When I think PC gaming, two brands come to mind: Alienware and Commodore. Alienware, of course, represents the raw, unbridled face of contemporary gaming; a machine with enough graphical might to manage Crysis and Far Cry 2. Commodore, on the other hand, was the videogame posterboy in its day, a glorified game console that doubled [...]

File this one under “it’s a damned shame” category: iPhone developer Manomio has crafted what appears to be the mother of all mobile Commodore 64  emulators – – the appropriately named Commodore 64 for iPhone – – only to have Apple shut the door, lock it, and turn out the lights. The app, which has [...]

Remember the days of yore when,  before the advent of that fancy-schmancy Windows, owning a computer meant that anyone with a little gumption could put on their  uber-nerd hat and program a low-end rip-off of the most popular game of the day? Truly, those were the wonder years. But thanks to Makershed, those days may [...]