PCmover is an in-place upgrade solution for Windows users. Its purpose is to basically help you make the transition from an earlier version of the operating system to the latest, Windows 7. Unlike the solution offered by Microsoft itself, which has been labeled as quirky and limited right from the start for the average user, PCmover can help you migrate installed programs as well as well as Windows settings and files. With XP still making for a huge chunk of the OS market share pie, there are plenty of users ready to start working on the new operating system. And with the adoption rate of Windows 7 constantly growing - Microsoft actually b... [read more >>] Image optimization may seem for many a matter of size over quality, but as far as RIOT is concerned it is more like an undetectable compromise between the two. Its purpose is to shrink the size of the original images without taking too much of their quality. RIOT, or Radical Image Optimization Tool by its full name, is free of charge and does not take much time to install; but you have to be careful during the process unless you want to install third party code that does nothing to help you with image compression. The interface is simple and straightforward, with all the options in plain view. Also, the application window is filled with d... [read more >>] Hearts of Iron III is one of the most complex games a player can now pick up, install and play. It deals with the expanded era of World War II and allows a player to choose any country that existed in the world at that point and guide it's destiny through the titanic conflict. Naturally most players gravitate towards the biggest powers of the period, from the United Kingdom to Communist Russia and Nazi Germany to the United States, but the possibilities included in the game are truly endless.For the Motherland is the second expansion for the grand strategy game, developed in house at Paradox Interactive, and, while the feature list mig... [read more >>] Pro Cycling Manager, as a series, has a much smaller audience than it deserves. That's a real shame because, after a few less than perfect releases in 2009 and 2010, the developers at Cyanide and the publishers at Focus Home Interactive have managed to create a real gem, a game that combines the managing aspect of professional road cycling with the excitement of the actual racing and infuses the entire experience with all those special moments that the sport delivers to its real world fans.
Cyanide always time their releases to coincide with Le Tour de France, the biggest bike race in the world, and the race has been dramatic enough... [read more >>] PostworkShop Artist Edition is a post processing product for your images. It is designed as an image manipulation instrument, easy to use by both novices and professional users. Graphic designers and photographers can use it to apply a slew of effects and styles to transform images into digital artistry. Artist Edition is one of the three editions of PostworkShop available from Xycod, and comes for the price of $49. The set of features it sports is not the richest, but it comes close to the pro version of the application, since the only differences consist in the lack of a 64-bit build, the plug in mod and batch processing video and animat... [read more >>] American McGee's Alice impressed a whole generation of gamers back in 2000, offering a gritty take on the popular fantasy tale written by Lewis Carroll. Now, 11 years later, a sequel has finally emerged, with McGee and his new studio, Spicy Horse, offering gamers Alice: Madness Returns.
Alice is once again thrown into her magical wonderland which, after being saved, just barely, at the end of the original, is now being destroyed by a giant train, ruining all the land and Alice's sanity along with it.
She must now descend back into an even darker and more twisted fantasy world, navigate its tricky environments, defeat many en... [read more >>] Agnitum is better known for its firewall rather than anti-malware protection. With the recent release of a new product line, our focus shifted towards Outpost Security Suite Pro, the protection bundle which encompasses all the layers of protection developed by the company. The price of this hefty suite is regularly set at $49.95, but the company is currently offering it for as low as $29.95 for one year of protection and updates. Getting it on the system is not difficult task, but it does take some time for everything to fall in place restarting the machine is imminent at the end. During the process you will be asked to choose one of the ... [read more >>] Activision has long been pigeonholed as the company that relies on two big franchises, Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, to sustain its business, while also launching small forays into the establishment of other franchises only to retreat when the public failed to become enamored with them.The Transformers license could have been a chance for Activision to establish a gaming franchise that could have rivaled the movie series, run by Michael Bay, in terms of sales success.Unfortunately, the publisher chose to build rushed and cheap movie tie-ins instead of unleashing a talented team of developers on the universe and allowing them to come up... [read more >>] J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series has been staple of the last decade, as was the movie franchise that appeared in theaters around the world, but, unfortunately, the video games based on them haven't exactly found their audience.
Now, with the last installment of the movie hitting cinemas across the world, in the form of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Electronic Arts, together with its Bright Light studio, decided to release one last hurrah in terms of Harry Potter video games, bearing the same name and released this week for a variety of platforms, including the PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii or D... [read more >>] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is no news for the majority of the users. The main benefit of this security tool, besides the obvious protection it provides, is that it can run along other anti-malware products, thus contributing to increased protection of your system. There are two editions of the app currently available, one free of charge, which targets non-commercial use and a paid product, slightly richer in options and features, at the price of $24.95. The value of this money resides in the fact that the Pro edition of the software comes with real-time and heuristic protection; it is also capable to block known and zero-day malicious web c... [read more >>] |