Jason Wilson - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 26/08/2011 Wing Commander 1 & 2, Dungeon Keeper 2 hit Good Old Games

The two Wing Commander games come together for US$5.99. These are the really old-school Wing Commander games, before Mark Hamill, Malcolm MacDonald, a...

Article | 9/03/2011 Dragon Age II

Many hold BioWare as the pinnacle of role-playing game design. They've crafted masterpieces in both licensed worlds (Baldur's Gate II, Star Wars: Knig...

Article | 22/10/2010 Server attack disrupts Minecraft

On his blog, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson explained that an attack on the server is the cause of the game's multiplayer being unavailable,...

Article | 8/10/2010 World of Warcraft subscribers hit 12 million

What do you get when you lump together the populations of Kuwait, Ireland, and Singapore (besides some very confused people and a possibly tasty potat...

Article | 1/10/2010 Beyond Good & Evil HD announced

Ubisoft announced Thursday that it's bringing back one of the treasured titles from its back catalog with Beyond Good & Evil HD for the PlayStation Ne...

Article | 16/09/2010 Xbox 360-only epilogue for Dead Rising 2

Capcom revealed an Xbox 360-exclusive prologue for the upcoming Dead Rising 2 and is also buying its developer, Blue Castle Games of Vancouver, report...

Article | 7/06/2010 Star Wars video games: A visual history

Star Wars is the most prolific franchise in gaming history. Its games -- 88 if you include each expansion and arcade game -- appear on every console a...

Article | 9/12/2009 Torchlight

The French have a term known as "amuse-bouche" which literally translates into "mouth amuser." It's used to describe a well-composed morsel which is s...

Article | 22/08/2007 Linksys WAG325N

Looking like a detached component of the USS Enterprise, the Linksys WAG325N is not a pretty sight, but as a wireless ADSL2+ router/modem it does a de...

Article | 21/08/2007 DLink DSL-2740B

If it's speed you're after -- be it wireless networking or ADSL2+ -- you'll want to take a look at this router/modem from D-Link. Outperforming all th...

Article | 21/08/2007 TP-Link TD-8840

If you want a no frills ADSL2+ modem without many -- if any -- bells and whistles, the TP-Link TD-8840 could be just what you're looking for. Also act...

Article | 30/05/2007 Bucks for blogging

Blogging is more popular than ever. We all have personal opinions, and now you can get paid to have your say.

Article | 30/05/2007 Look into my Spry

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 comes with some handy new scripting tools called Spry and this month we take a closer look at how to create dynamic content usin...

Article | 30/05/2007 Show me the money

PC World recently went to a "live hacking" event where representatives from a leading Australian software security firm showed how "easy" it can be to...

Article | 10/04/2007 Broadband for all

Everyone has an idea on how to roll out the national broadband scheme, but who's promising what?