IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Preview: If You Think Planes Are Beautiful [Preview]
Never mind, for a moment, how this game plays — though I will tell you. Check out how it looks. IL-2 Sturmovik, the 2001 PC original, was for the hardcore. Not the Mario-loving hardcore. Not the GTA-loving hardcore. Not the people who memorize JRPG scripts. No, the hardcore of World War II combat flight-sim lovers. [...]
How to Use Time Machine Backups on Windows Home Server (or Any Networked Storage) [Time Machine]
One of the lame things about Time Machine is that backups over the network are only officially supported on Time Capsule. Luckily, even if you don’t have one of HP’s Time Machine-compatible Home Servers, you can make it work. Brent Freidman lays out exactly how to get Time Machine backups to work with any Windows [...]
One Weird Wii Control Scheme [Wii]
Imagine, if you will, a flying game called Sky Crawlers controlled by Wii remote and nunchuck. Guess the control scheme. You probably guessed wrong. To control an airplane in a Wii game, I have held the Wii Remote like a paper airplane. I have held it like a flashlight, dipping and raising it to orient [...]
