The single-player campaign or the multiplayer options alone would make this essential. It’s a game where stunning set pieces are linked together by other ever more dazzling set pieces, while the depth and customization potential of the online component promise months of play. Too early for game of the year? Trust us, you’ll see….
A report from German site Computer Base reveals that consumers giving up backward compatibility on their 40GB PS3s are at least getting something in return. The new systems utilize the new 65nm version of the Cell processor, reducing the power usage from 200 watts to 135 and further limiting the heat and noise the system gives off.
“Google-powered phones will come already configured with a bundle of the most popular Google services, such Google search, Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail. But that would just be the beginning…”
Word from Peter Jackson’s representative says that Microsoft is in talks with several potential partners to continue work on the Halo film. Pre-production has already started back up through Weta Digital and Weta Workshop in New Zeland.
The Ubuntu based MythTV distribution, Mythubuntu 7.10, released on Monday 25th October 2007, and in less then a week tracked it’s 20,000th download.
Apple said Tuesday that it sold over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. Sales included copies sold at Apple’s retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store, under maint
The release of Fedora 8 (codenamed Werewolf) is due out for release in less than two weeks and comes with a host of new features. Fedora 8 will offer a Codec Buddy for installing audio/video codecs, an open-source Java stack now based upon IcedTea, improved laptop support, the Pulse Audio sound server, remote virtualization support, and much more.
Like a “411″ for the Internet, Whois contains information such as names and phone numbers on the owners of millions of “.com” and other Internet addresses. Law-enforcement officials, trademark lawyers and journalists, as well as spammers, use it regularly. But some privacy advocates are proposing scrapping the system entirely.
The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that
’s so significant, it might be the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol - which may come to replace BitTorrent in the near future.
The Entertainment Consumers Association is backing the FAIR USE Act, while the better-known ESA is not. That’s because the ESA doesn’t represent gamers, but game developers.
The annual pre-”Black Friday” bargain hunting has started among predatory shoppers, and we’re already reaping the benefits of shoppers’ insane vigilance. This detail from a Sears ad has revealed two new DS hardware configurations. We already knew of the gold Phantom Hourglass box, but this is the firmest confirmation we’ve seen from an actual. . .
“Every LTS cycle should represent a concise design direction which evolves over the course of the cycle in a well planned and managed way…As we create the theme this will have an impact on other parts (like compiz effects, etc). All of this should be inline and use the same design principles.”
