SMS Gaming - Text Paging Games that can be Played by Anyone

Using the Physical World as a Game Board: This is not a Kinky game! SMS stands for Short Message Service.

Just like our last article, this can be fun for teens and adults. You just have to do it on a different scale.

Pick a location approximately 4 square city blocks of a favorite area where your teen group or friends like to be. Spend an afternoon picking locations from that area and creating hints that can be text paged easily. Pick at least ten locations if not more and three to five hints for each location. Put the hints in order of hardest to figure out to the simplest, which will almost tell them where it is.

You can mix the Location Hunt game with a Scavenger Hunt! Once they find the correct location they now have to find something else at that location. Either physically getting something to bring back, taking a digital photo or taking a video to bring back as proof. And this can make for a fun experience at the end of the game when everyone involved shows back up at the starting point. The best way to play it is only send one hint at a time, this way they don't know the next location or what they are supposed to do when they get there. You can give a list out at the beginning of the game, but there is a little more mystery if they have no way to plan ahead.

If you have 15 or more people, set them up in groups. Only one page to one of the phones in each group. Send the groups in different directions, i.e.: One group might start with hint number 10, another group starts at hint 7, and so on. If everyone starts at 1 and goes straight through, they will end up following each other. This only keeps it fair. And if you have one location that's hard to find, and you give the first group that looks for it the easiest hint, when the next group is trying to find that location, you must give them the easiest from the beginning. That's really the only way to keep it fair.

You need to come up with a small prize for the first group to make it to the final location. For teens, you might come up with movie tickets for that night. For the adults, hmmm, a free round at the final location would be nice! Just about anything will do, it will give them something to fight for.

Depending on the age and ability of the individuals, they may begin to getting tired, if so you can always skip to the last location where the prize might be or just end the game when they find the next location. You might want to be ready with as many locations as you can think of. You can always use them on the next hunt.

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Video Game Rentals Online Easy Way of Renting your Favorite Games

When it comes to video game rentals today, the procedure couldnt be any easier. A number of online rental clubs have established their dominance within the video game rental realm. Lets take a look at a few and what they have to offer:

GameFly and Gottaplay are among the elite rental companies known in the market today. These two dominant rental services have more than four thousand games each within their collection to distribute at anytime. Both are equally matched in the marketplace and both offer well optimized websites to handle the renting aspect of the field and also contain previews, trailers, and codes which many game fans will enjoy as an added bonus.

Gamers will be eager to choose from titles both new and old and also from consoles such as XBOX, PS2, and PSP. Not only are the major game consoles included within these plans, but older systems as well including Nintendo, Sega, and Gameboy Advanced These rental plans generally range from $12.95 to $24.95 a month depending on how many games you would like to rent at a time.

When it comes close to renting video games, online rental companies are the only option for most. All titles from the two groups mentioned above are shipped within 1-2 business days and have many distribution points located anywhere in the U.S. Once youre done with your game, you can return it in the self addressed envelope it came with and receive your next title immediately, with no late fees, and especially no gimmicks. Each game can be purchased at anytime if you decide you would like to keep the title. These prices are a lot lower than you can find most used games at your local used video game store.

Once you have established your video game rental account, you may want to check and see how long the game takes to reach your doorstep. Gottaplay and Gamefly have many distribution centers across the US, so you should not expect to wait anymore than 4 business days from the day they send out your shipment.

For experienced gamers, I would substantially suggest into checking out the superiority and selection of the leading online rental facilities mentioned above or on our review page below. You will not be disappointed, as most rental plans have offered a free 14 day free trial.

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From Email to Fax Machine - All About Email Faxing

Do you want to send documents from your email to a fax machine?

Make sure you pick the right service for your needs.

First, some background:

As recently as the 1970s, if you wanted to transfer documents from one place to another you had to do so though either the mail system or a currier service, such technology as fax to fax or email to fax machine, had not yet been invented. By the 1980s came the fax machine and document transfer was revolutionized around the globe. With the invention of the fax machine, all you had to do was place you document on a fax machine, dial the phone number of another fax machine anywhere in the world, and by the magic of technology the document would come out on the other side looking just like it did when you sent it.

