I picked Heavy Mach. up after seeing the review over at TouchArcade. It illustrates one of the most fantastic aspects of the iPhone gaming marketplace in the app store: a small-time developer can make a game that, while it is…
Like most commercial artforms, video games have a vibrant community that exists outside the commercial realm. People are making games that are less influenced by the marketability of the graphics, the concept, and the gameplay conventions—and in many cases they…
ReadWriteWeb has posted about a new release of a Computer Repair Utility Kit—a collection of 57 applications to copy to your USB flash drive in case of emergencies. Most of the applications need not be installed on the offending machine….
Awesome gaming blogs are coming out of the woodwork. I have found two excellent blogs in the past week that were not at all on my radar before. The first is Play This Thing! That’s their exclamation, not mine, but…
Jinni is a really cool movie suggestion engine. It has developed a movie “genome” that defines certain traits in movies in much the same way Pandora does for music. I have five Jinni invites for the first five commenters who…
Good Old Games is a digital download service offering PC games that, while they aren’t going to tax your new GTX 295, are some of the greatest titles of their time. Fortunately, they also won’t tax your wallet much. We’re…
Ready to start a microblog at Posterous? OK. Send an e-mail to post@posterous.com. Now you’re done! They will reply with your Posterous URL, and your blog setup is complete. Of course, you can go to the site and flesh out…
In spite of the fact that I am now a huge Valve/Half-life fan, I still remember the time when id Software was a completely dominant force in the space of first-person shooters. Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports on a small info-leak…
Occasionally, I would like to post a quick thought or idea, but I can’t really fit it into Twitter’s 140 characters. It also doesn’t justify the trouble of making a blog post or it otherwise doesn’t really fit there. Tumblr…
I have to admit even though for about a year now my primary machine has been a Mac, I’m just a little excited about Windows 7. It’s monumental that this release of Windows will actually lower resource requirements. When has…