I be buying Modern Warfare 2?

I WILL be buying Modern Warfare 2 when I can justify the price for an average singleplayer story and a halfassed multiplayer mode. If dedicated servers are back by then, cool; if not, so be it. I can justify this because if I aim my expectations low enough and my critique high enough, I'll end up being somewhat happy with the game when I finally do get it.

From what I've heard, I wouldn't suggest anyone should go rushing out to buy it on the basis of dedicated server inclusion alone, regardless of connection improvements. This is NOT CoD4, and no amount of dedicated servers will change that fact. Keep that in mind if they ever do announce the patching in of any of our requested features (except perhaps mods, lol).

Perspective of an onlooking Aussie gamer

This entire post is taken from a thread that I started on the Infinity Ward forums on Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:42 pm.

I wrote this up while chatting to three guys over Xfire's built in group-chat VOIP. This was one of their first experiences on Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer together and I thought it would be a good idea to document my opinion after witnessing their experience.