Ten more games that will make you think about life Life, eh? It's all a bit mad really, isn't it? Here we are, the products of millions of years of chance chemical and biological reactions, wandering around on a dying rock as it spins through the vast, indifferent universe with nought but the knowledge of our own inevitable oblivion for company. A sobering thought. 1 One Chance Here's something to think about - every decision we ever make, no matter how seemingly inconsequential it may be at the time, has the potential to fundamentally change our lives forever. Of course, the thing about decisions is you normally only get one chance to make them and, once they're made, you can't go back. You are the super-smart scientist whose discovery appears to have conquered one of the most devastating diseases known to humankind. 2 A Mother in Festerwood Kids, eh? As a mother, it's your job to keep your little tyke in the safety of the homestead until they have enough experience to survive the monster-infested woods. 3 American Dream 4 As I Lay Dying
Five games that make you think about life Do you ever get that feeling, when playing games, that you really should be doing something more edifying with your life. I do, usually at about three in the morning after a marathon session of slaughtering undead in Sacred 2. It is a sad fact that most the computer games I play are about as intellectually stimulating as a fart. But, thankfully, not all. Here, I present five games I've found that force you to think a little - in some cases even get a bit philosophical. 1Passage It is very rare - nay, impossible - for a game to reduce me to tears. Passage can be played on Mac OSX, Windows and Linux and can be downloaded here. 2The Majesty of Colors "Last night I had a dream". The Majesty of Colors is a game that can be played multiple times - the decisions you make during the game determine between the many different endings. 3The Game The Game starts by telling us that there are no rules, just play. Trust me, The Game will change your perception of what games are about. 4Gray Super Karoshi
Old PC Games - homepage 9 Tactics for Rapid Learning (That Most People Have Never Heard Of) Whenever the subject of why some people learn faster comes up, I get a whole host of common answers: Some people are just naturally smart. (Often implying you can’t improve)Everyone is “smart” in their own way. There may be some truth to these claims. Considering the upcoming launch of my rapid learning program, I wanted to share my favorite tactics to learn faster, retain information better or just enjoy the process of learning more: #1 – Pegging (or How Mental Magicians can Perfectly Recall Hundreds of Numbers) One of my favorite learning tactics, that is rarely mentioned, is pegging. The systems I’ve seen typically work with a special cheat sheet. From there, you can translate any series of numbers into a series of letters. Then, once you have your string of nouns, you just need to create a story that combines each of the nouns in a sequence. Here’s a quick way to separate the rapid learners from the average learners. Benny Lewis became fluent in eight languages in under a decade.
Top 20 online zombie games Those of a nervous disposition are advised to press the back button now. For the inspiration behind today's list of games is one of the most terrifying creatures man has invented: the zombie. You have been warned. If being inundated with slavering human-shells bent on your destruction fills you full of dread, then you best be on your way. Braver souls, however, are in for a treat. We have rounded up all the zombie games on the web, incinerated or decapitated those that were not up to scratch, and are left with what we consider to be the 20 best. 1The Last Stand 2 Indie game studio ConArtists has been responsible for some of the greatest casual games to grace the internet, including such legends as Crush the Castle and Warfare 1917. 2Boxhead There have been five games in the Boxhead series and each has improved on the previous. 3Sonny In Sonny - a turn-based rpg with impressively high production values - you don't kill zombies but, in an unusual plot twist, play the part of a zombie.
Meet the 99-year-old video game master According to the Entertainment Software Association, the average gamer is 37 years old. Kids born the day the original Nintendo was released are entering their late 20s, while geeks who whiled away the days with a Pong machine are storming past 40. Umeji Narisawa (Japanprobe) But compared to Umeji Narisawa, we're all just a bunch of babies. Japanprobe caught up with the 99-year-old gamer, who got hooked on the hobby at the tender age of 73 when her grandkids brought home a copy of the action/puzzle classic Bomberman for the NES (technically the Famicon, the Japanese version of the system.) So what does playing Bomberman every day for 26 years get you? While Narisawa needn't fear competition from too many other 99 year-olds, she might want to keep an eye on John Bates. Try our free webgame, Bricks Breaking PongNESGuinness World Record holdergamepad
Xbox Owner Sues Microsoft for $500 Billion (Yes, Billion) David Stebbins of Arkansas reckons that Microsoft owes him a - take a moment to let that sink in if you need - and here's how he came to that rather remarkable conclusion. As an Xbox Live user, Stebbins entered into a contract that was binding upon both him and Microsoft, which gave him the idea to "unilaterally amend the terms of service." He submitted a notice of his amendments to Microsoft, giving the company ten days to either accept the new terms or terminate his service. Microsoft neither responded nor terminated his subscription, which he argues means that the company accepted the new contract by default. A couple of weeks later, on May 18, he contacted Microsoft again, this time with an offer to arbitrate a legal dispute in which he claimed $500 billion in damages. The invitation also carried a "forfeit victory clause" stating that Stebbins would win the case by default if Microsoft failed to respond within 24 hours. Microsoft has not yet commented on the matter.
Expert Says Blaming Videogames for Violence is Racist It's a sadly familiar pattern. Somebody snaps and kills a bunch of people, and fingers immediately start pointing at videogames. The most recent example is the horrific mass murder in Oslo, Norway, that left 76 people dead at the hands of a lunatic who claimed that he used to train for the attack. "I know it's a little controversial to say but there's a certain type of racism in place with these killings," he told Forbes . The problem, he said, is that the public doesn't want to accept that these killing sprees are effectively random and unstoppable. But he also pointed out that the anti-videogame rhetoric is far more muted today than it was a decade ago. "One thing we've learned from research is that approximately 95 percent of young boys have played a violent videogame.
GameStop under fire for removing free coupons from Deus Ex: Human Revolution The battle over digital game distribution just took a turn for the ugly. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Square Enix) Video game retail giant GameStop has been opening up brand new PC game boxes of the critically-acclaimed shooter Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing packed-in coupons granting free copies of the game to users of the OnLive cloud gaming service. OnLive and Deus Ex publisher Square Enix announced the coupon deal yesterday, which would let buyers of a boxed PC copy download and play another copy of the game, for free, via OnLive's cloud based network, a $50 value. But apparently GameStop, which has its own digital distribution platform, wasn't on board with what it believes is helping to promote the competition. "Regarding the Deus Ex OnLive Codes: GameStop's policy is that we do not promote competitive services without a formal partnership," GameStop says on its Facebook page. "While the new products may be opened, we fully guarantee the condition of the discs to be new.