Last time, I showed you how to turn a plane in Google Earth Flight Simulator. This was a 180 degree turn, achieved by turning the plane upside down in a loop-de-loop. Now, I’ll show you how to execute some other turns using other aerial maneuvers. First, you’ll need to get in the air. You can either take off from the …
Online games encompass a huge variety of genres, from FPSes to MMORPGs to Sandbox games, of which my personal favorite, Minecraft, resides. However, all of these big genres over-shadow a small yet important category of games: Room escapes. These sorts of games are excellent for the wanna-be detective, the future FBI agent, or anyone who enjoys a couple hours of …
If you grew up in the ’80s or the ’90s, then you might remember this game. It’s called SkiFree, and it came with every copy of Windows (until XP, I believe.) Basically, you are a skiier perpetually going downhill, trying to avoid trees, other skiers, those weird joker people, and worst of all… the Abominable Snow Monster! Take a look …
This just shocked me. This was pretty obvious from the statistics of his sales after the free weekend, but it's official: Notch, the developer of Minecraft, is a multi-millionaire. This is from money coming from no other source than $14 per-person purchases of the Minecraft alpha. That is to say, he's made more by selling the pre-pre-release version of his …