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Archive | April, 2007
MS Requires Vista on Mac (Virtual) Requires $299+
Slashdot reports that apparently Microsoft is requiring that if you want to install Vista on your Mac, running under virtualization, you must use at least the $299 Business version of Vista or higher. Microsoft justified the required by referring to “security issues with virtualization”. Is anyone else noticing that companies are starting to throw around “security” [...]
Continue reading...Wii: Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles is a “Rails” Gun Game
13. April 2007
The GameSpot crew got some time to play the new Resident Evil on the Wii, and what they found out is that it’s a “on rails” (meaning you don’t control movement, like from the old Sega arcade-shooter games and you progress by killing baddies but the camera will swing you towards the action and make [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Lair Gameplay Video
13. April 2007
Lair is turning out to look like one heck of an exclusive, check it out: And some more here:
Continue reading...Japan Landslide Caught on Tape
13. April 2007
This is incredible… watch how serene and quiet everything is… then suddenly half the scenery in the distance slides of the map… incredible:
Continue reading...Enable HD-Mode in God of War II
13. April 2007
Kotaku reports that the shitty Isle of Rhodes website that the GoW team put up that counted down and eventually just showed us behind-the-scenes footage of making the first level of GoW II actually had a hidden secret that the folks at GameFAQs figured out. Turns out that if you spell out Kratos’s name on the [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Announces HD-DVD/Blu-ray Player
13. April 2007
It’s official, Samsung has announced a dual-format HD media player: BD-UP5000. This looks to be the first real dual-format player as the LG dual-format player was a Blu-ray player with HD-DVD play-only support tacked on, and didn’t support the true HD-DVD specification; which, like the Blu-ray spec, defines additional technologies like the HDi interactive language, [...]
Continue reading...Next Ubuntu Release: Gutsy Gibbon
12. April 2007
Tectonic reports that the next release of Ubuntu, due out in 10/07 (October) will be called Gutsy Gibbon. In addition to the name, Ubuntu is planning an “Ultra Free Edition”… my guess is to combat the outcry about proprietary drivers and codecs and will be releasing a fully GPL/Opensource compliant version of Ubuntu for folks [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Hero 360 Screws It’s Fans
11. April 2007
First no online play, then bad controllers. Now download packs are out, 3 songs a pack. The catch? They’re 500 points. It’s hard to believe, but go look yourself. That equals $2.08 US a song! To download the same number of tracks that are present in GH II it would [...]
Continue reading...Circuit City to Gamers: Dance Idiots!
11. April 2007
Earlier this week Circuit City ran a circular with a garuntee on it that if Super Paper Mario wasn’t in stock and available to them by 2:30pm on release date when they came to pick it up, they would get a $20 gift card. That is how the ad was worded. Little did anyone know, down [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Zune 2.0 Details Leaked
10. April 2007
Gizmodo had the poop on the Zune 2.0 details leaked to them by a Microsoft employee apparently. Overall the list looks par-for-the-course for Microsoft, the “3.0 company”: Zune 2.0 and the Flash Zune will be out this year. Zune 2.0 is like Gen 1 but thinner. Larger HDD, same doubleshot finish. Flash Zune is 3 by 1 1/4 by [...]
Continue reading...Grand Canyon Skywalk Is a Complete Ripoff
10. April 2007
The first time I saw this announced in the AZ Republic (being an Arizonian myself) I was excited to go see it, until I saw in the same article that admission is $75-per-person. I figured it had to be a misprint… I didn’t want to buy the Skywalk, I just wanted to walk out onto [...]
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