Mini Game for Mini Price: Hidden Alexandra Fortune for 5,99 $

Download the Easter Calendar provides COMPUTER-Partner "Germany is playing" every day a new mini-game for 5,99$. Get now a hidden object adventure at a special price.

Join Alex Fortune in search of her missing grandfather. At the same time you solve the mystery of the fabled moon Islands. The mysterious islands a mystery in itself that is so powerful that it can change the world. Get these fascinating objects in the picture in the right way of thinking and hit many nuts.

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If you are unsure whether the game meets your taste, try the track before free of charge. One hour you will have the full range of functions.

Thomas D: "From the Playstation 3 I'm real gone "

The musicians of the Fantastic Four of anxiety while gambling, outrageous CD prices and new on his plate.

Thomas Durr (born on December 30, 1968 in Ditzingen) - better known by his pen name Thomas D - is one of the founders of the German hip-hop group The Fantastic Four. In addition to the family and the music play games a big role in the life of the skilled barber. In COMPUTER GAMES interview, the musician talks about his new solo album "Lessons in humility, 11.0", his passion for games and denounces the CD rates.

COMPUTER GAMES (CBS): What do you gamble today?

Thomas D (TD): I am a family man and also shapes the Zockalltag. My daughter is seven years young, my son was three. You can not gamble all that. Only family friendly games.

CBS: Sure do your kids sometimes ran to the gamepad. Is there a scheme?

TD: Yes. And that is: The rip dad and watch you are allowed. (Laughs) No, not so radical that runs off course. The neighbor's son and my daughter currently play regularly, "Wario Ware". So after half an hour I will always watch the room and say, "Now it is slowly but well." My son is currently fascinated by remote controls more than games. As soon as he hears me say that my daughter will stop the Zockerei or television, it switches the device - without question and in seconds. He is such a way more brutal than I do. But absolutely consistent.

CBS: They currently play only games for children?

TD: No, no! I've just started an adult game at night and quite secretly - "Alan Wake". The title is older, but incredibly fascinating. Before the drama and tension I have to pull my hat. I sit in front of the television and'm really scared! I am considering actually often in the evening, whether I will play because I'm afraid of the game. And something happens to a grown man! I think that's great. Basically, the game no new elements. What distinguishes it is the story with this book you realize again how important a good story is. It provides for the nerve-supply. Fascinating!

CBS: Some time ago you have the console from Microsoft paid no attention. Now you play the Xbox 360 exclusive "Alan Wake". What caused the change?
TD: For a long time I was a true Nintendo gamers. And the intuitive controls of the Wii console still fascinates me. But with the advent of Kinect I dug the Xbox 360.

CBS: And how do you like Sony's Move-concept?

TD: Sony's flashing karaoke thing I do not have. From the Playstation 3, I'm really gone. Because I just do not stifle innovation. To me it seems as if the only imitate everything. In contrast, Kinect I found the idea of ​​innovation very well. Right now I'm going but even more from the Xbox Live Marketplace Independent. I have since been played on titles such as "Limbo ". The game is a dream. Other way to describe it.

"Limbo" way, I have shown my children. A few minutes anyway. It looked initially like this harmless. Sweet, romantic. A bit Rotkäppchen.Doch came to take the first bear trap - and Zack was the head off. At this point it was clear that "Limbo" game is an adult and the children had left the room. (Laughs)

CBS: Do you play on Xbox Live with friends?

TD: Yes. The whole online gaming world has not yet been opened to me. I've been playing for half my life. At 17, I sneaked illegally into pure gambling halls. I would describe myself as an experienced gamer. And yet I'm doing well just about one tenth of what other players get. I guess I'm afraid of the competition with real people, before the comparison of high scores. I fear that I feel miserable at the end of my hobby and hang on a nail. I'm just too bad for the online community. I use exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade area.

CBS: It looks as though the Xbox 360, Wii, displaced as your favorite gaming platform. Is that correct?

