What is OGame?

How to Play?
Players start randomly with an undeveloped world and try to turn it into a mighty empire. At the beginning players create an economic and military infrastructure to support their quest for the next greatest technological achievements. There are always 163 fields in the first planet. Players can get other planets (up to 9) as well. In order to do this, players should develop their planets. There are five resources for development: metal, crystal, deuterium, energy and dark matter. In order to get this resources players need to mine or trade. As there are thousands of players who are online, players have the chance to set alliances and protect each other from the attacks and also to attack other planets. Players are also able to make free trades among the members of the alliances. Like most of the other browser games players can have some advantages over the other players by paying some money. This is called “purchased effects” in OGame. When you pay, you get Dark Matter, which lets you use purchased effects. Commander is another important thing in the game; you can have improved functionality and also an improved user interface. Players also have “Empire View” which gives the players chance to see the other players’ planets in detail such as: ships, resources, defenses and energy. Commander also lets players to have message filters, shortcuts, an improved galaxy view and improved commands which could help players to score better. “Officers” is another pay-to-play option in OGame. It gives players advantage in the game. There are four types of officers:

1. Fleet Admiral increases maximum fleet slot by 2.
2. Engineer reduces the losses of defensive structure during an attack by half and it also gives 10% more energy to the player.
3. Geologist, as clear by the name, increases metal mine crystal mine and deuterium synthesizer production.
4. Technocrat increases the espionage level which is very useful for the players.

OGame pay-to play options, especially “Officers” option was a debate for a long time among the players. Because players thought Ogame would not break the promise for not making a pay-to-play option. Whatever happens, players keep playing it. There are thousands of addicted OGame players, who spend hours in front of their computers. Player forums may give you detailed information about the game. You can have the opinions of the experienced OGame players and learn some tips. It is fun to play but you have to be careful in case you become an addicted. Have fun!

In 2001, the decision was taken about where 2008 Summer Olympic Games will be held. Beijing was chosen. Since then, preparations have been continuing. The Olympic torch has been going around nearly 130 days in the world. It visited more than 20 countries and 100 cities.

Teams and Sports
Being an international organization, 2008 Olympic Games will host approximately 10.500 athletes. There are 28 sport branches and 302 events will be held.

Participating countries include Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kenya, South Korea, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania,  Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and many other ones from all over the world.

There will be contests of 28 sport branches. These sports are diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, football, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon,  rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.

Broadcasting of Beijing Olympic Games
The latest news of Beijing Olympic Games can be followed from the official website. If you can go and watch the games there, it is the best, but if you can not, there is no option except from watching it on TV. Beijing confirmed to give any permission to the media for broadcasting. Up to now, some minor problems occurred. However, the games will be broadcasted via TV channels all around the world.

Renewal in the City Beijing for Olympics
Olympics is a great organization. It requires easy transportation, suitable sport centers, stadiums, pools, areas, accommodation places… After being selected as hosting city of games, Beijing experienced a great renewal in the whole parts of the city.

First of all, new venues were constructed. For training and games, these venues including national stadium, aquatic centers, sport centers were built. For accommodation of participants Beijing Olympic Village was built.

Visit official web page of 2008 Summer Olympics

uTorrent was written in the program language C++, combining high and low level of program languages. It was released in 2005; everything began with a small BitTorrent Client. The program was developed, after coding process, the program was released, and the developer of uTorrent is Ludvig Strigeus. After that, it was received good reviews and Strigeus was supported to develop it more and more. In 2006, BitTorrent Inc. bought uTorrent, and the company is developing uTorrent along with the ideas and helps of Ludvig Strigeus.

Features of uTorrent
uTorrent is preferred widely when compared with other similar programs due to its size, it was 77kb when it was released, and now its latest version is 214 kb, the computer users like the program which does not keep a big space, so it is favorite of people.

Installation and usage processes are not complicated, just follow the steps. While searching, uTorrent opens a new page every time, showing you the all results. There are categories, from pictures to movies, this makes the process easier, select one of them, examine the general information, read comments, and report a problem if there is, then if you think everything is ok, you can download and enjoy it.

uTorrent is faster than many other programs, if there are enough seeders, you can download even a big file in a few hours, so seeding is important. If you set up uTorrent on your computer, there is a file named “downloads”, you receive the files there and from there you can share the files with other people, this is the system of uTorrent.

If you need subtitle for a file you downloaded, the options are available along with your search, and there are subtitles in nearly every language. In addition to that, the program uTorrent is also available in different languages, if you want to use it in your own language, you can do that.

A feature what makes uTorrent nice is that, generally there is a sample file with the file you will download. Before downloading the entire file, first you can download the sample and you can examine the quality, the sound, image, everything you want, if you do not like it, you are free to download some other one.

