News

Time Travel Video Game May Be A New Line Of Defence

I was already interested in Dr Chris Hazard’s complex time travel war video game when he mentioned the military was interested in it as well.


August 4, 2011
PC

Indie Bundle Adds Five More Games If You Donate Five Bucks Or More

The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has now added five more games, and still is being offered for the super-low price of “whatever you want to pay”. Provided whatever you want to pay is more than the average donation, which is $US4.96 as of now.


July 12, 2011
PC

A Game Called Achron And The Theory That Games Would Be Better With Time Travel

In the first mission of the upcoming computer game that Chris Hazard, PhD, has been trying to make since 1999, our hero, a man named Holloway meets himself.


June 17, 2011
PC

Brain Workshop Is A Brain-Training App That Might Actually Make You A Little Bit Smarter

Windows/Mac/Linux: Though it may not look very different from other (dubiously beneficial) brain-training games, Brain Workshop is special in that there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that it may actually succeed in making its players a little bit smarter.


May 28, 2011
PC

Fittingly, There Is Little Time Left To Join The Achron Beta

A couple of years ago, I saw an amazing demonstration of a real-time strategy game that involved time travel. But there’s no time to talk about that now.


May 20, 2011
PC

The World’s Meanest Shooter Series Returns For A Third Game

Heavily scripted shooters that take place in glorified corridors are well and good for most, but some people like to kill things out in the open, and kill them with a single bullet. For them, there is ArmA series, and for them, a third game in the franchise is on its way.


March 1, 2011
In Real Life

Charity Is Nice, But So Are Massive Indie Paychecks

The Humble Indie Bundle is a project aimed at not only selling a ton of quality indie PC games, but raising money for charity as well. And it’s doing a very good job.


Mobile

Panasonic Realises Its MMO Gaming Handheld Was A Silly Idea

Last year, Panasonic surprised the world with the unveiling of a rather unique gaming handheld. Which was one way of putting it. You could also say it look a little stupid. Something Panasonic now agrees with.


January 5, 2011
PlayStation

You Can Now Install Your Own ‘Custom’ PS3 Firmware

Want to build your own PS3 firmware? If you’ve got Linux and some skills in the field of programming, you can now do exactly that.


December 16, 2010
News

Call Of Duty Guy Overpays For Five Games, Minecraft Guy Quadruples That

It was impressive when Robert Bowling, creative strategist for Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward paid $US500 for a batch of indie games that only cost $US500. Then Notch, maker of Minecraft stepped up, with $US2000.