Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) has been launched by Canonical, and from what we can tell so far, this is the best one yet.
We have gotten used to receiving small doses of Ubuntu every six months. The visual changes aren’t significant from one version to another (with the exception of Unity), but if we compare 11.04 with 13.04, they seem to be completely differen… (read more)
Banshee is a music player with an old history. It left its mark on the open source community by showing that different concepts could work for the same kind of software.
As you can imagine, there are quite a few music players available for Linux. Most of them will offer a standard number of functionalities, but a small part of them are actually better than… (read more)
Gamers have a real clear understanding of what a game should be like, and most of the time it’s all about a gimmick in gameplay separate titles in the same genre. We would like to say that Kentucky Route Zero is a point-and-click adventure, but the truth is it’s so much more than an adventure.
Older gamers will remember that there wa… (read more)
SMPlayer is just one of the many media players available on the Linux platform, but it’s also the member of a very exclusive club of applications that distinguish themselves from the rest by providing everything a user might need.
Just like most players, SMPlayer is actually just a front-end for Mplayer. This doesn’t mean that the developer, Ricardo Villalba, … (read more)
Deluge is a BitTorrent client developed for multiple platforms, which provides full functionality and comes with a vast array of plugins that extend its uses.
It’s not clear why, but Deluge has lost some of its fans along the way, in favor of other similar solutions. The reasons are not apparent because this is an excellent client and it deserv… (read more)
Serious Sam 3: BFE is probably the only worthy remnant of a golden era of gaming, showing people all over the world how things were done and why today’s games are heading on the wrong path.
Somewhere along the line games ceased to be just pure entertainment, and tried to become much more.
The change was gradual and everyone thou… (read more)
Closure is an indie game, developed by the Eyebrow Interactive studio, that is good at doing one thing, and that is showing why we like indie games in the first place.
The indie game industry is now booming and more independent studios are making their mark on the gaming community. The rise of Internet 2.0 offered an unexpected helping hand for the develope… (read more)
Shank 2 is a beat ’em up 2D platformer that aims to combine modern technology and concepts with a genre that populated the arcade more than 20 years ago.
This type of gameplay was really big, back in the nineties, but when 3D really kicked in, games such as Streets of Rage and Final Fight lost their appeal.
There wasn’t anything wrong wi… (read more)