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    by Published on 02-06-2010
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    I feel like I'm spoiling my users with all these free gifts, but nonetheless, there is a week before Valentines Day and Chinese New Years and they both occur on the same day and free prizes are practically a must for such an occasion. I am moving away from flash carts again this time, giving away 3 computer games, and hopefully the turnout will be better than the last. For this giveaway, the three prizes will be: CounterStrike Source, Shattered Horizon and AudioSurf. There are three chances to win, they are all good games, and AudioSurf is not demanding at all. I know there were people who were a little disappointed with the last giveaway, so if you have any complaints, feel free to let me know in your entry or in a private message somewhere, I am still not sure if giving away different prizes is a good idea. ...

    by Published on 01-01-2010
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    If you have never heard of Pocky, you must have been living under a rock… on Mars. Pocky is a snack you can find in most Asian stores here in Vancouver, Canada. They are delicious biscuit sticks covered with a variety of flavors such as chocolate and strawberry. The most popular flavor has to be chocolate since most stores only stock chocolate flavored Pocky, which is why I chose it for this review. Enough with the introduction, most of us have had Pocky before. And most of us have wondered what monstrosity lies within that GIANT POCKY BOX we see in stores…



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    by Published on 01-15-2010
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    I bought this game on the Steam Holiday Sale for $5, and it is a surprisingly good game. It is sort of odd that the last I heard about any successful Total War game was Rome: Total War, while games such as Napoleon Total War remain rather unknown (or at least for me).



    Quite honestly, I remember ditching Rome Total War completely because I didn't play the campaign. I simply ran the Quick B ...

    by Published on 01-22-2010
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    Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars is finally now on the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game has already been on the Nintendo DS for awhile and the Playstation Portable. Most people right now are wondering if the Graphics are as good as the PSP or as good as the DS, others are wondering about the controls, and some others just want to know if this title kept the features that the DS & PSP one had or added new features. This is my first Blog post on DSdatabase and my first review of a game, this is a quick first impression of the Chinatown Wars game and I will be comparing it to the DS and PSP version a little. Unfortunately the game does not work on the iPod Touch 1st Generation and you firmware must be 3.1 or higher.
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    by Published on 01-17-2010
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    can't read that, it says "Brian Virus Attacks!"

    Over the weekend, I've been sending my friends some .exe files as pranks that shut down your computer. It displays "Brian Virus Activated", spits out a bunch of random numbers, and then forces a computer shut down.

    How does it work? The .exe is really a .bat file in disguise. A .bat file is known as a batch file, which is like writing a really simple program in command prompt. If you've ever coded before, batch files are extremely easy to make. All they do is run the commands top to bottom. The .bat file is then converted to an .exe, which I'll talk about later. It is completely harmless, but you can make it really powerful and do things like format the drive. I won't teach you that, because that's just cruel.

    Unfortunately, this is windows only and it requires administrative privileges.
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