Editor’s note: This is yet another in a long list of kick ass Sarcastic Gamer Survival Guides . If you want to check out the other ones in the series, click here for our list of guides for games like Call of Duty: World at War, GTA IV, Call of Duty 4, Gears of War 2 and Far Cry 2, among others. Well, you’ve read the Newbie Guide and finally stopped embarrassing yourself. Now it’s time to set your goals a bit higher. After pouring over the Crater and Lost Platoon Heroic Guide , you’re

Last year's recipient, Ed Harris, with Kirk Douglas (Getty Images) Strange to recall a time when movie-goers didn’t have Quentin Tarantino films as options on their menu. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker has entertained and astounded audiences consistently during two decades. In recognition of his contributions to the world of film, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival will present Quentin Tarantino with the fourth annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film . Legendary a

Writing a book successfully happens only when the author is passionate about it, otherwise the writing does not get done. All sorts of excuses come up: no time, too busy, the dog needs walking, accepting every phone call and handling it rather than writing the book. The best excuse is reading emails three or four times everyday so no time to write. A passionate writer develops good writing habits and rarely strays from them. The writer is in The Zone and writes as if there is no tomorrow. As

Windows 7 running on a laptop, as photographed by / ( CC ) Luke Roberts . Windows 7 makes far subtler changes than Vista did, which gives it an opportunity to refine features by the ship date. And it’s been tested unusually widely, by testers like Luke. Windows matters. It’s what roughly half of CDM readers use, and – for all the attention Apple gets – it’s a big part of the computer music world. Windows today also faces many of the same under-the-hood challenges that other operating systems

by Peter H Torkington No matter how much information you read about weight loss – and you could read all day and every day if you wished to – many people tend to make the same mistakes time after time. Whilst some of the mistakes are small mistakes some are often very basic and fundamental to you ability to be successful in shedding the pounds. You need to understand these basics if you are to achieve the change of attitude necessary to lose weight that remains a permanent loss of weight. 1.