1up is reporting that film execs are blaming Halo 3 for the low performance of The Heartbreak Kid, a film starring Ben Stiller. Yeah…if you saw the trailer I don’t know how one would think this movie WOULDN’T tank!
Author - Jerry Paxton
Joystiq has posted it’s review of Eye of Judgement for the PS3. The rather ingenious game uses physical playing cards placed on a special gameboard. The Eye Toy camera scans the cards and superimposes 3d effects around them on your screen.
YouTube has unveiled it’s new attempt at copyright protection today. YouTube requires that content owners send in a master copy of all their
copyrighted content so they can cross reference it against
uploads. Any data that matches the reference data can be deleted
automatically, but only if the content owner says so.
Joystiq has posted a ‘hands-on’ of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for the Nintendo DS.
From the article:
‘We recently played a few levels of the new title, and we’re looking forward to an Advance Wars game again. We never liked the dual-screen battles, and the CO powers seemed to have gotten out of control in the previous version. Days of Ruin felt like a much needed course-correction for the series. Features like Wi-Fi play with voice chat, and map creation and sharing, remake the title while keeping its addictive strategy gameplay.’
I am looking forward to this one, seems to be shaping up nicely.
GameSpot has posted their preview of the upcoming Wii shooter, Link’s Crossbow Training.
From the preview:
‘Based on what we played, Link’s Crossbow Training looks set to be a solid companion to the Wii Zapper. The game has a decent amount of variety and keeps the action brief, engaging, and challenging. Link’s Crossbow Training will ship this fall for the Wii, packed in with the Wii Zapper peripheral.’
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The Guardian is reporting that scientists have discovered a planet roughly 20 lightyears away that is the most earth-like ever discovered.
From the article:
‘The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and is thought to have perfect conditions for water, an essential ingredient for life. Researchers detected the planet orbiting one of Earth’s nearest stars, a cool red dwarf called Gliese 581, 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra.’
Engadget is reporting that Fabrik has made two announcements of note today.
First, they are starting to sell a new line of SimpleTech Pro / Duo Pro Drives ($229.99 to $799.99), which are aimed at digital media enthusiasts, prosumers and business users and come equipped with up to 2TB of storage space, eSATA and USB 2.0 connections.
Second is the announcement of ‘Ultimate Backup’, not to be confused with the ‘Ultimate Showdown’. UB is a web-based service of backup storage. For less than five dollars per month, Fabrik Ultimate Backup gives you unlimited capacity to securely store important files and media collections remotely and automatically. To keep your content private and confidential, all files are encrypted with 128-bit SSL encryption while in transit, with an option for a private encryption key, to the company’s remote 448-bit Blowfish encrypted servers, to help ensure that content is safe and secure.
Linux.com has posted a review of Alien Arena 6.10, an independently produced FPS game.
From the review:
‘I wrote last year that ‘Tremulous is the best free software FPS game I’ve had the pleasure of playing.’ Alien Arena has changed my mind about that. They’re both great, and both stand on the shoulders of the free software Quake engine, but Alien Arena is now at the top of my list.’
Joystiq is reporting that Rock Band will be sold in a bundle only until 2008 and there will be NO individual guitars for sale until 2008 as well. It also seems the game will go retail with 40 to 50 songs for you to rock as you desire.
The G&H Community is in shock today as official word has come from Perpetual that the upcoming MMO Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising has been canceled.
From the official statement:
‘The Perpetual team is faced with a unique challenge of simultaneously developing both Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online in addition to growing our Online Game Platform business. After assessing all of Perpetual’s opportunities, we have made the decision to put the development of Gods & Heroes on indefinite hold.’
Now that is a shame, the game looked very interesting!