Posted 07/08/05 at 11:18:24 AM by Maximum PC
By Will Smith
The earthshaking, D-Day announcement that Apple is switching from IBM’s PowerPC architecture to Intel’s x86 is, without a doubt, the biggest tech story of the last five years.
Posted 07/08/05 at 10:53:58 AM by Maximum PC
Though the first three SWAT games were squad-based and heavily strategic, a la Rainbow 6, this fourth installment is more Hollywood action movie than sim.
Posted 07/08/05 at 10:45:50 AM by Maximum PC
Pariah is a better game than its first 30 minutes indicate. Unfortunately, we found those first 30 minutes so annoying that getting to the rest of the game was a genuine challenge.
Posted 07/08/05 at 10:37:06 AM by Maximum PC
Guild Wars is an MMORPG “lite,” offering much of the fun of class leaders World of Warcraft and EverQuest 2, but without the bank-balance-draining monthly fee and the must-play-all-week requirement to advance.
Posted 07/08/05 at 10:25:55 AM by Maximum PC
It must suck to be on the Bravo team—you only get sent in when things are looking really, really bad.
Posted 07/08/05 at 10:04:41 AM by Maximum PC
By Tom McDonald
Lego Star Wars seems more
like the name of a clever QuickTime movie than an idea for a great game.
Posted 07/08/05 at 09:12:14 AM by Maximum PC
By Michael Brown
If you’ve ever received an e-mail from PayPal, eBay, or a financial institution in which the sender asks you to log onto a website to confirm your online user ID and password, you’ve witnessed the handiwork of an Internet con artist.
These types of fraudulent e-mails are classified as “phishing” schemes, because crooks chum the waters with millions of pieces of spam, hoping a few fish will swallow the bait.
Posted 07/07/05 at 06:45:35 PM by Maximum PC
Nero and Roxio have been locked in a competitive square-dance for years, and we’ve given both companies’ capable disc-mastering suites our Kick-Ass award in the past.





