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 …
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 …
Futurelooks was back at BCIT again this past Friday, October 12th, 2012, to help spread the computer lovin’ cheer at their Fall LAN party event presented by the BCIT Student Association. Yes, the same post secondary education institution for techies …
Last week, Futurelooks participated in the back to school activities at one of Canada’s leading Technical Colleges, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, or more commonly known as BCIT. Accompanied by our sister site, MEGATechNews, we had a …
It’s a video double header in this post! First up, one of our favourite case companies, NZXT, was at PAX Prime 2012 again, doing what they could to help gamers have a great time. They teamed up with ADATA to …
Futurelooks was down at PAX Prime 2012 in Seattle this past weekend to check out the latest PC gaming hardware, games and accessories. On our list of visits were a number of companies that you know and love. This event …
The Futurelooks Wall-Sit Endurance Challenge has been known by many names in the past. At Fragapalooza 2009 it was called the “GIGABYTE Ultra Durable Challenge“. Then at LANcouver 2011, it was called the “GIGABYTE G1-Killer Endurance Challenge…
At last year’s LANcouver 2011, the Kingston HyperX Keyboard Hucking (Chucking) Challenge drew a big crowd that lined up for a chance to win a Kingston SSD. This year, we shortened the name, trimmed some keyboard cables, and made it …
LAN events always have some great non-gaming activities for everyone to take part in and LANcouver 2012 offered a few really great ones. One of the things we wanted to do was a PC building demonstration that had two people, …
The second panel of LANcouver 2012 took place bright and early. When I say bright and early, I mean 10AM on June 30, 2012. After all, this is a LAN party and chances are, people slept at their keyboards.
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Although LANcouver 2012 has come and gone over the Canada Day long weekend, its affect on gamers and enthusiasts in Western Canada has been felt. As we sort through all our videos and pictures from the event, we are constantly …
Before LANcouver 2011 last year, I didn’t even know that anyone was trying to resurrect the glory of the multi-day LAN event in the Vancouver, Canada area. But a chance encounter at the Memory Express Duke Nukem LAN changed all that for …