Earlier this week, a new fan-made prequel to Sierra’s Space Quest series, Space Quest 0: Replicated, was released. Designed by Jeff Stewart, Replicated features a hilarious story centered on cloning, retro graphics and interface, and tons of the wacky death scenes that made the SQ games famous in the first place. You can download Replicated [...]
To mark the 10th anniversary of the first net cafe, Yahoo is looking for the most remote and the most stylish ones of today.
A crush of consumers rushes a federal Web site launched Friday to let people opt out of telemarketing calls, crippling the site’s servers and slowing access to a crawl.
Freeloading good-for-nothings took one in the eye recently when the man responsible for posting pirate copies of The Hulk on the Internet pleaded guilty to felony copyright infringement before a judge in the US. Kerry Gonzalez, 25, found himself in front of the bench less than three weeks after he posted the film online, a [...]
The Z Review reports that Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are set to go forward on an “Independence Day” sequel - without Will Smith. The site reports that Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, and Vivica Fox are set to return in lieu of Smith’s absence. We’ll see if anything becomes official soon…otherwise, tag this [...]
The web is making people picky and impatient, a US study has found. Researchers from the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) found that people are getting frustrated with search engines and making snap judgements about websites. Typically surfers visit only the first three results from a query, with one in [...]
There’s another PayPal scam out today. This one’s an e-mail with the following text:
Dear Paypal Member.
We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and you will now be taken through a series of identity verification pages.
Protecting the security of your PayPal account is [...]
America Online’s celebrated Nullsoft division is taking a page out of Coca-Cola’s playbook, reviving a “classic” version of its flagship Winamp MP3 player.
The sun is setting on support for Windows NT 4.0 with the closure of Microsoft’s telephone support for the seven year-old system from the end of this month. From the beginning of July there will be no new hotfixes for workstation versions of NT 4 either. So from Tuesday the remaining (die-hard) NT 4 [...]
Variety reports that MGM has struck a deal to remake “Back to School,” the comedy starring comedian Rodney Dangerfield. The 81-year old actor will produce the project and will probably make a cameo. The original comedy was released in 1986, and starred Dangerfield as an arrogant businessman who enrolls in college in order to [...]
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