Play Angry Birds on Your Computer

Angry Birds is one of the most addictive puzzle video game developed by Rovio Mobile. In Angry Birds, the player uses a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, doing which the player needs to destroy all the pigs on the playfield. As the player advances through the game, new birds appear, some with special abilities that can be activated by the player. Rovio Mobile has supported Angry Birds with numerous free updates that add additional game content, and the company has even released stand-alone holiday and promotional versions of the game.

Inspired mostly by a sketch of some stylized wingless birds, Angry Birds was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. Since then over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple's App Store, which has prompted the company to design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones, such as those using the Android operating system, among others.

But you don't need to worry if you don't have a smartphone because the Angry Birds game have been imported for Google chrome now! Yes, if you have Google Chrome installed on your computer you would be able to play the game offline. And in case you don't have Google Chrome (like me), you can as well play it on your favorite browser, all you need to do is to connect to the internet cause on other browsers the offline gameplay is disabled. So click on the link below, you would be taken to the home page for the Angry Birds for your browser, and start playing.

Angry Birds for Chrome

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You better Download your PS3 Firmware Update 3.15 Now, Or Else!

During it's initial release last month, the system update 3.15 for Sony’s PlayStation 3 console was an optional download. But now things have changed, it's not optional anymore. To be exact, it’s compulsory.

So, even if you do not have any use for the features contained in this update, you still need to download it, period. God save you if you don't download this update.

Now, once you have downloaded the system update 3.15, you would be able to play PSP minis games on the big screen, and transfer saved data between PS3 consoles, ensuring all your existing content is safe. You can click here to read more about it – happy enforced downloading!

GTA Released on iPhone and iPod Touch

Grand Theft Auto. Do I really need to say anything else? I have a good news for all you GTA fans out there, Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars is now available on iPhone or iPod touch.

It is almost like the original GTA from Nintendo DS and Sony PSP with a top-down perspective of the first two GTA games. And although the game costs a steep $9.99, it's still cheaper than what is was on the DS or PSP, where it debuted at $34.99 and $39.99, respectively. The touchscreen controls work well and the level of graphical quality lands between that of the Nintendo DS and PSP versions.

So far that game has a pretty positive reception, it has reveived 40 ratings and an average of 4.5 stars. App Store user Puese gave it five stars and said: “The polish on this is over the top. We have come a long way from only having snake on your phone as a game.” However, marcosrdz gave it only one star, saying that it crashes a few seconds after displaying the terms of service screen. Some players say that it lacks a few minor features of the DS version — for example, pedestrian speech has been removed, presumably to reduce the size of the download.

Here is a video of Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars, courtesy Touch Arcade.

Disciple : The MMORPG For Adults

I was too tired to go on playing MyBrute. Although it's simple and does not require any downloads, but it soon gets boring with it's repetitive gameplay. That's when I discovered Disciple.

Disciple, from the stable of Resistor Productions, LLC, is a MMORPG targeted mainly towards adults. On Disciple, players are taken into the dark realms of a fantasy world known as Aphelion. Here players fight against eachother in real-time to achieve points along with weapons and armor to increase their ranking. The players compete for the virtual currency of Aphelion, called Geldor. And with the increase in their wealth, players can buy advanced armors and weapons. The game begins with 3 classes, 3 races, and 3 deities to worship. These choices will determine the foundation and play-style of the player's character throughout the game. Players can create or join clans of disciples to determine allies and enemies within the world.

Disciple is a free for all to play, and it is browser based. Which means, there is no download or install required to play Disciple. Although players can access additional content by paying a monthly fee. The minimum system requirements for Disciple are a broadband connection, FireFox 3, Safari 3, IE7 or IE8 or greater versions, Flash version 10 or greater, Windows or OSX and 1.8 GHz Processor and 1GB of RAM.

Okay, I accept that this is no World of WarCraft. But for a few hours of uninterrupted gameplay without having to download anything, Disciple should be a decent option.

Here is the official trailer for Disciple :

You can join Disciple from here. Do let me know whether you like playing Disciple, or if you have any other games in mind.

Gears Of War 2 Update Available

Early this morning, the Gears team released Title Update 3 for Gears of War 2. Rod Fergusson, the Executive Producer of Gear of War 2, provided the full listing on the Gear of War 2 forum. The update is available now and will download automatically when you start Gears 2 while connected to Xbox LIVE. Here is a full run-down on all of the improvements and exploit fixes.


