Archive for January, 2008

Gaming Accessories

It’s not enough to just have the Mac and the game, you also need some other things to make your gaming experience complete. We’ve tried to identify some of the more common types of accessories you may want to consider if you’re a frequent gamer.
Joystick
You already have a keyboard and mouse, but some games are [...]

Adobe Tutorial: Creating Ornament Patter

One of the most important features of Adobe Illustrator is that you can create a sophisticated ornament with just a few steps. In this tutorial you will learn how to duplicate a simple letter and create a variety of ornaments of it.
Step 1
Start by choosing the Type tool from the toolbar and click anywhere to [...]

Peel the Apple

Q: I am unable to access my Hotmail account from my Apple computer. I am also unable to access my work email website and some other sites. Also, I don’t know how to “clean up” my computer i.e. to consolidate all my files. Do you think I need to buy Norton Antivirus?
A: If we start [...]

Profile of a Mac Seller

Name: Faisal A. Al Dekhayil
Title: Store Manager
Store: Global Store, Riyadh, KSA

Q: When did you start working for Global Store?
A: Fifth of February 2006.
Q: What did you do before working at Global Store?
A: I was studying Computer Science at Riyadh Teachers College.
Q: When was the first time you used a Mac and what your first impression?
A: [...]

Games for MacBook

Many of you have MacBooks or Mac minis that have in common an integrated graphics card which is severely limited in terms of gaming. We want to show you a few examples of games that play well on these Macs, because you shouldn’t be left out of all the fun.
Devastro
Devastro is a wonderful little game [...]

Review: The Sims Life Stories

Sims: Life Stories is one of the latest additions to the Sims series of games. It features a new Life Story mode in which you play as a particular character in the game. System specifications are pretty modest; Aspyr says Power PC G4, G5, or an Intel Chipset with a speed of at least 1GHZ. [...]

Review: Prey

In Prey you play Tommy, a native American and you’re task is to run around various alien worlds and shoot as many aliens as you can, while at the same time trying to figure out clues for how you shall proceed. Your ultimate goal is to rescue your girlfriend Jen and your grandfather. Prey doesn’t [...]

Review: Harry Potter Collection

The Harry Potter Collection, also called the Deluxe edition, basically consists of the games Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and The Chamber of Secrets. Missing from the collection is the Order of the Phoenix game. Unfortunately the games are a bit old by now (they date back to 2002) but if you’re a Harry [...]

Razer Pro Click and Pro Pad

In the March 2007 issue of Shuffle we reviewed the Pro|Click and the Pro|Pad from Razer (see “Review: Razer Pro|Click and Pro|Pad”, page 7). Since it’s a combination that is well suited for games, we thought we’d repeat the main points here. The main selling point of the Pro|Click mouse is the high resolution, 1600DPI [...]

Mac: a Gamer’s Dream?

I’ve been a Mac user for the last three years. I guess I was lucky enough to join the Apple cult right at its third revolution. The first I believe was when Apple created the personal computer revolution, the second was when Apple created amazing seamlessly artistic designs underpinned by an amazing operating system: Mac [...]

Games for Kids

Finding the right games for your children can be hard. You want them to play games that will help them with school, reading, writing, colors, and so on. But if your child is like most children, they will get tired of the games fast or they will not like the game to start with, and [...]

Pangea SuperPack: Bargain Games

Pangea Software just had their 20th birthday and they celebrated in style by releasing a collection of ten of their games under the name of The X Pack. Unfortunately this collection is no longer available when you read this but there’s the Super Pack instead, which is almost as good. It’s a wide selection of [...]

Tribal Trouble

If you’ve seen Age of Empires, Age of Mythology or similar games you know pretty much how TT works. You see a world from above and with the mouse you control a number of characters – where they go to and what they do. You command them to build buildings, collect resources, and fight the [...]

Retro Gaming

Are you old enough to remember Commodore 64, Amiga, TSR-80, and other early computers? Do you remember your favorite games from back then? Those were exciting times when computer memory was really measured in kilobytes, not megabytes or gigabytes, and games were stored on tape drives (yes, the same kind we used to listen to [...]

Marathon: the Legacy

Before Bungie (http://www.bungie.net) was bought by Microsoft and created the Halo series of games, it was responsible for creating games like Pathways into Darkness, Myth and, arguably more significant than the others, Marathon.

Bungie was founded in 1991 and their first game was a Pong clone called Gnop. Their first commercial game was called Operation: Desert [...]