Gaming
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Black Friday Reality Check: The Worst Busts of 2011
Not all Black Friday sales are what they appear to be. Here's a look at 10 Black Friday doorbuster deals that stink. -
20 Awesome Black Friday Tech Deals
Here's a quick roundup of deals on all kinds of tech goodies available in this year's Black Friday holiday sales. - The 20 Most Anticipated Video Games of 2012
- New Skyrim Patch 1.2 Fixes All Kinds of Stuff
- PS Vita Memory Card Prices Revealed: Far From a Deal
- PlayStation 3 Firmware Update Turns 4.00, Adds Vita Support
- 5 Great Game Series That Got Off To Rocky Starts
- Stocking Stuffers: 15 Great Tech Gifts Under $50
- The 10 Best PS3 Games
- Rumor: Kinect 2 Will Read Lips and Track Your Emotional State
Gaming How-Tos
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How to Play Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries on Your Windows 7 PC With a few steps, you can get Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries running on your modern computer.
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How to Use ScummVM to Play Classic Games Old-school adventure games such as The Curse of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Full Throttle are hard to find--and even harder to play on modern computers. If you have a classic game you're itching to play, follow this simple guide to run it through the ScummVM emulator.
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How to Play Deus Ex on Your Windows 7 PC Here's how to make the original Deus Ex role-playing game look better than ever on a modern Windows 7 computer.
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How to Start Your Own Minecraft Server Everything’s better with friends. We’ll show you how to get your own Minecraft server up and running.
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How to Install Minecraft Mods Mods are a great way to add lots of extra functionality to Minecraft — or fix some annoyances you may have run into. We’ll show you where to get them, and how to get them running.
Gaming News
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PlayStation 3 Firmware Update Turns 4.00, Adds Vita Support Sony's PS3 flips over to firmware 4.00, but you'll probably only care if you live in Japan.
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Stocking Stuffers: 15 Great Tech Gifts Under $50 Are you holiday shopping for a tech lover or geek, but staying on a budget? We have 15 great suggestions ranging from LED belt buckles to remote-controlled zombies.
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Stone Cold Etch-a-Sketchin’ With an NES Twist This hack lets you control an Etch-a-Sketch with an NES game controller.
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Rumor: Kinect 2 Will Read Lips and Track Your Emotional State Rumors that claim the next Kinect will be able to read lips and track facial expressions for your emotional state.
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New Skyrim Patch 1.2 Fixes All Kinds of Stuff Bethesda patches Skyrim, fixes Xbox 360 texturing and PS3 performance issues, and tweaks the PC interface.
Gaming Playing in PCW Video
- Flying Fingers Solve Hundreds of Rubik's Cubes Students solved hundreds of Rubik's cubes in near record times at Boston's Museum of Science.
- Zynga Releases Mesh Animation Mobile Game, "Dream Zoo" Zynga Games has released a new mobile game, Dream Zoo, in time for the holidays.
- Holiday Gift Guide: Tablets, e-Readers, and Gaming World Tech Update this week features a special holiday gift guide that take a looks at tablets, e-readers, gaming and more.
Gaming Reviews
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Review: Saints Row: The Third Offers Highly Flexible Gameplay A consistently improving open-world franchise embraces its inner-cheesiness.
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Review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Makes Exceptional Use of Wii Motion Controls The Wii8 clicks gets one last chance to make good on its potential in Link's latest adventure. Is Nintendo successful, or were we really better off with traditional controllers after all?
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Review: Rayman: Origins Impresses With Amazing Graphics Rayman: Origins is a more than worthy successor to an unfairly forgotten platforming classic.
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Skyrim: Bethesda's Strange, Beguiling, Magnificent Dance with Dragons In Bethesda's exquisite Elder Scrolls roleplaying epic, you'll play a game of dragons and witness a clash of thrones.
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Review: Super Mario 3D Land Has a Gimmick That Works Finally, a game for the Nintendo 3DS that makes you actually want to turn on 3D.
PC Games
Downloads: Freeware, Shareware and Software to Buy
- Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc. Monitoring every action executed by the user or by the operating system and being able to react promptly when a malicious program is detected. Actions include repair, delete, block, rename and quarantine programs or files.
- SlimCleaner Clean your PC and make it run faster with this community-driven utility.
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Free program protects against viruses and hackers.















