Monday reading - Antispyware Shootout - briefly
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I watched
Batman Begins on Sunday.
This is pure and simple a great film, easily the best Batman film. One of the
better films so far this year. It retells Batman's story from the beginning and
answers many of the questions you've always had about how the Caped Crusader
came to be. The best thing about this movie, however, is the cast. Christian
Bale (American Psycho, Equilibrium) puts in a very good performance as Bruce
Wayne/Batman. He does a good job of portraying Bruce as a young man looking for
direction in his life and a way to honor the memory and ideals of his father.
What games are coming out this week? Here's a list: (Dec5-Dec11)
PC: Chaos League: Sudden Death / Hammer & Sickle
/ Pac-Man World 3 / Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones / Star Chamber: The
Harbinger Saga
PS2: -
Xbox: Sonic Heroes & Super Monkey Ball Deluxe /
Sonic Mega Collection Plus & Super Monkey Ball Deluxe
GC: Super Mario Strikers
GBA: Mario Tennis: Power Tour
PSP: Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb
Collection / Pac-Man World 3 / Prince of Persia Revelations / The
Sims 2 / Tokobot / Ultimate Block Party
DS: Animal Crossing: Wild World / Battles of
Prince of Persia / Dragon Booster / Pac-Man World 3
Xbox 360: -
This week on DVD we have:
24: Season 4 / Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume 4 / Cinderella Man / Clone Wars:
Volume 2 / Dukes of Hazzard / Fantastic Four.
Here's some stuff:
- Antispyware Shootout - ZDNet has published
a review of 8 antispyware products from Computer Associates, Lavasoft,
McAfee, Microsoft, PC Tools, Symantec, Trend Micro and Webroot.
- Fox finds Play Station 3 support good enough to back Blu-ray - Fox
Film Entertainment has sited PlayStation 3 support as reason enough to back
Blu-ray and has
decided to release all films exclusively in that format. This news comes
on the heels of wavering support for Blu-ray due to recent reports of it's
restrictive copyright protections policy.
- Microsoft aiming to sell 1m Xbox 360s in Japan - Xbox Japan's
business manager, Yoshihiro Maruyama, has announced that
Microsoft is aiming to sell 1 million Xbox 360 units in the region by
summer 2006.
- Sony Sponsoring PSP Graffiti? -
Some rather interesting graffiti has started appearing in cities across
America, depicting funky looking characters mucking about with PSPs. The
graffiti has been spotted in LA, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and
Chicago - you can take a look at some photos of it over on
Flickr or
here. The question is, how did the graffiti get there? Is there really a
PSP-loving graffiti artist running all over the country, or has Sony
commissioned someone to do it as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign?
(thanks Kurt Erslieb)
- Revolution parody video - Check out this hilarious parody on
Nintendo's TGS 2005 Revolution controller
promo.
- Nokia N90 Video Samples -
The videos have been made under difficult conditions at concert of
Jamaican reggae band Morgan Heritage in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Codename cornucopia reveals Intel's 65nm CPU plans -
Intel may be preparing to segment its next-generation 65nm desktop and
mobile processor lines by taking a leaf out of arch-rival AMD's book and
offering chips with a range of different cache sizes. Check out
this list of upcoming Intel CPUs for 2006 and 2007 published by Tom's
Hardware.
- Alcohol Software announces 40% pre-Christmas discount -
Purchase
Alcohol 120% download version 1.9.5.3105 or boxed version 1.9.2.1705
before December 23rd and receive a 40% discount off the RRP (valid only for
single license purchase). This offer includes free updates and support.
