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...president of Game Pro Magazine, Chu Chu Rocket ($29.99 from Sega) has even the Quake fanatics at the magazine hooked. Here at TIME, we're digging the new Shogun: Total War ($39.95 from Electronic Arts), which is more about strategy than swordfighting. As always, a family should keep its PC and gaming console in a public place in the home and pay close attention to the games that command the kids' attention. Recently, I had Sunday dinner at a friend's house, and our combined families had a blast helping her 14-year-old son play Driver ($39.99 from Sony...
Microsoft has been a great stock to own for more than a decade. Yet it's always been a tricky one to buy. Early on, it was just another speculative tech stock. As the company came to dominate the PC world, its stock rose so swiftly that it seemed perpetually overvalued. Waiting for a pullback was torture. By the time the stock finally dipped, it had already doubled--again. And you were too late--again...
...haven't tried the airport service yet, so I don't know if there are other, hidden hells involved in connecting to a public, commercial wireless network. I did, however, set up one of the new generation of wireless networks. I used the Dell 4800LT Wireless PC Card ($139) for my laptop and the corresponding PCI Card ($179) for my desktop. Compaq, 3Com, Lucent and others also have Wi-Fi-compatible setups comparable to Dell's, which range in price from $100 to $300 per card...
...last time I tried to set up a wireless network at home, both my PC and, worse, my wife's crashed. The technology, happily, is much improved. Dell's system comes with a CD-ROM that has a video-based setup tutorial that, among other things, explains--as well as shows--how to put a PCI card into your desktop machine. Once installed, the network performed smoothly and without glitches. I can't wait to start using it at the coffee shop...
TETRIS OF TITANS Talk about your big game. Last week students at Brown University turned one wall of the university's 14-story Sciences Library into a giant outdoor version of the popular video game Tetris. Powered by an ordinary PC running Linux, the installation uses 10,000 Christmas lights. It took the 30 residents of Tech House, a dorm for nerdy types, more than five months of planning, programming, hammering, soldering and debugging to put it all together. Even so, it's not the largest Tetris game of all time. Back in 1995, students at Delft University of Technology...