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New iPad could face slowed down network and overage charges
March 13 Leave a Comment
The new Retina display and high demand could leave new iPad owners with a slow 4G network and a stack of overage costs.
Nintendo Download 1-4
Jan. 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
Nintendo unleashed the year’s first batch of downloadables. Full list inside.
Download UpdateStar 2.4 free from Blast Magazine
Nov. 1, 2008 Leave a Comment
Thank you to the good people are UpdateStar for licensing Blast to provide all its readers with this software in our November issue!
The Old Shoebox: Heretic shareware
March 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
Released quickly after Doom, using a modified version of the same game engine, Heretic is a fantasy first person shooter designed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed, along with everything else in those days, by GT Interactive in 1994. Heretic introduced ambient noise — evil laughter and such — that was random, [...]
The Old Shoebox: Seek and Destroy (1996)
Dec. 11, 2007 Leave a Comment
Long before Takara developed their 2002 mixed-reviews tank sim, Epic Megagames was distributing Seek and Destroy, a PC action game that combined tank and chopper elements. I first encountered Seek and Destroy in the July, 1996 issue of Interactive Entertainment (IE), the CD portion of Computer Games Strategy Plus magazine (previously called Strategy Plus, then [...]
The Old Shoebox: Sango Fighter
Dec. 6, 2007 Leave a Comment
Here’s another out of that old Aztech’s Super Games cd: At the twilight of the Eastern-Han Dynasty of ancient China, under the reign of the frail and incompetent emperor Han-Ling, the country was in disarray when the government was run by a group of corrupted eunuchs-theso-called “Ten Attendants.” Hardship and famine finally threw the country [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download “Raptor: Call of the Shadows” Shareware here
Dec. 2, 2007 3 Comments
Today’s Old Shoebox feature is a game that brought me a ton of joy in the mid-90s. The game is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and the CD I originally found it on is called “Aztech’s Super Games,” a red CD-ROM that came bundled with my first 4x CD-ROM drive many years ago. The CD [...]
