Left 4 Dead
Platform: PC, Xbox 360
Zombies. Lots of Zombies. Throw in an excellent AI engine to spawn hoards of them, and four player co-op to sweeten the deal and you’d better fetch a change of underwear because you’re going to need them. Left 4 Dead is finally here, and we take a look to see if it lives up to the expectations.
A recent spate of rather ineffective viruses for Apple’s Mac OS X platform has the company worried enough to recommend anti-virus programs to its users – a volte-face for many Mac fans.
According to ITWire’s Stephen Withers, Apple has quietly been updating its knowledge base with an entry which “encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.”
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“For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off,” begins a recent Monty Python announcement “taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube.” Rather than firing off endless rounds of cease and desist letters, the Pythons have decided to tackle the problem by creating their own YouTube channel. The Monty Python Channel offers high quality versions of classic skits, new interviews, and rare archival footage. Of course it’s all free, but the guys encourage you to click the links to buy their dvds, shirts, etc.
Call of Duty 5: World at War
Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, DS, PS2
Normally, we’d start a review of a game like this with an explanation of the story – but today we’re not going to. There are two reasons for that.
Firstly, this is World War II (again) and if you need the plot of that explained to you then you’d probably be better off using your time to learn something useful like how to tie your shoelaces. There’s really no excuse for not knowing the basic structure of World War II – especially at this time of year.
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When it was first announced that Mirror’s Edge, the innovative and very well received free running first person platformer from DICE, would be significantly delayed on PC but not on Xbox 360 or PS3 there was whole heap of outcry and more than a few tin foil hats were produced with talk of the delay being related to anti-piracy measures.
A miracle pup clung to a speeding car for more than 15 miles after being knocked down.
The motorist, Marco Menozzi, didn’t even stop when he mowed down the one-year-old pooch while doing 70mph on a side road in Cozze, southern Italy.
But he hit the dog so hard he was embedded in the grill under the bonnet of the Peugeot 207 and managed to cling on until the car eventually stopped.
It just wasn’t this dog’s time yet.