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Mass Effect Street Date Broken
Laurence Hartje sends in the breaking news that the street date for Mass Effect (Nov 20th) has apparently been broken by quite a few companies including K-Mart and Newegg. Reports are that Newegg stopped shipping the game out early, but if you roam around town it’s possible you may find it sitting on the shelves [...]
Continue reading...XBox Media Extender + Vista Media Center = Media Lovin’
Friday, November 9, 2007
Chris Hunkele just did a kick-ass writeup of how to setup your Vista Media Center machine combined with your XBox 360 to create more or less a utopia of content-streaming fantasy. Chris also goes into detail about setting up additional utilities to remove commercials from recorded content as well as interesting tips like managing your BlockBuster [...]
Continue reading...Console Sales Numbers, MGS 4 to XBox, Makes Cents
Thursday, November 8, 2007
IGN posted the sales numbers so far this year for the XBox 360, Wii and PS3… the result? Jesus Sony, get on the ball here. It’s funny to look at these numbers and think “price has nothing to do with it”, unfortunately Sony launched with too high of a price point and no games that were [...]
Continue reading...XBox 360 ‘08/’09 Refresh
Friday, October 19, 2007
Kotaku is reporting that some convincing rumors are flying around about an XBox 360 refresh for ‘08 or early ‘09 that ads some things people have been waiting since launch to see in it: HD DVD 1080p w/HDMI Wireless Networking dual HD tuners with program guide MP3 player dock Toshiba is also exploring a 40-inch TV that can dock the 360 This [...]
Continue reading...Halo 3 Mini-Review
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Ok here it is… my mini-review of Halo 3. I’ll keep this short and sweet, with most sarcasm aside and just try and give you the honest low-down on it. SUCKS: It’s Halo 2 with bump mapping everwhere and some post-processing done on the image. If you want to tell me to fuck off and die [...]
Continue reading...Halo 3 Review: 73 out of 10
Monday, September 24, 2007
Well the scores are in… Halo 3 is the greatest game made, by humans, on earth. The re-telling of the same story that wasn’t all that interesting years ago, combined with 3 new weapons and 3 new vehicles, in environments that look identical to the first game but with crazy post-processing on them is just [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Gets “Version 2″ of Games
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
I was scrolling through some PS3-game reviews on GameSpot and noticed that the PS3 releases of the XBox 360 titles are all getting high 8s and 9.0 reviews. I’m chalking this up to extra dev time and spit/polish time by the developers, but it’s certainly nice to see. Then again, when a game like Overlord comes [...]
Continue reading...Dead Rising Review
Thursday, February 22, 2007
I know what you are thinking… it’s impossible to go wrong with a game that has something like THAT in it… well you are mostly right, but a lot of people think you are wrong. Let’s have a look… Dead Rising is Capcom’s mall-horror-survival game that came out soon after the XBox 360 came out. I [...]
Continue reading...Building a Network Attached Storage Device for (XBox 360) Media Streaming
Monday, January 15, 2007
So my current personal project is to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. In the most vanilla sense, the purpose of a NAS is to be a little headless (no video card or monitor) network connected device that has a custom operating system on it usually and just holds a ton of hard drives [...]
Continue reading...Halo 2 Review: 3/10
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Ok so I just recently bought Halo 2 for the XBox 360 to see what all the insane craze over the Halo franchise has been about for all these years. I’m up to the part of the game where you are the arbitor and have fought past the flood to get to the library on [...]
Continue reading...XBox 360: Viva Pinata Review
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Ok huge thank you goes out to our man Laurence Hartje for putting together a hell of a Viva Pinata review for us all and here it is: Ok, now that I’ve spent about 20 hours with the game over the weekend (and only 7 achievements left), I feel as though I can write a mini [...]
Continue reading...My Take on the Zune
Friday, September 15, 2006
Wait for version 2.0 unless you are dying to have a mobile media device. While I’m actually a bit more impressed with the launch then I thought I would be however many months ago it was when the information was leaked, in my gut I think there will be a lot of usabililty issues to [...]
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
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