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- Nintendo brings free Cube game offer to Europe - Following in the
footsteps of a similar offer in the USA,
European consumers will be able to pick up a free game when they purchase
a GameCube in Europe from February 3rd until March 20th. Unlike the US offer,
however, the European deal is a bit more stingy with its software, offering a
wider range of choice but fewer AAA titles. Purchasers can choose from a list
of seven games - Eternal Darkness, Wave Race, Disney's Magical Mirror, Doshin
the Giant, Luigi's Mansion, NBA Courtside 2002 and Pikmin.
- Nokia game phone gets big names - Nokia Handheld Gaming looks set
for a haul
of big name games later this year. The Finnish company has managed to sign
Sega, Capcom and Taito with the possibility of Namco joining the fun. Nokia is
set to announce the specifications of its mobile phone equipped competitor for
the Gameboy Advance sometime soon. The new phone will be called the Nokia
N-Gage mobile game deck. It uses the Series 60 platform and the Symbian
operating system so the possibility of the games making their way onto other
phones is there. Games will be available separately on memory cards.
- Microsoft's Xbox losses almost double - Losses at Microsoft Corp.'s
Home and Entertainment segment, which includes the Xbox game console, nearly
doubled in the last three months of 2002, the company disclosed in a
regulatory filing Friday. The segment, which also includes Microsoft's TV
platform and PC games, posted a quarterly operating loss of US$348 million,
compared with $180 million in the same period a year ago, the Redmond,
Washington, company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) for its second fiscal quarter.
- Deep Junior and Kasparov draw in fourth match -
The fourth
match ended in a draw (playback)
after 61 moves, with Kasparov claiming that he used moves to make the computer
"think out of the box". The second game in the series of six was also a draw,
with Kasparov winning game one, and Deep Junior winning game three.
- Microsoft pulls Java from Windows - In compliance with a court
order, the software titan releases
an updated version of Windows XP Service Pack 1 without its own version of
Java. You can download this updated SP1a from
here.
- Shuttle-Themed Trailer Pulled - Following Saturday's Columbia
disaster, Paramount Pictures has yanked its latest promo for the studio's
upcoming sci-fi thriller The Core
because it contains a scene depicting an imperiled NASA space shuttle
trying to make an emergency landing. The studio has asked theaters across the
country not to run the recently finished trailer.
- Tel.Me T919 makes reappearance - Reminiscent of the form factor of
Sony Ericsson's P800,
the
T919 offers (hi-res
pictures) a transflective CSTN 15-bit color touch screen, capable of
displaying 32768 colors at a resolution of 256 x 128 pixels. The operating
system lets users switch from portrait to landscape mode according to their
preferences, and contains software such as an MP3 player, an e-mail client
with support for SMTP and POP3 protocols, an e-mail attachment viewer
(supports TXT, DOC, BMP, JPEG and GIF file formats) and basic PIM
applications.
- On AMD Opteron Initial Core-Clocks and Marking - X-Bit labs have
posted
some additional information about the launch of AMD Opteron processors
that will take place on the 22nd of April this year. It was told that AMD will
first make available the CPUs with 1.40, 1.60 and 1.80GHz core-clock speed,
while the 2.0GHz model will come later and there is no precise information
when exactly it will be unveiled.
- Building a High-End Workstation - Your custom-built gaming system
is probably an equally impressive system for your non-gaming tasks, and so if
you ever
needed to build an office PC for someone else, your experiences will serve
you well.
- Build your own HTPC - That's right, we're building
a water
cooled HTPC. The number one annoyance in a home theatre setup is extra
noise. There will be no room for whining fans and loud drives. What we need
are quiet components that will get the job done.
- FireWire vs. USB 2.0 - PC Mag has posted
an article about FireWire vs. USB 2.0.
- Gaim for Windows (0.60 alpha3) Review -
With Gaim, you can connect to AOL, AIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and
an IM service based in Poland called Gadu-Gadu. The software is remarkably
stable. The install took just a minute, and we were then able to launch Gaim
and include the accounts from our various IM services.
- SQL Server CE version 2.0 Update -
SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition (SQL Server CE) version 2.0 is the
compact database for rapidly developing applications in both native mode and
the .NET Compact Framework that extend enterprise data management capabilities
to devices. This new release of SQL Server CE Server Tools updates the servers
running IIS to support connectivity solutions to SQL Server 2000 SP3
databases.
- Windows 2000 Update Pack #4 -
Still Waiting for Windows 2000 Serice Pack 4? Just reinstalled Windows
2000 yet dont want to download all those updates? Well Have we got a treat for
you! We (Tech-Critic) and olcay247 (Project Manager on Tech-Critic and Editior
on Winfuture.de) got together and talked for a few hours and thought what
should we do next, Our Windows XP update pack went so well. Over a 10000
downloads on it that we thought a Windows 2000 (Pre-Service Pack) one would be
nice. We really did not want all the other Operating System users to feel
"left out" because of not using Windows XP. This Update Pack Includes most if
not all the Pre-Service Pack Updates that have been released by Microsoft.
- Older UT2003 Sound Driver - If you're experiencing sound
problems in UT2003 after installing the 2186 patch, the Unreal Technology page
now has an
older version of the sound driver which might fix those problems.
- Windows Media Player 9 Build 2991 -
This new build of Windows Media Player 9 comes in Windows Server 2003
build 3757, no visual changes in it nor any new additions.
- Updated Koepi's XviD Codec build (win32) -
XviD is a video
codec (download
XviD-02022003-1) just like DivX. Needless to say that most new movies and
videos are being encoded with XviD.
- Clony XXL 2.0.1.3 -
ClonyXXL
is a copyprotection detection scanner, which can show what kind of protection
is used on a disc. It will provide you with the right settings for CloneCD, so
you can make a working copy of the disc!
- K-Lite Codec Pack 1.0 RC4 -
K-Lite Codec Pack 1.0 includes the following codecs: DivX 5.03
Professional - DivX ;) MPEG-4 Low and Fast motion, XviD (Koepi's build
04/10/2002), 3ivx, Microsoft MPEG-4, Fraunhofer MPEG-2 A/V, MP3 audio, DivX
WMA Audio, Ogg Vorbis audio, AC3 audio, DivX Anti-Freeze.
- Nero 5.5.10.7b (bugfixed) -
Nero
(FTP1 ~
FTP2 ~
FTP3 ~
FTP4) is a flexible,
reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio
to CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660 images as well as ISO mode 1 and
XA mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc recording in addition to overburning
(if supported by hardware).
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