October 2005 - Posts
From Kotaku (and Gameshout ), the BBC says that the Xbox 360 will be launched 22 months ahead of the PS3. Unlike the good souls at Kotaku I don't have near the faith in the BBC's authority that they do. Still, that puts the launch at the early
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It is October 30, 1998 and you are Tony Cipriani, member of the Leone crime family led by the powerful Don Salvatore. Loyal to the Don, your goal is the family's total control of the criminal underworld. Fresh from "laying low", you are
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The Inq has the scoop on the Xbox 360 CPU. The chip itself is a three way SMP PPC with specialised function VMX extensions and two threads per core. It has 1MB of L2 cache, a FSB of 21.6GB/s. It has 165M transistors, and is built on IBM's 10KE 90nm
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BF2: Modern Combat is coming out for the consoles and its intro tourney will give out $250K in cash. It would seem that is divided 12 ways since they can do 24 player tourneys (I assume 12v12). Pretty cool. Not as cool as playing it on a PC, but I'll
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Man, we have tried to ignore this guy since Hot Coffee but this thing just keeps getting stranger. So this story goes Jack Thompson, attorney-at-law and crusader of good, had a "Modest proposal" that if someone develop a game in which players
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I'm of the belief that video games are just the latest target in the eternal search to figure out why are our kids so !&$#*@*(% crazy. Before that it was rap music, then hair metal, Madonna and MTV, bad words in movies, boobies in movies, violence
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I'm not sure what this says for the hope of a truly free China, and whether or not it says something positive about American cultural influence. But, it is damn funny. (WARNING: This could cause a truly awful song to be buried in the recesses of your
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We have polished up the site a bit for everyone. When we hit legend #20 we realized it was becoming pretty darn impossible to scroll through all the posts if you wanted to see the older stuff -- so we have redone its index and now bring to you the Nomad
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Wow. This is big news and a testament to AMD's success in its David and Goliath battle with Intel. This can only be good for the consumer: San Diego (CA) - AMD scored a major win against Intel during the back-to-school season. According to Current
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The good volk at Tom's Hardware have done your shopping for you and put together a nice gaming rig for a cool $516. They say you can't play at 1600x1200 at 16AF, but you'll be quite satisfied at the settings you can play at. Go check it out.
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In 1983 "going to the arcade" was all the rage. Consoles were still fun, but nothing could beat the graphics that you could find in the stand-ups. If you walked into an arcade in 1983 you would pass screen after screen of "sprite-based"
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Players of World of Warcraft will be happy to note that the level cap will be raised to 70 with the release of their new expansion. Kotaku has translated the cover to an Italian games magazine , which announces the new level cap as well as the name of
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Once again the folks at Cryptic are changing the internals of City of Heroes and this time they have a real hero rebellion on their hands. Threads on the subject are huge and they are growing every minute. If you have never played City of Heroes here
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Now this is funny and quite mischievous. "If Microsoft never existed..." Suddenly, the doorbell rings. I head upstairs, and the UPS guy is there with a big box that has the HP logo on it. I perk up, realizing that it was, in fact, the new Commodore
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Anandtech has the latest on the marchitecture wars between nVidia and ATI. ATi finally has an answer to the 7xxx series and it looks like if you like playing with AA turned on (who doesn't), you'll be quite pleased with the ATI card, but if you
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Serious Sam 2 is a game about intergalactic intrigue. It is an open ended game where you choose the class of Sam to play. The class you choose will factor in the encumbrance your character has which determines how many weapons you can carry. Along the
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In my latest Computer Gaming World was this link to The Sir Community , one of the more creative gaming communities I've ever seen. Basically, they are Virtual Stuntmen. Because the Battlefield 2 Engine is so robust with a great, if not totally realistic,
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1UP has a fun article for you WOW players. They have uncovered hidden zones within the game. Apparently they have found a way to dig into the local client and see these areas in all their glory. Well, glory may be a strong term. I have never seen a corn
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From the "Everyone is in first place on week 1 category" comes the disaster that is Madden '06. Kotaku has detailed the awful bugs with the best one being the three inch tall linemen. I hope this isn't a sign to come with "exclusive
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The latest BF2 patch is out (1.03) and it includes a redo of the 1942 classic map, Wake Island totally done with new engine. Check it out . A note from Russ.... There is word on the street that this patch could cause problems... Check out this article
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I've had money squirrled away for some time waiting for Madden PSP to drop into stores. This is because the fine folks at EA (unlike every other developer) scoff at our site. No matter -- I was going to buy the thing to review. Then the smell of controversy
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