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June 2006 - Posts

Nomad Gamer Deathmatch: PSP vs. DS
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, Read More...
Prey is a real live game with a Demo and Everything
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 Read More...
This Week's Carnival of the Gamers
Check out what other gamer/bloggers are saying . Psst...Dog-byting-Man, Over here! Read More...
The Cult of the Mac
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 Read More...
Shooters That Need Sequels
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 Read More...
XBox 360 Backward Compatibility Additions....
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 Read More...
And the 360 Rolls on....
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 Read More...
More PS3 problems?
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 Read More...
AMD + ATI?
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 Read More...
The Inquirer Sucks while the PS3 Blows
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 Read More...
REVIEW: Rockstar's Table Tennis
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. Read More...
PSP Updated to 2.71
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 Read More...
Vista Gaming: Almost There
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 Read More...
Atari Guy Speaks
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 Read More...