Evening Reading
by Garnett Lee, Jan 17, 2011 5:00pm PSTDespite a pretty exhausting travel itinerary, I'm pretty excited for the quick trip to New York to finally get a chance to really play with a 3DS. On Wednesday, Nintendo promises to reveal its plans for unleashing the new handheld outside Japan at press events in New York and Amsterdam. From what I've heard so far there's not going to be an embargo so I'll be writing impressions from the event as quickly as possible. I'm very curious to see how the hardware holds up to closer inspection, with games to play, and whether it measures up to the to be announced (we hope) price.
Here's the video game news of the day from the Shack to tide you over while you wait:
- Details on Jurassic Park Game Come Out
- Blacklight Sequel Free-to-Play, Microtransaction-Based
- PlayStation 3 Hacker Case Delayed
- CityVille Growing at Breakneck Speed
And a couple random cool things from around the Net:
Dragon's Prophet preview: how to catch your dragon
Report: Respawn Entertainment co-founder left due to personal conflict
Oculus Rift secures $16 million in venture capital
Max Payne 3 slowly dives onto Mac this week
Report: Frostbite 3 games to be 'optimized exclusively' for AMD cards
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Skype is functional once more.
Will definitely not rush to install future betas.
How was Mark Wahlberg's boxing? I just read he trained for 4 years with the likes of Freddie Roach, and the Ward brothers them selves. Does he look the part?
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http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/love-actually.html
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When buying a new car, look at your local luxury car (read: Ferrari) dealership.
Found my 07 Odyssey $2k less than any other dealer, in MINT condition (they have to protect their high end reputation), and it was priced to move since its stable mates were a $500 K Bently Azure convertible and a Ferrari 430B ($250K).
Plus they let you sit in the luxury cars if you ask them nicely. :D (who would have thought a 6'9" 280lb dude fits in a 2 seater Maserati GrandTurismo?)
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After a rogue wave injured more than a dozen spectators at last year’s Mavericks surf contest, onlookers have now been formally barred from lining up along the coast south of San Francisco to catch a glimpse of one of the world’s most prestigious surfing competitions.
Video of the rogue wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdq-QAB-cU
Just a few broken arms and legs.
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i have a router/fibre tv/etc box in a closet tucked away that serves as my wireless router as well.
Attached to my tv is an old dlink router that i turned into a switch somehow... the feed from the main router plugs into one of the lan ports, everything else plugs into a lan port, and all seems to work.
Question is, once i've turned the wireless access point and nat off on the old dlink router im using as a switch, how do i get back into setup?
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http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Worlds-music-Final-Fantasy/dp/B003TXO56K/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1295330814&sr=8-4
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http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/18/portal-2-on-ps3-features-cross-platform-chat-multiplayer-and-a/
If you buy Portal 2 for the PS3, you get a Steam copy too, and it's cross-platform compatible with the PC and Mac versions for chat and multiplayer.
I'm pretty much going to pick this up on the PS3 now.
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http://www.ultraslo.com/
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Other than boot times, with things like SuperFetch I really don't think my programs are going to load much quicker. I just not sure I want to pay all that money to boot a few seconds faster. I just use sleep? Maybe I don't know what I'm missing but I don't get what all the hype is about.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbYJa3m51Qw&hd=1
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/fastOC_bg1cjktsus6yashgere5.jpg
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Little update on my mobile turn based strategy game progress
Very happy with the progress I have made. I was skeptic about the way the player could browse his "hand" on a tiny mobile screen, but I came up I am quite happy with (tested it on the actual phone and it works great I think). Basically the "virtual cards" come up almost full screen and you basically just swipe left and right to check the next card, kind of like you would do with physical cards at magic the gathering.
Here's what it looks like so far :
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=170609589648802&set=a.167659679943793.30966.167161703326924&pid=343273&id=167161703326924
As always, I would love for more people to follow me on twitter/facebook :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rulers-of-the-Known-Universe/167161703326924
http://twitter.com/#!/rotku
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The only other things of Soderbergh's I'd seen were Kafka, Schizopolis, and The Limey. WHAAAAT you didn't see Ocean's Eleven YES I'll take care of it, okay?
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i'm queen
broke all my promises
became an awesome slumlord
have over 10mm
and the darkness is attacking the town
do i get to keep playing after the end? I'm really sad how my appearance doesn't change muc going full on evil. No horns, no glowing eyes, and I let myself get killed a few times in hopes of getting scars but there's just on on my leg, so sad :(
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7 Wonders anyone? i'm jonesing for my fix.
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The triumphant return of nyranger66? POSSIBLY!
What will we learn this week? Be a part of it!
See you on * [[ Shacknews.com ]] * CSS Dallas
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