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Surprise Patch for Supreme Commander 2 Improves AI

Posted 03/18/2013 at 8:39am | by Paul Lilly

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It's been more than two years since the last SupCom2 patch. Is there something more at play?

If you needed an excuse to revisit Supreme Commander 2, a real-time strategy (RTS) title that debuted to PC just over three years ago, here it is. There's a new patch available and it promises to fix a bevy of AI issues and improve game play in a number of areas, not to mention a reworking of the economy, which our sister site PC Gamer says is the biggest change of all. That's all well and good, but what should we make of the timing of this patch?

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XBMC vs. Plex

Posted 03/15/2013 at 3:03pm | by Brad Chacos

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The battle of the free media players

Attention, would-be cord cutters: If you’re going to tell the cable man to shove it, you’re going to want a full-featured media center app to make browsing your digital movies, music, and pictures as pretty and painless as possible. Two of the top no-cost contenders are the open-source XBMC and Plex, a partly proprietary fork of XBMC that focuses on streaming media to multiple devices. Which is the blockbuster and which is the dud? Let’s find out.

Note: This article first appeared in the December issue of the magazine.

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Google Chrome Boss Sundar Pichai Replaces Andy Rubin as Head of Android

Posted 03/13/2013 at 11:28am | by Paul Lilly

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What will become of Android following a surprise management change?

Andy Rubin, one of the founding fathers of Android, approached Google about the open source mobile operating system back in 2004. Now he's stepping aside as head of the OS he helped to create, handing the reins over to Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome and Apps, Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post today. Rubin is off to start a new chapter at Google, while Pichai will likely focus on making Android easier to use.

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Dropbox Rolls Out Revamped Desktop Client

Posted 03/12/2013 at 10:46pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Latest stable build features new tray popup UI

San Francisco-based cloud storage company Dropbox on Tuesday updated its desktop client, transforming the hitherto bland tray menu into something much more pleasant and useful.

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Petroglyph Chases "Victory" Through Kickstarter Campaign

Posted 03/11/2013 at 3:30pm | by Paul Lilly

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Strategy veterans announce Kickstarter campaign for a new team-based, action-strategy game.

Developer Petroglyph is hoping to raise $700,000 through Kickstarter to fund Victory, a World War II team-based, action-strategy game set where the gamer collects companies of units and does battle in quick online matches. Petroglyph's team is mostly comprised of former Command & Conquer developers. They have nine titles under the collective belt and two more in development, including Victory.

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Software Worth Paying For

Posted 03/11/2013 at 1:40pm | by David Murphy

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It hurts us to say it, but freeware can’t cover every situation. We've rounded up a Selection of software and web services that deserve your dollars

We’re huge fans of freeware at Maximum PC. Why pay for expensive software when a perfectly reasonable and fully functioning piece of freeware exists as a compelling alternative?

Note: This article appeared in the Holiday 2012 issue of the magazine.

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Microsoft Offer Allows Students to Test Drive Office 365 for Up to Six Months

Posted 03/11/2013 at 9:17am | by Paul Lilly

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Starting today, students with a qualifying email address can try Office 365 for half a year.

Between books, tuition, and booze, going to college is an expensive proposition. It's understandable, then, if students aren't particularly anxious to sign up for a monthly subscription fee for Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite, but when you start throwing around the world "free," it's a good way to get their attention. And so it goes, Microsoft today is offering to let students with a qualifying .edu email address try out Office 365 for an entire semester.

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Mozilla Confirms They Won’t Develop Firefox For iOS Until Apple Allows Alternate Rendering Engines

Posted 03/10/2013 at 12:53pm | by Justin Kerr

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Mozilla is intentionally ignoring Apple’s mobile platform.

iOS users have a ton of alternate browser choices these days, but only if you don’t mind using a severely gimped and re-skinned version of Safari. Google for example has chosen to port over a version of its highly successful Chrome browser, however unlike the situation on the desktops, iOS Chrome is significantly slower than Safari. Apple currently forces competitors to make use of its much slower UIWebView rendering engine, while the built in version of Safari has access to the significantly faster Nitro engine. This policy ensures competitors are unable to match Safari in the speed department, and Mozilla claims this is the primary reason why they currently have no intention of developing for the platform.

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Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Looks to Kickstart an Ambitious RPG

Posted 03/08/2013 at 12:26pm | by Paul Lilly

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With a little help (and a lot of cash) from nostalgiac gamers, Lord British will hop back into the RPG saddle.

It's been a long time since I played an Ultima game. In fact, Ultima VI: The False Prophet was the last in the franchise that I logged any significant time with (anyone remember typing in "spam spam spam humbug" to access the cheat menu?), though there have been several follow-up titles since then. A series of events led Ultima creator Richard Garriott to sell the rights of the franchise to Electronic Arts and ultimately separate himself from the company, though not from the world of RPGs. Provided his Kickstarter campaign can raise $1 million -- and it likely will -- the man known as Lord British will again look to shake up the RPG universe.

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F-Secure: 8 out of 10 Mobile Malware Targets Android

Posted 03/08/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Mobile malware on the Android platform is on the rise.

Remember Symbian? Few people actually care about the mobile platform these days, and that's evidenced by the reduction of mobile malware aimed at Symbian, which dropped from 29 percent in 2011 to 19 percent in 2012, according F-Secure's latest Mobile Threat Report (PDF). Android, on the other hand, is more popular than it's ever been, and as a result, 79 percent of all mobile malware is targeted at Google's open source OS.

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