Monday reading - $500 Gaming Machine - briefly
(hx) 12:26 PM CEST - Oct,17 2005
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So it's ... like ... Monday. Ugh. Man, so many good games coming out this
week. To name a few - AoE3, F.E.A.R, Quake 4...Wohoo!
Here's a full list: (Oct17-23)
PC: Age of Empires III / F.E.A.R.
/ Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary Collection / Nancy Drew Last Train CNYN
/ Quake 4 / Rhem 2 / Sniper Elite / Spongebob Lights Cam Pants
/ Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species
PS2: Crash Tag Team Racing / DragonBall Z:
Budokai Tenkaichi / Disney's Chicken Little / EYE TOY CAMERA 2 PS2 / IHRA
Drag Racing Sportsman Edition / Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition /
JAK X Combat Racing / Major League Baseball 2K5: World Series Edition / Shadow
of the Colossus / Shining Force Neo / Sniper Elite / SpongeBob SquarePants:
Lights Camera Pants! / The Bible Game / Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
/ World Poker Tour
Xbox: Crash Tag Team Racing / Disney's
Chicken Little with Bonus! / Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball MAX'd
/ IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition / Major League Baseball 2K5: World
Series Edition / Sniper Elite / SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights Camera Pants! /
The Bible Game / Tony Hawk's American Wasteland / World Poker Tour
GC: Crash Tag Team Racing / Disney's Chicken
Little / SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights Camera Pants! / Tony Hawk's American
Wasteland
GBA: Big Motha Truckers / Disney's Chicken
Little / SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights Camera Pants! / Tony Hawk's American
Sk8land / World Poker Tour
PSP: The Con / X-Men Legends II: Rise of
Apocalypse
DS: Big Motha Truckers / Dig Dug: Digging Strike
/ Spyro: Shadow Legacy / Snood 2 Lost in Snoodville
This week on DVD we have:
Batman Begins: Deluxe ed., Batman Anthology: '89-'97: 2-Disc Eds, C.S.I: NY: 1st
Season, Bruce Lee Ultimate Coll., Lifeboat: Special Ed., Ferngully: The Last
Rainforest: Family Fun Ed., Elektra: Dir. Ed.
Here's some stuff:
- Creative confirms Problem with Soundblaster and AMD Chipset...again -
Due to a handful of problems the SoundBlaster X-Fi has been causing
nForce4 based motherboard owners, Creative forum representative has anounced a
solution: A problem was identified on nForce4 based systems where the
system ran into difficulties, related to the enumeration of the cards with 2MB
(X-Fi XtremeMusic and X-Fi Platinum)
- Video iPod's own format & $1.99 a show may be a bad move - Just
before consumers start getting all excited about
the video iPod,
apparently Apple decided
to only support
QuickTime encapsulated MPEG4 & H264 video, which basically means that in
order for consumers to put video on it, they would need to purchase video from
their iTunes store or use QuickTime pro (costs $29.99) to re-encode their
video to suit their iPod.
- DVD Backup Solution with PSP Support - Bling Software has just
released
XCopy9, which allows users to backup DVD movies and transfer them to a
Sony PSP with just one click.
- The $500 Gaming Machine - Instead of the newest killer rig from
Alienware, Falcon Northwest, Voodoo, etc... how about a system for the rest of
us with
a realistic budget starting from scratch?
- Plextor PX-760A, the 18x burner -
Plextor has
announced the Px-760A in Japan, a burner that fills up your DVD+-R at 18x
and the DL at 10x... all in SATA or ATA.
- Sony Ericsson launches 3G Walkman mobile phone -
The new 3G Walkman phone, which has a 2-megapixel camera and allows users
to download and browse video games and graphics, will be available at the end
of the year.
- HP HW6715 Pictures - Dave's iPaq has
some high resolution photos of the new hw6715 up for our enjoyment. The
photos take a look at the unit itself along with some various pictures of the
Windows Mobile software.
- X5 expansion kit adds up to four drives to your Xbox -
The
X5 is an expansion kit that doubles the height of your existing box and
adds the room for four drives (not included), a couple of fans, and an
external knob for selecting which drive to run from. There is a decent amount
of work involved to modify your unit with this expansion, but the instructions
are fairly clear, and you won't be doing anything crazy like soldering to
execute them.
- New JVC MD Player XM-C17 with 250 Hours Battery Life -
The new JVC
XM-C17 MD Player features a amazing 250 hour battery life when playing in
LP4 mode. While that is cool, this MD player is not supporting MP3 file format
as some of the Sony MD players do.
- Free iRiver U10 -
iRiver Hong Kong has a hell of a weird promotion going on where you could
potentially get the iRiver U10 for free. This promotion is called the U10
Click Play Debut and runs until October 31. There are 10 conditions and for
each one that is met, a 10% discount is granted, so if all 10 conditions are
met, then the freeness will happen! LOL, I don't have 10cm long finger ;)
- Sony Ericsson Walkman FM Transmitter MMR-60 -
The Sony Ericsson Walkman FM Transmitter MMR-60 attaches to
Sony Ericsson Walkman phones equipped with the Fast port. The FM
Transmitter has a range of 10m. The Walkman phone accessory is controlled via
the phone menu.
