Recently EA found themselves in a position where they could admit that there was a glitch in a game, or turn it into an amazing marketing experience. They chose the latter of the two, and it has worked out quite well for them.
You see, someone recently noticed that there's a "glitch" in the Tiger Woods 08' golf title where Tiger Woods plays a shot while standing on the water. The gamer took video of it
The OpenOffice.org team makes a great productivity suite, but the developers behind the famed open source project have also tucked away a few enjoyable Easter Eggs. Several of them are your typical run-of-the-mill Easter Eggs that show the credits, but one in particular is a lot of fun.
First you'll want to fire up OpenOffice.org Calc, and enter the following code into one of the cells:
=GAME("StarWars")
After entering that in press Enter to start
Last week rumors started to fly that Microsoft was planning to drop the price of the Xbox 360 pretty significantly. We questioned it because in July, Microsoft already did some price dropping with their 20GB Xbox 360 - dropping it from $350 down to $300. This turned out to be a temporary price drop to make way for a new 60GB model. While there has been no confirmation from Microsoft that the price-cuts are
Scrabble is one of those classic board games that many of you have probably played at one point or another. I remember multiple occasions playing the game growing up and always being frustrated when I got the letters Q and Z. Times have changed and not everybody is interested in sitting down to play an "old-fashioned" game board. Instead they want to play the game online, either by themselves, against a computer, or with other
In just two days on Wednesday May 21st, the highly anticipated Wii Fit, an exercise game for Nintendo's Wii will launch in the U.S. Looking over the ads that came in Sunday's newspaper, you can just tell that this is going to be a big title for Nintendo. Best Buy dedicated the whole back page of their ad to the game which will be sold with the Balance Board peripheral for $89.99.
Fun Friday
It's once again Friday, so we decided to have some fun. What better way than to take a break and play a game or two? One of our readers, Radu (thanks Radu!) recently sent us a tip to checkout www.friv.com which has over 200 games available for your enjoyment. These aren't complex games by any means, and you probably won't be spending hours playing them, but they are
Geeks are sometimes given the stereotype as being big spenders on gadgetry, from computers to video game systems. You, yourself, may be a spender. While some do always have to have the latest and greatest of anything electronic, not all geeks are frequently forking out the cash.
Now that most people living in the United States will be receiving a refund check from the government within the