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FIB: Mega Edition! Mortal Kombat Sequel, Free websites, Star Trek trailer

Star Trek and Mortal Combat!

How to get better SEO with five useful WordPress plugins

Here are five great and utterly simple plugins that you can use with WordPress to dramatically improve your SEO for little effort!

FIB: G33K & G4M3R Girls and riots and cats

Build up your geek cred with some internet cat videos, a gamer girl music video, some iPhone tips and tricks ... plus more!

Friday Internet Bull... vacation version

This week's FIB is short. like the acronym.

URL validation: Use PHP to format and validate a URL with these functions!

Here is a set of functions that you can use to format, validate, and "clean up" URLs that come from user input, databases, or even variables.

Age of Conan goes free to play with AoC: Unchained

The violent, sexualized MMO switches to the free-to-play model. Will it help Conan and the Hyborian's stay alive?

How to combine your separate CSS files into one using PHP and then compress the CSS with GZIP

Take a look at our handy dandy PHP script here and solve your overwhelming CSS file inclusions or file download times by combining them with PHP and compressing them with GZIP! Plus there is an option for browser specific CSS!

The worst things in videogames

Sexism, online racism, violence, vulgarity, lewdness, cliches, bad gameplay: none of these can outdo the worst thing that has infested video games today. And the problem is no one of these areas entirely encompasses the main problem that is rampant within today's 3D interactive software. Nor is the problem due to the negative media attention or political action that has taken arms against a favored pastime of many people across the world.

Killzone 3 Multiplayer Open Beta Coming Soon!

The Helghast are back, war is upon you, and there is a great chance to get sneak peak at Killzone 3. Time to load up and get ready to kill some more Mamoru Oshii inspired baddies. While Killzone 3's release is just around the corner, Sony has so graciously announced a Killzone 3 Multiplayer Open Beta that will be available for download on the PlayStation Network starting Wednesday, February 2nd.

Sign up for the Rift beta now!

Rift, the new MMORPG on the block, that is not only interesting, good looking, and press friendly, also happens to be quite fun. While it is hard to say whether the success of the new game from Trion Worlds (makers of RTS End of Nations) will be substantial enough to gain foothold in the online massively multiplayer battle for the top, it is certainly a contender.

jQuery Style Sheet Switcher with preview

This jQuery plugin gives you very simple way to change your stylesheet theme. Brought to us by immortalwolf.com, this easily configurable addon to the already easy to use jQuery is a cinch. Even cooler, this plugin is tested for IE6+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and even Android and iPhones!

Flash AS3 XML SlideShow with Preloader and Link Hot Spots

Here is the full source for an XML-based slideshow featuring a preloader and hotspots for links!

Flash AS3 Scratch Off Class

Here is a really sharp ActionScript 3 class that creates a quick way to make a fun promotional or interactive scratch off effect. Much like the rub off effect used on lottery tickets and sweepstakes, with this class you can add in your image and then have your website visitors interact with the page to reveal the hidden message, image, video, link, or promotion that is underneath.

WordPress multiple jQuery inclusion fix

Ever look at your WordPress page in Firebug and notice that jQuery is sometimes loaded more than oncea second jQuery file that cannot be found inside your header.php file? We can fix that!

Simple HTML DOM baked CakePHP component

While we loved using the Simple HTML DOM PHP class provided here, we wanted to use it on our CakePHP sites as well. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we decided to port the Simple HTML DOM parser (which uses a delightful jQuery-like DOM element filter) into CakePHP! On top of that, we even added in the ability to use the PHP cURL library instead of the default file_get_contents() calls. Take a look at the ease of use in our Simple HTML DOM baked CakePHP component.

Vindictus: Free-to-play MMORPG from Nexon using Valve's Source Engine

Vindictus - it's free, built using Source, and has a great story The battles never end, the rain never ends, and nothing ever grows in this land. "Rain falls, yet the land is barren, as if the earth has been drenched in too much bloodshed…

Free Download: Ocarina of Time Soundtrack

Remember how much great music was packed into The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? It was so great that you were humming it along for months after finishing the game, and can probably still remember some of the tunes to this day.

Top Four Free Games

Free games! What could be more exciting than that? Most gamers nowadays are fully aware of the amount of investment it may take to get into gaming. Costs like home consoles, high definition televisions, high fidelity speakers, or even bleeding…

Streets of Rage: Remix

Ahh, the good old day’s of sidescrolling Beat Em Ups, the estranged cousin of Shoot Em Ups. So many genres have been overlooked now that the big titles in video games are mostly RPG’s, FPS’s, and sports games. While the multitude…