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 [...]
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 [...]
Catalogue your DVDs, games and book
Often you will be certain that you have a DVD but cannot remember where you placed it or if you lent it someone. The best way to keep track of your possessions is to catalogue them, allowing you to remind yourself of where they are, but also letting you quickly value them.
It may seem like [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 19th, 2009
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Would the try & buy model work for games and movies?
I know you’ve all seen it, naughty people, you download a game for example, and the crack file says something like “Our cracker team does not support piracy, if you like the game, buy it”. So do you? I don’t know about you guys, but while I was “coming of age” I probably wouldn’t have [...]
EA De-Authorization Management Tool
Many game companies think that it is a good idea to limit the installations of their games on customer computers. This limit usually ranges between 3 and 5 installations before it cannot be installed anymore. This procedure is part of copy protection schemes that are supposed to block unrighteous installations of the games.
Companies seem to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
