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Feedling Feed Reader Puts Feeds on Your Table, Um, Desktop

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Web addicts rejoice: you can now view your feeds right on your desktop. Or should I say right over your desktop. Open source program Feedling lets Windows users pin headlines over their wallpaper. The location, font, colors and update interval of the feeds can be customized.…

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April 28th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Hero Core: Nothing but Plain Old Fun

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Indie developer Daniel Remar’s upcoming PC game Hero Core is just about as old school as shooters and platformers get. The game sports Game Boy-era black and white graphics, and pays homage to earlier incarnations of Metroid and Mega Man…. The goal is simple: help protagonist Flip Hero and

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April 19th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Desktop Connect Vnc App: and Just Like That, Flash on the iPad!

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If you ask me, the perfect tablet would be a combination of the iPad and the JooJoo; i.e. an iPad with a camera, support for Flash and a USB port. Fortunately for (future) iPad owners, the Desktop Connect app by Antecea takes care of two of those missing features. In…

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April 4th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Nvidia 3d Vision Discover: 3d Gaming on Your Pc for Free

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As news of the 3D version of the Batman: Arkham Asylum… hit, Kotakuite deanbmmv pointed out that people who bought the PC version of the game don’t need to re-buy it because there’s already a way to play it – and other PC games – in 3D for free… as

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March 17th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Ribbon Hero: Holy Crap! Microsoft Actually Went Through With It

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Remember the bit of news we shared a while back about Microsoft’s filing a trademark for “Ribbon Hero?” Well now the game/add-on/learning tool is available for download! It’s a manifestation of Mr. Schell’s vision of the future, but at least this time the game is for a product that a…

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March 9th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Ubisoft Drm Epic Fail as Assassin’S Creed 2 Servers Crash: Ubigettinonmynerves

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Ubisoft got a taste of Murphy’s Law as the company’s newly implemented Internet-dependent anti-piracy measure has left owners of the PC version of Assassin’s Creed II unable to log in and thus play their game. It was bound to happen, but I didn’t think it would happen almost right from…

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March 8th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Which the Game: More Like What… Where? Who… Holy Shi-

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Saw this on TV yesterday. At around 4 in the morning. Not good. Which… is a short first-person PC game which gives players a simple goal: find a way out of the goddamn horror house. Game creator Mike Inel used simple graphics to great effect. Great, pants-pissing effect.

The game

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March 7th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Crysis 2 Screenshots: Finally, a Reason to Upgrade Your Gaming Rig

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Time to update that worn out question gamers: Will your PC play Crysis… 2? A couple of screenshots have appeared in the Crymod forums and although the poster didn’t explicitly say that the pics showcase in-game graphics, I think that a game famous for its visuals can only be topped…

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March 5th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

World of Warcraft Attacked by Key-Logging Trojan

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There’s a new threat in Azeroth, one so fearsome that not even the combined might of the Alliance and the Horde can stop it: Hackers. Apparently a trojan has been spreading that intercepts the authentication code generated by the Blizzard Authenticator. Players need to input the code before they can…

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March 4th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Planet M.U.L.E.: Rts Games Minus the Fighting

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Released in 1983, M.U.L.E.… is a classic video game developed by Ozark Softscape and published by EA.  The title refers to the robot worker that players buy in order to operate factories – the letters stand for Multiple Use Labor Element, and the M.U.L.E. looks, well, like a robot mule.

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March 2nd, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

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