AAA Games: Beginning to Converge Identities Perhaps this is just my paranoia for games or confirmation bias, but I feel that too many AAA games today are beginning to converge their identities. All too often I buy a game and play it to find, it feels very much like Call of Duty or Gears of…
Windows 8 Pro on Dual Boot – My Experience Over time, Windows tends to slow down and lag. Once it’s too much for you to bear, you re-install to make it run all smooth again. I’ve been running Windows 7 ultimate on a Lenovo G580 since July and my Windows installation had begun to crawl by December….
Geek Girls: Moving Up In Technology For the last, oh…200 years or so, if you were a women who enjoyed science, technology, and basically anything that falls into the ‘geek’ category, you were an oddball. The real question is: Why? Is it pure sexism that has excluded women from geek culture for all these years…
Retro City Rampage Full Review Retro City Rampage is in essence an invitation by indie game developer Brian Provinciano to immerse ourselves in everything he enjoyed while growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. His game, with its 8-bit graphics viewable in the style of a Nintendo Game Boy, an Atrai 2600 and various MS-DOS…
You’ll find many Android apps designed to do multiple things. Yes, multitasking is good, but, only when it executes all the tasks properly. Sadly, I have seen many apps that are designed to execute multiple tasks, but, are not able to even complete one properly. It’s best to get exceptionally good at one specific thing…
Smartphones are doing a great job to make life so much easier and interesting these days. Not only that, but smartphone applications are making these devices even smarter. Llama, the Android applications, is creating the buzz with its ability to turn Android-based smartphones active and automatic. If you are still unfamiliar with it, here is…
Until recently infographics were used mainly as a teaching tool by educators seeking interesting ways in which to display information to learners. Of late however the successful use of infographics within the marketing industry has caused the popularity of infographics to skyrocket. Infographics are able to tell a story which regular data analysis methods just…
Mary Meeker, a renowned venture capitalist and an early backer of the internet recently recognized the major internet trends of 2012 in her yearly internet report which is considered an industry standard and great document from which to predict future online trends. A study of the report makes clear the trends which we can look…
The most pirated show in the world The torrent hosting website, BitTorrent.com recently reported on their blog, Torrentfreak.com, on the top ten most pirated television shows in 2012. Game of Thrones topped the pirate’s list with a total of 4 280 000 downloads of a single episode of the show which consistently drew more than 3 million…
Phil Fish has made a statement confirming that not only is his unique puzzle plat-former Fez, due to be ported to other platforms sometime in 2013, but that future games are on the way. The announcement was made via a post on the Canadian developer’s company website, Polytron Corporation, in which the somewhat infamous indie…
Pakistani Government Unblocks YouTube, Only to Ban it Again Minutes Later I am a Pakistani Citizen, and here is my take… YouTube is the world’s most popular video streaming site. It offers a great platform for people to share their videos with the whole World. However, the officials in Pakistan don’t seem to understand the benefits…
I have a knack for racing games, especially ones with stunning graphics and life like gameplay. Well, I am sure that most of you have at least heard about the Need for Speed franchise by EA. NFS is the number 1 racing simulation franchise available across multiple platforms. Latest addition to the series is Need…
With rumors of a new console, the PS4, brewing, Sony has announced, much to the dismay of gamers everywhere, that they are halting production of their long-running PlayStation 2 console. Not only are they stopping manufacture, but Sony has also decided not to ship any more existing PS2s to retailers, turning the consoles that are…
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was launched in May of 1999 and they continue their efforts strongly through 2013. Now you are most likely wondering what SETI is beyond their acronym, many are, because with a lack of funding their persistent project lacks public support. SETI’s goal since its inception is to find intelligent life…
With Christmas and the Mayan apocalypse behind us we find ourselves looking out to 2013 and the fantastic line-up of video games that sit on the horizon. While it’s impossible to predict which titles will make their mark on the video game timeline, there are plenty of games due for release this year that are…