The El Paso Times reported on a successful line of police stings that led to 115 arrests on Monday. From November 5-9, a warrant roundup took place by El Paso police and they used promises of prizes including a television and an Xbox 360 to lure criminals over. When they showed up to claim their winnings, they were rewarded instead with a…
A source close to the editorial team has revealed that the row focused on the tone of the content of the original review, which was apparently subsequently altered. Tim Tracy, former head of video at the company, has also departed, although it’s not clear at this time whether or not the two are linked. Man, this site is going downhill from here on!
It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to know who is driving this, and Google even drops a hint in the example link: “http://brad.livejournal.com/”; LiveJournal founder and former SixApart employee Brad Fitzpatrick joined Google in August and is credited as the founder of OpenID.
Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman who was murdered alongside Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994, has joined the long line of people threatening legal action against The Pirate Bay. Goldman demands that they take down O. J Simpson’s ‘murder confession’ book, a publication to which he owns the rights.
A collection of pictures of water in computer games over the last 25 years. “I would have liked to see the waterfall from Unreal. That game was the first PC game to wow me with its graphics, well since Wolfenstein anyway.”
Very interesting article discussing the benefits of the new 64GB solid state drives, and just how soon HDD’s will be a thing of the past in laptops (just like MP3 players).
Gamespot currently has numerous threads on the incident, with one thread in particular having thousands of posts. Eidos has taken a different approach, locking down all threads on their site after apparently purging derogatory posts from thousands of angry gamers reacting to the rumor yesterday night.
AT&T plans to offer a version of an iPhone next year that runs on a faster wireless network so users can get speedier results when surfing the Web.
Coming in the Fall 2007 update:
The ability to change the Windows LIVE ID associated with and Xbox LIVE account.
Promote your Xbox LIVE child account to an adult account.
Empires 2.0, the award winning Half-Life 2 mod that combines FPS and RTS genres and features customizable tanks, is releasing at 4 PM EST today. The new release contains hundreds of new features, bug fixes, and new maps. Empires has been the recipient of many awards, including ModDB.com’s Best Mutli-Genre Mod of 2006.
Every single Halo 3 cameo is here, with side-by-side photos of the actors and their characters.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo’s Wii in Japan in November. According to figures from publisher Enterbrain, Sony shifted 183,217 PS3s during the four weeks ended November 25, in comparison to 159,193 Wiis, reports Reuters. It is the first time the PS3 has triumphed over its rival in Japan over a monthly period since the systems launched last
