OiNK Admin is Right, Google is No Different!
PROOF: Quick and easy methods to obtaining free music using Google’s web search. Also featured is the music-oriented p2p app, Soulseek, which OiNKers are finding most interesting.
Archive for October 29, 2007
EZTV Now Accessible Under New Domain Names
In the wake of the OiNK takedown, many thousands of people started to panic today when they tried to access EZTV and instead got directed to Google. But there is no need to worry, EZTV is alive and well and now available via two new domains.
Nintendo: Friend codes are here to stay, and no hard drive planned
Nintendo’s in-house Public Relations manager, Eric Walter has revealed that there are no plans for a Wii hard drive despite the upcoming WiiWare medium. He also claims that gamers PREFER friend codes in games! “in the feedback we’ve gotten, people don’t mind the friend codes. They like them” Is this how we gamers really feel?
Faster USB 3.0 Is Coming
USB 3.0 should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard.
Gamestop No Longer Selling 360 Replacement Plans! GS Memo Image
Apparently Gamestop is losing too much money on Xbox360 reaplacement plans. To this end, they are no longer going to sell Product Replacement Plans for the MS console! You can read it for yourself in this mom image from Gamestop!
Terabyte nanotech thumb drives around the corner?
Wired has a write-up of a new storage technology developed at Arizona State University that could produce flash thumb drives capable of storing terabytes of data in the near future, that also happens to be cheaper and more energy efficient than flash memory
The sub-$200 HD DVD player arrives: multiple retailers slashing prices
Plenty of retailers are about to get behind a big push for the HD-A2, whose sweet new price is only soured by its 1080i max output (1080p would be best, but at $200 right now, that’s asking too much).
Crysis Demo Now Available For Download
Well the Crysis Demo is here sooner than expected. Fileshack.com is hosting a 1.77GB demo of Crysis, a day earlier than its planned public release. If you are going to download this demo then you will also have to update your nVida drivers to v169.01. This driver is recommended by nVidia for Crysis single player game demo.
Crysis Demo: DirectX 9 vs. DirectX 10 screenshots
Check out these pictures showing the game running in both modes
Current plans for Ubuntu 8.04
This is subject to change during the ongoing UDS Boston Meeting, but we are likely to see a complete new Ubuntu theme, a new icon theme, a revamp of the logout dialog, changes to the desktop effects, changes to the login screen and implementation of automated tests in Ubuntu 8.10.
PlayStation 3 losses now over $1 billion
BusinessWeek has now pointed out, “Sony’s gaming division has just lost $848 million — double the figure from last year — and first-half losses reached $1.1 billion.”
