Archive for March 5th, 2008

Sweet 16: Rockets set team mark for wins in row

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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Snyder Offers Look At Watchmen

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008


Watchmen director Zack Snyder has posted the first look at the five main cast members in costume on his production blog.

New Trek Movie DVDs Mulled?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008


>a href=”http://trekmovie.com/2008/03/05/new-star-trek-movie-box-set-in-the-works-description-of-new-movie-set/#more-1691″ target=”outside”>TrekMovie.com, citing blogs, reported rumors that Paramount may be mulling new DVD releases of the 10 Star Trek movies.

LeBron’s 50 too much for Knicks

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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No. 4 Vols rally past Gators, clinch SEC title

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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A Sims 3 Teaser Site is Live

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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An official EA website has gone live to hype the upcoming, official announcement of what is presumably the next game in the line of the highest selling video game of all time: The Sims 3.

While a sequel to what is arguably EA’s biggest cash cow was a no brainier, the fact that its announcement is coming along before the release of Spore is somewhat surprising to me. I expected EA to be trying to make Spore into the next Sims in terms of wide adoption by all manners of gamers, but an announcement like seems a little premature to me.

Either way, I can’t wait to see what they have added. I got hooked on the original and the sequel to a lesser extent. I loved building houses (I had dreams of being an architect as a kid, so in a lot of ways it was my dream game), but the addictive, deep, and oddly random gameplay kept me coming back.

Celts chug into playoffs by slowing down Pistons

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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Ziff Davis Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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The publisher in charge of such well known gaming magazines as Electronic Gaming Monthly and website 1up.com, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in an attempt to lower the companies debt. Ziff Davis has reportedly had money problems for a while now, with nearly 400 million dollars worth of debt.

Ziff Davis hopes to restructure the company in order to lighten the debt and hopefully not create any more. It is expected that the gaming websites/magazines won’t be affected during the transition, though it’s well known that Ziff Davis is perhaps still looking to sell its gaming division.

I really enjoy listening to both the 1up Yours and GFW Radio podcasts, and can tell some really passionate gamers work for these companies. Hopefully everything works out for as far as their concerned.

Alienware brings quad graphics support to ALX CrossFireX

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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Believe it or not, Alienware’s Aurora ALX rig was boasting quad SLI support two whole years ago. After yesterday’s official launch of ATI’s CrossFireX technology, now the ALX has another partner in quad GPU crime. Dubbed the Area-51 ALX CFX, this rig features a 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, up to 4GB of RAM, a bevy of HDD choices, optional Blu-ray burner, a 1,000-watt power supply and of course, twin 1GB Radeon HD 3870 X2 cards (four GPUs in all). Granted, this thing will run you at least $5,649 as a CrossFireX-equipped rig, so think carefully if slicing into your son’s college fund is really worth 4x the graphical mayhem.

 

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It’s Saul Bass Night At The Mos Eisley Cantina [Short Ends]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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KJ’s crossover: Ex-Suns guard running for mayor

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Former NBA star Kevin Johnson is jumping into the Sacramento mayor’s race.

Cricket player ends streaker’s run with knockdown

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

A streaker ran into more trouble than expected during a cricket match Tuesday in Brisbane, Australia. As Robert Murray David Ogilvie dashed across the pitch, eluding security guards and police, he got a tad too close to Australia’s Andrew Symonds.