Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 13, 2008 6:00pm PDTAfter having not seen a movie for a couple of months I do believe it is time to catch up on a few. I'll start off with Tropic Thunder and work back from there.
- A hyrdogen car tour
- Dont add your teacher to Facebook
- Catching olympic cheaters
- Here comes the software revolution
- Charting tech consumer confidence
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Olympic video games pretty much
suck
- Crysis Warhead ships September
16th
- Painful Celebrity Showdown screenshots
- Thailand government loves GTA
- Too Human trailer
- EA hoping for Spore movie and TV
show
? - Unreal Tournament 3 patched
- TF2 heavy update information
- Rock Band 2 bundle on 360 getting
delayed
- NCSoft likes firing people
Lastly, we are seeing some pretty qualified people apply for our job openings but we are also looking for a rookie or two! Dont be afraid to apply without experience if you have some good writing to show. We picked up Breckon right out of college.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
How many of you are running into the 3G reception issues?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10012420-37.html
Things appear to be heating up on this front. A guy yesterday said he thinks it's the 3G chip, now a Swede is chiming in with some technical analysis
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10016483-37.html
and Telcoms in Australia and the Netherlands are pointing the finger at Apple
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/13/1218306957900.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10015661-37.html
I've also seen some people theorizing that this could be the cause of some of the unusually short battery life some people are seeing. No idea if that holds water though.
Anyone had the backs of their phones crack either?
note: I don't hate Apple, I'm actually looking at buying an iPhone (or some other phone) and am just doing my research on all of them
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We've got a little Wednesday treat for our fellow shackers--us! :P
In the latest episode of Played, we kick off with discussion of Nintendo’s ban on designer Shigeru Miyamoto discussing his personal hobbies, then launch straight into what we’re playing.
Xbox Live Arcade is a big theme, with Chris and Mark playing Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (and making unsolicited comparisons to Everyday Shooter) and Chris taking on Braid. Liz has been into Soul Calibur IV, but less into its absurd achievements.
Finally, Mark has returned to Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune again, and he finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess almost two years after its release.
Link to Page: http://www.playedpodcast.com/2008-08-12/played-episode-44/
Direct MP3 Download: http://www.playedpodcast.com/wordpress/podpress_trac/web/69/1/Played-Episode-44.mp3
Subscribe: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=189332948
Enjoy!
-Marky-Mark
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http://valleywag.com/5035515/aint-it-cool-news-retracts-clone-wars-review
Stinky the Hutt? really? Fuck. I had high hopes for this movie too.
I snagged a functional one from my brother, but I can't get flash player installed. Is there a hacked flash player for the Iphone yet? I want a mobile Hulu device, and by mobile I mean i'll be on school wireless or home wireless or neighborhood wireless at all times when I want to use it.
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Thank you all for participating in our little e-peen showoff yesterday.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17657542#itemanchor_17657542
Now lets talk expansion. There have been lots of changes in the talent trees during beta, showing us that Blizzard is once more on the ball. Here's the latest build:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17657542#itemanchor_17657542
What are your plans for WolTK? PVE? PVP?
Are you going to roll a Death Knight?
My plans are simple: i am going to take my time to enjoy the new zones as much as i can. Then some silly 10 man raiding (fuck 25). And then sweet sweet PVP. : )
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38863/135/
Let's hope it's less CPU intensive.
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All you bastards talking about jailbreak and such finally got me to do it, and I haven't stopped playing with my damn phone in the past 6 hours =(
The process was much easier than I had expected and honestly was well worth it for winterboard (themes) and bossprefs (all the options you wish you had) alone.
I may never stop messing with this damn thing ...
Look what I've done to my iPhone so far =(
http://www.shackpics.com/files/myiphonecrazinessJPG_0z5gkqkvjrgrdqv3y4h9.jpg
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/28/warp-speed-engine.html
Thoughts? :P
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http://www.positech.co.uk/talkingtopirates.html
From http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/13/2249246
He takes the responses he got a summarizes their key concepts. It's interesting to read.
His actionplan is kinda flawed tho, imo. No DRM is #1 - which is good, but I think getting on Steam should be #1.
He says it's not that simple, why is that? Is it hard for indie developers to get on steam?
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http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=1201320
you need silverlight.
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was just curious about something, iv recently got into overclocking my CPU and GPU.
Im running a fairly old system tbh:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2ghz
1GB 3200+ 400mhz
ECS-A939 Nforce 4
Radeon X800 gto 256mg
iv read the old athlon 64bit processors (mine in particular) can easilly get to 2.6ghz, but if i go any higher than 2.35 my comp shuts down. It could be heat, but i have excellent fan cooling, the only other thing i thought it could be is the voltage which at default is 1.39V, and unchangable in the bios. (locked on the old amd chipsets).
Temperatures
CPU idle - 39/40C
CPU strained - 53C+
if it gets anywhere near 60C it will just die lol.
thoughts anyone? :(
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Steam is a no go. Still no news. So if you are PC-only for whatever reason and you hate D2D theres one other choice-
http://www.gamersgate.com/index.php?page=shop&what=browse&cat=all&q=Bionic%20Commando
Not sure if thats available right now or a pre-order, but there you go. I have no experience with gamersgate so I can't recommend it. Anyone tried it? Is it as bad as D2D or acceptable?
I might just go for the PSN version later today and fuck the PC version until they get steam working.
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http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1825193
Haha, I forgot about this one.
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Holy shit I'm popular.
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http://www.woot.com/
http://sellout.woot.com
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I had to pee real bad
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Also this rap over the credits is HORRIBLE.
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durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Now on one hand, they are all swimming in the same pool, so their standings amongst each other is indisputable.
But these fucking world records every single race, obviously the suits and the pool are major players.
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The phone itself looks pretty great. Tons of features, and it seems to be getting some pretty glowing reviews in these parts.
Some pics and a little info here:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i900_omnia_announced_live_pics_inside-news-519.php
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http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUST27183520080812?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69
"It's uncommon to see people dressed up like this, so the victims were watching them. Then the perpetrator came up and said 'What are you staring at?'" a police spokesman said.
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1. Dude, Where's My Car?
2. "The Man Show" debuts.
3. "The Man Show" succeeds.
etc.
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http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/25/view/3646/nike-burguer-air-max-90-by-olle-hemmendorff.html
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I finally caved and got a gold membership last night, and of course the first game I decided to try out was Crackdown. Except the fucking thing kept freezing on me after about 10 minutes of play. Is this a normal occurrence? I tried "clearing the game cache" by holding A as the game loaded and on the third attempt it seemed to be working, although I didn't play for long since I was packing it in for the night.
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I tried out those Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX maps and they tend to slow the action down a bit since I use SLi and it's using one of the cards for the PhysX function. Then again, it's cool but it's not overly impressive, yet..
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http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/958390/empire-total-war/videos/ETW_081208.html
ship to ship combat looks freaking badass, looks really accurate too. Notice the pathing of the ships and you can select where to target your enemy.
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