February 2007
11 posts
Second Life: World War LOL
Marshal Cahill started playing Second Life before the boom came, and has since witnessed arrogant gamers grow rampant. Players hog real estate, step on each others’ free speech, and run online mafias that harass the entire community. So how does he plan to solve this problem? Nukes of course.
According to the last boss, disgruntled Second Life vets are rising up against the...
Wii Bowling a Hit with Senior's Home
Wii bowling knocks over retirement home | Chicago Tribune: “I’ve never been into video games,” said 72-year-old Flora Dierbach last week as her husband took a twirl with the Nintendo Wii’s bowling game. “But this is addictive.”
RFID powder. Yeah, powder.
0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips. The new chips are 64 times smaller than the previous record holder, the 0.4mm x 0.4mm mu-chips, and nine times smaller than Hitachi’s last year prototype, and yet still make room for a 128-bit ROM that can store a unique 38-digit ID number. read more | digg story
人生ｵﾜﾀ＼(^o^)／の大冒険v0.70動画＠音有り
This is supposedly a very hard and frustrating platform game. You can play it here after watching this video of all the insulting ways you can lose.
HD DVD and Blu-ray DRM Cracked
A cracker by the name of arnezami has found the “processing key” used to decrypt the DRM on all HD-DVD and Blu-ray Discs films. Expect to see a flood of 20GB movies on your favorite torrent trackers. I know, it’s hard to believe people are downloading 20GB movies. Think back to the early years when we were downloading an album in mp3 on dial-up and it took days. read more | digg...
Halo 3 will ''mute idiots'' via button
Bungie will introduced a new function on the 360 controller’s Back button for Halo 3, where you can mute any trash-talker you want. Can we get this for Gears of War and Uno? read more | digg story
Supreme Commander Demo is Available
Supreme Commander demo is available here and here among other places.
Supreme Commander is the from the same people who brought you the Total Annihilation RTS years ago and features much of the same artwork and gameplay plus some new features and visuals.
When is the Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming?
We’ve all read the price drop rumors of a 360 price drop starting in the summer. Then in the fall it was to break ps3 sales, but obviously no price cut was needed. Now in early February many gamers who have been waiting may get their wish soon.
Late in November, during long discussions in the San Francisco Best Buy Nintendo Wii line, I heard a lot of people both in person and on the...
The Most Important Multiplayer Games of All Time
GameSutra has an article detailing what they consider the most important mp games of all time. They have this to say about Quake.
Gamasutra.com Features - The Quantum Leap Awards: The Most Important Multiplayer Games of All Time: [Quake] itself was certainly groundbreaking, but I single it out as more of a platform than a specific game. Among the many, many, many things that came out of the Quake...
Q4 Community Map Pak
from: id Software
With the deadline having been reached, all of the entries for the Quake 4 Community Map Pak have been submitted. We have compiled the 34 maps into one pak for play testing prior to the upcoming voting process. Thanks to all of the contestants for their submissions and good luck!
You can download all of the submissions
here: Q4CMP Submissions (zip) - DOWNLOAD NOW -...
Spore confirmed for DS
According to an EA conference call, Spore is coming to the DS. Yes, you read that right: Spore will be on your DS. read more | digg story