Try to download popular trackers’ files, it is not common but sometimes, a file can turn out to be something very different than you expected, so before downloading keep that in mind. If such a problem occurs, report it.

All the files in uTorrent can be opened with different programs, for instance; a movie can be watched in different programs, so when you could not open a file, try other programs. Some uTorrent files have suitable codes, programs along with the file you downloaded, just set up them and watch, listen whatever you want.

Visit the official web page of uTorrent

Nintendo Wii: Feel The Game!

Wii is released on 17 November 2006. The console would first be called as “Revolution” but later on the name was changed because it might be difficult to pronounce in some cultures and the current name “Wii” is easy to remember. Two “i” characters are meant to resemble to people standing side by side and represents people that get together. In 2006, Wii won its first award, Game Critics Award for Best of Show and Best of Hardware and then awards kept coming. Wii, was also chosen as one of the 20 most innovative products of the year by PC World magazine. Wii makes games more attractive such as the classical game Super Mario. The new game is called Super Paper Mario and it is a 3-D game, which promises more fun. Red Steel is another attractive arcade game designed for Nintendo Wii.

You can use the Wii remote as a gun or as a sword in the game. It looks that Wii is going to be an icon among the other video game consoles. It can also connect to the Internet and has Wi-Fi Connection (WFC) which is an online service provided by Nintendo in order to enable free internet play among the players. WFC service is totally free and it is said that it will remain free, but there will be some other services that the players will have to pay if they want to use.

Advance Wars: Day of Ruin, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Bomberman Land Touch, Final Fantasy III, Need For Speed : Pro Street, Ultimate Mortal Kombat, World Soccer Winning Eleven series and Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) are just some of the games that can be played through WFC service. Some of them are also downloadable through WFC. There is also an official internet site for Wii players. Nintendo provides parental controls in case of any unsuitable content for the children and it also blocks internet access when needed.

Nintendo keeps developing its game consoles but this one, Wii is probably the best of all among the other products of Nintendo and there will not be a need for a better Nintendo video game console for years and the sales seem to prove that. In the first half of 2007, Nintendo was sold more than Sony Play station 3 in United States and the demand for Nintendo Wii keeps growing day by day. It seems that other companies should work harder to beat Nintendo Wii’s success and develop the video game consoles further than we might imagine.

SPORT: Play Handball

Modern handball has been developed from some similar games at the end of 19th century.  These games were played by Central and Northern European people in 19th century. Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Norway began to dominate in the international sphere.

Chronology of Handball
- In 1890s Konrad Koch developed an outdoor game similar to modern team handball.

- In 1908 The first handball rule book was published.

- In 1912 Field Handball was spread in all over the world.

- In 1926 Standard International Rules were established.

- In 1928 International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) was established by the representative from 10 countries. This Federation became the resent International Handball Federation. The first president of International Handball Federation was Avery Brundage.

- In 1932 the game was a demonstration sport at the Olympics.

- In 1938 the first Handball Field Championship was played in Germany.

- In 1940s Indoor Handball was invented in Denmark.

- In 1946 eight founder nations; Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland established The International Handball Federation (IHF).

- In 1952 the Amateur Handball Union was established in USA.

- In 1953 U.S. Handball Association was established.

- In 1954 the first IHF Men’s Indoor World Championships were played.

- In 1957 the first Ladies Championships were won by Czechoslovakia.

- In 1959 the USHA (United States Handball Association) held its first handball tournament.

- In 1965 the Olympic Committee approved indoor handball for the Olympic Games.

- In the late1980s and early 1990s Algeria, Egypt, South Korea, China made an impact on the international competitions.

- 2008 Summer Olympics Handball Tournaments will be held from August 9 to August 24 at the Olympics Sport Centre Gymnasium.

These days, handball is an increasingly popular game all over the world. There are 1.130.000 handball teams and more than 31million handball players in the world.

How many types of handball do we have?

Irish Handball: It is the most popular handball of all. It is played with a hard handball and the court has four walls.

Beach Handball: This game is similar to team handball. However, it is not played in a hall. It is played on the sand. Two teams pass and bounce a ball trying to throw the ball in the goal of opposing team.

Team Handball: There are two teams and seven players in each team (six players and a goalkeeper) Throwing the ball in the goal of opposing team is the aim of the game.

Field Handball (outdoor handball or grass handball): It was the original form of team handball. The rules of the games are similar to team handball.

American Handball: Players hit a small rubber ball against a wall or more walls.

