Microsoft alternative lifestyles

Dan Gayle

Design Director

How do you like paying software companies hundreds of dollars for their products? Don't you just love turning over your hard earned cash to some multi-billion dollar industry giant? I don't. In fact, there are certain companies that I boycott at all costs, specifically Micro$oft and bed-fellows thereof. But MS products are so ubiquitous that it is really hard to avoid using something of theirs. How can you avoid spending huge dollars in supporting MS and other companies like it? The answer is Open Source. Read More

Conker: Live and Reloaded for Xbox

Jonathan Lavigne

Editor-in-Chief

The gaming industry has seen many repeats in the past. It can sometimes be cyclical where every few years, a genre of video game comes out on the shelf more often than not. After Halo spread like a fire storm onto the gaming market, knockoffs filled the shelves looking to rake in some of its glory. But Halo was not original, not in the very least. Whether cloning Doom into Quake into Halo, sometimes it's just a lack of imagination that seems to hinder the industry. Then in 2001, Rare Ltd, released a little game called Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64 (N64). And that's where the story ended. Read More

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