Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’
The Moon Sneezes Its Way into Your Heart in This Little-Kid Version of the Universe
My two-year-old daughter doesn’t think of stars as huge bodies of flaming gas millions of miles away. She thinks of them as little five-pointed symbols that live inside books and on top of Christmas trees. In similar fashion, she knows that there’s a moon in the sky but also thinks the glowing circles formed by domed light fixtures in our home are also moons. Getting glimpses of how she’s thinking about the universe is almost unbearably cute. And so is Paper Galaxy, which manages to cast the cosmos as a giant playground. More »
This Excellent Far Cry 3 Mod Will Make Your Second Pass A Whole New Thing
Classic Apple Game Karateka Makes a Fun but Flawed Return to iPad and iPhone
The original version of Karateka launched on an Apple II two decades ago and helped show that video game design could deliver idiosyncratic, narrative experiences. Back then, both Apple and video games were in their toddler stage, stumbling around trying to figure out what they could do. More »
Zynga Applies for a Nevada Gambling License
As part of its lengthy preparations to offer real-money gambling via its social games in the U.S., Zynga has taken the first step towards acquiring a Nevada gaming license, which would help pave the way towards giving American players a chance to give the company their money without getting virtual livestock in exchange. More »
FragFX Shark 360 Review
FragFX Shark 360
The last time I truly enjoyed console gaming was on the SNES and the Genesis. Being a PC gamer, I had very little interest in the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, so it wasn’t until about a year ago that I finally broke down and bought a 360. It was an impulse buy because a price cut had just gone in place. The first game I tried was the Kane & Lynch 2 demo. What a mess that was. The demo drops you right into the thick of things and I lasted a couple of seconds per restart.
System Mechanic Review

System Mechanic from iolo is a huge compilation of tools designed to clean up and improve the performance of your computer. You know how it goes… clean install, you’re feeling fresh as a daisy and life is good. Then a couple of weeks later you start feeling not so clean. Windows is taking longer to start up, programs take longer to load and the BSDs start kicking in. Eventually you start thinking about doing a clean install of Windows. That’s where I was sitting a couple of weeks ago, but instead I decided to try System Mechanic. System Mechanic claims to do the following:



