Due to good ole US of A coming out the recession, the greenback is as strong as ever. But what does it do to people who run ads and get paid in US dollars like you, me and practically everybody else? Recently I cashed out my Adsense earnings via Western Union and some other ad [...]

More delicious GrooveMaker beats are being served up with the launch of GrooveMaker Electro and D’n’B for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Check out the following press release from IK Multimedia for further details: New GrooveMaker® Electro and D’n’B released for the iPhone/iPod Touch Completes the range of 8 leading loop-remixing applications October 2009, Modena, Italy – [...]

Did you know that, as a whole, the Need for Speed franchise has sold over a 100 million copies? That has to be one heck of an achievement. To commemorate this, the NFS community team have invited Vehicle Styling Director, Andy Blackmore, to talk about his time in the franchise since joining Electronic Arts back [...]

It’s the time of the year again, where Star World airs more than a dozen episodes of The Simpsons non-stop, but these aren’t the normal Simpson episodes. I’m talking about The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror episodes. Aired every year during Halloween, this year’s episode carries the XX moniker, indicating it’s the 20th in the Treehouse [...]

Ahh, this is some pretty good news for one of my favourite developers on the iPhone/iPod Touch platform (them being the makers of Flick Fishing and Skee-Ball), Freeverse’s game, Skee-Ball has reached the number one paid application spot on Apple’s App Store! If I’m not mistaken, Flick Fishing had also occupied the spot some time [...]

Now even Facebook games have made the jump to the iPhone. If this doesn’t serve as a testament to the iPhone as a development platform and App Store as a viable market place, I don’t know what else will. Check out the press release below for the newly launched Bubble Town 2 for the iPhone [...]

I once told a story that occured during one of Malaysia’s naval war games with Indonesia. While the Malaysian navy thought they actually won the (simulated) war, the Indonesian navy commander brought up transcripts and recordings of the crew of a particular Malaysian navy vessel. Apparently, an Indonesian sub was directly underneath the ship tagging [...]

Let’s just say that there’s an “Indie Video Games Awards for iPhone Games” going on, and you are to nominate iPhone games to several distinct categories (you know how awards are..right?). What will you pick? As for me, I would nominated the very real (as in, it does exist), and excellent, Hook Champ for Best [...]

One important thing before upgrading your existing PC or laptop’s operating system (Windows XPor Vista) to Windows 7 would be to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. This nifty utility is pretty simple to use, just download, install and run it and it should be able to tell you whether your machine is compatible with [...]

Welcome to the Capital Wastelands, the place where you can’t walk a kilometre without being shot, stabbed, beaten, clawed, bit or stung at! True to my name, the Capital Wasteland Wanderer, I took a stroll from Washington to up north, passing by notable places like the Temple of the Union, the Grisly Dinner (don’t forget [...]