Tech Olive

I’m not sure about you, but I could play hours and hours of old Sega games, like Sonic, Sonic 2 and even Sonic 3! Like all good things, it couldn’t last forever. An Xbox replaced my old Genesis, which now resides buried someplace out in a storage shed. However, this lovely Saturday morning, I felt like going back to my roots. I could try and find the actual system and then hope, after over a decade of no use, it still worked. Or, use my old Sonic CD for PC. But after 20 minutes of play, the keyboard just didn’t feel right. So I set out to make an old Genesis controller work with my PC, and make it wireless.

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With all the ways of purchasing games online these days, will physical game stores last? According to Rock Paper Shotgun, 47% of all PC game purchases are digital. Could this number rapidly grow?

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As promised, here is the tutorial for making your very own decals for application on your computer, laptop, keyboard, or younger sibling.

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It’s the end of the month and you know what that means. If you don’t know what I mean, please read our first retro review.

The Super Nintendo; the best gaming system ever made in my opinion. It hosted so many of the greatest games and it’s where my first gaming experiences came to life. I remember when my sister and I opened up the Super Nintendo during Christmas. Our faces lit up like light bulbs  and we high-fived each other like we just won a competitive game of Kemps. We both knew that the Super Nintendo would change our lives forever.

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Electronic Arts plans to revive the Need for Speed series by launching three “Play 4 Free” games this year. Need for Speed: Shift will be released for PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and PSP this coming Autumn and Need for Speed: Nitro will launch at the same time for Wii and DS. Need for Speed: World Online will be an Asian release before launching everywhere else.

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With tomorrow being the last day of Winter-Een-Mas, I have finally finished my second tribute to the great holiday (Day one dedication here). A hand-made decal based on Tim Buckley’s Ctrl-Alt-Del comics.

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Everyone likes to get the most out of their PC without shelling out the cash. There are so many free applications that can do just about anything for the everyday PC user. I’m going to share some of my all-time favorites and cover the entire spectrum of using your PC.

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You can never have too much space, right? Ask any computer guru and they will tell you too much storage is always better than not enough. Being rumored for a while, Western Digital has released the first 2 terabyte hard drive. When released, the new drive will be the biggest as far as capacity is concerned. It will be an addition to WD’s popular cool and quiet Caviar Green series. The drive is based on their current leading 500GB per platter technology and will feature 32 MB cache. Look out Seagate!

More information about the new drive can be found HERE.

The fifth installment of the Call of Duty series, World at War, has been successful from a sale point of view. Although, it is not as popular with the gamers. The game is buggy, and what little updates there is, comes slowly.

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Epic games seem to have inadvertently shot themselves in the foot yesterday when their digital certification for Gears of War (PC) expired, as it was scheduled to. Thus rendering the game unplayable, displaying the following message: ‘You cannot run this game with modified executable code, please reinstall’. According to one of the Moderators on Epic’s forums:

Yes, this was a surprise to us too. We have been notified of the issue and are working with Microsoft to get it resolved. Sorry for any problems related to this.

If you are one of the many that is affected by this problem, rest assured, the problem has been identified and a fix is in the works.