Magi: The Fallen World is a browser action rpg game. Players select a character class (Mage, Warrior, Archer) in the beginning. They start in town and can explore locations on the world map. The town offers the usual assortment of merchants and NPCs with quests. It is a good idea to accept as many quests [...]

I have the feeling that most innovation in gaming comes from independent developers who produce low-budget contents for gaming consoles, the PC or web browsers. Bela Kovacs and The Trail of Blood pushes the limits of a web browser game. It is a beautifully looking adventure game in which you take over the role of [...]

Upgrade Complete 2 is the sequel to the popular Upgrade Complete flash browser game. Both games add a unique idea to a game that is in its core an arcade shooter. Imagine that you’d start with a basic game and that you had to buy game elements, for instance a play button, music, prettier graphics [...]

I love playing games. Started when I was very young in the arcades, got my Atari 2600 then followed by the C-64, then Commodore Amiga and finally the PC. Lots of entertainment systems as well, was more of a Sega dude back in the days but have all three major systems right now in my [...]

I have decided to bring back game reviews here at Ghacks by reviewing one, free game, every Saturday. I call it Game Saturday and it begins with a classic. The Streets of Rage series was extremely successful on the Sega Genesis. Sega released a total of three parts and ported it to other systems over [...]

Music these days is anything but cheap. However, it is a hugely popular industry, and most people are currently buying their music digitally rather than physically. In fact, just this week Mercury Records have decided to scrap physical sales in favour of an entirely digital business. What this means is that you will now be [...]

Youtube is without doubt one of the best destinations for free unlimited music on today’s Internet. Youtube Music is not only accessible via its official web address youtube.com/music but also from regular searches on the video portal. The default controls on Youtube are not optimal for an uninterrupted music experience. While it is possible to [...]

In case you missed this story, IBM have been wanting to test the new Natural Language AI engine in their Watson supercomputer, so they arranged for it to appear on US game show Jeopardy.  This particular show was chosen because the nature of the questions means that it’s not a simple case of word recognition, [...]

I’ll come clean and say that I’ve still not been drawn into the whole Angry Birds phenomenon, but that’s not to say I haven’t heard about it.  It’s very difficult not to have heard about Angry Birds after all! Movie studio 20th Century Fox are counting on this as it’s now been announced that the [...]

They can’t find Osama Bin Laden, they can’t find the leaders of the Taliban, the US military can however track Santa Claus and has been doing so for years (to be honest I’m convinced Santa’s allowing them to do this to prove to all little boys and girls that he really does exist). Yup, the [...]

It is the silly season so it was only right to announce that supercomputing giant IBM are so confident in the processing abilities of their new Watson machine that they are pitting it against two human contestants on popular TV show Jeopardy in a three night special that starts on February 14th according to the BBC. [...]

As far as killing time with games is concerned, you will be hard pressed to find a better game than Gridwars. Gridwars is very much like the secret game Geometry Wars that was the secret bonus game tucked into Gotham Racing 2 for the XBox (Which then evolved into Geometry Wars: Retro, available for XBox [...]

Back in 2008 I reviewed a small application to download music from Deezer, a popular free music streaming service at that time. The application used back then has not been updated since that day and is no longer working with the latest public version of Deezer. Reason enough to look a second time at the [...]

Following pressure from the US military, EA Games have decided to remove a feature from their forthcoming multi-player Medal of Honor game that would have allowed gamers to play as members of the Taliban. In a statement on the Medal of Honor website, Greg Goodrich, the Executive producer for the game said… In the past [...]

Microsoft’s latest game for the XBox 360 console, Halo: Reach has made $200 million in its first 24 hours after launch according to data released by Microsoft and reported by TechFlash.  The previous Halo game topped the all time games sales chart until it was dethroned by Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare.  Now the [...]

Fast, faster, instant. It seems that speed is a popular factor nowadays. Youtube Instant is a new third party example how speed can change a service. The developer, Feross, inspired by Google Instant has created a Youtube pendant, sort of. The basic service displays the search and video on the same page. Videos begin to [...]

The only real constantly working option to watch Hulu movies and TV shows from outside the United States was to use a virtual private network (vpn) connection. Today Reddit user 200iso discovered a way to watch Hulu from everywhere. All that is needed is the Firefox web browser, the firefox add-on Modify Headers and some [...]

Trolling seems to be a huge problem on Blizzard forums at websites like battle.net or worldofwarcraft.com as the company has just announced plans to switch to Real ID posting on the forums. Real ID has been introduced as a feature a while ago to make connections with other players on battle.net easier. It basically displays [...]

Remember LAN gaming? Gaming on Local Area Networks was the way to play back in the 90s. You had to haul all your equipment to your friends or a central location if you were not lucky enough to have enough computer systems standing around for the weekly game of Quake, Half-life or Starcraft. Most games [...]

Ah the good old days. When adventures were hard to crack and players could really die when they made the wrong moves. Sierra On-line was one of the big dogs of adventuring back then, they produced series like Leisure Suit Larry, Kings Quest, Space Quest and heaps of other remarkable games. The games are still [...]

It’s been a long time since I offered up a nice Linux game for the Ghacks audience. So I thought, today I will introduce them to one of my favorite Linux time killers Chromium B.S.U. When I first discovered this game it’s original title was simply Chromium. Obviously this was  a serious conflict of interest [...]

This year’s E3 gaming convention had some very interesting hardware and game announcements for all popular gaming systems and the PC. The convention is still underway until June 17 but most developers have already shown their upcoming releases in conferences. The following selection includes some of the most promising looking games and devices that were [...]

