It’s been just about a month since I received my Acer Aspire One Netbook, and although I’m not ready to do a full review yet, I did want to give some other impressions after using it for a month. As I mentioned in my other article, I installed a variety of software such as Impulse, Live Writer, OpenOffice, and several other office and utility type programs. This thing is made for internet use, communication, and office work, all of which it excels at. I was a bit concerned about...
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Science has released the nominees for the annual Interactive Achievement Awards. Sins of a Solar has been nominated for the Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year! "The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences® (AIAS) today announced the nominees for the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards®. The nominations for the peer-based awards have been dominated by blockbuster game, LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment America) with...
Monday, the fresh start of the new week, aren’t you excited? Well in case you were busy this weekend and missed some of the skins that came through, no worries, here are some of my favorite picks from the weekend.
We can only hope some left in the GOP have enough courage left to try and stop this bogus bill. The House Democrats’ trillion dollar spending bill , approved on January 21 by the Appropriations Committee and headed to the House floor next week for a vote, could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the...
In my first article I laid out our plans to buy a house. Today came the time to go through and sign the first round of papers committing to the purchase. So many things to go through, but we now have the price and a ton of incentives locked in. The next step is proceeding with the mortgage details and going in and picking out colors and things of that sort. The lot is cleared and just waiting on one more permit before the actual building can start, and I wanted to create a...
Over the past couple of days, there has been quite a few rumors that big-name game retailers were going to cut down sales of titles such as Dawn of War II. The reason behind this was that executives didn’t like the fact that the game would install the Steam client, which includes their store. Let me point out again that this is a rumor, but it does bring up a good point. Impulse Reactor is slated to be released this spring, and this will allow game developers to us...
Friday is always a great day for content, and besides other features we can always count on Zoomba to give us Impulse Weekly. Impulse Weekly is a newsletter with the latest info about releases, sales, upcoming titles, etc. on the Impulse platform. Some notable mentions are more THQ titles being released, a Kalypso media sale, and a peek at some upcoming updates.
We are well into 2009, but the PC game awards for 2008 have not stopped yet, but we aren’t complaining! The latest news comes from Maximum PC which has published their top PC game awards for 2008, and Sins of a Solar Empire made the list. “Sure, it’s a 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) space-exploration RTS and plays a lot like a real-time version of the board game Risk, but it’s one of the most fun and engrossing multiplayer RTSes we’ve eve...
We are well into 2009, but the PC game awards for 2008 have not stopped yet, but we aren’t complaining! The latest news comes from Maximum PC which has published their top PC game awards for 2008, and Sins of a Solar Empire made the list. “Sure, it’s a 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) space-exploration RTS and plays a lot like a real-time version of the board game Risk, but it’s one of the most fun and engrossing multiplayer RTSes we’ve ever played. The real risk (in sp...
Do you ever not feel safe knowing there is a correctional facility nearby? Well if democrats have their way you also have to worry about islamic terrorists being housed there as well. First up, we have the liar Jack Murtha more than willing to house them in his district in PA. “A top House Democrat who is a leading critic of the Iraq war says he would have no qualms about transferring Guantanamo detainees to a prison in his Pennsylvania district. Suspected te...
Gamasutra is one of my favorite gaming sites, and their opinion pieces are definitely worth a read. I just got this one in my inbox and I wanted to share it with everyone. “Amidst the neverending talk about how the PC is changing or declining as a market for hardcore games, outside of perennial chart-crusher World of Warcraft, commentators seem to lose sight of the historic strengths of the platform and its place in the gaming world. Meanwhile, studios like Valv...
Coffee….check. Music….check. This Week in Skinning…..check. Well that seems about it for today, the three important Friday things are about done, so does that mean we can all go home now? Of course I’m just kidding, much more work is to be done, and that is why TWiS is here to help you check out skins that you might have missed otherwise during the week. Check it out now!
And another week is down, which means another edition of This Week in Skinning. Lots of good stuff going on this week, and don’t forget the WinCustomize Subscription Drive is still on, so tell your friends. Speaking of subscriptions, we also released Aero Frost this week as a WinCustomize Subscriber premium skin. It’s a fantastic skin, so be sure to grab it in the subscribers resource area . Now for this weeks picks! BootSkins (XP and Vista) ...
It’s only been a couple of days since Obama was sworn in, and in that short period of time we already get a good sense of how far left this country is headed. Facing an incredible financial crisis, Obama took his first days to make sure islamic terrorists in Gitmo will have the same rights as you and I, and treated nicely, so they can easily go back to committing acts of terrorism, as so many before them. It seems the terrorists have gotten their share of the bailout.&nbs...