Ask a software industry analyst-someone who is supposed to know everything about the software business-about shareware, and the response probably will be either a shrug or a curt dismissal. None of ...

We look back at the history of indie gaming, from bedroom coders through crowd-funding to the current crowded scene. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Some of the largest sites for shareware include Download.com (www.download.com), Shareware.com (www.shareware.com) and hotfiles.com (www.hotfiles.com). These are large, general-interest sites focused ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A lot of new-school gamers probably read the headline and go..."Huh, shareware? What's that?" us ...

Who doesn’t remember Commander Keen or Wolfenstein 3D, two great shareware games that helped many a gamer get into gaming. Today we celebrate those games with a gallery of eight of the most ...

We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

With Apple’s introduction of an iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) last week, it seems everyone and their brother is hopping on the iPhone bandwagon or considering the jump. There are still some ...

Capiche is a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new community of people who care about software to make the SaaS industry more transparent, together. Matthew Guay is Capiche‘s founding ...

Just like many people close to my age, I spent a lot of time as a kid playing Shareware games on our home PC. Better than a game demo, you could play the first "episode" of a game for free, but then ...