June 2006 - Posts
Witness a throwdown of small but Biblical proportions..... The Big "N" and its DS vs. the new kid on the portable gaming block with its high technology luster: the Sony PSP. How will they fair? We will duel in 6 categories -- Graphics, Control,
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Sorry for the shockingly bad grammar in the subject, but such paradigm shifting ideas will do that to someone. That frigid chill Satan is feeling right now is due to the release of the demo for Prey , a game originally slated to come out around the time
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Check out what other gamer/bloggers are saying . Psst...Dog-byting-Man, Over here!
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Sorry, here I go again. I'm about to go off on Mac Cultists and the company that feeds them the Kool-Aid (and I promise I'm not lumping my dear partner of this site in with them). The Mac Cult kind of drives me crazy. It is very similar to many
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Firingsquad has a neat article about first person shooters that need sequels. Most of the ones mentioned I don't care all that much about, but two do stick out (OK, three, but its obvious that another Jedi Knight game needs to be made). No One Lives
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As a follow-up to our earlier post today, Microsoft announced the June 2006 list of additional original XBox titles that are now compatible with the 360 ( via Joystiq ) 4x4 EVO 2 Amped® 2 Bad Boys 2 Big Mutha Truckers DOOM 3 Dreamfall: The Longest
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So as the PS3 is mired in bad PR and buggy hardware the team at Microsoft's XBox division rolls on plugging holes and improving upon their next-gen platform. Last week the Spring update brought 360 users background downloading from Live, support for
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A Cloak and Dagger post at Kotaku has more insider leaks about the problems with the PS3. On deck, a 700mhz drop in speed, external power supply and major ass heat problems according to the "Phantom Insider." Check it out for yourself. Its a
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Fresh off his attempt to be the boogieman in the closet of Playstation fanboys, Charlie Demerjian is now predicting AMD will buy ATI. He also said that Dell wouldn't sell AMD chips (of which, I actually agreed). But, I think he's getting caught
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Quite the dust-up today in the tech blogosphere. Charlie Demerjian at the Inquirer wrote that he had a lengthy discussion with some guy on his flight to Japan and was shown proof that the PS3 is baaaaaaroken. Joystiq apparently is offended that such a
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It may be uncharacteristic to associate Rockstar with a sports game, but they have served up a great one with Table Tennis. At the moment, as an exclusive to the XBox 360, Table Tennis is a fast paced, next generation game that is incredibly addictive.
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In an attempt to improve the PSP's gamer rating above "P.O.S." or "Brick" Sony has once again updated the firmware. In this release we finally get the ability to directly download a game demo to the memory card. Now the awesome
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Extreme Tech installs Beta 2 of Windows Vista so you don't have to. They run all the modern PC games through the works on their high end rig and it looks like Beta 2 is shaping up nicely on the gaming front. There are some game specific hiccups and
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Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese and the inventor of Pong, had some interesting things to say at the Next-Gen and Mobile Games Forum, as Michael Stroud at Always On reports . First, he poos poos the supposedly isolating experience
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