David Daw

The Razer 2012 Naga Expert MMO mouse is the latest edition in their gaming peripheral line geared to meet the unique needs of MMO players. After testing the new Razer Naga for a few days and seeing what it can do, we think it's worth the $80 price tag for gamers who are serious about MMOs or any other keyboard-heavy PC gaming.

Another Friday means another collection of free games, and this week we've got two original twists on platformers and one of the best-looking games you've ever played in your browser.

Recursion

Double Fine, the game studio that brought you games such as Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, have announced a new adventure game called The Cave that the company plans to release early next year for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. The Cave is the brainchild of Ron Gilbert, the man behind seminal adventure games like Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island. We visited Double Fine HQ yesterday to get an early look at the game, and after watching Gilbert guide us through some basic gameplay it's clear that The Cave draws inspiration from Gilbert's earlier work on PC adventure games.

Like Maniac Mansion, Double Fine's The Cave will allow you to pick several characters from a roster of archetypes looking to explore a mysterious cave for their own personal quests. These characters include traditional protagonists like a knight and a scientist, but the roster is rounded out by stranger characters like a time traveler, a hillbilly, and a fairly creepy pair of twins.

Since the launch of Double Fine Adventure, a gaming Kickstarter campaign which raised over $3 million earlier this year, game designers and gamers have quickly embraced the possibilities of crowd-funding to finance original and unusual games. Swift Kick is PCWorld's attempt to highlight gaming Kickstarters we think are worthy of your attention.

Increasingly, online services act like roach motels: They make it easy to check in, but nearly impossible to check out. By hiding their opt-out pages deep within their settings menus, by using deliberately confusing graphic design, and by presenting emotional appeals that declare how much the site will "miss you," these services make the simple process of deactivating your account a complicated trial.

To give you a sense of the hurdles you can expect to face the next time an online service doesn't want you to leave, we've picked out five services that make quitting needlessly difficult.

Diablo III is finally here and if pre-orders are any indication, many of you are probably already playing it. With five separate classes that each have their own unique playstyle, you may be having trouble picking which one to play first. Luckily we've got a guide to choosing which class is right for you so you can start facing Hell's most powerful demons as fast as possible.

Almost everyone uses Facebook, but almost everyone agrees that the social network has quite a few problems. Chances are, most Facebook users have encountered some feature or flaw--from overarching privacy concerns to assorted interface annoyances--that made them reconsider their membership in the social network. Nevertheless, Facebook users tend to stick around because they believe that the benefits outweigh the costs--and because they don't know how to leave the service without losing a few valuable features, such as games or public photo albums.

Luckily, you can export or replicate many of Facebook's most useful features with ease, so you can quit Facebook without losing what you love about it. If Facebook is your all-in-one stop for socializing online, you're probably better off staying with the service and hoping that the company fixes a few issues in the next redesign. But if you're hanging on for the sake of just one or two features even though you'd rather quit, take a look at the following tips and tricks. With some help, you'll be able to enjoy the best parts of the most popular social network without all of that Facebook anxiety.

This week's Free Friday has two new browser games with interesting twists on some old gaming formulas along with a game that's two decades old and now free to play right inside your browser.

Mirror Rays

Facebook's privacy settings are confusing by design, often hiding similar settings in totally different menus and defaulting to unnerving levels of public sharing. Ensuring that you share the right information with the right people can be difficult, and Facebook even has a few specialized settings that will override your other privacy settings if you aren't careful. Luckily you can take control of your privacy on Facebook fairly quickly once you know what you're looking for.

To that end we've assembled this quick guide to each part of Facebook's Privacy Settings page (accessible via the menu that drops down when you select the downward arrow at the top right of your Facebook page). Following it should help you get your Facebook information locked down on the double. For each section of Facebook's privacy settings, we provide a brief description of what to look for, along with notable settings that you'll probably want to adjust. Click on any screenshot to zoom in for a close look at the different privacy settings on display.

With tons of desktop real estate and the processing power to run practically as many apps as you can open, staying focused on a single task while using your PC can be a challenge. Luckily, in recent years developers have created a number of new tools to help you establish a distraction-free workspace at home or in the office. These apps and tools hide unused windows and menus to help you focus on what's important and to be more productive.

Without the distraction of extraneous apps, windows, and notifications, you'll be able to work more productively and with fewer interruptions than you would otherwise. Here is our roundup of tools that will let you write, work, and even browse the Web while keeping distractions to a minimum.

One of the simplest ways to be more productive during working hours is to reduce the time you spend on maintenance tasks such as checking your email. These tasks break your concentration on more important work, and a recent study from UC Irvine suggests that checking your email less often can help reduce stress and raise your level of concentration at work.

Yet many people's first response to the suggestion that they check their inboxes less often is, "Oh, I'd be fired if I ever tried that." For most of us, email is the primary form of communication in our personal and professional lives. Ignoring it for most of the day seems like a recipe for disaster--and if you simply deleted everything and closed your email account, it probably would be.

This week we spent most of our time by looking for games that were overlooked from recent game competitions like Ludum Dare and the Molyjam. Even though these games might have been overshadowed out of the gate, they've got a lot to offer; give 'em a shot and let us know what you think!

Astro Break

Astro Break is a fun little game that plays a little like a combination of Asteroids and later arcade shooters. You play an astronaut trapped on a tiny planet shooting up at a collection of asteroids that will kill you if you ever collide. But destroying the space rocks gives you access to a number of powerups to make your asteroid destroying life easier and more fun. It may sound simple, and it is, but it's also fun.