Top 10 Best Looking PC Games
GT counts down the top 10 best looking PC games of 2006 (5) and 2007 (5). Which ones are your picks?
Archive for January 5, 2007
Super Mario Bros - Wii Virtual Console Review - Nintendo NES
This game needs no introduction to most gamers, this was really where it all began with our favourite Italian plumber. This game was originally bundled free with the NES console in 1985. A killer app at the time, this helped shift thousands of consoles placing the NES in first place!
Second Life for IBM and Cisco Systems
The two giants decided to enter a video game. They hope to make everyone happy.
Fuji FinePix IS-1 Infrared Digital Camera
The Fuji FinePix IS-1 Infrared Digital Camera may not be suited for common folks unless you are a CSI buff, but this nine MegaPixel Fujifilm DSLR is ideal for law enforcement, medical/dental and science fields and is actually a follow-up model to the FinePix S3 Pro UVIR D-SLR.
Wired News: MS Winning Office Doc Battle
“The ODF format is limited to the features of OpenOffice and StarOffice,” says Yates in reference to two popular open-source office suites, “and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft Office customers today.”
Wrong! OpenDocument can do anything OOXML can do regarding the billions of legacy binary documents needing to to be converted to XML.
Meebo partners with traineo
Meebo has just announced another new partnership. They’ve teamed up with traineo.com, the online fitness and weight loss community which seems to be growing quite rapidly. The integration looks with good with AJAX pop-ups for each step of the MeeboMe module setup. Seth, Meebo’s CEO, has his own traineo page http://sethfrommeebo.traineo.com
Legends: The Game
Completely free game you can play for linux thats actually worth playing. It’s almost exactly like Tribes 2. Not too many people play it, so digg it so more will join.
Gates says day of the home-help robot is near
An office worker checks her home-gadget webpage from her work computer. The tasks she set for her home robots in the morning have all been completed: washing and ironing, vacuuming the lounge and mowing the lawn.
CellFactor: Revolution dated
Physics-heavy sci-fi shooter from Artificial Studios makes debut this spring; game will be on display at CES from January 8-11.
GameStop touts $1.7 billion in holiday sales
Retailer reports 29 percent growth in final weeks of the year, says market conditions played to its strengths.
Analyst projects December game sales up 5 percent
Lazard Capital Markets’ Colin Sebastian expects NPD figures for last month to reflect “solid” sales trends, but fall behind the rest of the year’s growth rate.
Study: Activity-based games fight obesity
Mayo Clinic researchers put into perspective the amount of extra calories burned by children playing Dance Dance Revolution or EyeToy games.