Most of the time, video games are purely for entertainment purposes, and don’t really go very far beyond that. Once in a great while, though, a video game will come along that gets under your skin, into your blood, and won’t let you go, for whatever reason. These are the games that did that for me.
Microsoft’s aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than “a marketing thing,” according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.
A January Netcraft survey estimates that there were last month 155,583,825 WEB SITES ON THE INTERNET.
Three months ago, the popular private BitTorrent tracker OiNK was effectively shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Today, the bail date for OiNK admin Alan Ellis has been extended for the second time, until the 6th of May.
While the Eee PC was very successful and ran Linux, it was not clear if Asus planned to continue to use Linux in future products. Asus’s recent announcement of three new Linux-based products indicates their commitment to using Linux.
In part two of their three part series, DS Fanboy looks at some more good games releasing for the DS this year.
She used Windows for two weeks and discovered how to simultaniously contract both spyware and viruses, not to mention had constant problems with printing and losing connectivity. Going on three months on Ubuntu, set up exactly like this, and I’ve found myself not having to help her out anymore. Welcome to Linux, mom.
On Thursday night, Kathryn and I unboxed my latest Ebay acquisition: an Apple //c. There are many vintage Apple II computers available for auction, but this one is special: It’s never been opened. Ever. It hasn’t seen the light of day since before it was shipped on May 5th, 1988.
This toy will let you put in any image url and text then use css to hide the image. It only works in browsers that support the CSS3 pesudo-selector ::selection (Firefox and Safari for now).
Over the weekend, I checked out three versions of the Transformers movie: standard-def and high-def instantaneous downloads to the Vudu box with 4-Mbps net connection, as well as the HD DVD of the movie, playing through the Xbox 360.
Copies of Super Smash Brothers Brawl are flying off of Japanese store shelves with numbers reporting that an 80% sell-through of initial stock has been sold. This is about 500,000 copies.
Plus, this is just the first day!
We all get pissed off at some point or another playing video games. No one likes to die, even in a video game. While some of us choose to stop playing to take a breather when gaming frustration sets in, others will do just about anything. Here are the funniest, most ridiculous videos of gamers losing their cool while playing various games.