This might be the first FM Transmitter for Mobile phones available.
- T-Mobile Details HSDPA Launch Plans -
T-Mobile Austria say that it will be offering the first HSDPA-capable data
card from this November. When the commercial start of HSDPA is launched at
the CeBIT 2006 trade fair, customers will be able to search the Internet in
downlink with data rates of 1.8 megabit per second, work in the intranet, send
e-mails and download files. From 2007 the speed is to be increased to 3.6
megabit per second in a second stage. This is equivalent to ten times the
bandwidth possible today with UMTS - 384 kilobits per second.
- World's First Morse Code LED Watch -
The
Morse Code Watch actually can beep the current time in Morse Code. The
watch displays the digits either in morse code or in standard notation.
- FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky - The Detroit News is
reporting that the
FBI has raided Alan Ralsky's home. In the raid, the FBI took computers and
financial records, effectively shutting him down.
- Gundam Modeling Tutorial for Busy People - You have asked for it
and its finally ready -
the "Gundam Modeling Tutorial for Busy People" gallery will be released
next Saturday JST right
here.
- "V for Vendetta" Movie Trailer - Based on the graphic novel by
Alan Moore
"V for Vendetta" takes place in an alternate future in which Germany wins
WWII and Britain becomes a fascist state.
- O'Reilly top ten google hacks -
A number of hacks
have been selected to be featured online in their entirety; you may view
those hacks by clicking on the hack titles that are linked
- An amazing looking completely chrome Yamaha bike -
check it out!
Reviews:
Age of
Empires III (8.8) /
Age of Empires III (8.2) /
Age of Empires III (5/5) /
Age of Empires III (4.5/5) /
Age of
Empries III (7/10) /
Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory (5/10) /
Codename: Panzers - Phase Two (77%) /
Cold War (4/5) /
Day of
Defeat: Source (75%) /
F.E.A.R. (9.1) /
F.E.A.R. (90%) /
F.E.A.R. (89%) /
NHL
Eastside Hockey Manager 2005 (9.2/10) /
Pariah (6.2/10) /
Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion (B) /
Serious
Sam II (6/10) /
Serious Sam II (7/10) /
Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne (7/10) /
Warhammer
40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault (86%)
Previews:
Age of
Pirates /
Call of Duty 2 /
Civilization IV /
The Movies /
The
Movies
Media:
Commandos: Strike Force shots /
The Witcher shots +
GC trailer /
Vivisector:
Beast Within soundtrack (3 tracks) //
Gamesurge.net Radio Interview with Last Man Standing Coop (Oct 12th
2005)
Mods/Tools:
Cyberdemon Ragdoll 1.0 (D3) /
DodgeBall Alpha 6 (HL) /
Sands of Sinai 1.0 (BF2) /
Winter Wake Island (BF2) /
WoRM2k4 v2.5 (UT2004 stuff-swapper)
Other gaming news:
- Asphyr to publish Gothic 2 - Aspyr Media announced it will
publish SpellForce Platinum, Gothic II Gold, Silent Storm Gold, and
The Guild Gold in the U.S. and Canada. All of the compilations include
the original title and their corresponding expansion packs. In
SpellForce Platinum, players will get three games in one – the
original, its sequel, and the game's add-on pack. Each compilation
pack will sell for $19.99 and all are scheduled for release in
November 2005.
- Mall Tycoon 3 Announced - Global Star Software (thanks
BluesNews)
announces development of
Mall Tycoon 3, a mogul sequel in the works at Cat Daddy Games that
tests your ability to attract customers and punk kids alike to your
own shopping complex.
- Ultima 5 Lazarus: Planned Christmas Release -
The official
Ultima 5 Lazarus website has announced a planned Christmas release
for this long awaited remake of the classic game using the Dungeon
Siege engine.
- Neocron Evolution 2.1 Weapon Models - As announced, the
Neocron Evol 2.1 Upgrade will improve a lot of the graphical elements
of the action-oriented cyberpunk MMORPG.
The following screenshots are part of the new weapon model package
and show the Gatling guns. The upgrade is scheduled for release in Q4
2005 and will be free of charge.
- John Romero Interview -
Gamecloud got a chance to chat briefly with Romero about his plans
and other topics.
- FIFA 06 Patches -
The patch
offers the promised controller fixes for all editions of the game.
- XFire Workaround for BF2 v1.03 - Following on from the
successful
workaround for the All-Seeing Eye, BFNation Forums user Prophet
has done
the same thing for XFire - the popular gaming IM client. What this
allows you to do is join a server directly from the XFire program,
without having to enter your username and password, or be disturbed by
the Message from EA
- Alien Hominid Dowloadable Content up on Xbox Live! -
50 new stages
in total up for grabs, totally free!
Buy goodies: Age of Empires III / F.E.A.R. Director's Edition (DVD-ROM)./ Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
/
Batman Vs Dracula (2005)
Preorder: Sex and the City - The Complete Series (Collector's Giftset)
(you save $104)
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