TD: Yes. My favorite game console is now the iPhone. This is among other things, the pricing of Apple. For other platforms games cost 35 euros upwards. For the iPhone, I buy a game like "Tiny Wings" for just 79 cents. I am now - Attention, ladies and gentlemen - 178,000 points and have a 28 times multiplier nest and the eighth island reached. The game tells me that I have now reached the rank of master. This has cost me weeks of my life. I could not stop it! Great fun for little money.

CBS: Why next to the price yet for the iPhone?

TD: The touchpad of the unit reached Apple what Nintendo has done well before with the motion control. You experience and plays games on a different, refreshing way

As far as GM is in the supermarket egg

"Where we are to get good eggs?" Especially at Easter raises this question. Greenpeace has developed a ranking supermarket for eggs, which are produced without genetic engineering in animal feed published. The environmental organization surveyed 15 supermarket chains in Germany, including Aldi, Lidl and Kaiser's Tengelmann and organic markets and Alnatura dennree. The result: A majority of commercially available eggs come from the feeding of GM crops.

No labeling requirements for eggs

In the laying hens fed about 20 percent of GM soya is used. To recognize these eggs for the consumer are not. For a labeling requirement for animal products like milk, eggs and meat produced with GM feed, there is not. "Consumers need information in order to opt for a GM-free food production, " says Sandra Blessin, genetic engineering expert for Greenpeace. "The majority of consumers rejected the use of GM crops for food. Production and distribution of shell eggs from non-GM feed are still large potential for development." A Greenpeace given out, new mini-guide provides this information.
Where are GM-free eggs?

Greenpeace questioned tegut including land purchase and, Aldi, Lidl and the organic markets and Alnatura dennree. The latter only sell organic eggs. In the case of eggs from organic production of consumers be sure that no genetic engineering is used in the food, the survey shows. When it comes to conventional eggs, are the supermarkets and department tegut pioneer country for a GM-free feeding of conventional eggs. To May (Kaufland) or June (tegut), all eggs are produced accordingly.

Lidl and Globe deny statements on the scope of their offer

The majority of the dealers cut with a share of 20 percent to 30 percent from modest to non-genetically modified feed. These include REWE, Penny, Aldi, Kaiser's Tengelmann, Edeka, Real and Norma. Lidl and Globe occupy the last places in the Greenpeace rankings. They refused to make statements to the extent of their GM-free supply of fresh eggs. Both companies that provide only a biomarker. Lidl has also not conventional eggs without GM plants on offer, while offering world after all, still considered the GM-free own-brand animal welfare.

GM-free feed for laying hens should be compulsory

Federal Association of the German food trade on request from Greenpeace argued in principle for a GM-free feeding method. It is welcome too, REWE and net that want to expand their range of GM-free eggs until the end of 2011 clearly: REWE by more than 70 percent and net up to 100 percent. "The new-found awareness of trade is a first step. to protect human health and the environment should be completely eliminate the use of genetically modified plants, " says Blessin. "The cultivation of these crops threatens the biological diversity and lead to increased pesticide use."

Stay slim from forty

Who at forty still as alive as at twenty, increases inevitably. Of these, nutritionist Inge Hofmann is convinced. What the body loose with twenty dunk - lush cake orgies, extravagant consumption of alcohol, party all night - leaves its mark in his forties. But there is also good news: who adjusts his lifestyle now, the altered metabolism remains, even in the middle-aged fit and slim.

Forty years - a magic limit?

In fact, the human body does with a fundamental change by about forty - when a little earlier, the other a bit later: The metabolism is slowed, fewer calories consumed. Various factors are responsible for the altered metabolism. The production of sex hormones decline, earlier in women than in men about ten years. Also decreases the muscle mass. "Even women are affected from this earlier because men have an inherently greater muscle mass," said Hoffman, author of the guidebook "Slim from forty".
Keeping your weight