Improvements

Title Update 3 makes these new improvements:

Adds 100 levels of player experience that you can gain based on your score in Public matches. The game still uses Trueskill for matchmaking to find the most competitive matches, but the skill rank is now hidden. The new level of experience appears next to your gamertag, with levels 1 through 99 displayed as numbers and level 100 displayed as an icon. The game normalizes experience based on match type so that players earn an equivalent amount of experience across all modes.

Adds an experience penalty for players quitting before a match is complete.

Adds bots automatically to a Public Match if players quit and cause unbalanced teams. This ability has always existed in Private Matches if the bot count is set higher than zero.

Optimizes playlists to only have two modes per playlist. Ties are decided by random selection.

Adds the ability for teams to talk to each other between rounds in a Private Match.

Adds the ability to save Public and Private Horde high scores after each complete wave, in case the host loses connection before failing or completing all fifty waves.

Makes minor changes to general bandwidth usage.

Adds region preference to matchmaking.

Improves standby detection.

Adds nine new achievements worth 250 points. Progress toward them starts after Title Update 3 is applied. Six of the new achievements require the Snowblind Map Pack, a set of four new maps to be released soon. The nine new achievements:

• "Rookie Gear" (10 points): Earn enough multiplayer experience to reach level 5 (Public only).
• "Seasoned Gear" (20 points): Earn enough multiplayer experience to reach level 15 (Public only).
• "Battle-Tested Gear" (30 points): Earn enough multiplayer experience to reach level 25 (Public only).
• "Battle-Hardened Gear" (50 points): Reach level 50 and play a match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (Public only).
• "Veteran Gear" (75 points): Reach level 100 and win a match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (Public only).
• "Never Eat Red Snow" (20 points): Complete waves 1 through 10 on all Snowblind Map Pack maps in Horde (any difficulty).
• "Icy Dead People" (25 points): Complete waves 1 through 50 on any Snowblind Map Pack map in Horde (any difficulty).
• "Frigid Body Dynamics" (5 points): Play a multiplayer match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (any mode).
• "The Weather Outside Is Lethal" (15 points): Win a multiplayer match on each of the four Snowblind Map Pack maps (any mode).

Exploit Fixes

Title Update 3 fixes these possible exploits, where under certain circumstances:

A player could swap from a pistol to a two-handed weapon during a cover slide and then mantle greater distances.

Players could kill themselves in Wingman to avoid giving their opponents more points. Now, suicides and team killing will reduce team score.

A player holding a meatshield could melee through some walls.

A player could equip a two-handed weapon with a shield using either the Boltok or the Gorgon pistol.

A player could equip a two-handed weapon with a meatshield using either the Boltok or the Gorgon pistol.

A player could prevent planted shields from being picked up by other players.

Players could launch themselves into the air with a smoke grenade while mantling.


General Fixes

Title Update 3 fixes these other issues as well:

An issue that caused chainsaw interruption when a player is shot to be less reliable in some body positions than in others.

An issue where a third player could join a Public Wingman party lobby and remove another player from the game.

An issue in Submission games where occasionally the meatflag would immediately run back to the spawn point after being dropped.

An issue where players that were knocked down but not out (DBNO) while planting the Boomshield would appear to be standing.

An elevation-based issue where the detection for a headshot might not align properly with certain character model heads.

An issue that could cause Wingman teammates to have different character models.

Additional miscellaneous bug fixes.


Balancing

Title Update 3 makes these balancing changes:

Reduces stun duration of smoke grenades. Currently, characters always start to get up after 2 seconds.

Gives melee the same delay after roadie running that shooting received in Title Update 2.

Removes spawn protection from the Horde in Horde mode.

Increased the forward angle that triggers chainsaw duels so that players with Lancers equipped won't be sawn from the side without a duel.

Reduces the delay before a player can climb up after entering low cover.

Makes minor changes to weapon spawns on the Subway map to provide greater balance.


Hope these changes would bring new life to Gears of War 2 as it was seen struggling of late in Xbox Live. If you are a first time visitor, don't forget to subscribe to The Chronicles of R to be notified when it's updated.