Archive for November, 2008

Beam me up some new Screenshots

Admit it, watching that guy play the Star Trek theme on the Wiimote  gave you a powerful appetite for Roddenberry’s magnum opus — we highly suggest satisfying your interstellar jones with three new screenshots for Cryptic’s Star Trek Online, available in the gallery below. These are easily the best-looking images to come out of the game thus far — just look at [...]

Red vs. Blue Thanksgiving Public Service Announcement

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the gang at Rooster Teeth saw fit to put aside the ceaseless squabble between our two favorite primary colors and drop some science on the future of turkey day. Admittedly, they could use some better reference materials (21st century 1st graders do not primary sources make), but the gist of [...]

iPhone Meet Linux

We knew this day would eventually come, but somehow we’re still misting up a little — Linux has been ported to the iPhone and iPod touch. Dev Team member planetbeing is the mastermind in charge of bringing everyone’s favorite open-source OS to Apple’s handhelds, and while it’s a little rough around the edges (read: no [...]

Rockband Weekly

This week’s serving of Rock Band DLC brings together a hodge podge of European bands as well as a free song from Miranda Cosgrove. We’ve also got two from Naked Brothers Band — who, as it turns out, has no relation whatsoever to the Barenaked Ladies.
Individual Tracks

“Headphones On” - Miranda Cosgrove ($Free)
“Are You Dead Yet” [...]

Rumor: ‘Jasper’ Xbox 360 shipping, features 256MB on-board memory

Candid shots of nekkid motherboards? Check. Awkwardly filmed YouTube videos? Check. Rumor post on Joystiq? Very check. Why, someone must have spotted a new Xbox 360 variant in the wild!
According to a post at Xbox-Scene, consoles containing the “Jasper” chipset, which promises a cooler 65nm GPU on the motherboard, have begun to arrive in the [...]

Gears of War 2 Matchmaking Patch

Epic Games has released the first title update for its action-packed grunt-a-thon, Gears of War 2. The automagically applied patch addresses delays in public matchmaking (particularly for single- and four-player parties), improves the developer’s ability to collect match statistics and fixes one non-hilarious issue which prevented some gamers from playing the Gears of War 2 [...]

CoD:WaW Double Points Weekend

According to this Kotaku report, next weekend means double XP for those owning the limited edition.
Both PC and 360 versions get the boost. The event runs from midnight PST on December 5 to December 12.
If you’ve got the 360 edition, you need to make sure it’s fully activated, and you only get the bonus if [...]

XBOX Live Marketplace Black Friday Sale

It’s not just your friendly neighborhood retailers looking to take advantage of your weakened state of mind this Friday. No, online marketplaces are looking to snag your credit card digits, too, as you sit slumped before your computer screen after awakening from a paralyzing food coma with an insatiable appetite to … BUY!
Microsoft’s Major Nelson [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well another year, and another Turkey must be sacrificed!  From my family to yours have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!  and don’t forget to watch the Oklahoma (OU) vs Oklahoma State (OSU) game on Saturday!! It will be an Epic Battle!
And If you dont watch football stay glued to you XBOX and earn some extra [...]

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Hits Live

 
Nelson’s posted the impossible: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix has actually released. The game’s only available on Xbox 360 in Europe this week, as an unknown hiccup has kept the game off PS3 for now.
You really may as well buy it. Go fight someone. There’s little else going on.

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Valve Published Left 4 Dead Achivement Stats

 
Valve’s posted up a ton of stats from Left 4 Dead Achievements, including the percentage of players that have earned each one.
It’s interesting stuff. Did you know that 72.7 percent of players have rescued a Survivor from a Smoker’s tongue before he takes damage? You do now.

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Grey logo news “two years late,” Says Nintendo

 Reports this morning of Nintendo changing its logo to grey are “two years late,” the company said today.
Nintendo UK told CVG that the grey logo launched along with the Wii two years ago.
“We are using grey, but the racetrack logo can be represented in a number of different colours. You’ll often see it in black, white, silver or [...]

Teacher uses “Sex Text” and World Of Warcraft to Seduce Student

 
A British schoolteacher was threatened with jail today after she admitted she had used “the interactive game Warcraft” to forge a relationship with a 14-year-old boy to whom she later sent sexually explicit text messages.
According to the Mirror.co.uk, Lynn Walls, a 42-year-old primary school teacher in Gateshead,  sent the boy “a series of graphic texts in [...]

Nintendo Goes Grey

According to this Kotaku report, Nintendo’s German PR agency’s mailing the press telling them to stop using the old red Nintendo logo.
 
Dear Media Partner,
For several years, a new generation of Wii and Nintendo DS games have adorned themselves with a new logo, in discrete grey.
In various publications the former logo, with red lettering, can still be [...]

Columbia Pictures movies (mostly) available again for NXE Netflix streaming

One week after their abrupt disappearance from the service caused quite a stir, many of the Columbia Pictures films that were unavailable for streaming via the New Xbox Experience’s Netflixclient are now back. We’ve confirmed that almost everything, from Ghostbusters to The Karate Kid in your Netflix Instant Queue can now be streamed to the 360.
There are still some that aren’t [...]