Every once in a while, it’s nice to dust off the old NES and hook it up for a few days of nostalgic monster stabbing action in Zelda and some slithering action in Snake Rattle N’ Roll, but what happens when you pull out your system and it has given up the ghost?

Think you know Indianapolis as a small city with no opportunity for networking? Think again. Leah Barr, IndyGeek’s Social Media Columnist, takes you into the world of digital networking and shows you a side of Indianapolis you may never knew existed.

Whether it’s the pong that we grew up loving or the Final Fantasy characters we’ve come to love, video games have had a vast impact on our society since the mainstream release of the Odyssey in 1972. In this era, video games were little more than blips on a TV screen, but our society picked up enough of these new devices to encourage others to design and develop what would become a billion dollar industry.

Fedora has grown a reputation for being the more “sophisticated” Linux that users go to when growing out of the Ubuntu lifestyle. It favors open-source software in every aspect; from graphics drivers to general software

Not since HDTV was announced has a technology been so cluttered with jargon, multiple formats, confusion, debate, and myth. And all from a technology that has been around for decades, longer even than the home television. Its arrival should come as no surprise, though. It’s been trickling into the home environment over the last several years in DVD’s, but now we have standards and a way to do it with minimal compromise to image quality. So just what exactly is 3D TV technology and what do you need to know about it? Let’s start at the beginning – the very beginning.

Josh Seymour guides you through the basics of building your own high-performance gaming PC.

In the third installment to columnist Monty Dine’s “Linux GUIs Unleashed” series, he explores the KDE flavor of desktop environment for Linux.

Senior Editor Alex Conner guides you through fine-tuning your PC’s performance.

What do you get when you mix a stolen iPhone prototype, a payoff, and a tech news blog? A whole lot of nothing good.

When the Xbox was released in 2001, the capabilities were remarkable. Not only was it capable of playing full motion games without a hitch, but you could store music and game saves on its built in 8 GB hard drive. While most people were satisfied with the xbox being a simple game system, others went great lengths to take its pc-like architecture to the next level.