June 2005 - Posts
After creating a buzz on the net last week, Bizzare Creations released proof that the posted image from Project Gotham Racing 3 is not a fake . They posted the wireforms from the dev kit - and I have to tell you that these graphics are jawdropping. Run
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After what seems like a lifetime I finally have MC3 Dub in my hands. I have been waiting for this one for quite a while, gritting my teeth as my friend dominated his copy of the game on the XBox. Yesterday at lunch I made the Best Buy drone go get the
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This could be big. According to the Inq., Microsoft is considering licensing the Xbox architecture. Though the Seattle giant hasn't made clear which gadgets will carry the Xbox brand in future, the company has confirmed a report in Japan's top
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MTV and Midway have signed a marketing agreement to produce video games. Well, its not like MTV shows music videos any more.
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Twenty-seven from Go. Probably doesn't mean much to you. Before the age of video Russ and Geb were gamers. BOARD gamers. Our favorite was Monopoly. Russ was, and still is, the bad ass to beat. If you tell him "27 from go" he will tell you
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nVidia reloads their graphics card line with the new 7800 series with full on pixel shader 3.0. Toms Hardware has the lowdown on the intro, with the promise of benchmarks tomorrow. And the cost of these babies is just shy of $700, thus officially reaching
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Looks like a big PC title can still sell well. A friend of mine was at a local Best Buy this afternoon getting his copy and he said he saw four people buying 4 and 5 copies of the game at a time. And there was a group of people asking for the DVD version
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EDITOR'S NOTE : It was late when I wrote this and I forgot the actual link. Apologies. It's corrected now. So, in case you haven't picked this up by now, I'm a fairly die hard capitalist. The free market, with all its flaws and warts,
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I have to say the Intel-Apple deal is a great story. As a story, its to tech geeks what the Lakers saga is to sports fans. Soap opera appeal, disbelief at the turn of events, juicy tidbits, unpredictable storylines, and people who actually care about
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I find it humorous when a journalist reports on a LAN party and find it surprising that wealthy professionals trick out their computers and actually create a local area network to play games. You mean they can do that? Yes, we can, we've been doing
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It is hard to believe that a video game would have an impact on the infrastructure of our nation but one game has. In 1989 a game that no distributor wanted to touch was released. In it you zoned land, built roads and layed power lines. The game had no
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Remember when the ATI Radeon was kicking the tail out of nVidia and the GeForce 5xxx series? There were even whispers by some who were a little too caught up in the hype that nVidia was in danger of being the next 3dfx. Sure, now those comments seem silly,
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You know I really wasn't going to buy this game, but I was dying for a new PSP distraction -- and since Midnight Club 3 isn't due for another two weeks, I plopped down $39.99 on Hot Shots to see what it was all about. I have never played a “Hot
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As a huge fan of Halo this really excites me. And it looks like Microsoft is feeling quite big of themselves. Nothing new there as they ask for some pretty rediculous financial and control clauses in the contract for the rights to film it (note: New York
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I love the Battlefield games. Battlefield 1942 was a truly inspired multiplayer title. All the mods were great as well. Battlefield Vietnam, while making less of any imprint on the gaming landscape, was also a fantastically done multiplayer game. And
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We know that Gamespy's game and game industry critiques are, shall we say, less than...er...critical of the powers that be in the gaming industry. And the fact that they hand out a lot of 4-5 star reviews just heightens the suspisions that maybe they
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Just when we thought Microsoft had put to bed the rumor that Xbox360 wouldn't really be backwards compatible, comes along this report that implies , that yeah, there may well be some Xbox games that the 360 won't support: Company management stated
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LAST UPDATED June 8th at 10:45pm - This is officially a Nomad Gamer Roundtable as Geb and Russ take their shots at this fluid story. The Inquirer seems to have independant verification of Apple's pending announcement at the Worldwide Developers Conference
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And we're not talking some collector's edition from Valve or Blizzard. DailyGame says that EB Games pricing guides show Xbox360 games running at $60. This hobby of ours is getting steeper and steeper, no?
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Penny Arcade thinks Gamespy may be a little to cozy with the game developers whose games Gamespy supposedly gives objective reviews about. Now, where have I heard that before .
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I guess seeing the home entertainment geeks talking about the Mac Mini being a killer home theater PC got Intel to thinking, "Maybe we should get a comparable form factor together." Well they have, and AOpen seems to be the first to show off
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Came across this today. It's a couple of weeks old, but, kind of interesting if you are the sort to void your warranty. Over Blogs has a potpourri of links to PSP hack sites. Check it out if that’s your cup of tea. Geb Adds: Most of this stuff
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I've only marginally paid attention to this title, but this article (at MTV.com of all places), tells the rather neat story of the brothers behind Advent Rising. Its a story Donald Mustard had been working on since he was 11 and he now gets to see
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I really can't believe the review for MVP Baseball (PSP) that these guys posted. MVP is getting lackluster reviews around the net and these guys rate the game an 7.7 "Good". Now I troll Gamespot on a daily basis for the gaming news since
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Gamespy has an interesting article on my second favorite card game, Magic: The Gathering, specifically the Online version (my favorite being centered around the same 52 cards and uses phrases like "All In" and "Flop"). They note that
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