Are you addictive to video games?
In general no one accepts that s/he is addictive to video games, computer or internet. These are all parts of our modern lives, but this does not mean they all form our whole life! Accepting is the first step to solve this addiction problem. If you spend most of the day playing games, using computer and internet, if you do not have real friends or you are losing them, if your family complains about your behaviors, after spending many hours before computer does not disturb you but you have red eyes, headache you are addictive. Game or computer addictives can tell lie to continue playing, this activity becomes such an important part of them that they can not distinguish real life and the one in the games.

Things to do for Video Game Addiction
- Accept the addiction.

- Find other hobbies.

- Try to be more social.

- Distinguish what is real, what is not.

- Limit your playing time.

- Keep in mind that there is a certain time for everything, for resting, for sleeping, for playing etc.

- If you can not solve the problem by yourself, go to the psychologist.

- Do not follow every new game.

- It is a way to have fun, and it should stay like that!

- For serious cases, there are treatment centers, do not hesitate to go there.

- If you can not prevent yourself from playing games, use computer only for job, education or reaching information, after these, shut off it.

- Invite your friends, family members to your home, be busy with them.

- Whenever you exceed your limited playing time, find a punishment for yourself and perform it.

- Be aware of that the situation may become more and more dangerous.

- Prefer outside sports rather than inside ones, this keeps you away from computer, games, internet etc.

- There is official news saying that non stop and excessive video game playing caused deaths, keep that in mind in order to realize the significance of the situation.

- Your friends or family can warn you while you are playing game, listen to their advices.

- Write and stick notes on your computer or PS remembering that you should play video games “moderately”.

- Try to figure out what you can do instead of playing game for such a long time, you will see how much time it consumes.

- Be away from screen during your essential needs, addictives even eat before screen in order not to lose time, whenever you have the chance keep yourself away from screen.

- If you notice getting away from it becoming harder and harder, watch the real serious situations, read the ideas of psychologists.

- Finally keep that in mind, you have reason, not them, do not be slave of game!

What is a browser game?

What is Travian?
Travian is a browser game with thousand of players. You begin the game as a chief of a tiny village. Your aim is to grow quicker than the other players and have powerful soldiers and have control over the other players. In order to grow you need to develop your resource fields at first. Otherwise you will not be able to supply your people.

There are four different types of resource fields in this game: wood, clay, iron and crop. While developing your resource fields you need to train soldiers and get ready for enemies. If you build a cranny you will save your resources from the enemy raiders.

Before starting, you need to choose among these tribes: Romans, Teutons and Gauls. Each tribe has different features in the game in terms of soldiers and buildings. All you need to do is to grow and defence your village against your enemies.

Certainly, it is very hard to do it with one village and limited resources but you can have your allies and grow faster by getting help and helping your allies as well. Besides you can buy gold to grow faster. How can you grow faster with gold? With 5 golds you can increase your production 25 % or you can have 10 % attack point and defence point.

The process may be so slow for you, if you say you get bored waiting, there is an alternative way; 3x speed server. In 3x speed server, as it can be understood from the name, the process is 3 times faster, so you can grow faster. After you grow enough, you can build up another village or take control of resource areas. If you do not want to fight you might trade your resources.

Earn money with Travian
Travian serves 33 countries in their own language. People from all over the world have been playing this game; some of them even earn money. How do they do it? After playing a very long time and developing their village or villages and training soldiers, they sell their villages on the net. If you are interested, I wish you good luck.

Visit Browser game Travian

Four Saw films have been released by now. In the third film John Kramer, the Jigsaw, dies. After the death of the Jigsaw, fans did not expect a fourth film. But we have it and it is not ridiculous as people may think because the main character is dead. The fourth film begins with the autopsy of the Jigsaw, and the discovery of a cassette in Jigsaws’ stomach leaving a message for the detective saying that “the game has just begun” and that he has one more trap. The fourth film ends with what was in the beginning; we see the coexisting story along with the third movie. The fourth movie mainly focuses on the story of Jigsaw. It gives some clues of Jigsaw’s life and his reasons for killing. It enlightens some areas of Jigsaw’s life taking us back and letting us know about his marriage, wife and unborn child.

Two more SAW films
Two more films are scheduled. The fifth one will be released on October 24, 2008 in United States. But if you think that the story will end up with the 5th film, you are wrong. Because there is more of it; the 6th film is expected to be released on October 2009. Saw Producer Mark Burk says: “We bring in some new characters that you really get to know. We bring in some peripheral characters that play out in Saw VI”. By just considering what the producer said, we can clearly see that there will be a 6th film. The producer, Mark Burg, also talks about the traps and says “The traps in Saw V might be the most terrifying and disturbing traps that Saw fans have ever seen.”

In 2009, the producers will also release a video game of Saw. The videogame is based on the first film. Saw film series also have a Hollywood record for the most films to be released consecutively each year. Let us wait for the upcoming films and wish they will satisfy the expectations of fans.

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