Archive for August, 2008

Quartermann: Rockstar making Max Payne 3 internally

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Filed under: Action Of all of the people who make crap up on the internet, the enigmatic EGM rumormonger Quartermann seems to be the most accurate. This could be because Quartermann is just an amalgamation of different EGM editors and they hear some fairly juicy stuff in their day-to-day, like (for example) the rumor that [...]

The $100,000 Madden Bet [Madden]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Once was a day rappers could settle their fueds with bullets. That or lyrics. But that would be asking a little too much of Bow Wow & The Game, who are instead settling their beef (prompted by The Game's boast he was the world's best Madden player) via a game of…Madden 09. A game of [...]

Best Buy ad offers yet more evidence of Xbox 360 price cuts

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming While it seems to be all but a sure thing that all three Xbox 360 SKUs will be getting a price cut on September 7th, if you need a bit more reassurance, you can now take comfort in this apparently authentic Best Buy ad provided by a helpful tipster, which should be [...]

Microsoft hints at new mice: “Say Goodbye to Laser”

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals We’d say the jump from traditional optical mice to laser mice was pretty momentous, and it sounds like Microsoft is getting ready to jump again — Microsoft Hardware put up a teaser this afternoon for a September 9th announcement featuring the tagline “Say Goodbye to Laser.” Yeah, that’s not exactly subtle, is [...]

Nikon’s new D90 in full, gory detail

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras So, Nikon finally fessed up to its new D90 prosumer DSLR, which means all that’s left for us is to do is to pick through the spec sheets, drool on the product shots and imagine ourselves taking the film industry by storm with that D90-shot indie flick we’re plotting. INT. SUBURBAN [...]

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Goes Gold

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Mythic Entertainment has announced that the highly-anticipated MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has gone gold. Tens of thousands of PC gamers have already been participating in the closed beta of the fantasy title, which will open its servers on September 18, 2008. read more Go to Source

Official: Canon’s 15.1 megapixel EOS 50D with DIGIC 4 processing

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras Not much left to tell here that you didn’t already know. Still, now that the EOS 50D is official, we can list the specs with certainty: 15.1 megapixel APS-C sized CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 image processor, up to ISO 12800 support, 3.0-inch LCD with face detection Live View, HDMI output, 6.3fps [...]

$249 Kindle 2.0 significantly thinner and Frog stylish?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon’s having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader. Seems everyone and his analyst brother is confirming a new, larger screened collegiate reader and at least one other variation, presumably [...]

100 lamest game review clichés leaves little room for error

Monday, August 25th, 2008

A list I noticed today at GamesRadar ticks off the “100 lamest game-industry clichés.” Surprisingly missing from this otherwise comprehensive list are making a list of things that bother you, referring to something as lame, or hyphenating a phrase like “game industry.” Or how about writing a list of 20 complaints, but rephrasing most of [...]

Carbon-neutral Ziggurat pyramid could house 1.1 million in Dubai

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets As we learned from Wall-E, people with half a mind for themselves probably won’t be kosher with living with 1.1 million or so other inhabitants within a pyramid. That being said, there’s always the brainwash approach to getting ‘em in there, and if hordes of people were ever filed into the [...]

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