Casual Friday: Spy Games, Spy Gear

Get re-Bourne in a video game, enjoy some free online espionage, and check out sneaky gadgets to play gunshoe--or to avoid prying eyes during the work day.

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Casual Friday: Spy Games, Spy Gear
This watch isn't just a decent-looking timepiece, it also happens to be a one crazy covert spying tool. The solar-powered sneak houses a 2.4-GHz transmitter with a 300-foot range. What is it transmitting, you ask? 640-by-480-resolution color video and audio from its built-in camera--and the transmissiongoes to the included MPEG-4 Recorder DVR. Honestly, out of all the gear here, this is the one thing I'm putting on my wish list (it's no impulse buy--it costs $429). Oh, the things I could catch PC World staffers admitting to in product demos!
SPY GAMES
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition: I don't know how GameTap pulled it off, but the company is now offering this fantastic sci-fi spy game for free. In this role-playing, first-person shooter, you're a cybernetic superagent trying to uncover a globe-spanning conspiracy. A couple years ago, you'd have paid top dollar for this game and been happy.
Hacker : Even if it's more about computers and back doors as opposed to beautiful spies on foreign shores, hacking is synonymous with spying. And while I'd love to point to Activision's classic gameof the same name, I'll settle for this quirky little flash-based version.
JD Spy : This tiny download is really a series of devious puzzles. In fact, the first time you start playing it, you'll think that the game is broken. Or that the program just isn't working. Trust me on this--it is. And it's a lot of fun.

Dynasty Street: In a nutshell, a secret agent stick figure needs to infiltrate the enemy base and lay waste to anyone that tries to stop him. And, really, who doesn't wantto see a stick figure punch, kick, and shoot his way through hordes of hostile minions?
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein : Before Id Software took shooters into 3D, Wolfenstein was a very tense action stealth game. And technically, this was the very first spy game that I loved and played as a kid on my Apple II. In it, you're infiltrating a Nazi headquarters, posing as a guard and trying to plant a bomb to take out Hitler.
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Senior Writer Darren Gladstone geeks out over gadgets, games, and odd uses for humdrum tech. In other words, he's a nerd--and he's okay with that.



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