I have a confession to make. My favorite game of all time is Zombies Ate My Neighbors. It was a classic Super Nintendo game that had you playing either a young boy or girl who uses various toys (such as a squirt gun) to save their neighbors from getting destroyed by zombies! This game is [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 27th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Linux Games: Zsnes (Super Nintendo Emulator)
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 15th, 2009
- Comments: 4
Linux Games: Eschalon Book I
In this entry to the Linux Games department I am going to introduce you to a very fine RPG entry created by Basilisk Games called Eschalon Book I. This game is one of the few full-blown RPG games available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. Eschalon Book I won the 2007 Indie game of the [...]
Microsoft Apologizes for Next Gen Console Mixup
Microsoft has found themselves in yet another mix-up, yet its CEO personally apologized to devastated gamers. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, has apologized for unclear remarks made last week regarding careless word choices that led gamers to believe that a Microsoft would be releasing a new gaming console. Ballmer reportedly made an announcement that that a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 21st, 2009
- Comments: 10
Linux Games: Torus Trooper
I am a child of the 80s (born in 1967), so I remember well the likes of Tempest, Zaxon, Galaga, Zap, Centipede, and many more games that stole my quarters over the years. These games helped to define my generation as the first to stare, glassy-eyed at a screen in hopes of having their name [...]
Easy No-CD and No-DVD for games on Mac
Computer users often hate having to have a CD or DVD in their drive to run a game. To circumvent this, images are often burned to hard drives or cracks used. Cracks are rapidly found for Windows, but it can be an extreme chore to find them for Macs.
EA use a product called Cider to [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 11th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Linux Gaming: 20,000 Light-Years Into Space
We all need a break from our daily routine, and many PC users like that break to be in the form of a game. This is where most people say Linux doesn’t have any games. Au contraire mon ami. Linux does have games. Not your modern full-on 3D games that require more computing power than [...]
Xbox Project Natal
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo was packed with exciting game and hardware announcements from virtually every gaming company in existence. One presentation dominated the gaming hardware announcements; And that was Project Natal for the Xbox. Project Natal aims to offer controller-less gaming on the Xbox gaming systems. It looks a bit like a mixture of [...]