From the perspective of a biochemist studying only a fundamental change in lifestyle will help against the threat of obesity. This consists of three factors: a full-fledged, healthy diet, regular exercise and adequate rest breaks. "If you eat as much as forty to twenty, to take them," warns Hoffman. Instead, it now is to come, have to be carefully when you're tired and not out of habit always pile up the same portion size. In particular evening gourmet menus are now proposing to increase book. Hofmann also emphasizes that all is not prohibited from forty, which is fun ". We must do everything, but in measured doses" Only one is from forty taboo: radical dieting. "This only a yo-yo effect. More important is a long-term conversion have."
Slim through sports

Regular exercise is mid-forties as important as a balanced diet. Anyone who has operated to date no sport should first have it checked by a doctor. Is this the green light, just has to own a bitch to be overcome. "You can pick a sport that you really enjoy," advises Hofmann. Ideal is a combination of muscle building and endurance training. The 49-year-old considers himself fit with daily yoga exercises and visits twice a week gym. "If you regularly makes the body requires it."

Good lifestyle pays off

But how can a balanced diet, exercise and rest in the fast pace and fit, just have the forty-year-old often? Inge Hofmann, this is a question of time management: "For a healthy lifestyle do I have the same time schedule as for the job or my hobby." For this there is also a simple motivation: With increasing age, the effect of a healthy lifestyle shows more clearly than in his early years - and "an old woman that looks good harvests, more admiration than twenty years, when this is completely normal."

How do you keep your weight? Can you think of the Stay Slim with increasing years hard? Send your comments!

Counterfeit Extension to Two Worlds II

If you like pirates and role-playing, you can enjoy the autumn. Not only it is expected that rice 2: Dark Waters shows up then, but we also get a pirate expansion for Two Worlds II.

The expansion is called Pirates of the Burning Fortress, and going to multiple formats. The temporary site lists the PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, so it looks like everyone will join in the fun.

We were promised an exotic adventure with new enemies, new environments and new weapons. Although the action takes place in the "good old Antaloor" will be very different mood this time.

The very brief press release says that the developers have added plenty of content and new features. We might look forward to thunder and rain storms, horse armor (and new breeds) and new animations.

For the uninitiated: Two Worlds II is an open-world role-playing game set in a large group of islands in a fantasy universe. The game boasts, among other things, a massive world, lots of missions, a very interesting magic system and the ability to upgrade all the weapons you find.

10 top tips for optimizing DSL

Is your DSL connection much slower than promised? This may be due to your equipment and settings. COMPUTER ART gives you tips on how to increase your broadband speed for free.

The DSL speed

The DSL speed depends on where you live: For the data rate and quality of the cable length, number of users at a crucial junction box. In rural areas, but also in large cities these problems are now on more often. In addition, some streets as many DSL lines are connected such that the lines are overloaded. The suppliers often act according to the motto: "Better a few customers over DSL a guaranteed maximum for all ".

The main reasons for slow Internet connection
You know that: you have booked a fast DSL connection, but the pace can be desired! These problems are not uncommon. Two reasons come to the dilemma being:

The supplier's problem: Fewer DSL as promised
Some vendors are promising in terms of the maximum speed of a sports car supply, but there is only the power of a small car. They offer such as DSL at 16,000, but only guarantee a speed of 7,000 kilobits per second (kbit / s). In the small print says it is not without reason "up to 16,000 kbit / s".

The home-Problem: Incorrect hardware, and incorrect settings
Not always carry the DSL provider to blame for the mess. Even with error-free Internet connections can cause lame broadband. The possible causes are then to you - in the home audio equipment. Incorrectly configured network cards, old router, wrong WLAN equipment and poor reception conditions that interfere with the wireless radio network, are typical DSL brake pads. Quick Help: By repositioning of wireless router, PC or notebook, you often achieve better performance. Faulty network cards set optimizes the TCP Optimizer tool.

Connect your DSL optimally

In many apartments or houses, there are several conventional TAE-in sockets. The following extended TAE-second doses can lead to loss of speed.

Tip 1
Connect the first DSL device, so the splitter, as with the first TAE telephone socket in the apartment or house.

Does your router ADSL2?

