When Valve first announced Greenlight for Steam, many people saw it as a revolution in how games come about. After all, here you have a program set up that would allow the people who actually play games, not board room executives, decide what games should be funded and created, and which games...

Windows XP has been around for nearly 11 years, and yet it’s still in use by nearly a third of computer users all over the world. Despite the security flaws inherent in an 11 year old system, and the fact that it hasn’t been able to support the latest in DirectX technology since DirectX 10 came...

When it comes to building or upgrading a computer, it seems to me that people tend to focus on improving the speed of their computer, by adding more RAM, a better graphics card, and perhaps even throwing in an SSD to get their computer completely booted in under a minute. Don’t get me wrong,...

If you want to try out the new PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royal game before its release on November 20th,  you just might be in luck. From now until September 4th you can sign up for the limited public beta. The beta will encompass both the PS3 and the PS Vita platforms, though you don’t...

When I had my Nintendo DS years ago, I’ll admit that I didn’t really use it a whole lot. You see, quite frankly handheld systems don’t normally hold my interest. The one game that I absolutely fell in love with, however, was the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games, and man did they provide...

Politics can ruin a good thing for many people, as demonstrated late last week when WoW and Diablo III players in Iran found that they were unable to access those games. You see, since the United States levied sanctions on the middle eastern country no American company can do any kind of business in there....

When a company releases a special edition, they sometimes do crazy things with it. For example, in the StarCraft II special edition one of the things you got was a USB dog tag of protagonist Jim Raynor, and don’t forget the night vision goggles that came with Modern Warfare 2. But you know what? None...

The last time I got a strategy guide I believe it was when I picked up my copy of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I didn’t even really need it, as it came with my copy of the game for free as part of a promotional deal with K-Mart. You see, by that time I had broadband internet, and quite frankly,...