Bangladesh
About gaming in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi site review and Bangladesh from a gamer’s point of view
The Prospect of a Piracy Free Bangladesh : Will it Ever Happen?
Piracy is rampant in Bangladesh, that’s not a strange fact. Bangladesh has a piracy rate of 92% (according to the Global Software Piracy Study 2006), is the largest user of pirated softwares in the Asia-Pacific and fourth largest in the world. Considering the fact that almost all the software that we use in our PC, […]
Sirius Broadband / Zip bd ISP In-depth Review
[Important Update] Check the new 512 kbps review of Sirius Broadband/ZipBD here. I had lousy experiences with most of the ISPs in Dhaka. The service is unreliable, the speed is at a turtle’s pace and customer service is downright unprofessional. But Sirius Broadband is none of that. I am currently using the Xpress package for […]
NFS Carbon Giveaway Contest Results
The response that we received to our NFS Carbon Collector’s Edition DVD Giveaway was overwhelming. We’ve had over a 1000 participants. But in the end only 5 were randomly selected through lottery. So here is the news that you’ve all been waiting for, the 5 WINNERS of the NFS Carbon Giveaway contest: Rezaur Rahman of […]
Arcades of Dhaka City
Whatever happened to the arcades? Well, they haven’t disappeared; they simply got overwhelmed by the rising number of consoles, handhelds and multiplying networked gaming zones popping up everywhere. Hi people, I’m the newest kid on the block…err..I mean blog. While others will enlighten you mostly about new games and gaming devices, I will just talk […]
World Cyber Games 2007 in Bangladesh
World Cyber Games 2007 will be held at Bangladesh on the 27th-29th July. Winners go to the Grand Final at Seattle, USA for their chance to win $1 Million World Cyber Games 2007 is here once again. Missed it last time? Or was it just that you couldn’t show your top performance? No worries, you can still […]
What Everybody Should Know : Which Will Dominate Bangladesh – The PS3 Or The Xbox 360?
Yes, when the entire world rumbles around which of the new next-gen consoles is going to win the battle, we are going to actually focus on, which console suits best for Bangladeshis. As one of the major poor nations in Southeast Asia , Bangladesh is not actually considered as a profitable region for the console […]
Bangladesh Government Decide To Impose Taxes On Computers
It seems that tax-free computer products and peripherals are history in Bangladesh. Our caretaker government has recently decided to impose taxes on computers, peripherals and accessories in the fiscal year 2007-2008. Although the exact rate of tax is yet to be declared, this recent decision might have some serious effects on the ICT sector in […]
Online Gaming For The Least Fortunate : How To Get The Best Gaming Performance From Your Slow Internet Speed
This represents my first how-to article. All of us Bangladeshis have known it and longed to try it out, that is, online gaming – the major step forward for video games. But every Bangladeshi knows that to attempt such a feat is a complete suicide, with net speeds in the mere single digit kilobytes per […]
CD Comapatibility Woes : Are All CDs In Bangladesh The Same?
This is completely nuts! None of the CDs that I buy can install without a glitch! Well, I am writing this after the 10th time I wanted to install Fifa 2007. At the end of the installation process, I always get an error saying that CRC checking failed. For the last time, I changed the […]
The Search For A Good ISP
Fed up with the worst service that I came across, I decided to switch my ISP. When all hope was lost, an unbelievable offer came up – which I couldn’t resist. Yesterday, I just reached the end of my patience with my current ISP, Dtech Ltd. from whom I took a broadband connection. The speed […]
