I have been playing a lot of Tribes Vengeance lately, but mostly on servers running custom maps. I never actually bothered downloading those maps until recently, and they are all pretty good. While the stock maps that come with the game are well designed, these new ones breathe new life into the game....

It looks like I was pretty much right on target a few months ago when I questioned the importance of the PhysX cards and told everyone to wait a good while before buying one. The first sign that things were not so good was the AnandTech review of the BFG PhysX card in which the card actually hurt performance. Now...