For most people, fax technology was pretty impressive until the proliferation of the Internet and the new ability to send documents from email to fax machine with much less effort and time commitment. The idea that you could turn a document into digital pieces, transmit it over the phone lines, and reconstruct it on the other side, was a neat mystery to most people who utilized the technology.

As the Internet has grown and evolved over the years, so to has the technology which affects our day-to-day lives. Most people now own personal computers in their homes, and many more have access to the Internet though their workplace. With today's advanced technology a simple computer, with an Internet connection, is all that is required to send your email to fax machine documents to anywhere in the world.

The benefits of sending faxes from your email:

The cost savings of being able to send your email to fax machine documents through the Internet are considerable, for both businesses and individuals alike. A traditional fax machine requires its own phone line to operate. With email to fax machine technology, you simply need your standard computer and Internet connection. This saves you the cost of a dedicated facsimile line. In addition, when you send your documents via email to fax machine, you do not incur long distance phone charges to do so because you are not using the public phone system to send your files, you are using the Internet.

Unarguably one of the biggest advantages of email to fax machine technology is the ability to send facsimile transmissions without having to own a fax machine. Many individuals and businesses alike have the need to fax documents from one place to another, but they do not own a fax machine of their own. This is no longer an issue because they can simply send their documents from their own PC's email client to the destination fax machine through the Internet.

As you can clearly see, document transfer has come a long way in the last thirty or forty years. Gone are the days where a courier or the postman would have to physically pick-up your documents and take them to another location. Gone too are the days where you have to stand at the fax machine and feed your documents into it. With today's email to fax machine technology you can simply send your documents from your email client out through the Internet to a fax machine located anywhere else in the world - with the click on your mouse. And, the best part is that you will not have to pay long distance charges to your phone company to do so.

How to pick a email fax service:

In order to send faxes from your email to a fax machine, you must sign up with an email fax service. There are several such services around. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Consider using email to fax machine technology? Find out which company is best for your needs.

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Overlord Planning on Dominating the Wii

Overlord was last year's hit from Codemasters, a game which puts you in control of a fellow of a great many evil deeds, who in turn controls quite a few minions. The hook for this game was that while you controlled the Overlord directly in order to spread your chaos and destruction throughout the land, you had no direct control over your minions. Instead, you had to rely on specific commands you could give the Overlord, which would in turn command the minions in where to go. This often lead to some humorous battles ending in smashed pumpkins on minion heads, sheep being set aflame, and many other funny scenarios.

Climax Studios is working on a sort of prequel for Overlord which will be a Wii-exclusive release. Dark Legend plants you in the boots of the Overlord yet again, but this time in his younger days of commanding minions to bring death in destruction. Along with the new platform, Dark Legend will bring new gameplay mechanics. The game looks quite a bit like the original Overlord, which is quite the accomplishment given the Wii's hardware compared to that of the 360, or PC. However, the gameplay has changed quite a bit. Paths in the original Overlord were pretty linear and guided you through the game, but this is not the case in Dark Legend as it has more open spaces for your to explore. Dark Legend also gives the player direct control of the minion, with the ability to point them in the precise direction you want them to go with the Wii-mote.

Aside from the controls, Dark Legend seems as if it will play quite a bit like the original game. You'll be completing a variety of different quests in the same fantasy world, with your minions causing chaos and wreaking havoc along the way. Another great aspect of Dark Legend is the ability to choke your minions. You can pick a minion from your horde and violently choke him until his eyes glow yellow. After you let the minion go, he'll act as a sort of rocket, which will automatically hone in on any nearby enemies and detonate on impact. As with the older game, the color of the minion will have an effect on what the bomb does when it detonates. Regular brown minions will detonate like a normal bomb, while your colored minions will have added effects such as healing and area effect explosions with napalm effects.

Overlord: Dark Legend is scheduled for release sometime in 2009.

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