Woah, I ran across this and thought I’d share it. This is a pretty impressive Ebay auction. There is no telling what it will sell for. It even comes with most every Nintendo accessory. Even the super awesome Power Glove that I just had a recent discussion with some fellow AA’ers about. I’m definitely going to keep an eye on this auction, eager to see how bad someone wants all this stuff! Enjoy
I just ran across a pretty cool game over at http://www.addictinggames.com called N-Game.
The premise of the game is that you’re a stick figure that’s trying to solve the puzzle to let you advance to the next level. The physics are awesome and the gameplay is really well put together.
If you’ve got a few seconds, you should look into this. Highly recommended. Make sure you read the instructions first so you’ll know how to use some of the advanced moves like the wall jump.
Oh this site is great. It’s about all the people who have thrown their Wii remotes through their TVs. It’s amazing that so many people can’t hold on to those remotes and it’s equally as funny that the TVs these guys break are the big 50″ LCD kind. How hard do you have to throw a remote to break the TV? I’m guessing pretty hard.
This site is hilarious.
I recently purchased an Xbox 360 and have been fascinated with the whole 360 dashboard experience and the Xbox Live! integration with all of the games. I especially like the fact that you can stream music, photos, and movies from a Windows XP or a Windows XP Media Center PC. That’s extremely cool. I have a Windows XP machine at the house, mainly used for playing Windows only games, but my stash of music resides on my MacBook. What to do?!
While browsing around the web I found a nifty little $20 program called Connect360 by Nullriver Software. This software integrates with your iTunes and iPhoto libraries so that you can stream media content to your Xbox 360 as if it were coming from a Windows PC. The software even updates the Last Played tags for your songs in iTunes, which is pretty cool, so your Recently Played playlist can be as up-to-date as possible.
While this is extremely cool, there is one downside… You can’t play any DRM content on the 360. Any albums/songs/movies purchased through the iTunes Store are not playable on the 360 due to the copy protection in place on those files. But! CDs you have ripped to your Mac using iTunes in AAC format are playable, meaning you could burn your purchased music to a CD and rip it using iTunes as AAC, MP3, or whatever and you’re good to go. Other supported audio formats are WAV, AIFF and Apple Lossless. In the photo category, you can display JPEG, RAW, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF images on the 360 straight from your iPhoto library. Currently, only WMV+WMA videos are supported for streaming video… Sorry, no Quicktime videos at this time.
All playlists from iTunes and iPhoto are intact so you can stream your slideshows from iPhoto and listen to your favorite audio playlist (minus any DRM’d content) at the same time for a wonderful media center experience. It is extremely cool to be streaming music from your laptop while playing Gears of War. The music on gears of War is good but having Metallica’s …And Justice For All or Sepultura’s Roots playing subtly in the background is a nice feature. In the end, the streaming experience sure beats having to rip CDs to your Xbox’s hard drive like the generation 1 Xbox. And doing it from a Mac, thanks to Nullriver’s Connect360, makes it that much better (for Mac users of course)!
Until next time…
A while back on the OSP site we had some discussions (which are now closed and point to this site) about the Unreal 3 engine. This thread also included some screenshots which can be found here. While we were all waiting for the next edition to the Unreal Tournament franchise, CliffyB snuck the technology into Gears of War for the Xbox 360.
I recently purchased an Xbox 360 and the Gears of War game and ever since I watched Chris and his brother Taylor (a.k.a. Xp1o1d5) I thought it looked very Unreal’ish and they agreed. Now, when the first screenshots for the Unreal 3 technology first appeared, I didn’t remember there being all the additional content near the bottom of the page on there like there is on the page now. The character renderings on the bottom of the page actually show the main character of the Gears of War game, Marcus Fenix. Sweet!
This game is mo-bad (do people say that any more?) and I recommend it to anyone with a spare $60 and an Xbox 360. If you don’t have either of those, find a friend who does. You will throughly enjoy your Gears of War experience. I know Chris, Taylor, Joey, and myself have really enjoyed the split-screen co-op mode. So, get out there and enjoy some of the Unreal 3 goodness!
Until next time…
Last night, my brother-in-law, Caleb, a.k.a. Nfinight, and I got down on some Battlefield 2142, and when we play, we get on my TeamSpeak server so we can talk to each other even though we are playing in different rooms of the house.
Well, Caleb’s PC headset has somehow been destroyed so I loaned him my Xbox headset adapter that allows you to plug your Xbox headset in to your PC for a mic and headphone(s). Since he was using my normal rig I had to come up with something quick to be able to talk to him. Here’s the snazzy scenario!
I paired my Plantronics Voyager 510 with my MacBook via Bluetooth®, fired off TeamSpeex, a Mac OS X version of the TeamSpeak client, changed the input and output to my Bluetooth® headset, and I was on my way.
My office is kind of messy and where my gaming rig is I didn’t have enough room to place the MacBook on my desk… Good thing I was using Bluetooth® which is supposedly good for up to 30-35 feet! I put my MacBook on the other desk in my office and talked to Caleb like it was nothing. Some times I just have to use my brain a little and this time it paid off.
The MacBook, Bluetooth® technologies, and TeamSpeak equaled a great team based gaming experience when hardware and space resources were low!
Until next time…
Well the Wii launched yesterday, and while not as big a deal for most as the 360 or PS3…apparently there were lots of people eager to get these systems also. Of course the new Nintendo was not without it’s own problems. Here are a couple short articles from IGN…
It is just unreal to see how popular the PS3 has become and how outrageous the prices are. BUT….ya know, I was wondering, and a friend and I discussed it this weekend. I wonder if the “shortage” was all a marketing plan by Sony. Look at the publicity that this whole ordeal has generated. There’s no way Sony or anyone could ever buy that kind of marketing or advertising. With the whole “shortage” and camping out and outrageous prices on the internet, it was being talked about on EVERY single radio station in America, it was on every single news channel, every single message board, every single blog (average admins included, haha), and every single chat room, etc, etc. Everyone in America was talking about it. That’s pretty good free advertisement….and the people that haven’t been able to get their hands on one I’m sure will end up getting one, plus all the other tons of people that have been sucked in by all of the talk and hooplah. Might not have been a bad idea to have a “shortage” after all. Maybe it takes a little trickery to get people to buy a $600 video gaming system. That’s just my 2 cents.
Hmm….What would you do?
That’s right today is the day, but at this point i’m sure if you don’t already have one…you’re not getting one. So i ran across a couple interesting links on IGN this morning (which i find myself checking more and more often).
The first link is a short article on the price of the PS3 versus the actual cost of making one. According to this, Sony is losing almost $250 per console sold.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/746/746482p1.html
This second link tells about a couple of the issues they are finding with the new systems. Issues like upscaling not working at all, backwards compatibilty problems, and resolution problems if your tv doesn’t support 720p.
I’ve recently ran across a few games that I’ve added to my collection, and the best part is that they’re all FREE. Some of these games run on Windows only and some on Windows and Linux. Sorry, Jeff, no Mac support mentioned.
I’ve already posted about X-Moto, so I won’t mention it again.
The other games are all multi player ones, so if you’re not into that, you can stop here.