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Archive | March, 2007
GameStop Keeps Selling Opened Games as New
I was reading rumors about this 2 or 3 years ago, and then in the last year seeing more and more stories about this popping up on Digg and other sites about GameStop selling open games as new. Some show all the new games to you in the case, but when you ask for it, [...]
Continue reading...God of War Review
20. March 2007
Ok so I just wrapped playing God of War on my new PS3, and the final take is: Freaking awesome. Even though this game is a PS2 game and looks a little dated, especially on larger HDTV sets, the game play and effects that you do so are so well done and so exciting that you [...]
Continue reading...PS3 “Big March Firmware Update”, v1.6 Notes
20. March 2007
Here’s the poop: Folding @Home: Now you can participate in the worldwide distributed computing protein folding experiments from Standford University, in hopes to further understand human genetics. You can access the Folding @Home application under Network on the XMB Internet Browser Pinpoint Zoom and Resolution Settings: You can now choose to zoom into a portion of a [...]
Continue reading...Impressions of First BluRay Movie on PS3
17. March 2007
I just got done watching my first BluRay movie (Crank) on the PS3, and here are my impressions: Holy Shit! Sorry for the foul language, but I have no other explanation for you. The level of detail of watching a full 1080p movie on this set was about 15-20% sharper than the best HD-DVD movie we’ve seen [...]
Continue reading...PS3 + HDMI = Black Screen
17. March 2007
Ok so a few people had this problem and so did I. Essentially you hook the PS3 up to your TV over HDMI, and you get a signal, but it’s a black screen. I had been waiting about a week to get my HDMI cable in the mail from MonoPrice and when it finally got [...]
Continue reading...Novell Feeling the Pain of their Microsoft Partnership
15. March 2007
Ouch… first Novell agrees to partner with Microsoft and pisses off the OS community, now they are claiming Windows has a lower TCO than Linux (Which may be true in some cases, who knows). I’m not sure if Novell knows exactly what it’s doing, or is starting to feel the pinch of working with Microsoft. Much [...]
Continue reading...Beryl 0.2.0 Released
15. March 2007
Beryl 0.2.0 Released Beryl is the ego-branch of Compiz by QuinnStorm and a few others when they decided they half-baked hacks for Compiz weren’t being rolled back into Compiz fast enough by the original Compiz team. In true hacker fashion the folks decided to branch the project, creating confusion and incompatability rather then putting their egos [...]
Continue reading...Playstation 3 Support Audio and Video Formats
14. March 2007
So, since I just caved and got a PS3, I’m interested in what types of formats it supports playing because the reported March 23rd OS update to version 1.6 is suppose to add full UPnP video streaming off of UPnP AV devices on the network, unlike Microsoft’s XBox 360 which naturally uses a proprietary version [...]
Continue reading...GNOME 2.18 Released
14. March 2007
We will have Ubuntu 7.04 in the beginning of next month as well, very slick. For the links: Announcement Download the LiveCD and Try it Release Notes And some screenshots, because that’s all I ever look for too
Continue reading...Microsoft Denies Revised XBox Release and Price Adjustment in May
14. March 2007
The whole scoop, and summary: According to sources from German gaming site Xbox-Archiv, Microsoft will cancel the $299 Xbox 360 Core model, reduce the price of its current 20 GB Premium model to $299 (Euros), and release the new black Zephyr this May for around $400… My guess is that the screen we reported earlier is what [...]
Continue reading...Caved and Got a PS3
14. March 2007
Ok so I caved-in and got a PS3. The reasons I caved are as follows: I am naturally weak-willed in the face of shiny objects. I wanted to play: Bully God of War God of War II The revised version of the PS3 in May will not include the PS2 internals to help lower production costs. This means the backward compatibility [...]
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26. March 2007
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