Via's Home of Chrome girl gamers

Posted on Friday, April 21 2006 @ 15:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Home of Chrome: a dedicated professional gaming training facility in Sweden which is also the home of all-girl clan, girlz 0f destruction. Marketing front or Girl Power? We flew to Stockholm to find out.

"Curiously, all the girls use 19" NEC MultiSync CRT monitors for gaming. You could argue that LCD monitors have improved to the point where CRT displays no longer hold an advantage over LCDs in terms of response time and what not, but the real reason the girls eschew CRT in favour of LCD is resolution: they all play at 800x600, which would produce some quite horrific scaling problems on your average 1280x1024 TFT. "

You can check it out over here.


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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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