NINJA WEEK! Wii Virtual Console Games for the week of May 14
It’s Ninja Week at Nintendo, as 2 of this week’s 3 games are ports of Ninja arcade games. We have 2 games for the NES (500 points) and 1 for TurboGraphx 16 (800 points). Let’s do a retrospective of each, and also compare them to their original arcade versions.
Ninja Gaiden | NES | 500 Points [...]
Microsoft Wants Open Source Users To “Pay Up”
Just when you thought Microsoft wanted to distance itself from the idea that it was a gigantic, evil, monopolizing corporation, it goes after the little guy. Not just any particular little guy either. Microsoft alleges that open-source software such as Linux and OpenOffice violate, in total, 235 of their patents. The [...]
Canon RAW CR2 and CRW Thumbnail support in Vista
Users of Canon’s late-model digital SLR cameras were disappointed when, upon upgrading to Windows Vista, their RAW image thumbnails disappeared. Microsoft had an update for Windows XP that supported some RAW image formats, but said that any support in Vista would have to come from the camera manufacturer.
Thankfully, Canon has stepped up and released [...]
Old vs. New Horrifying FPS Games - System Shock 2 vs. FEAR
Since I built a new computer about a week ago, I’ve been going through all the great games I’ve missed for the last year, when I found that my old Althon 64 just wasn’t cutting it anymore. The list is long: Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Guild Wars, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, etc. There [...]
Joost is looking pretty good
So I just got my Joost invite a few hours ago, and installed it right away. I’ve been watching it for a while now, and here are my initial thoughts on the Joost platform.
First some background. Joost is made by the same guys who made Skype and Kazaa. It uses similar P2P technology [...]
The Next Game From Blizzard?
There’s only nine days left until Blizzard announces what their next game will be, and the guessing game is heating up. That’s to be expected since Blizzard has yet to make an actual bad game. I’ll give them a pass for Starcraft: Ghost and that other Warcraft game since they never came [...]
Intel launches Centrino Duo mobile platform: Santa Rosa has arrived
Today, Intel has announced the release of the latest revision of their Centrino mobile technology. Formerly codenamed “Santa Rosa”, several upgrades have been made available.
The available processor speeds have been beefed up; now you can get a Core 2 Duo Mobile as fast as 2.4 GHz (model T7700). Also available are the 2.2 GHz [...]
