Features - Games

Xbox 360 Game Review - Star Wars - The Force Unleashed
By Vince M. Stevens

Star Wars games have made countless appearances on home consoles and arcades in the last thirty years. They've been of various qualities, from the amazing Rebel Assault 2 and Jedi Knight to the rather terrible last gen games based off the new license. Is Unleashed one of the duds or is it actually worth the purchase?

First things first. Unleashed is really only enjoyable if you're a Star Wars fan. Unlike previous original XBOX games like Knights of the old republic and Battlegrounds which were serviceable games in their own rights, Unleashed really does only work as a Star Wars game designed for the Star Wars fans. You can't really fault the game for that, but it's worth noting.

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Features - Games

Civilization Revolution
By Chris Ingram

Civilization has always been one of the greatest RTS series on the PC. Over the years it's become a trend to port PC titles to console titles to try to replicate their success. This usually fails horribly, cough cough sputter sputter...Supreme Commander.

This is due usually to design issues; pc titles are often hand crafted for the pc. So Sid Meier the creator of Civilization, being the genius he is decided to rebuild his baby for the console loving generation. Thus Civilization Revolution was born. Civilization Revolution plays the normal Civilization card; you pick a civilization headed by a historical figure. The Egyptians have Cleopatra; the French have Napoleon, the good old Americans have Honest Abe, and so on and so forth. All the civilizations have their own perks. They're all extremely stereotypical; the Chinese come booming with technology as the Egyptians come stuffed full of culture. The object of the game is to complete one of the 4 conditions of victory. These conditions include an economic victory in which you amass more wealth than everyone; a technological victory is when your civilization goes into outer space first, a cultural victory is when your civilization produces enough culture to convert a number of cities or luring the maximum number of Great Persons, and lastly and least likely is total domination, in which you can probably guess what happens here, the capture of every capitol city. The down side to this variety of victories is that you're subject to all of them every round. There's no way to select a specific match type, which would have been an obvious choice if this was play tested enough but apparently it wasn't, so good luck. All areas of study, whether it be cultural or technological have their own advantages and disadvantages. A very cultural society can convert uncivilized societies to join their nation but typically your armies would be rather weak.

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Features - Mobile

Opera Mini - The Undisputed King of Mobile Browsers
By Anushil Nandan

Mobile browsers also referred to as mini-browsers or micro-browsers are web browsers designed specifically to be used on mobile phones or PDAs. They are optimized to display internet content effectively on small screen of portable or handled devices. Generally they are stripped down version of their desktop counterpart, but the features required from these browsers are steep; like they should use low memory capacity and low bandwidth of wireless handheld devices.

There are many mobile browsers in market today like internet explorer mobile by Microsoft, android browser by Google and blackberry browser by Research in Motion but opera mini (web based browser provided by opera) is the best web browser Smartphone device market has seen yet. So what makes opera mini undisputed king of mobile browsing? Let's find out:

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