2017
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
Largest Treasure Hunt Game
Rethymno, GreecePart of the Guinness World Records awarded Treasure Hunt of Rethymno.
The Lab
“The bigger the chaos,
the greater the creativity.”
the greater the creativity.”
Art is chaos taking shape
Pablo Picasso
BEHIND THE SCREENS
Welcome to
the Lab.
This is where ideas are tested, broken, rebuilt and occasionally turned into something useful.
Code, games, hardware, retro experiments and everything that happens before an idea becomes a finished project.
Some experiments work.
Some explode spectacularly. 🙂
Some explode spectacularly. 🙂
SONICK STUDIOS LAB
CURRENT LOCATION
Where the chaos happens.
ONLINE
THE ROOM IN MOTION
Inside the Lab.
OFFICE TOUR
The workspace.
Lights, screens, hardware and the environment where Sonick Studios comes to life.
BOOT SEQUENCE
Systems online.
From a dark room to operational in seconds. The Lab waking up and getting ready for work.
THE COCKPIT
Three screens.
Three screens.
One point of view.
Not 4K. Wider. Three 1920 × 1080 displays become one 5760 × 1080 NVIDIA Surround workspace — built for peripheral vision and cockpit-style immersion.
NVIDIA SURROUND
5760 × 1080
6.22 MILLION PIXELS
STAR TREK ONLINE01
SURROUND MODE
ELITE DANGEROUS02
SURROUND MODE
STORIES ON THE WALL
Some things earn
a place on the wall.
Experiments come and go.
A few leave something behind.
FROM THE WALL
PIECES FROM
THE JOURNEY
THE JOURNEY
2024
WORLD OF WARSHIPS
Supertest Academy
CertificateSupertest Academy certification — part of the testing journey behind World of Warships.
SELECTED MILESTONES
1996
Πάρε Φόρα & Κουτούλα
Founder
Treasure hunt team of the Guiness Awarded Treasure hunt of Rethymno
2002
Radio Woodside
Founder
An internet radio community dedicated to the Greek students studied abroad
2017
Guinness World Record
Participant
A milestone earned in Rethymno and one of those moments that deserved a permanent place on the wall.
2025-2026
World of Warships Supertester
Testing systems, mechanics and builds before they reached the wider player base.
2025
International Tournament Referee
Competitive operations, tournament rules and live-match responsibility on an international stage.
Different eras.
Same curiosity.
RIG I
LEGACY SYSTEM
The Veteran
The machine that carried the early Lab. Early Blackbird Class, still working perfectly as a backup system
CPU
AMD FX-8320
MOTHERBOARD
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
MEMORY
16 GB DDR3 · 4×4 GB
GRAPHICS
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060
6 GB
STORAGE
Samsung SSD 840
250 GB
DISPLAY ERA
3 x 32" Philips 322E
+ Samsung 27" monitor / TV
RIG II
CURRENT SYSTEM
Super-Blackbird-X
The current heart of Sonick Studios.
CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 3900
12 Cores
MOTHERBOARD
ASUS Prime B450M-K II
MEMORY
32 GB G.Skill DDR4
3200 MHz · Dual Channel
GRAPHICS
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070
12 GB
STORAGE
ADATA LEGEND 900
NVMe SSD
DISPLAY
3 x 32" Philips 322E + 1 x 27" Samsung LT28C570
Triple-monitor workstation
RIG III
SOON — CLICK TO SEE
The Future
The next generation of the Lab. Built for performance. Built for the future.
CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
16 Cores · 32 Threads
GRAPHICS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
32 GB GDDR7
MOTHERBOARD
X870E Platform
High-end AM5 configuration
MEMORY
64 GB DDR5
6000 MHz · CL30
STORAGE
High-End PCIe 5.0 NVMe
Performance storage configuration
POWER
1600 W
Premium high-efficiency PSU
THE COCKPIT
2 × Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57"
Stacked · Dual UHD · 7680 × 2160 each
15,360 × 2,160 TOTAL DESKTOP
LEGACY SYSTEM
PORTABLE UNIT
STILL ONLINE
THE LEGENDARY LAPTOP
THE GRANDPA
Acer Aspire AO756 · Modified
“Still boots. Still works.
Still reporting for duty.”
Still reporting for duty.”
A veteran portable machine from the early days,
upgraded beyond its original configuration and
kept alive as the Lab's legacy backup unit.
CPU
Intel Celeron 887
1.50 GHz
MEMORY
8 GB RAM
Upgraded configuration
GRAPHICS
Intel Integrated Graphics
Embedded GPU
STORAGE
Intel SSD 520 Series
240 GB SSD
MODEL
Acer Aspire AO756
Modified / Upgraded
ROLE
Legacy Backup Unit
Portable reserve system
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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