Games Cheats and Reviews

The wait for Garry’s Mod on Macs shouldn’t be much longer. Over on Garry’s Blog (via Big Download), a new post reveals that the game “works,” but that it still has some bugs that need to be fixed first.

Garry’s Mod is a physics sandbox game using the Source engine where you don’t really have any goal but to just have fun. You can create all sorts of crazy contraptions or, if you’re not great at construction, you can just “place a variety of characters in silly positions.” It doesn’t take long on YouTube (as evidenced above) to find some of the incredible things that people have managed to create with the game.

A prior blog post notes, “Let me just say how impressed I am with how easy the Source engine has made this process. The one thing I was dreading with this was re-writing our shaders. Turns out we don’t have to do that — it’s AUTOMATIC.”

Green tea is popular yummy drink, but it is also packed with all sorts of nutritional benefits. It almost feels like the more we discover about it the more we want to research it to learn the other advantages it may provide. This list of benefits is pretty strong, but there is a lot of continuing research working to solidify many of the claims. But the more I read about it the more I am persuaded that I need to discover additional ways to get more green tea into my daily habits.

in some cases people feel they are not able to consume enough green tea on a daily basis required to achieve the benefits it provides. This is why many people have started taking green tea supplements. Green tea supplements usually have standardized amounts of EGCG, the powerhouse antioxidant said to supply most of the nutritional benefits of green tea. Because it’s concentrated it’s simple to get many of the benefits of drinking a couple cups of green tea in pill form.

Mega green tea pills are also popular because of their potential ability to help with dieting. While there is evidence that green tea can aid somewhat increase metabolism and help with thermogenesis (burning fat), mega green tea pills on their own will not help you suddenly shed pounds. But when used along with a sensible diet and exercise regiment. Green tea supplements will help provide you a boost and they should help you with your dieting efforts.

In case you are apprehensive about the level of caffeine in green tea pills it’s good to realize you can get these supplements in decaffeinated form. But some argue the caffeine works in a synergistic way with the other components in green tea to help create some of the health benefits.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that I am not a medical doctor and you should always consult a medical professional before taking any medical suggestions from the Internet.

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Rewind your mind a few years into the past and what you’ll find is a gaming market dominated mainly by three companies, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. Mobile phone games were invisible in terms of market share, they hardly made a dent. But a revolution happened with the iPhone where people started purchasing all sorts of games for their device and because of it, Apple’s share has increased fives times over in just one year. Even beating out the PSP.

There have been all sorts of complaints levelled against the Microsoft Points system since it was launched on Xbox Live, though it may be that the system may be done away with altogether following reports of a lawsuit being filed against the company.

AllAboutiPhone’s Matt Radford writes: "This little tidbit came to me along the grapevine. I have it on very good authority that Bungie is handing out free iPhones to all its employees. Why would the company behind Halo be giving them away to their staff?

"I’ll bet there are all sorts of excellent freebies to be had working for Bungie. However, I’m sure that this move is more than just generosity on the part of the company, and that they are going to develop titles for the iPhone."

Touted by developer Pencel Games as “the most fun you can have with gerbils whilst still being legal,” Gerbil Physics is here. What’s not to like about a game with that as the tagline? This hidden gem is a whopping 80 MSFT points, making it a dollar. Plus, you get to use all sorts of equipment, including bombs, ropes, and the “Iron Gerbils” to destroy buildings made of gerbils across 24 levels and make style points along the way.

Pencel Games are a London-based team comprised of three independent game developers focused on making unique and compelling games. We like that. Go see them at  www.pencelgames.com.

NVIDIA has been releasing all sorts of GeForce GF100 Fermi video cards facts on Facebook and Twitter for the past month. Tonight they just posted up that the GF100 supports a brand new 32x anti-aliasing mode for ultra high-quality gaming

Baxy-Z have been tipped off that the ever growing and popular streaming music service, Spotify, will be heading to "next gen consoles".

"Since Spotify has really propelled into the industry and successfully launched on all sorts of platforms, I thought it’d be best to let you know that we have something in the works for the next gen consoles", said our tipster. "We’ve been working on it for some time now and we can’t wait to reveal it to you guys!"

How would you feel about Spotify hitting your favourite console?

Even before Forza 3 was released, it was expected to sell well. The tour de force sequel simply had more of everything that made the first game good, as well as Turn 10’s hard work to create something that was far beyond what had ever been seen from a racing game on the Xbox 360. In reviews of Forza 3, the game has been scoring at the highest levels and has been winning all sorts of awards.

In the latest format war, Sony won out.  Blu-ray trumped HD-DVD  –  for all sorts of potential reasons that we won’t go into right now.  Since then, rumors of blu-ray features on the Xbox 360 have never quite gone away.  And today, blindsiding just about everyone in the business, a video emerged over on Gizmodo which showed Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, seemingly confirming blu-ray on the 360.

Saying that blu-ray would appear at some point as an accessory (but not in the 360) was rather surprising.  Head over to Gizmodo to see the full story, if you wish.  We’ll be sure to bring you any further developments on this latest twist in the HD format saga.