TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has released the 7th security update of the year, covering several components such as Apache, ClamAV, ColorSync, Finder, MySQL Server, Networking and PHP. This security update is prepared for both client and server versions of Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.5.
Click on the button to for more information on Security Update 2008-007. 
TOKYO (MacHouse) – Video LAN has updated its popular cross-platform, multimedia player to 0.9.4. This update is made mostly for the Windows version, according to the organization, although there are a few bugs that have been fixed across other OS platforms.
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Okay. I admit that the last game play video for Pure that we released some 10 days ago is boring. Hopefully, this one is better. What is Pure? Pure is an ATV racing game developed by Black Rock Studio and published by Disney Interactive Studios.
When I first played Pure, I thought it was a boring game. After playing it for about 30 minutes, it wasn’t so bad, though. While playing, a question that I always had was ‘How do they (15 other computer players) jump so high?’ In one map, if you don’t jump high enough, you won’t be able to finish it. I pressed many buttons including Tab, Control-left, Shift-left, Q, #1, #2… Well, I almost abandoned this game. But I pressed something out of desperation, and it worked. You need to press and hold down the ‘Lean backward’ key and then release it and press the ‘Lean Forward’ key to jump. Now, it’s turned out to be the best racing game that I have ever played. Continue reading
It’s been nearly a month since we released the last PC game compatibility list. Since then, we have tested several games including
Well, this time, I won’t go into details for each game. In fact, I only want to talk about Civilization IV: Colonization, Crysis: Warhead and Pure briefly.
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There are several PC game titles that start with Civilization IV. Those games include
Civilization IV: Warlords (released on July 27, 2007)
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (released on July 23, 2007)
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Gold Edition (released on July 17, 2007)
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Complete (released on October 12, 2007)
Honestly, I don’t keep track of these Civilization IV spin-offs. I was once excited to play Civilization IV. But the Mac version (released in June, 2006) barely ran on my iMac G5 2 GHz. Now, the thrill is completely gone for me.
Well, if you have an Intel Mac machine, I can tell you that you can run Civilization IV: Colonization without Boot Camp. So far, I have no trouble playing this game with VMware Fusion 2.0. (There is no guarantee that you can play the game to the end.) It’s a stand-alone game title, whose installation takes up only 844 MB of hard disk space. Continue reading