My favorite online game at the moment is a website called Conquer Club. It’s free to play, and you can upgrade to a paid membership for more benefits and privileges (mainly, more simultaneous games allowed and prettier medals). Basically, the game is just like Risk, but because it’s online and computerized, it has many different [...]
It’s official: Duke Nuke ‘em For Never Kinda figured this announcement was coming…about 7 or 8 years ago. When you look in the dictionary under “vaporware”, this is what you see. What’s sad is that 3D Realms kept drawing it out, seeding little sprinkles of hope now and then, but I ask you: did [...]
Good article today at Amog, titled Ready Your Shift Key: 30 Classic PC Games That Still Rule. The first 4 (actually 8, since each of the top 4 consists of the original and its sequel) are favorites of mine, and I would have shifted Half-Life up to the top. But minor preferences aside, this is [...]
It’s been two weeks with my new Mac computers, and two weeks of transitioning from the PC to the Mac. I can’t really say I’ve made The Switch yet, because my PC is still up and running! :-) But I’m now doing at least 80% of my work on the Mac, and about 95% of [...]
Yes, after 14 years of PC ownership, in the process of shopping for a new machine, I have been persuaded that Apple is the way to go. Just a few years ago, I might have snickered at the idea – Apple was a down-on-its-luck company that was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, who sported [...]