The 10 best games on Virtual Console
Week-by-week, Nintendo’s list of Virtual Console titles keeps growing. As you can imagine, most of the games made available were huge hits back in the day when they were first introduced. But perhaps there are some games you might have missed - maybe you skipped the Nintendo 64, or were a Genesis fanboy [...]
Using the PS3 SixAxis controller in Linux (in Bluetooth mode!)
The folks over at pabr.org have figured out how to get the PS3 SixAxis controller to work in Linux - in Bluetooth mode! In USB mode, the controller is a standard USB HID device, so it works fine as a basic controller in Linux already. But when Bluetooth is used, you get to make full [...]
Vote Shigeru Miyamoto to the top
As I write this, Shigeru Miyamoto is currently at #2 on Time Magazine’s list of Most Influential People of the Year. He’s currently being beaten out by Stephen Colbert.
In case you didn’t know, Shigeru Miyamoto is the guy that brought us the Wii, and many of the classics (Super Mario, Zelda, etc). With [...]
Games and Movies
A couple of years ago, the video game industry surpassed the movie industry in terms of revenue. That was a watershed moment that proved that games were for real. Many people actually valued games for entertainment, not just the closet geeks. Some argued that Hollywood would have to take a smaller and [...]
AMD’s Worst Week Ever
Have you ever had one of those weeks? You know, when everything that could go wrong does go wrong? By the end of the week, you feel like that things are never going to be the same. Sometimes, you just want to give up.
AMD happened to have had one of those weeks last week. [...]
Free Streaming Television - 18,000 shows to choose from
With the increasing popularity of Media PC systems over the last couple years, there is now a huge database of Television media stored on the computers of the world. As with any other form of entertainment we store on our computers, we of course like to find ways to share it with our [...]
First Penryn Benchmarks
Intel has provided us with some benchmarks of their dual- and quad-core 45nm Penryn processors. We normally aren’t to keen on posting furnished benchmarks, but Intel has a proven history of being spot on with their benchmarks in the past, so here you go (click for full size):
As you can see, it is smoking fast. [...]
