Archive for September, 2008

PlayStation Home Beta Out Today? Depends on Who You Ask

Tweet A member of the Official Sony PlayStation message board got tired of waiting for his invite to the Home Beta (originally scheduled to go out yesterday) and decided to take matters into his own hands by calling up the all knowing customer support team for some answers. The first rep he spoke to (call [...]

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New Game Releases: 9/1-9/7

Tweet Labor Day week officially starts off the fall gaming season with some high anticipated releases such as FaceBreaker, Infinite Undiscovery, Mercenaries 2 and, of course, Wiil Wright’s Spore. One of the most surprising, and delightful, releases for me this week is the classic SNES RPG, Super Mario RPG for the Virtual Console. All I [...]

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Final Fantasy XIII Demo To Be Sold Separately?

Tweet August kicked off with news straight out of Square-Enix’s DKΣ3713 event that a 90 minute FFXIII demo would be included in the Japanese Blu-ray release of “Advent Children: Complete” sometime during March of next year. However, recent news being reported by finalfantasy-xiii.net points to a possible stand alone demo release.

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Half Life 2 D0g Papercraft

Tweet Two weeks time, nearly 50 hours of labor intensive paper crafting precision, and what do you get? A 12-inch high papercraft replica of Half Life 2′s D0g. The work is that of 4chan.org user, chamoo232. Great work, but I really want to see a full size, ten foot version, strong enough to pick up [...]

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Molyneux: Fable II Is A “9 Out of 10″

Tweet Aren’t developers supposed to be the arch enemies of the review score system, railing at their gross inadequacy to whittle the brilliance and complexities of their work into an arbitrary numerical score? Peter Molyneux’s constantly hailed the brilliance and complexity of his newest masterpiece, Fable II, but apparently he has no problem with review [...]

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Paintballs Show the True Power of the GPU

Tweet Computer graphic pimps Nvidia, makers of all things GeForce, recently held their own little tradeshow dubbed “Nvision”. During the final hours of the event, Nvidia had some special guests take the stage to give a little visual presentation on how great graphics chips are. In order to demonstrate the advanced power that a GPU [...]

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