Category Archives: games

Practicing my Space Shuttle landing skills

By Dave | Published: April 26, 2011

Practicing my Space Shuttle landing skills., originally uploaded by Dave Schumaker. I figured since I’m heading to Cape Canaveral and all, I should start brushing up on my shuttle landing skills. You never know if a crew member suddenly comes down with an illness and they’ll need to replace them with someone from the NASA [...]

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Civ V and OS X – A mark of desperation

By Dave | Published: September 23, 2010

I’m currently somewhere over New York state, flying Virgin America back from Boston (where we had our gdgt live event last night). I only brought my iPad with me on this trip. Which is painful, because Civilization V is currently out! So, I wanted to see if it was even possible to play. Are you [...]

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Playing Civilization V on a Mac

By Dave | Published: September 16, 2010

A lot has changed since Civ IV has been released. Since then, I’ve apparently adopted the full-on hipster lifestyle as I work at a savy web startup here in San Francisco. Obviously, that means that all my computers are now Macs. (I donated the last PC I built to some family members last year — [...]

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How to quit…

By Dave | Published: July 30, 2010

How to quit Civilization, that is. Probably my favorite game of all time, and the fifth iteration is coming this September. Here is a helpful guide on how one can quit their addition to Civ. [Via Ryan]

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Civilization V announced!

By Dave | Published: February 26, 2010

Looks like Sid Meier and the gang at Firaxis have announced Civilization V, the latest game in the greatest video game series that has ever existed! Here’s the trailer. It’s going to be an extraordinarily long wait until Fall 2010.

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Fighting dirty in Scrabble

By Dave | Published: January 18, 2010

Recently, I downloaded a game for the iPhone called “Words with Friends.” It’s very similar to Scrabble, with a different board and slightly different letter values (one would assume to avoid Scrabble’s IP lawyers). Many of my family and friends are playing the game and we’re all having fun trying to best each other’s scores. [...]

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