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Ah, cell phone gaming. It’s almost an oxymoron considering the poor attempts at real gaming on cell phones. Nokia tried and failed, in great part because the handheld gaming market is monopolized by Nintendo, with Sony’s PSP the only real competitor left. That is, until Apple positions the iPhone into being the handheld gaming rookie [...]

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When we commented on the Macbook Air, we were not pleased with the unit’s price, particularly as it reflected the unit’s function. In brief, we would have rather seen a compact, portable machine designed around internet use. This is where sub-notebook computers like the Eee PC are finding their niche, as most consumers don’t need [...]

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So Rock Band brought the music party game genre to a new level when it added drums and a microphone to complement the guitar scene. What it did best, however, was make subtle improvements on the existing crop of guitar controllers, but leave the general mechanics in place. Apparently, Guitar Hero IV will jump on [...]

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The Wii collecting dust in our living room has been eager for our attention, humming with it’s blue luminescence every few weeks. We ignore it, however, because of our sad disappointment with the Wii’s game library. Almost a year ago, we had a similar complaint, and though things are looking less grim for the future, [...]

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Some people are wetting their pants over the prospect of a 3G iPhone coming out next month (or this summer), primarily on account of the 3G network support. By “3G”, we refer to UTMS, which is one of the third-generation cell phone technologies. For most people, the technology is transparent, but for those with data [...]

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Why wouldn’t a child of the 80s find a modern G.I. Joe movie fantastic? Given the veritable success of the recent Transformers movie, a G.I. Joe movie seems like a logical move. That is, until one realizes that G.I. Joe is full of campy nonsense much like the Ewoks that heralded Star Wars’ demise.
When the [...]

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Is anyone surprised that the copy protection announced for Mass Effect and Spore is being reconsidered? In short, publishers Bioware and EA, respectively, initially decided to include a copy protection mechanism that would cause the aforementioned games to “phone home” every ten days to ensure that the game played was legitimately purchased. The ten-day authentication [...]

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When a Mac user walked into a room of gamers and started talking games, he was laughed at, beaten, bloodied, and dragged to the nearest ditch to die.
Well, he was laughed at, anyway.
But times have changed. Not because Apple has really strengthened their Mac lineup to support games (despite Apple’s random announcements over the years [...]

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It’s an alchemical breakthrough: the transmutation of optical media to an older, analog format. According to Boing Boing, Aleks Kolkowski is using a vintage record cutter to cut grooves into CDs/DVDs such that they can be played on a record player. This physical mutilation obviously destroys the ability to keep playing the old CDs/DVDs in [...]

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After reading Maxator’s post about his go-to Mac applications, we decided to give ClamXav a spin. Content with ClamXav’s memory footprint and happy with the fact that it’s anti-virus engine is open source, we decided to add the application to our own list of must-have OS X applications. We’ve also added Ulysses to our list [...]

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Let’s clarify that: in order for the next big massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) to become a real competitor to World of Warcraft (WoW), it will need to be built upon an established background. World of Warcraft (WoW) set this precedent when it was released; WoW wasn’t a success overnight, but rather, because of the [...]

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The latest version of the “award winning” WoW UI suite is available for download. This version includes fixes for CT Map Mod, Damage Meters, and several others. Enjoy.
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The rumour band-wagon is hastily moving forward that a gyroscopic controller from Microsoft will fulfill the role of the Wii’s innovative control scheme. Nintendo doesn’t feel particularly threatened, however, because they’re keen on pointing out how they did it first, and somehow, this first-to-market strategy is what they believe to be key to market success.
Sadly, [...]

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We swear we fixed this problem in the past, but apparently we ran into a problem in which we couldn’t leave multiple comments in a given session at mendax.org. The fix we found pretty quickly, but it’s further evidence that Redoable theme is not getting the support it fully needs, and why we desperately need [...]

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We’ve had an article from MAKE Magazine starred in Google Reader forever, and only recently got around to seriously looking into building a home carbonation system ourselves. The Cool Tools article linked to by MAKE describes a simple system for carbonating beverages at home, and is pretty dead on in regards to its description of [...]

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