DSL support for 16000 and VDSL hardware is necessary to ADSL2 or VDSL technology. Point your connection to the new technology, you are charged usually a current or a fresh modem router. Older DSL equipment does not necessarily support ADSL2 or VDSL.

Tip 2
Check with the manufacturer of the router if it supports your connection.

Share your wireless devices optimally

Various barriers affect the optimal distribution of the Wi-Fi radiation in homes and buildings. The worst Wi-blockers are steel and highly water-containing components such as water pipes, floor heating and wood. The wireless speed can greatly reduce this part. Result: The connection speed is in the basement.

Tip 3
Ask your DSL router to. It often helps if you put it not on the floor or table, but the cupboard or just move a few meters to one side. Who wants wireless transmitted over several floors, the Wi-Fi antennas in the router level. This increases the wireless range of floors. What always helps: put together computer and wireless router closer. Prima alternative: power line network adapters, you can get your Internet access in every room that has an outlet.

Start the DSL-only test of a device

If you have a router to the Internet, you have the advantage of being able to surf with multiple computers on the Internet. The internet is divided on this network, but on the respective devices. Therefore, fall-speed Internet results from the lower, the more computers are integrated in the network and load the internet connection!

Tip 4
Run the DSL speed test, if only one computer on the network logged into the router

Configure your network card with TCP Optimizer

The network card in the desktop PC or laptop must be set optimally. In general, it is also. If not, is one of the TCP Optimizer the ideal values ​​for your DSL connection.

Tip 5
Use the TCP Optimizer tool to make your network or wireless card to optimally configure the DSL connection.

Check your connection is not via WLAN

Wi-Fi connection and none of the tips provides a significant success? In many cases, the interference in the radio network are too large to reap the maximum speed of the DSL line.

Tip 6
Disable the wireless network and connect desktop or notebook via cable to the DSL modem. Important: Switch off additional security programs such as a firewall in Windows, and use in several telephone boxes the first box of the home. To ensure that the device the maximum speed available.

DSL providers are not hasty change

Your DSL is snail-slow? The first reaction is then often go to the DSL provider immediately. Watch out: That's not always an improvement in your situation. Even competing provider you can often assure no quicker access. Reason: You use the same lines and the same network technology.

Tip 7
Check that your connection would generally provide greater momentum. How does it work, check out the article "The Truth about lame DSL. " Only when you are sure that your provider is not fully exploiting the transmission capacity, go to the competition.

Allocate a new Wi-Fi channel in the router

You use a wireless router? Then it may be that affect neighboring Wi-Fi wireless networks the performance of your wireless network, especially in a densely populated city.

Tip 8
Change the wireless radio channel. Often, routers are set to the same channels. Walking on which channels the devices of the neighborhood, you can check with the software NetStumbler. Select a channel that is far removed from most of the occupied channels.

New Wi-Fi router with a higher rate now

Your router is already a few years old? Then it may be that he the DSL speed of 16 megabits (Mbps) and no longer creates. Straight router, the data after the wireless b standard transfer work to slow.

Tip 9
Who has a b-standard router should switch to a g-or n standard router. Their data transfer is much higher. Alternative: Replace at least on the website of the manufacturer, the firmware of your current router. This brings some tempo increases.

Keep talking to your provider

If all the tips remain unanswered, the slow pace is probably not because you use wrong device or settings.

Tip 10
The last resort: the DSL provider. Not always he can help, but in some cases, such as the exact re-measuring the DSL line, it provides at least for reconnaissance.

Fight Night Champion: success "the industry" of fast-track

All the defeat boxers in Fight Night Champion "is a tough issue. With the tip of COMPUTER GAMES this is quite fixed.

The creators of "Fight Night Champion" been busy: several dozen original Boxer rise in sports game with you in the ring. Very laudable, but the success (Xbox 360) or the trophy (PS3) "industry " is the amount an ordeal. To defeat the entire elite boxers in the quick battle is a lengthy process. Too expensive for the average Joe gamer? No: With a little trick it will work in fast-forward. In the gallery tells the editor how to speed things up. The effort is worthwhile: it waving 100 gamer points or a gold trophy.