Nice! It looks like I have my software pick of the week early this week: What is WinToFlash WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a Windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also... »
I'm going to be writing about the Windows 7/Snow Leopard/Boot Camp experience soon as part of my recently revived Mac-to-Windows Switcher Guide, but I see I'm not the only one noticing the improvements in the latest Boot Camp release. Sadly, this particular review , while decent, gets a number of facts wrong »
A few game developers have attempted the transition from videogames to filmmaking. »
The Tales of Monkey Island blog notes a report by an Argentinian news anchor concerned about the perils of underage drinking in his country. »
1Up got some hands-on time with the new Last Stand multiplayer co-op mode coming to Dawn of War II this October as part of a free update. The concept is like a real time strategy game variation on horde mode in Gears of War II or Nazi zombies in Call of Duty 5... »
After a one-week delay, Section 8 is finally available. This is one of the finest shooters I've played in a long time, so I must warn you that your wallet is in danger. Your only hope is if you don't have a gaming PC or an Xbox 360, in which case Section 8... »
Microsoft shipped the free version of its second-generation hypervisor virtualization platform, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 , and if you look over the docs, you’ll see that this thing is vastly improved compared to the first version. In fact, it appears to pick up the most important capabilities and functionality of its Hyper-V cousin... »
Nine years ago , I learned about a skunkworks project Microsoft had handed off to an Israeli software firm that was to have seen a port of Microsoft Office to Linux. The port was seen as a just-in-case solution, but with Linux not ever taking off in any serious way on the desktop,... »
An unfortunately common complaint about Section 8 will be that the guns "aren't powerful enough". Which is true if you're expecting one-shot/one-kill. But Section 8 plays more slowly, more tactically. »
The Tattoine Mission Pack is available now for Force Unleashed . Here's the official word. Artoo-detoo and See-Threepio have crash-landed on Tatooine carrying important data that the Apprentice ("Starkiller") must intercept »