That was fun to watch. :)
Microsoft Tablet Courier PC
September 24, 2009 @ 7:24 pm
Gizmodo posted a quick look at the top-secret tablet PC project at Microsoft called Courier. From the video below, it looks like Courier is just as natural as using regular pen and paper, and in some ways, is much better at handling “stuff” than a regular folder/binder.
While it’s still just a concept at the moment, I really hope Microsoft makes a final product as close to this as possible. I’d buy one without hesitation. Check out the demo video below (mind you, it’s still in concept stages now).
Grey’s Anatomy video game from Ubisoft
June 16, 2009 @ 2:21 am
Sometimes I don’t know what companies like Ubisoft are thinking. I’d love to know if the effort in creating this Grey’s Anatomy video game was worth the amount of sales they must be bringing in. Are they making any significant sales at all from this title? Is anybody that big of a fan of the TV show that they’d want to sit through a computer simulation of it at their desk? Or on their DS (it’s available on PC, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii)???
Here’s the trailer for the game below. Blech.
Adventures in bad gaming: Monopoly Here & Now
February 4, 2009 @ 3:57 am
I like playing Monopoly. It’s one of those classic board games that I’ll always agree to join in on if somebody asks me to. Part of the reason why I like it so much is because the game encourages a lot of communication and bonding between individual players. It’s because of this same reason that the game fails miserably as a standalone PC port.
That’s right. Some company thought it would be a brilliant idea to market the game as a PC version, essentially doing away with everything that made the board game fun in the first place like, oh, I don’t know…ACTUALLY TOUCHING THE BOARD AND THE PIECES AND HANDLING THE MONEY.
As you can imagine, you don’t do any of this in the PC game. In fact, all you do really is click your mouse over dialog boxes and the computer animates the rest of the standard procedure (like sucking your cash away after you’ve bought a property).
In a word, this game sucks. I don’t think I’ve played a worse game on the computer in a very long time. Why I even bothered to play this in the first place is unknown to me, but I can assure you I won’t be playing it ever again. DELETED!
Crayon Physics Deluxe
January 20, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
No joke. Crayon Physics Deluxe is one of the better games I’ve played on the PC in a very, very long time. The game won the 2008 Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival and it certainly is worthy of such a title.
The basic premise of the game is to direct a red ball towards a gold star. To do this, one must draw contraptions, lines, shapes, and other objects that will make the ball roll in a particular direction. Everything in the game follows real-world physics, meaning that objects seem to have weight and fall as they should if what you drew were available in real life.
The game is challenging and fun and really acts as a sort of brain-teaser. I highly recommend this game!
VMware Fusion on my Mac
November 9, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
Ever since I’ve gotten my Mac, I’ve been running Parallels on it in order to get to the Windows-side of things. It’s been running smoothly for the most part with very little hiccups. I’ve been quite satisfied with it.
But everybody kept telling me that VMware Fusion was better. VMware Fusion is another program that allows for Windows virtualization on the Mac, and just today, I finally got around to testing it out.
VMware Fusion is better. Not by a whole lot, but it’s definitely more configurable and surprisingly easier to set up (Parallels was easy already, so you can imagine what little effort went into setting up VMware Fusion to run Windows XP).
Anyway, between the two, I would probably now recommend Fusion, just as my friends had done the same to me. So if you’re looking for a way to run another operating system on your Mac (not just Windows), VMware Fusion is your best bet.
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