Gaming

If you think Microsoft's under-development motion sensing technology Project Natal is cool and would like to do something similar right now, here is some outright geeky stuff for you - a free Windows utility which lets you control any game using any object of your choice tracked via your webcam, not convinced check out the video.

If you are willing to try highly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, here is a chance to grab a fully-functional 10 days trial account for getting the feel of the popular game title without paying anything, to benefit simply follow the link provided at the end of the post for grabbing the demo account.

After a long-wait of six years Rockstar games has announced the sequel of popular game franchise Max Payne, the upcoming game title Max Payne 3 is scheduled to be released in Winter 2009 on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3 platforms.

The sequel features a new chapter in games main character detective Max Payne life, Max Payne is now a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever.

As expected, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta is now out in the wild and available for download on bittorrent sites and will soon make its way to popular file-hosting and sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and Mediafire, the BETA preview is meant for developers and need an iPhone 3G registered as a developer handset to work, which means you need to pay $99 to Apple for an Developer account to test this out, if you upgrade without the developer registered iPhone you will get locked on the emergency screen, as already confirmed by the iPhone Dev Team this latest release is jailbrekable on all devices and a custom IPSW is expected to be released soon which might get installed on non-developer registered iPhones.

If you follow technology news you should have got surprised reading the article title because there is no official DirectX 11 for Windows XP or Vista as of now, Microsoft DirectX 11 (6.01.7000.0000) will be made available on Windows 7 and Windows Vista when officially released in coming months, but virus creators have hoped onto the opportunity and started taking advantage of gamers curiosity to install the latest version of DirectX by posting fake trojan infected DirectX 11 links on blogs and forums, these so called DirectX 11 For Windows XP and Vista installer contained Trojans created in perl scripts which got detected by only three lesser known anti-virus scanners on VirusTotal out of total 39.

You must have enjoyed 3D movies using special glasses, now a new technology promises the same 3-Dimensional experience for games on PC, popular game series Burnout Paradise would be the first game to release its 3D game version, here is a video report by SkyNews.

After news about Need For Speed : World Online being available for free, here is another good news for you, popular game title Quake is now available online as a free ad-supported browser based game, Developed by ID Software Quake Live will work with Firefox and IE on Windows for now with support for Mac and Linux planned in future, Quake Live will feature full 3D graphics having over 25 maps and 4 game modes during the BETA.

To play, users are required to get registered and install a small add-on, the online version of the popular franchise is pulling huge crowd attracting over 110,000 player accounts in first 6 hours of launch, due to heavy demand a queue system is now in-place to let everyone enjoy the game.

Popular game franchise Need for Speed is all set to make its entry into Play 4 Free online action racing game arena with its upcoming game release - Need for Speed: World Online, the game co-developed by EA Black Box and EA Singapore will provide Need for Speed fans with most licensed cars, parts and game modes ever in the games history.

NFS World Online - the massively multiplayer online game will be a free to play game for PC featuring different road scenarios with options for selecting your online game playing character.

No matter how hard digital content developers try to make their protection algorithms unbreakable, crackers always tend to get one step ahead breaking it, the newest example would be the highly waited crack for GTA IV PC, after a series of fake and non-working cracks and activation hacks, crack from LOBO is being reported to work fine, although having some serious bugs causing crashes during cut-scenes, which can be avoided by simply bypassing the scenes.

As expected GTA IV : PC version is now released, and as usual untouched CLONE-DVD images of the original game got leaked on BitTorrent portals, thousands of users are now in the leeching queue to download the game, However, no working crack or activation hack seem to exist now for using the pirated copies of the game.

Released as two massively sized DVD's totaling 13.85 GB, GTA IV for PC is protected by SecuROM DRM.