Games – Tall Tech Tales

The Steam Link Is Dead – Long Live The Steam Link

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on January 11, 2019January 11, 2019

Back in November, Valve announced that the Steam Link hardware had been discontinued. Existing stock would be sold off and that would be the end of it. The end of an era, if you will, of what The Verge called the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made. For those not familiar with the Steam Link […]

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Steam Play and Gaming on Linux

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on August 29, 2018

Throughout my years, I’ve experienced gaming in a variety of forms, from the good old C64 and Amiga platforms to various iterations of the PlayStation platform and most recently, PC gaming on both Windows and Ubuntu. You see, I’ve been an Ubuntu user since version 7.04, or maybe 7.10. I can’t remember anymore. Either way, […]

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Firewatch – The Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on July 29, 2016

It’s 1989. With your family life in turmoil, you’re looking for an escape, at least for a while. An opportunity to become a fire lookout for a summer in the Wyoming wilderness presents itself and before you know it, you’re looking out over the vast wilderness of Wyoming from a lookout tower. That tower is […]

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Classic Amiga Games on Android

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 28, 2015May 29, 2017

Growing up during a time when computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 reigned supreme, I have always had a fondness for the old school games of the 80’s and 90’s, for games produced on limited hardware where the option of adding another gigabyte of memory was not an option. 512K was a lot […]

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16 Apps I Installed After Installing Ubuntu 13.04

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 27, 2013

Every other blog out there does lists. Favorite apps, best things to do, new things to do. You name it, you can find it. A popular topic for Ubuntu users appears to be “10 things to do after you install Ubuntu xx.xx.” These articles shows up without fail within a week or so of the […]

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Need For Speed Most Wanted Android Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 1, 2012June 12, 2013

I’ve been a fan of Need For Speed since the very first game was released many, many years ago now. I still own numerous versions on various platforms and although the quality of the games has varied throughout the years, Need For Speed Most Wanted stands out as the one game in the bunch that […]

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My Top 10 Android Games

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on November 23, 2012

In the last year, Android gaming has taken a giant leap forward. It wasn’t long ago that the quality of the games on the Android platform was sub-standard. However, much has changed since. While I used to be almost exclusively gaming on my PS3, I’ve found myself increasingly playing on my phone and tablet this […]