
I used to be an avid customer of Creative. Although my new laptop does not have a Creative sound card (in fact, I haven’t heard of anyone using a sound card for that matter these days), my desktop still has Creative’s Sound Blaster Live! which I have favoured over the in-build sound device in the motherboard. SB Live! still works for my gaming needs (and they are few), and that card is still working even though it was bought in 2003.
Which is why it came as quite a shock to me to read the news that Creative had sold their HQ building in Singapore.
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Playing Command & Conquer 3 can be fun but after a while it becomes a bore (if you have finished all the missions, that is), so the next logical step is to turn to the Skirmish feature where you can play against the game’s AI with the default maps installed. The default maps may not satisfy you so you can always download and install new map packs for the game. Here is a step-by-step guide on how you can do so.
1. Download a new map pack, like from here for example.
2. Extract contents of the .zip file to the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER LOGIN NAME]\Application Data\Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars\Maps\
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All MMORPG games must have some or the other specialty or they do not survive. Tabula Rasa has become a rage, and so it must have some unique feature. That unique feature is definitely the very interesting cloning system that this innovative game has. The cloning system is the hallmark of Tabula Rasa. Let us see how it works.
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