Tag: CIVILIZATION

As much as we love new gaming experiences, sometimes we hanker for the classic games of our distant youth. Luckily, many of these can be revisited in browser-based iterations. This week, we'll take a look at timeless classics -- like Monday's 'Pac-Man', Tuesday's 'Lemmings' or yesterday's 'Duke Nukem' -- that are always worth wasted productivity. If you haven't played these in a few years, or if ...

Share Every month, roughly 100 million people log into Facebook to tend their virtual farms in 'FarmVille,' or to wage virtual war against their mob enemies in 'Mafia Wars.' To put things in perspective, those numbers roughly equal the populations of France and Canada combined. Anyone who tells you that social gaming is a flash in the pan is wrong... dead wrong. So now, the video game industry ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. A modern take (you know some exec is working on the script) on the classic Hitchcock thriller 'North by Northwest' would find Cary Grant's character running through ...

Sometimes 'The Onion' hits the satirical nail so square on the head it transcends simple humor (like this post 9/11 classic) and becomes a reflection of the current state of the world. It's recent video "news" clip, 'Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of 'Friendster' Civilization,' works not just because Friendster is an easy punchline -- but because it speaks volumes about how future generations ...