All Entries Tagged With: "Xbox"
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 2
I loved scary movies as a child, and I love them as an adult, for reasons both same and different. Horror captures some communal subconscious memory we’re all connected to. It’s about adrenalin, mystery, and trying to find something out about something that is unknowable.
Virtual Fear: 10 Scary Videogames, Part 1
Being a console gamer, I missed the text based pc horror games of the 80s. (I also never found the Alone in the Dark series scary, for all of you who are going to reference that game as the genesis of fear on the videogame console.) Despite the fact that a couple 16 bit titles [...]
Will FIFA 09 Feature New Copy Protection?
You’ve probably heard about EA’s latest RPG “Mass Effect” for Xbox360, but did you know it’s coming out for PC very soon too?
Ok, but did you also know that you’ll need to activate the game in order to play it? Oh yes, Mass Effect (PC version) is using SecuROM, which requires online activation.
But it doesn’t [...]
Show Me Your Desktop Amber Mac
Last week I asked Adam Ostrow from Mashable and Readburner to show me his desktop. This week it’s Amber MacArthur’s (aka Amber Mac) turn.
Amber is co-founder of MGI Media, but you might know her from G4TechTV’s “Call For Help”, Webnation, commandN or net@night podcast, which is hosted by Amber and Leo Laporte. It runs on [...]
Top 3 Greenest Cell Phones, SmartPhones And Notebooks
Do you ever consider the environment when you buy a new gadget? I tend to forget and pick gadgets with lots of features, nice design and geek status.
However eco-friendly gadgets are also a competitive parameter. The gadgets manufacturers has found out that consumers are interested in green products.
So which gadget should you buy if you [...]
XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec
I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]
Building a Home Server Part I
I’ve decided to build a proper home server as at the moment my files are scattered between different machines (pics of my home setup as requested below) and I want to centralise them, as well as creating a proper remote access solution. I’m not sure yet if Windows Home Server is the right OS yet, [...]
Halo 3: Thumbs Up Or Down??
So, what’s the verdict on Halo 3? The long awaited game has been out nearly a month now, and surely put a strain on many relationships and caused many late nights.
I’ve only had the time to play my copy of Halo 3 twice. The first time wasn’t that inspiring, but the second when [...]
Halo 3 Mania Is Almost Upon Us UK Edition
As promised yesterday I’ll tell you what to expect from Microsoft’s $10 million Halo 3 marketing campaign in Europe. About 800 Americans have already tried Halo 3 on a towering IMAX theater screen in either San Francisco or New York. Now you have a chance to try that too.
Microsoft is flying over rapper and producer [...]
Halo 3 Mania Is Almost Upon Us USA Edition
In just a couple of days a $10 million marketing blitz will work it’s magic. On September 24 2007, which from now on will be known as All Halo’s Eve, Microsoft and Bungie unleashes it’s $10,000,000 publicity inferno.
We’ve already seen the first four steps of the five step campaign. It began with TV spots during [...]
Halo 3 How To Dominate The New Multiplayer Level
As a few of you might know, Bungie and Microsoft are releasing a minor update to Halo 1 and Halo 2 next week. To make it easy for everybody they’ve decided to call it Halo 3. Almost everybody who owns a Xbox360 is really looking forward to this.
If everything goes as planned and announced Halo [...]
What Are Your Plans For The Halo 3 Launch?
I was reading through my feeds looking for inspiration for posts while watching the Sporting Lisbon Vs Man Utd Champions League game, and I spotted a post by Bush about Halo 3’s impending launch next week, and he seems to be as excited as me.
Bush asked the following question:
So how about you guys? Excited about [...]
FIFA 08 Xbox360 And Playstation 3 Demo Delayed In Europe
According to the official EA Sports FIFA 08 forum the release of the FIFA 08 Xbox360 and Playstation 3 is delayed in Europe.
We’re sorry to have to tell everyone that the FIFA 08 NG demo won’t be launching in Europe today as was expected. Although the demo is being released in North America there were [...]
FIFA 08 Xbox360 And Playstation 3 Demo Release Date Confirmed
EA Sports has just confirmed that the demo for the Xbox360 and Playstation 3 version of FIFA 08 will be released September 13.
The demo can be downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace and Sony Networks.
There isn’t any news about the Playstation 2 demo of FIFA 08. I was really hoping for a Nintendo Wii demo too, [...]
FIFA 08 PC Demo Is Released Today Download It Here
The time most of us have been waiting for is almost here. The FIFA 08 PC demo is released today. You can download it from EA Largedownloads using this link FIFA 08 PC demo and get ready for some football.
The FIFA 08 demo will probably be available from 10:00 am GMT or about 12:00 pm [...]
FIFA 08 Demo Is Almost Ready
The FIFA Soccer 08 or just FIFA 08 demo isn’t ready yet, but it is expected to be launched within the next couple of days.
While we wait for the demo to show us some real football, here are some videos of the football game play.
I’ve personally uploaded all the video to YouTube for your viewing [...]
Halo 3 Screenshots
I just can’t wait for September 25th and the launch of Halo 3 to come around. I really think this game is going to be something else, although I do worry that because of the extremely long development cycle, Bungie might actually end up over-engineering the game.
Anyway, at the bare minimum I will be able [...]
FIFA 08 French Cover Revealed
As previously mentioned in the Who Will Be On The Cover Of FIFA 08 post, Franck Ribery is on the French cover of FIFA 08.
Of course he isn’t alone. Ronaldinho is next to him, what would a FIFA 08 cover be without Ronaldinho?!
Personally I’m no Bayern München fan, I can’t stand them actually, but that [...]
FIFA 2008 Next-Gen Gameplay Screen Shots Now Available
I’ve found a bunch of new Next-Gen (Playstation 3 and Xbox360) screen shots, but this time….
GAMEPLAY screen shots!!! Yes you actually get to see a few screen of the actual FIFA 2008 gameplay. Now isn’t that exciting?!
As always they can be found on the FIFA 08 Screen Shot Page.
The new pictures shows Wayne Rooney in [...]
FIFA 08 Release Date Is Now Confirmed By EA Sports
Yes, EA Sports has now confirmed the release date for FIFA Soccer 2008 or FIFA 08, for the lazy ones.
FIFA 2008 will be released September 28 for Xbox360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Mobile and PC.
I found the news in the EA Sports UK press room. There isn’t released anything [...]
