The great phenomenon which has taken control of our lives, called the Internet appeared many years ago. First it was used for political and military purposes, but then it began to expand more and more in the United States of America, and then all over the world. It was used in different domains, and with time every country gain access to the internet. Now there are billions of users every day, and they use it for almost any purpose, including for reading news, communicating with friends all over the world, to buy and sell, to make money but also to have fun and relax.
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The subjects of the games are now very diversified, and they can satisfy everyone's needs and wishes. First of all there are the games for children, but with time appeared a new category of games: the games that adults play when they are at work, just to have some fun and relax after a long day of working. If you are a fan of sports, you can choose from many types of sport games such as: football, tennis, volley, golf and so many more.

If you like adventures you can choose from many kinds of action games, where you can solve mysteries and crimes, or you can shoot bad guys or save princesses from the negative characters. If you like cars you can make races with the computer, or with one of your friends, and you can choose from a big variety of vehicles such as rally cars, karts, motor bikes, dirt bikes, trucks, boats and even ski jets. There are also dancing games, where you have to make the characters dance as good as possible or make them sing. To make the fun even bigger, the creators of the games included some very popular characters in the games. For example you can play soccer with David Beckham, or you can make Tony Blair dance or get George Bush in shape, by putting him to jog, to jump, to stretch and to do other crazy things. If you are a fan of music you can choose a music game, where u must sing the correct notes of a song just by pressing your keyboard. There are also games made especially for children, with funny characters such as monkeys, penguins or Santa Claus. And there are also games dedicated for the girls where they can dress or do make-ups to famous characters, such as Barbie, and other teen idols for example Britney Spears of Paris Hilton.



An example of this kind of girly game is called "Sakaki". As you might think when you read it's name, it is a Japanese game. Japanese have always been famous for their great imagination. Everyone knows about the interesting Japanese cartoons, called "manga", and there are many fans of them all over the world. Some of the most known cartoons by kids all over the world are: Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Dragon Ball and many others.



The Japanese creators included these kind of characters (which have a specific look, that you can find only in the Japanese creations) into the computer games as well. And of course the simple flash games have the same specific Japanese look. You can notice this, the first thing you enter into the Sakaki flash game. After the game is loading (directly from the Internet, or from your computer), you will see a funny looking Japanese girl, with big eyes (something specific to the Japanese manga-s) wearing only her underwear. If you are a parent and you think that the fact that the girl is almost naked will affect your younger children, you don't have to worry about this, because it is a non-sexual nudity. The girl is not wearing anything, because this is the actual goal of this game: to dress the character exactly the way you like.



As we mentioned before the game is dedicated for young girls, but it won't be a problem if a boy plays it. Maybe this way he will learn more about girls, and about the way they dress, and this might be helpful for them later in their life :)

You can begin with any body part you want, but of course it is better to begin with the head. You have a variety of hats and caps to choose from. They come in different colors and shapes, and the most interesting is the one which looks just like a cat's head, with cat's ears and eyes. After you choose the desired hat, all you have to do is click on it, hold the mouse button pressed, and just drag it in the desired place. You can even place the hat on the girls hand, or wherever you want, but of course it is recommended to put it on her head :)



After choosing the desired piece for the head, you can move on to the torso. Here you have an even bigger variety of objects to choose from. You have t-shirts, blouses, under vests, dresses and even a one piece bathing suit. They have different colors and shapes, so any girl should be satisfied with them.

After you pick your favorite clothes for the torso, you can go to the next category. Here you can choose from a big variety of pants, jeans, skirts or dresses. The most glamorous of all it is a big and pink dress.



After choosing the appropriate dress, skirt or pair of pants, of course you can't leave your character barefooted, so you really must put some shoes on her. You can choose from many type of shoes, boots or sneakers, and they also come in many colors and styles.

If you don't like the way the girl is looking, you can reset the clothes at any time during the dress up process, and you will have all the clothes at their initial position, and the girl naked as you found her at the beginning.  After you are really sure that this is the aspect that you want for the girl, all you have to do is press the "next" button. Then you must enter your name and press again the "next" button. But it doesn't end here, because now you can choose a background for your girl. You can spray it however you want, and you have a big palette of colors to choose from. After you are done, just press the "ok" button, and you will have the girl in the exact way you dressed her, and she will be placed on the background you made before.



