It is now possible to combine the Awesomemod and the IndieStonemod. Each of these work wonders for the IQ of the sims, particularly those you don't control at the moment. The sims are now finally able to romanticate and breed on their own, without having to resort to parthenogenesis to keep from dying out. And with the new Supreme Commander ( Read more... )

Bethsoft's Elder Scrolls downloads pageDaggerfall runs well in DOSBox (which it hasn't always done) but I would not try running it in just the dos prompt in Windows ( Read more... )

That's how Boomtown describes the sale of over 1.4 million Sims 3 in the first week. This comes despite - or perhaps because of - the game being more pirated than Spore ( Read more... )

So 40 minutes of meditation has no effect on my pulse, but an hour of City of Heroes sets it right back to its usual relaxed state. Must be the great heals from my imaginary girlfriend's grav/kin controller. I didn't know they carried over into real life...

Today is the 1 year celebration for Age of Conan, in the game. Well, at least here in Europe ( Read more... )

( Games today and in 1991 )

City of Heroes under Ubuntu Linux turned out to be ridiculously simple to set up. I had already enabled third-party programs, since I use Opera. I chose Programs, Add/Remove, search "WINE", clicked checkbox and confirmed. WINE installed automagically. I happened to have a copy of CoHupdater on my backup disk, but I hear people have used the ( Read more... )

City of Heroes under WINE on the Xubuntu block on the tri-core. I've been told that you need Cedega and it's just not worth trying etc, but then some guy said he had done it with plain WINE, albeit a cutting edge version. The updater is certainly working flawlessly once I right-clicked and chose "Open with WINE". It is likely to take some hours ( Read more... )

Play On (The Economist ( Read more... )

The Linguist lives again! Thank you, DOSBOX 0.72!

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