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iPhone game of the day: Buster Red (PC)

You can never have enough top-down shooters. Unless of course you just inherently hate fun. Buster Red is a damn fine one, too, with a neat art style, some clever ideas, and a solid control interface. What could go wrong? Very little, it would appear...


New Mortal Kombat screens Kontinue to pull us back in (Mortal Kombat (2011))

More familiar psychopaths and blood-soaked locations. Hit the jump to see the new stages compared with their classic inspiration...


Game music of the day: Castlevania (Castlevania)

The original NES Castlevania doesn't contain a great number of tracks; there are essentially only seven genuine pieces of music from beginning to end. Yet in that brief amount of work, Konami managed to squeeze out some of the most timeless game music the medium has ever heard.

Classic stuff inside!


24 iTunes 10 Tips, Tricks and Features

The new iTunes is out. While it's, let's just say different looking, we took a good hard look at the latest update to the hardest working app on our Macs and came up with some tips, tricks and features you might find helpful. From Ping to Album Art List View, we check out the good, the bad and the gray. PingOpt In


10 Things Apple Needs to Make iTunes Ping Totally Rad

September has arrived, and that means iTunes 10 has landed as well, complete with a swanky new icon, a streamlined (and mostly colorless) new look and a new social networking feature called Ping. But what exactly is Ping, and does it live up to all of Apple’s hype?