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My favorite arcade games are the car-shaped racing booths. I love crawling into the too-tight space and using my body to “help” propel the car around corners, so it’s no surprise that my first game review would be of the racing variety. I took two different race-based video games, Mario Kart Wii (published by Nintendo) [...]

One of our ‘retroviews’ from 2001. What with Google’s release of the original Google! search engine (circa 2001) for a limited time, I felt the urge to capture some of the history and actually archive it here, with 2001 era links no less. I’ve added quite a few to the archive portions of gpfault.org, but [...]

Built using Valve Source Technology – the same game engine technology used to power Half-Life 2 – Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is based on White Wolf’s pen-and-paper role playing game series, and developed by now out of business Troika Games.

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Over Halloween, Flagship Studios (renegades from software publishing company Blizzard who made the incredibly addictive Diablo II computer game) released Hellgate:London to the US and UK markets. You are in a future London ravaged by demons, zombies and other such vileness with a rag-tag band of humans (stuck to navigating/living within the London Underground’s bombed [...]

Apparently customers are never happy. With all of the information you have heard from friends, read online or in magazines, or perhaps even seen on television, something new is often met with a bit of defiance, some ridicule and sometimes, downright resistance. We’ve taken a look at Vista’s reception from the public in previous [...]

I know you are eagerly awaiting the next part in my series on Vista, but I simply had to take a moment and warn you about Office 2007, and more importantly, Word 2007.
Microsoft releases a new version of its office suite roughly every few years and Office 2007 has quite a few major changes. [...]

Our previous post explained what Vista is and how people are responding to the program. Now it’s time to look directly at the features that make, and break, Microsoft’s newest OS.
Just what is so great about Vista? Well, there are a few things that really separate it from Microsoft’s previous operating system, Windows XP:

Aero [...]

Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows Vista, was first released to the public on January 30th, 2007, while businesses were given early access in November of 2006. Vista has been available to you and me for over 8 months now, and what a turbulent 8 months it has been. First, various printer manufacturers did [...]

Ever wished that Windows Update would update the rest of your software? Well maybe UpdateStar is for you.