18 Apr, 2008
Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console games have been fully dumped, decrypted, and extracted. We found there are ROMS in the virtual console games and they are even playable in emulators (ex: Snes9x). Most of all, the documentation for a virtual console game that is viewable on the Nintendo Wii is just a bunch of HTML files! SCREENSHOTS INCLUDED.
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18 Apr, 2008
A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to make that happen.
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18 Apr, 2008
Yes, yes, GameStop/EB Games are a cold, soulless, ruthless international corporation. But sometimes, just *sometimes*, someone gets into their system with a little spark.
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18 Apr, 2008
Bell Canada says it is downgrading the Internet services of bandwidth hogs, and is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to toss out a landmark complaint by competitors.
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18 Apr, 2008
An in-depth analysis of how GTA3 helped to reshape the gaming universe just when it was ripe to collapse on itself.
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18 Apr, 2008
The string of laptop battery fires from 2006 is already fading out of memory, but the batteries in most of our devices could still catch fire under the right conditions. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC have a new prototype, however, that uses no flammable materials and could even compete with traditional car batter
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18 Apr, 2008
In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.
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18 Apr, 2008
When launch day hits, players won’t be sitting down for an hour-long slog through the “first level,” sharing slightly differing variations on scripted sequences. If in-game player pathways could be mapped onto a chart, it would look like the Big Bang, with branches blooming out in all directions as players express their personalities and fantasies.
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18 Apr, 2008
Press 1 if you are stealing content, 2 if you are using too much bandwidth, 3 if Comcast hates your guts, 4 if you’re a criminal. (I don’t remember the exact wording, this wasn’t it, but the word “criminal” was actually part of the presentation, to me, a paying customer, in good standing. Amazingly bad customer service.)
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18 Apr, 2008
There’s a new beta version of Google Earth available which features revamped navigation controls and some slick new layers like 3-D photo-realistic buildings in major cities and time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises.
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18 Apr, 2008
“Comcast has thumbed its nose at the existing consumer bill of rights,” Ammori says. “Now facing unprecedented public, government and media scrutiny, Comcast is desperately trying to change the subject.” Why should anyone trust Comcast?
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18 Apr, 2008
The official Mass Effect forums have an update from Jay Watamaniuk, community manager of Bioware, which reveals the final minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC Version of Mass Effect.
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