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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 [...]

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Categories: Games, Linux, Open Source

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 7th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

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 [...]

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Best Games Of E3

E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, has opened its doors yesterday. It is one of the biggest gaming events of the year which usually sees a lot of game announcements, trailers and ingame video feeds for the PC and video consoles such as PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. The following list is a collection of [...]

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Categories: Entertainment, Games

Cartoon shootout with Battlefield Heroes

A new chapter in the Battlefield series is coming out soon, and there are free beta keys being handed out, so go over there this instant and get one for yourself!
The new game brings a huge change, instead of going for realism, they went for a cartoon look, which looks pretty stunning I think. Many [...]

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Categories: Games

Switch off apps for gaming mode with Gamebooster

Recently I have gotten back into gaming, which means a huge 2 hours a week about, but nevertheless, it is a good way to blow off some steam. If you want to run some very modern games though you might need to squeeze every last bit of memory and CPU power out of your laptop [...]

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Categories: Games, software

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Mar 7th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Run an airline, train, road and shipping firm with OpenTTD

OpenTTD is an open-source, cross-platform clone of the 1995 classic ‘Transport Tycoon Deluxe’. The game allows the player to run a transport company, where they will be expected to become a transport tycoon and operate a network of trains, lorries, ships and aeroplanes.
You have to move people between cities and move goods like oil and [...]

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Categories: Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Gears Of War PC Hits Expiration Date

If you need another reason why DRM does not make sense whatsoever read on. The PC version of Gears of WAR apparently has a expiration system build in that ran out on January 28, 2009. That’s right. If you legally bought the game you cannot play it anymore because the digital certificate expired. Does it [...]

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Categories: Games

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

WOW Addons Updater

World of Warcraft is an online roleplaying game by Blizzard. It is without doubt one of the most popular roleplaying games with 12 million subscribers. A great feature of the World of Warcraft game is its extensibility. Users can install so called WOW addons which work very similar to other addon based programs like Firefox [...]

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Categories: Games, software

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