Friday Reading - Xbox 360 crash fix - briefly
(hx) 05:26 PM CET - Nov,25 2005
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- Need for Speed: Most Wanted Tweak Guide -
The guide
focuses on giving you the rundown on how the various in-game settings
affect image quality and performance through a series of screenshot
comparisons and performance discussions. It also provides the advanced
tweaking possible in the game via the Windows Registry, and it rounds these
out with some troubleshooting tips and general performance optimization
information which should help you squeeze the most out of the game on your
machine.
- New Titan Quest shots - THQ and Iron Lore have updated the German
website for their upcoming action-RPG, Titan Quest, with
some
new screens.
- UT 2004 v3369 Beta Patch Notes - Beyond Unreal posted up
the beta patch notes for Unreal Tournament 2004 version 3369.
- Bethesda hires -
Bethesda Softworks is
looking for
quest designers who actually know what quests and RPGs are all about to
create awesome Elder Scrolls and Fallout products.
- Computer Worm Poses as E-Mail From FBI, CIA -
The bogus e-mail claims the government has discovered you visiting "illegal"
Web sites and asks you to open an attachment to answer some official
questions. If you do, your computer gets infected with malware that can
disable security and firewall programs and blast out similar e-mails to
contacts in your address book. It can also keep you from getting to computer
security Web sites that might help fix the problem, and it may open your
Windows computer to intruders who can steal your personal data.
- EB Lists Micro at $89.99 - Online retailer
EBGames is listing Nintendo's mini GameBoy, the Micro, at $89.99.
- CVG Confirms most Xbox 360 games are Region Free -
The supposed region-free titles discovered include Call of Duty 2,
Condemned: Criminal Origins, Gun and Tony Hawk: American Wasteland, suggesting
that the console's stance on region locking is the same as on the original
Xbox, leaving the decision up to the publisher. There's no news yet on whether
any foreign region games work on a PAL Xbox 360...
- Xbox 360 crash fix found - A gamer fed up with his new Xbox
360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power
supply off the ground with some string.
The
solution is to lift the power supply off the floor and allow the air to
circulate better around it. I havent got a 360 yet, but I'm sure there's gotta
be warning about placing that thing on the floor....
- Xbox-Linux: Free60 project started - Back in May
that Team
Xbox-Linux launched their project page (wiki) for the Xbox 360 on
www.free60.org. Today they
launched the
developers mailing list for technical/serious discussions on how get Linux
boot on the Xbox 360.
- Samsung Phones Recognize Gestures -
Samsung has released two Korea-only phones that come with a nifty feature:
gesture recognition. By gesture, Samsung really means movement. The SPH-S4000
and SCH-S400 phones come with software to take advantage of this feature. For
example, you can skip songs on its MP3 player by shaking the phone from side
to side (so, no use in then gym then), or play games by shaking the phone,
rather than using a more traditional joystick.
- DoCoMo SA800i Kid Safety Phone -
Today NTT DoCoMo announced a new model currently under development -
the FOMA SA800i, made especially for children (specifically, elementary school
kids). The phone is expected to go on sale in Spring 2006 and features: GPS,
allowing you to check where your child is, either from another, mobile phone
or from a computer; an attack alarm (activated by the big pull-out ring);
Parental-control settings that, for example, switch off access to the internet
during set times every day and a "kid's mode" featuring bright, simple
menus.
- Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater - Pulsar Advanced
Technologies has announced that, starting next week, they will launch
the MK4, a microwave-powered on-demand water heater.
- Star Wars Electronic Lightsaber Selling for $8.00 -
Wal-mart is selling Star Wars Lightsabers for only $8.00. One of them is
this Star Wars Lightsaber replica that ignites with a push of a button. This
bargain lightsaber also features the real electronic movie sound effects,
including battle-clash and "humming" sounds.
- Color Changing Volcano Lamp (Non USB) -
This cool desk decoration emulates the action of an erupting volcano with
motion beads and multi-colored LED lights
- Robosapien Dance Machine: Control Robopet With Your Voice - See a
Robopet robot being controlled by voice in
this 3 minute demonstration video.
- Akihabara Video Clip - For those of you who keep hearing
"Akihabara" or "Akiba" - you know that its a place name for "Geek Heaven"
and its written on the top of your do's list for when you come to Tokyo.
- Girlfriends Against Video Games -
MTV has an article up on a support group started at Kansas State
University called "Girlfriends Against Video Games." They offer plenty of
anecdotal evidence of a growing divide between the mostly male gamers and
their ignored girlfriends.
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