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One has to wonder what the developer or publisher was thinking, but the new Left Behind: Eternal Forces computer game install spyware on your computer… a very anti-Christ like move… as the game watches everything you do in the game and reports it back to the ad-server, including information about you and where you live, [...]

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Thinking about getting a HD-DVD player, or the recently launched Blu-ray player? Just hold your horses. None of the players currently on the market support HDMI 1.3, which is essential to getting the absolute best in audio and video from a player. The first High Definition player to feature it will likely be Sony’s Playstation [...]

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There is yet another new Grow game online. Once again the goal is to put the items on the board in the correct order so that everything maxis out. I did this one in about 15 minutes without notes. For example put the Tube on the board first, and after it grows legs (after placing [...]

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It is looking like Sony will not let people sell their pre-owned games. The games will come with a license where you can’t sell a used PS3 game on eBay, your local game trade store, or whatever. Of course then the store can’t sell a used game either. If Sony is stupid enough to try [...]

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There will be two versions of Sony’s PlayStation 3 when it launches in November.
Check the table below taken from Sony’s website (in PDF):

PlayStation 3

Product Name
PlayStation 3

CPU
Cell Processor

GPU
RSX®

Sound
Dolby 5.1, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-based processing)

Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM

HDD
2.5" Serial ATA

20GB

60GB

I/O
USB 2.0

x4

Memory Stick/SD/Compact Flash

No

Yes

Communications
Ethernet
x1/10 Base-T, 100 Base-TX, 1000 Base-T

IEEE 802.11 b/g

No

Yes

Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)

Yes

Wireless Controller [...]

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Sony’s Playstation 3 will launch in November. It was widely expected to be out in the United States here in November anyhow, so this is mostly just a delay for Japan, and an early present for Europe which probably normally would have had to wait a few more months. Didn’t they learn anything from the [...]

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Switchball is a marble game along the lines of Marble Madness and dozens of others. What sets this one apart is the ability, indeed sometimes the need, to switch your ball from one form to another. The game uses realistic physics and incredible graphics. Due to those two reasons, the system requirements may be a [...]

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Plasma Pong is a really cool game, so cool that the author’s homepage got taken down do to bandwidth. The page was redone at Google Base, so without further ado Plasma Pong.
The game uses fluid dynamics to drive the environment that the ball operates in. So if you have lots plasma on your side, the [...]

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Qwyzzle is another Internet Puzzle where each page has a picture, and from that picture and other clues on and around the page you put the correct answer into the text box and it takes you to the next page. Good luck. I was stuck on 10 for ages…

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I played the party dice game, Bunco the other day. Here are the rules, nearly as well as I can tell them.

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There is a new Grow game called Grow Ornament. With only 6 items it is a little quicker to solve.

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Unreal is one of the cooler technolgies out there in gaming. I find editing Unreal easier and more natural editing enviroments. I for one can’t wait for the power Unreal Engine 3 will give us. In the meantime there is a cool book Mastering Unreal Technology : The Art of Level Design that helps master [...]

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After looking up my local Best Buy’s store number, I checked it against the list of BestBuy Store Xbox360 Unit Allocation Numbers. It looks like the North Canton, Ohio Best Buy is getting 48 premium units (the only one to really get), 14 core units ($100 cheaper, but you basically need the stuff that comes [...]

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Remember the old puzzle where a man had a fox, a hen and some seed. The man had to take them in a boat one at a time to the other side of a river. You can’t leave the fox alone with the hen or it will eat the hen, you can’t leave the hen [...]

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It has begun… Hex168 has finally updated. First look through seems to make it a contest to win a pre-release copy of the XBox 360. It looks to be a photo/video contest.

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With all the fun of the Lost viral marketing campaign going on, it is sometimes easy to forget the masters of viral marketing has been XBox related. Indeed the XBox 360 viral campaign has had a few interesting ones, the most interesting was the whole I LoveBees campaign.
The newest has been the Hex 168 campaign. [...]

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In the new Knucklebones magazine, Erik Anderson writes an article on the Top 10 Essential Games. Feeling a deck of cards is cheating, he goes on to the list, with Chess as the #1 spot (which he admits “If listing a deck of cards is cheating, this is close.”I agree, it is cheating but hey…) [...]

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There is a new Grow game, Grow Cube. Once again the goal is to find the order to put stuff on the “planet” to get stuff to max out. For example, if the water isn’t there, the seeds won’t take root and grow, and if the springs are put in too early, they won’t have [...]

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Minerva is an episodic single player modification for the game Half-Life 2 (previous link for Game of the Year edition, the cheaper standard edition is here). They did a pretty good job. If you have Half-Life 2, you should give it a try.

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I have been using Sudoku Works and Pappocom’s Sudoku program for a while now. Another program, which I haven’t tried yet is SadMan Software: Sudoku.
Yet, another alternative that I found today is Simple Sudoku, which is freeware. It has a few tools that makes learning a few strategies easier, such as auto-pencil, filtering out [...]

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