Piracy in gaming is huge. The earliest form of illegal practices in computer gaming I can remember is a person buying a game and giving it to a friend to copy in exchange for a copy of his game. Gaming companies wised up to that and today most PC games come with some kind of [...]
Best free (and open-source) FPS games
Whilst first person shooters are mainly confined to the console, several good FPS games are available for PC. I’m nothing more than a casual gamer but I enjoy shooters and I was surprised by the sheer number available. I use a Mac, so this article will primarily focus on cross-platform shooters.
AssaultCube
AssaultCube is a quite simple [...]
Windows Vista Games
One usability addition to Windows Vista was the so called Windows Game Explorer that would display all installed Windows Vista games in one menu. It would not only display the usual Microsoft games that ship with the Windows operating system but also games installed by the user of the computer system. Previously installing games meant [...]
Travian – Online Strategy Game
I’m really not a big gamer.
I play occasionally, but when I do I’m generally only interested in Real Time Strategy (RTS) titles such as Age of Empires III, Command and Conquer 3, Settlers, Rise of Nations etc
RPG’s are possibly my least favourite games and for this reason I have never got into any kind of [...]
Spore DRM Protests To Take Effect
This is the second time that publisher Electronic Arts has eased the DRM restrictions of some of their upcoming games due to Internet protests from gamers worldwide. Electronic Arts had initial plans to force users to activate the games Mass Effect and Spore over the Internet which had to repeated regularly if the player wanted [...]
Play Web Games Offline With FlashOffliner
FlashOffliner is a starter and central management application for flash games that have been downloaded to the computer. The software program ships with a few example flash games that can be used to check the program’s functionality but it requires that the user knows how to download flash games from various web games portals.
While that [...]
Teamspeak Alternative Mumble
Many gamers throughout the world use Teamspeak to communicate while gaming. Many gaming clans use Teamspeak for professional gaming but it is also common among friends who play their nightly World of Warcraft session.
Mumble is an Open-Source multi-plattform Teamspeak alternative that comes, like Teamspeak, as a client and server application which is distributed together [...]
