I first decided that I wanted to make games when I was at a very young age. I started out with HyperCard (why I even tried with this is beyond me), and moved up to some shareware programs that generally didn't produce anything spectacular. The day before I found out about Unity3D, you could have shown me my latest games and I would not have belived that I made them; but now there is no limi...

Get it? Watch what you're doing? Anyways, I got this Suunto Heart Rate monitor to keep track of my runs, and it has been a great experience.AccuracyIt seems pretty accurate, from my uses of it. I don't have another source to back up its findings about my heart rate or calories burned, but they seem reasonable. Once in a while the watch will lose my heart rate, but it's always back w...

The Wii Internet Channel is an interesting addition to the Wii Menu. It lets you surf the internet from the comfort of your own couch; with accessible built-in search, smart-zoom, and Flash player, it seems like a solid deal from the start.There are a few problems though. The Internet Channel doesn't allow plugins of any kind to be installed, meaning that you are stuck with Flash for multim...

If you know somebody who is holding out on buying an HDTV, they no longer have an excuse. This TV was a steal at $300 when I bought it, and since then the price has dropped to around $275. Last summer, as a new PS3 owner, I was having a really hard time reading on-screen text with my old hulking CRT SDTV. It was blurry from a distance, and worse up close. So I researched, saved a bit of cash, a...

We first picked up Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for the Wii after playing it at the house of a friend. My brother had always been a fan of the series, but I myself had never played. It turns out that I wasn't too bad at it, and within a few weeks I am already playing on Expert Mode. The first thing you'll notice about GHIII is that the Guitar Controller has a slot on the back to ins...

When I first heard that Nintendo was offering a free online service it was music to my ears, so naturally I had to pick up the first game that would ever use it. I was able to get a copy of Mario Kart DS the day after it was released, and I still play it occasionally to this day.The thing about Mario Kart DS that really captures me is not its use of the DS's two screens, nor its graphical q...

I was one of the first people to find out about Mac OS X Leopard's new features, by accidentally stumbling upon Apple's website just as they had updated it. I was not, however, one of the first people to aquire it, having just gotten it a few days ago. But let me tell you, it has a fairly low minimum system requirement, it's shiny, it's amazing, and it's worth the price tag....

I wanted a RedOctane Guitar, but Amazon was sold out. Instead I settled for "The Hammer" by Psyclone essentials, and let me tell you, it's the last time I settle for anything less than what I want. The Hammer got high reviews on Amazon, saying things like "It's the greatest guitar controller ever, and I'll never use my other ones". Gimmie a break. Honestly, I'...

If you are an iPod owning fan of Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution, you've no doubt heard of Phase before. Its a recently released game that will play on any current iPod (excluding the Touch and the iPhone). The basic premise is the same as Guitar Hero; notes are sent at you from the back, and you press buttons in time with them to get points. The big hook for Phase however, other than...

The Dualshock 3 replaces the Sixaxis controller that originally shipped with Sony's Playstation 3. While the Sixaxis was a lightweight wireless controller with tilt sensitivity that works well in certain games, it lacked a critical feature that had been an old standby on Playstation consoles since the very early days. This feature was force-feedback, and had been in every Sony controller si...