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Take Control Of MS Flight Sim With Your Smartphone And This Open-Source App

2024-06-022024-06-02 Danie

Microsoft Flight Simulator view from behind an aircraft, with it flying towards a bridge in the background and some land on either side covered with trees and greenery. Bottom left, and bottom right are shown some gauges such as airspeed, power, fuel level, altitude, etc. Top right is an insert showing two hands holding a smartphone in landscape position with 7 blue buttons on the screen. To each side of the phone are two game controller attachments fastened to the side of the phone.

Anyone with more than a passing interest in flight simulators will eventually want to upgrade their experience with a HOTAS (Hands On Throttle-And-Stick) setup that has buttons and switches for controlling your virtual aircraft’s assorted […]

Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day

2024-05-242024-05-24 Danie

Browser page showing title Jumblie at the top left. In the centre are various letters of the alphabet which will be used to try to guess the words. Above the letters it says Today's Theme "moon". Top right is a help button with a timer running. Below the letters are three buttons labelled Shuffle, Deselect All, and Submit. Below the buttons is the title Incorrect guesses showing a total of 0 so far.

The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, […]

Netris is an open-source and self-hosted alternative to GeForce NOW, inspired by Stadia

2024-05-222024-05-22 Danie

Background title Netris open-source alternative to GeForce NOW made just for you and your friends. Below it appears part of a browser window with the window controls on the top left like macOS Safari browser has. The URL can't be seen but various game avatars appear, one which looks like a soccer player kicking the ball in the air, and another a woman holding a large automatic rifle.

It’s a cloud gaming platform where the latest titles and your beloved classics are always just a click away, ready to be played on any device you own. Imagine the freedom to dive into your […]

Wolf Grid is an OpenSim World With AI Integration and Other Innovations

2024-05-142024-05-14 Danie

Seems this virtual world is only 3 years old, but it already has a landmass larger than Second Life’s. The reason could also be that land is cheaper than Second Life and there is the […]

40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia

2024-05-092024-05-09 Danie

Retro style 8-bit computer game title screen with title Kontrabant 2 and copyright 1984 Z Turk in M Kmet. The image shows what looks like a street barrier in the foreground with a yellow coloured road stretching into the distance with test 2000 at the end. On both sides are various buildings from a castle, a government office, houses, etc.

Software is almost impossibly easy to download, distribute, and access compared to 40 years ago. Everything is bigger, faster, and more flexible, but there’s a certain charm to the ways of diskettes and cassettes that […]

Before you buy a gaming headset, consider getting In-Ear Monitors instead

2024-05-052024-05-05 Danie

Pair of black earbuds lying on a dark brown wooden desktop.

Full-size gaming headsets have long been a popular choice for most gamers. IEMs (in-ear monitors), on the other hand, have traditionally been overlooked. While traditional headsets like the Logitech G Pro X 2 provide an […]

This YouTuber shows off running Steam games on a Raspberry Pi 5

2024-03-282024-03-28 Danie

Raspberry Pi computer box in front of a TV

As you might expect, you’re not going to be getting Baldur’s Gate 3 running on max settings on a Raspberry Pi 5. However, the actual results were still pretty impressive. Simple 2D games like Brotato […]

This is the most completely authentic 737 home flight simulator I’ve seen to date

2024-03-172024-03-17 Danie

A flight simulator that looks exactly like an authentic 737 flight cabin

This simulator even has an authentic looking cabin door that you enter through, and a seat belt for the pilot seat. A bit of a glitch with the sim software itself, is where the plane […]

Ready Player One Author Gives First Look at His Metaverse Battle Royale Game

2024-03-122024-03-12 Danie

Bearded man with glasses sitting ona couch holdinga microphone in his hands. Behind him looks like a display you'd see as a backdrop on a stage.

This was a movie that I REALLY enjoyed. Sadly, though this is not a playable demo of any type, but more a video trailer…. The company has described Open as “the first genre-defining AAA metaverse […]

5 reasons to use AMD in your next gaming PC

2024-02-202024-02-20 Danie

Red blurry background with an AMD gaphics card standing up verrtically in the foreground. On one side are three cooling fans, and on the narrower facing side are some cooling fins.

AMD is already quite well known for their really easy overclocking, and their better price point for what you get. My current PC build has had an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU in it for […]

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