The football Word Cup in South Africa kicked off last Friday. We have already seen a few surprises when favorites like England or France could not beat their opponents in their opening games. TV stations in most countries of the world show the games live but there might be some countries where not all games [...]

There have been numerous articles on Ghacks covering the topic of Wallpaper. So I thought I would chime in with a short series on the subject. A lot of users think focusing on wallpaper is pointless. I disagree. Not only is the idea of personalizing your PC important, but it also allows for companies to [...]

Geocities was a popular service back then that allowed its users to create basic websites. Many Geocities pages dated back to the beginning days of the Internet where webmasters liked to use animated gifs, sounds and other distracting elements on their pages. The Geocities-izer brings back those fond memories by offering to turn any modern [...]

If you have recently installed a game that uses the anti-cheating software Punkbuster to reduce online cheating in the game you may have noticed the two Punkbuster services PnkBstrA.exe and PnkBstrB.exe running in the Windows Task Manager even if the game has not been started in the session. Punkbuster gets installed as two Windows Services [...]

This article will cover a very powerful but little advertised feature of Inkscape. If you don’t know it, Inkscape is a free vector graphics editor, counterpart of Adobe Illustrator (like GIMP is Photoshop’s counterpart for raster graphics). This feature is Inkscape’s vectorization tool, made possible by the integration of potrace.

Text Twist is a very popular online game that is offered on many different websites. Two of the most popular versions of the Text Twist game are offered on Yahoo and MSN Games with the MSN game only playable in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Text Twist is a word game where the player has to form [...]

PC games publishers, like the music or film industry, face the challenges of piracy. A game for instance is usually available on the Internet before it can be purchased. The Internet game comes without copy protection and other forms of protection. Regular buyers on the other hand have to wait longer and face copy protection [...]

Let’s face it, we sit at our computers for hours on end. Be it administrating, working, or just plain killing time. Everyone knows that the interwebs is a sure-fire time killer. But what happens, gasp, when those interwebs are down and you’ve no way to pass time? You shrivel up and die right? No! You [...]

If you are one of the many people who have troubles interpreting weather reports correctly you might need a visualization of the current weather conditions. Tom Scott thought so as well and decided to add visualization to weather reports by linking the weather conditions to a planet in the Star Wars universe. But this website [...]

Tinker was one of the few Windows Vista Ultimate extras that were released by Microsoft. It was a classic puzzle game that put the player in the role of a robot that had to solve 60 levels with classic puzzle elements. Microsoft made an announcement a few weeks ago that they would release some of [...]

Youtube has been one of the prime locations for music buffs around the world to view music videos and listen to music. Many record companies and individual artists use Youtube to promote their products. Users who have been searching for music that is distributed by the major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music and [...]

Valve is currently running a games sale on their Steam platform with games up to 75% off their usual price. The games that are offered for a discount change regularly with some bargains being offered the whole time. Current deals include a THQ and Lucasarts Complete Pack as well as discounts for Dragon Age: Origins, [...]

For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP* (where * is either hone or od). This is great for Apple and Windows users. But where do Linux users get their new music? Oh sure you can purchase the CD, rip it, and copy it [...]

Youtube and other video portals on the Internet have come a long way since the beginning of the online video boom. What started with low resolutions has now grown over the year to keep pace with the high definition development in the TV, digital camcorder and media market. Youtube announced yesterday in the official Youtube [...]

Apple has taken another small step today towards making the app approval process more clear, making a lot of iPhone devs nod and say “well, something is better than nothing”. Plus we have still more iPhone apps to talk about. Get over to the other side and get started.

I am going to be doing a series of iPhone related posts for the next few posts. We have people doing interesting things with their iPhones and have more interesting accessories coming out for it now. In the meantime, the first ever worm for the iPhone gives everyone a bit of a scare. Get over [...]

The folks at Mac are at it again. They are offering to give you 6 great Mac apps completely for free. if you were to buy them individually, you would have to pay $154 for them. But in the MacHeist’s NanoBundle, they will be yours for free. Do not lose any time and get over [...]

Good news iPhone lovers and users in general, we finally have apps in the App Store that do things we have always wanted to do with the iPhone. First up, we finally have Marvel Comics titles available on the App store (yay!). Then we have this cool new app that translates your speech as you [...]

I’m sure by now everyone here knows about Hulu. If not, Hulu is a rather huge collection of television programs that can be viewed on line, for free, with few commercial interruptions. It’s brilliant. You can watch old reruns of What’s Happenin? or Mork and Mindy or Alf! Yes, Alf! But many of you may [...]

The iPhone has been one of the major driving factors behind the exponential growth of Apple in recent times. Their latest financial report for Q3 2009 shows growth that has blown everyone away, including themselves it seems. Despite the soft economy, they have actually managed to remain terrifically bullish and have gained 12% year on [...]

There are only a few companies that seem to make use of the Internet and its new possibilities in their marketing campaigns as Samsung. You might remember the viral marketing campaign for their new solid state drives where they gave 24 of their drives to some computer freaks to see what they could do with [...]

Are you a fan of Arena (and Arena-like games)? Do you long to play these games on your Linux box? Are you one of those that proclaims that Linux can not and will not have games? If any of these apply then I am happy to show you OpenArena. Yes this game is based on [...]

The PS3 Slim was yesterday confirmed at Sony’s press conference at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. The new gaming system will be sold at $299 (€299, £249) and will be available in the first week of September. The biggest differences when compared to the old Playstation 3 system are the bigger 120 Gigabyte hard drive [...]

It has been 2 ½ years since the PS3 has launched and since that time it has been trailing both the Wii and Xbox 360 in sales. Granted it has been doing better then it has a year ago, but you’d expect that Sony would be able to convince hardcore gamers that the PS3’s superior [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]