If you want, you can dress her again, in a different mode, and you can do that by pressing the "play again" button. During the whole gaming process you will be accompanied with Japanese music. But if you don't like it you can press the "stop" button, or turn the volume lower, by pressing the buttons from the player situated on the upper left side of the screen.

If I look back and think about Trainz, there are two things instantly showing up in my mind. Well, maybe three - Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Trainz, and Railroad Tycoon 2. No, I won't say anything more than just those names, because each of them has a pretty long history behind it - at least for me - and I don't want to write a "Gaming Bible" here and now, all right?

Trainz 2009 is going into beta, as over 1,000 registered members from TrainzDev.com have been invited to join the test group, with more to follow. Tony Hilliam, Auran Games CEO, said "We're thrilled to have reached our Beta milestone, and the early feedback from testers has been extremely positive. We have built up a fantastic community over the past 8 years since Trainz began and everything is pointing towards Trainz 2009 being our best ever version."

The list of new features in Trainz 2009 looks like this:

- The largest ever collection of quality routes, locos, rolling stock and scenery.
- Twice the detail - trains, terrain and textures in higher resolution.
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- New ground clutter and decals add gritty realism to your world.
- More tools in Surveyor to allow easier terrain deformation and track laying.
- Improved physics and easier re-configuration of locos and rolling stock.
- New user interface and Help system putting Trainz power into the hands of everyone.
- Improvements to Content Manager Plus to make organizing your content even easier.
- Embedded web browser allows more interaction, more information, more immersion.
- Trainz Exchange Community Portal for online chat, blogs, wikis and "scrapbooks".
- Screenshot and video capture functions to help capture and share your experience.
- Enormous content update to ensure maximum compatibility between versions.

If you hurry up and pre-order, you will also get access to the Beta, as well as a 60% discount for Railroad Lines, Bus Simulator and Ship Simulator, as well as 20% off to purchase Engineers Edition. Pretty cool, huh?

Let me say only one word: Bioware. If that doesn't ring a bell, it means you got your first computer earlier this week, or maybe you got here by mistake. Anyway, let's see a few more keywords: the Neverwinter Nights series, Mass Effect, the Baldur's Gate series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, shortly known as "KotOR," or even Dragon Age: Origins. While the others have been released already, Dragon Age is still under development, and I just heard some hot and interesting news about this incoming RPG from Bioware. Want to hear about it?

Dragon Age: Origins is expected to be the "spiritual successor" to Baldur's Gate, with party-based combat, a deep story, and lots of things to customize. According to Bioware's CEO, Ray Muzyka, "Dragon Age: Origins is a dark heroic fantasy that doesn’t pull any punches. Our fans are in for the most emotionally intense gaming experience we’ve ever created, and we hope to surprise them with just how dark and gritty it gets!"

Expected to arrive in early 2009, Dragon Age has a very nice feature list, now confirmed in a press release, as you can see below.<-250x250 Square - right->

- Epic Party-Based Combat – Dragon Age: Origins will introduce an innovative, scalable combat system, as players face large-scale battles and use their party’s special abilities to destroy hoardes of enemies and massive creatures.

- Powerful Magic – Raining down awesome destruction on enemies is even more compelling as players apply “spell combos,” a way of combining together different spells to create emergent unique effects.

- Deep Customization – Players will develop their characters and gain powerful special abilities (spells, talents and skills) and discover ever-increasing weapons of destruction.

- Your Story, Your Way – With its emotionally compelling story, players choose with whom they wish to forge alliances or crush under their mighty fist, redefining the world with the choices they make and how they wield their power.

- Origin Stories – Players will select and play a unique prelude that provides the lens through which the player sees the world and how the world sees the player. The player’s choice of Origin will determine who they are and where they begin the adventure, as they play through a customized story opening that profoundly impacts the course of every adventure.

Leaving the feature list aside, the cinematics look great, as you can see above. With this, I rest my case, and think harder about making a day last 48 hours, so I can have enough time for Bioware's games that I missed so far, but especially for those that are currently in the makin, like Dragon Age... Any comments?