Assassin's Creed 3 Boston Teaparty

Here's some Assassin's Creed 3 Boston Teaparty action from Jessica Chobot and the folks at G4

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for Halloween this year, here's our favorite smart little witch

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Make Windows 8 look like Windows again

Windows 8 is almost here and, with it, the smartphone style interface. On a desktop? Seriously? if you're like us, you hate the phone style interface. Oh, and they changed Windows Explorer, too. No more nice, clean "look at my files on my hard drive". If you want to go back to the good old windows 7 style interface, the one you're used to, the one that actually looks like the Windows you've known since Windows 95, desktop and all, use this free utility. The nice thing about this is you can switch back and forth, so if you ever want your PC to look like a phone, you can go back. But really, why would you?

Windows 8 Metro UI Switcher

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Assassin's Creed 3 in Boston

A major part of Assassin's Creed 3 takes place in our home town of Boston. Here's some of the action taking place around town a few hundred years ago.

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Google Shopping Bad for Small Business

Okay, this is not my usual topic of pc gaming, but Google just converted Google Product Search, which allowed you to list your products for free, to Google Shopping, which uses the same format but now costs money per click. So Google sticks it to the little guy again. Now they say they did this to get more quality ads, but this just doesn't ring true. Small businesses created quality ads and spent more time on them than the deep pocket big guys because that's how we compete.

If you are up against a more powerful opponent, you have to compete with smarts and guile. I know that's what we did. And we consistently outperformed our bigger competitors because we @ Psychsoftpc paid attention to detail and created better product descriptions. Products being offered by a Fortune 500 company or a small business all showed equally under the old system. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. We were playing on a level playing field for once and could compete on quality not on who has the most money. I'm sure that other small businesses did the same.

Now all that's changed. With a pay per click system, our ads just won't get shown unless we pony up the dough. And of course, we can get outspent by our richer competitors. For example, Google showed that for some of our products, our gaming computers or graphics workstations, to show, I would have to bid $4.00 per click!! So the statement that ads would show based on quality not necessarily cost per click is wrong. The deeper the pockets, the more your ads will show and the better position it will have. Let's face it, the big guys don't have the time or desire to put great effort into creating better quality ads, and now they don't have to. They can just outspend us little guys and dominate Google like they do for other Google ads.

I know a lot of small businesses depended on Google Product search to attract customers. It was free, a level playing field with the big guys and dependent on quality not on how much you could spend. Google Shopping is going to cost small businesses everywhere in revenue, customers and, if they wish to continue having their products continue to display in Google Shopping, advertising money. And it turns out pay per click is only the beginning. Google intends to implement a percentage based system. That's right, Google will collect a percentage of every product sold as a result of a Google Shopping search. With margins so tight, who can afford that? The big guys of course!

Well, enough rants on Google Shopping for now. I promise to get back to gaming next time.

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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut Endings

By now, you probably know how I feel about the endings in Mass defect er, sorry, Mass Effect 3. They sucked. Too many plot holes, too many unanswered questions and Shepard sacrificing herself at the end. Well, frankly I was and still am in no mood to kill off the greatest hero of the galaxy at the say so of little ghost boy. People lie and I don't trust anything that takes the form of a child to be more believable. So, I refuse to finish the game. My Shepard is happily on the Normandy with her crew, occasionally visiting her favorite stores on the Citadel. Shepard lives!

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Anyway, if you're like me, you are curious about the "extended cut" endings. Let me tell you, I still think they suck, just, as my friend Steve Jobs once said, they suck less. but don't take my word for it. Go ahead and see for yourself. Here they are in all there sucky glory so you don't have to finish the game and kill off Commander Shepard to see them. So, watch the videos and let her stay on board the Normandy.

Control Ending



Synthesis Ending



Destroy Ending




Do Nothing Ending or the "slap to the face of the fan base" ending, as I'm calling it.



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Assassin's Creed 3

Well, here is the assassin's creed 3 trailer. This game is set in colonial US and adds sea battles. Hasn't there been way more than 3 of these games already? anyway here is the trailer.

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