Declare Independence from Slow Wi-Fi with This Discounted AC Router
The deals don't stop just because it's a holiday, and today's best is this powerful 802.11 AC router from ASUS, on sale today for $40 off.
Can Your Network Handle The "Optimal" Xbox One Experience?
Along with today's clarification of the online requirements of the Xbox One, Microsoft also gave us an internet speed target: "For an optimal experience, we recommend a broadband connection of 1.5Mbps." That doesn't seem unreasonable. Let's see how we do!
This Magic Box Transforms Your Electrical Outlets into Internet…
Over the course of several years I've painstakingly migrated all of my gaming and electronics equipment into a single area, an impassable tangle of wires and blinking lights, all in the name of making sure I had a stable, wired connection at all times. Once I got everything just right, Diamond Multimedia sent me the…
Indie Fighting Game Skullgirls Beats Lag With GGPO
The all-girl brawler Skullgirls will fight for lag-free online battles with the implementation of latency-hiding tech GGPO, which enables the play of classic, old-school fighting games over the internet. Developer Reverge Labs officially announced that Skullgirls would be the first commercial fighting game to use GGPO…
How to Ditch Slow Wireless Speeds and Go Completely Wired in Your Home…
Wi-Fi provides a convenient way to connect the computers in your home without the hassle of wires, but Wi-Fi is also slow and unreliable compared to a wired connection. Here's how to go wired where it counts. [Lifehacker]
Twitter Zombies To Death On Your iPhone
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Experience the thrill of social networking and casual gaming convergence with Tweet Defense, an iPhone zombie tower defense title that boosts your units' power based on your Twitter activity.
What Went Wrong With Demigod
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Stardock CEO Brad Wardell exhaustively details the whys and hows behind Demigod's crippling networking issues in a blog post aptly titled "Demigod: So what the hell happened?"
Need a Jorb? 2K Boston's Recruiting Hard at GDC
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2K Boston, the house behind Bioshock, hits SF and the GDC this week looking for talent to help them with "their biggest and most ambitious project yet." Dozens of openings are promised.
Castle Crashers Beset By Problems, Patch On The Way
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