Bored? Got ten minutes spare and nothing to fill it? Ideal…

Get yourself over to www.totalpcgaming.com’s Top 50 Flash games to while away your time hitting high scores and generally japing about. You can find the link on the front page of our website.

Among the top 50 are Battleships, Trials 2 and Pong - what more could you want?!

You can impress your mates with your high scores or grab a screenshot for proof and head over to Total PC Gaming.com’s forum to challenge other readers.

Enjoy!

Ubisoft has revised the release date  of their forthcoming arcade flight sim - it’s now set to arrive at the beginning of next year. With ‘real’ planes including the F-22, Eurofighter, MIG-29, Su-37 and F-16 we’re keen to see quite how this dog-fighting combat game is going to stack up. Do you really want it or should arcade-style shooters stay in the console domain? Get on our forum at www.totalpcgaming.com/forum and let us know!
“The setting is 2012. As the era of the nation-state draws quickly to a close, the rules of warfare evolve even more rapidly. More and more nations become increasingly dependent on Private Military Companies (PMCs) – elite mercenaries with a lax view of the law. The Reykjavik Accords further legitimize their existence by authorizing their right to serve in every aspect of military operations. There goes the neighbourhood”

Small Form Factor experts Shuttle have today announced the release of a brand new AMD AM2+ based bare-bones system featuring a new ‘H7′ housing design said to ‘lay the foundation for coming generations of mini-PCs’.

The Shuttle XPC Barebone SN78SH7 is powered by a 300 watt 80 PLUS power supply and comes complete with an automatic fan speed control system with heat-pipe technology designed to consistently maintain a stable and safe temperature.

Shuttle said: “Audiophiles will enjoy the high quality 8-channel sound chip with DTS Connect and Dolby Digital Live! certification,” and added that sound can be digitally transmitted via an optical SPDIF socket.
Integrated DX10-compatible graphics are powered by NVIDIAs GeForce 8200 GPU and a HDMI (1.3) connector on the rear means full HD can be enjoyd without putting too much pressure on an installed Phenom processor.

The Shuttle XPC Barebone SN78SH7 is available now at all good stockists or you can search www.totalpcgaming.com/shop over the coming days to find the best price.

Total PC Gaming has arrived in LA! The city of gang violence, hardcore pornography and, lets not forget, angels. We may have just endured a grueling 12 hour flight - sat next to a man who insisted on giving us a smell of his colon every 15 minutes - but we’re now in the LA Convention centre to bring you news and ramblings from this year’s E3 (the video game trade show that’s kind of lost its magic, but is going to stick around for a little while longer until someone starts-up something better).

For our latest coverage of the event you should direct yourself to our Blog page here

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Get yourself over to the Total PC Gaming forum here, sign up (its free) and log in either at 1:30pm or 8pm on Monday 14th July to be in with a chance of winning big courtesy of the mag.

In case you don’t already know the TPCG forum is the place to be if you want to discuss you’re favourite hobby, ask and answer gaming and hardware related questions and talk directly to the magazine team about whatever’s on your mind.

So what’s on offer? 4GB of Corsair’s awesome DHX DDR2 RAM for the top prize and a bundle of PC games and the Gamer Edition of Guinness World Records 2008 for two lucky runners up.

Tell your friends and family, rope in your neighbours and call the cops! Actually, scrap the last one, that would just be silly.

Full details can be found here!

G4 has an exclusive video showing in-game footage of the hotly anticipated StarGate Worlds MMORPG. Despite ten seasons, a spin off series and of course the Blockbuster movie that started it all, there has yet to be a decent game based on the franchise. We wonder if this will buck the trend of mediocrity…

Click here to check it out for yourself.

A source from www.overclockers.co.uk – one of the UK’s largest hardware resellers - has revealed to Total PC Gaming that sales of nVIDIA’s new 280 and 260 GTX cards are much slower than normally expected for a new GeForce release. The Radeon 4800 series is being cited as the cause for this, as ATi’s latest cards perform similarly but are significantly cheaper. We will be looking at both of manufacturer’s latest and greatest offerings in our supertest the next issue which will be on sale 7th August.

Last week saw the release of the monolithic GeForce GTX 280, which at well over £400 will only be an option for the richest of PC gamers. Fortunately, benchmark numbers for ATi’s latest card have also started trickling onto the internet, and it’s very good news for mainstream PC buyers. Performance generally seems to be higher than the already-speedy GeForce 9800 GTX, but as the new card is available from just £135, it’s currently a lot cheaper. Performance has also been greatly improved in games such as Crysis where nVIDIA previously had a stranglehold.

NVIDIA’s latest graphics card, the GTX 280, goes on sale today. The GTX 280 is, to date, the fastest consumer card from NVIDIA, outperforming its current top-end model the 9800 GX2. Its got a 602MHz core clock, 1GB of GDDR3 memory at 2.2GHz and 1296MHz shader clock. A quick search of various online stores shows prices starting at £429 and going up to over £500 for factory-overclocked models. If that’s a little too rich for you, the GTX 260 will be available from 26th June. It has a slower core, memory and shader clock speeds and 896MB RAM instead of 1GB, but can be found for around £300. There are reviews at AnandTech, Tom’s Hardware, Ubergizmo and many other sites, and we’ll be taking a close look at the card in issue 9, on sale 10th July.