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Resident Evil, known in Japan as Biohazard (バイオハザード, Baiohazādo?), is a survival horror video game by Capcom. The inaugural title and first installment in the Resident Evil series, it was originally released in 1996 for the Sony PlayStation and has subsequently been ported to the Sega Saturn and PC.

In 2002, a remake of the game was released for the Nintendo GameCube featuring new graphics, voice acting and many significant gameplay changes. A Nintendo DS port of the original was released in early 2006 as Resident Evil: Deadly Silence.

It was the first game to be dubbed a "survival horror," borrowing from the "ambient survival horror" genre coined by Alone in the Dark. Accordingly, Game Informer refers to "the original Resident Evil" as "one of the most important games of all time." The inspiration for Resident Evil was the earlier Capcom game Sweet Home. Shinji Mikami was initially commissioned to make a horror game set in a haunted mansion like Sweet Home.

  

 

Secret of the Solstice is a free Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game developed and published by DNC Entertainment in Korea and hosted by Outspark in the international English market. It is the second MMO published by Outspark, and includes many features common in the MMORPG genre such as an online persistant world, quests, and item crafting.

Secret of the Solstice features a cute, anime-inspired visual style. Player characters, monsters, and non-player characters (NPCs) are represented as 2D sprites while environments and background elements are rendered in 3D.

  

 

Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī?) is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. The series began in 1987 as an eponymous console role-playing game (RPG) developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise. The franchise has since branched out into other genres and platforms, such as tactical RPGs, portable games, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, and games for mobile phones. As of March 2007, there are twenty-eight games in the franchise—including twelve numbered games and numerous spin-off titles. The series has spurred the release of three animated productions, two full-length CGI films, and several printed adaptations.

  

 

Prince of Persia is an action-adventure video game series. Through the various titles, the series has had a variety of different developers and publishers. Although originally a side-scrolling platforming game, the series evolved into an action-adventure 3D environment. The series was rebooted with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, developed and published by Ubisoft. The game was then part of a trilogy, called The Sands of Time Trilogy, in which all games have a time-traveling gameplay element. The series was rebooted again with the 2008 game Prince of Persia.

 

LogMeIn is a Web-hosted service marketed by LogMeIn Inc. It is remote control software, which means that it enables the user to operate one computer from another computer, via the Internet.

LogMeIn was developed by LogMeIn Inc of Woburn, Massachusetts formerly known as as 3amLabs Inc, founded in 2003 to market a remote access product called Remotely Anywhere modeled after competing software such as pcAnywhere from Symantec allowing the desktop view of a host computer to be manipulated from a client computer that is connected through a TCP/IP network. Remotely Anywhere uses a standard client-server architecture where the client must know the DNS name or IP address of the server in order to connect to it.

LogMeIn, first released in 200X, enlarged that software model by using the Internet for connectivity, protecting transmissions with high-security encryption and multiple passwords. By combining a Web-hosted subscription service with software installed on the host computer it became possible to access remote PCs without knowing their DNS names or IP addresses. Remote PCs maintain a registration with the server allowing them to be contacted without making an unsolicited incoming TCP/IP connection. For this reason, LogMeIn sessions can be passed through firewalls which restrict unsolicited connections.

LogMeIn’s use of a hosted service to broker the connections between PCs is similar to that used by its main competetor, Citrix GoToMyPC, which currently leads the market for Web-hosted remote access. As of August 2007, LogMeIn Inc claims 20 million users for its services, although it is not stated how many of these are for LogMeIn and how many for its other products. It is assumed that this figure includes users of the free service.