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Top 5 Things I Learned From Videogames
Valuable skills picked up from gaming (that aren't just how to shoot guys). We've been told for ages what videogames are supposed to be teaching us. On one hand, they're murder simulators preparing us for shooting sprees (because locking, loading, and firing an M-16 is exactly like pushing the Control key). On the other hand, there's the backhanded admission that maybe they're helping us ...read more
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Valve Announces Steam Cloud
In a conference today at Valve headquarters in Seattle regarding Steam, Valve's online distribution platform, the company announced a new remote storage solution for data from games. This free service, known as Steam Cloud, will extend the Steam service to allow you to save progress from games, options, keyboard bindings and possibly much more from your games on Steam. There will be no ...read more
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Brothers In Arms movie in
You've played the game, read the book, now watch the film? If you're a Brothers In Arms fan, the bloody adventures of Matt Baker and the 101st Airborne could be coming to a cinema near you, with the series' military expert revealing that talks are already underway on a Hell's Highway flick. Fresh from barking orders at a baffled audience during the Ubidays press conference on Wednesday ...read more
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Breast Reduction Angers Age of Conan Players
Here's something you don't see every day! Players of Funcom's Age of Conan logged in today to reveal a new 'bug' in the game - their breasts were smaller! A recently released patch in the game caused some data to be changed in the morph values that control the character models, and the size of their respective bodyparts - specifically the breast size of female characters. In response to ...read more
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Microsoft Game Studios - Brewing Something New?
Recently a survey was sent to those registered for Microsoft Game Studios betas on Microsoft Connect. The survey was from the Games User Research group. The email (along with other little details) states: By filling out this survey, you'll be helping inform the development of a new MGS sponsored title and the MGS Beta program! We are asking that you follow the link to the online survey below and ...read more
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doPDF 6.0.262 released
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files. Main changes in 6.0.262: Fixed: Some CambriaMath characters were not converted well The ...read more
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released
Apparently entering thus far unannounced, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available for download. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Version 2 Beta 2 adds several major new features, including: Improved Template Model Including controls ...read more
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DriverMax 4.0 with downloadable driver updates for Vista
What's New: In version 4.0 of DriverMax, driver downloads have finally been enabled. You can download driver updates for Windows Vista. DriverMax 4.0 features: - Download drivers for Windows Vista. - Check for driver updates. - Get a lot of information about your hardware and drivers, for computers running Windows Vista and Windows XP. - Backup all or just some of your drivers. ...read more
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Opera 9.50 Build 10063 Final
Opera is a free Web browser with a pop-up blocker, multiple-window navigation, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, an e-mail client with a spam filter, and integrated search for user security and speed. The cross-platform browser includes IRC-compatible chat, support for RSS newsfeeds, a password manager, and one-click customization and privacy-protection settings. Features: New in version 9: ...read more
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FireFox 3.0 to be Released Tuesday June 17th 2008
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new "Places" feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but ...read more
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