PC reviews:
Battlefield 2: Special Forces (8/10) /
Battlefield 2 Special Forces (3/5) /
Battlefield 2: Special Forces (8.7/10) /
Blitzkreig 2 (8.2/10) /
BloodRayne 2 (69%) /
Call
of Duty 2 (9/10) /
City
of Villains (9/10) /
City of
Villains (8.3/10) /
Civilization IV (9/10) /
Cold
War (2/5) /
Dragonshard /
Earth
2160 (6/10) /
Great Invasions (7.5/10) /
Gun
(80%) /
Hammer & Sickle (2/5) /
Hammer & Sickle
(3/5) /
King Kong (8.8/10) /
NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2005 /
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (8/10) /
Quake 4 (8.2/10)
/
Serious Sam II (8.5/10) /
Shrek Superslam (6.6/10) /
Space
Hack (7.8/10) /
Stubbs
The Zombie (7.5/10) /
Stubbs
the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse /
The
Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (6/10) /
The Matrix: Path of Neo (4.5/5) /
The Movies (9/10) /
The Movies (86%) /
UFO
Aftershock (7.5/10) /
X3: Reunion (7.2/10) /
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (67%)
Xbox 360 reviews:
Amped 3 (C) /
Call of Duty 2 (8.5/10) /
Call of Duty 2
(9/10) /
Gun
(9/10) / Gun
(7.8/10) /
Kameo: Elements of Power (B-) /
King Kong (4/5) /
Need
for Speed: Most Wanted (8.5/10) /
Perfect Dark Zero (89%) /
Perfect
Dark Zero (8.4/10) /
Project Gotham Racing 3 (86%) /
Ridge
Racer 6 (8/10) /
Tony
Hawk's American Wasteland (8/10) /
Tony Hawk's
American Wasteland (7/10)
Previews:
25 to
Life /
Samurai Showdown V (Xbox/Xbox360) /
Titan Quest
Media:
Beltion: Beyond Ritual shots (action RPG) /
HistWar shots +
video /
Monster
Madness shots /
Mutant shots /
Sword of
the Stars movie /
Tales of Legendia shots (PS2)
Mods/Tools:
5.56mm Full Metal Jacket for Windows Beta 0.45 (D3) /
Additional War Effects 3.0beta (CoD2) /
Damnatio Memoriae Episode 1 (D3) /
Exodus CoD-CoD2 Gaming Tools /
Primary Archeological Research Station v1.0 (D3) /
Pure-CoD2 v2.0 /
w00t! UT MapPack ( a series of CTF maps designed for crazy-fast InstaGib
action) (UT2k4)
Other gaming news:
- Win64 UT2004 Patch -
The promised Win64-bit patch for the sci-fi multiplayer
first-person shooter sequel by Epic Games is now available too.
- Rugby 06 Announced - EA today announced
Rugby 06, the next installment in the Rugby series. The game is
currently under development at EA Canada and HB Studios for the PC,
PS2 and Xbox.
- Blizzard: Bans 2500 Euro Accounts -
Blizzard
banned 2500 WoW accounts this weekend for being "involved in the
use of cheats and/or hacks using third-person software or were
otherwise violating our Terms of Use".
- Rose Online Europe 1.05 Patch -
A new manual patch file has been released and made available for
download for players who wish to
update their
clients to the latest version without using the autopatch system
- Crazy Ducks demo v1.04 -
Crazy Ducks is a budget-priced first-person hunting shooter by
Twinno Software that came out last March.
- Top Ten free games Hall of Fame -
A
Hall of Fame of the Top Ten free games has been compiled by
software review site Software4free.org.
- Certain 'highly anticipated' Xbox 360 title filling four discs
worth of space - According to Game Informer, nearly every
developer they talked to at X05 expressed difficulties fitting their
launch titles onto a single disc. One unnamed yet "highly anticipated"
game in particular is said to currently occupy
a full four 9Gb DVDs
- First Revolution Screens? - A company called NIBRIS has
a game titled Raid Over the River in proposed development for
Nintendo's next-gen machine says gaming site Revolution Report
Buy goodies:
Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition)
/ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition)
/
Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Widescreen Edition)
/
Seinfeld - Seasons 5 & 6 Giftset
/ War of the Worlds (2-Disc Limited Edition) DVD
/ Madagascar (Widescreen Edition)
Pre-orders: Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0
(ships on Dec20) / Pink Floyd - Pulse
(ships on Jan17)
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