Happy Halloween to all of our readers, and the rest of the world. Stay safe.
Entertainment | October 30th, 2008 by Staggs
Fallout 3, a creepy game about super mutants, giant insects, and carnage left over by nuclear destruction in Washington D.C., has landed on store shelves. The game lets us play in first-or-third person, and choose a destiny for the character. The game can be played either as turn-based or a first-person-shooter, we have the option to choose at any time during gameplay. Fallout 3 gives new meaning to options and open-ended gaming. This is where the game makes its entry onto our leet list because of the vast way it allows us to play. Not to mention… the gore is spectacular.
Here is a great introduction to the game and some crazy gameplay and disgusting bloody messes.
More information at Fallout.Bethsoft.com. Please, pick up this game. This is something to have in case of nuclear storm… and if we’re ever stuffed into a vault, the game could prove useful!
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Gadgets | October 27th, 2008 by Staggs
Spylicious
Celebrating the coming of Quantum of Solace, Halloween, and all things spy-worthy, I’ve been on the lookout for great gadgets that would be of help on the field to a 00-agent. Oh, there is great stuff out there. But the first thing we need to be a great spy is a way to capture intelligence: I’m talking about pocket-sized cameras that you can conceal in mere seconds.
I was able to find the Agent M DSC Digital Spycam from Minox, a German company, which is stupidly small, but awesomely powered. It is capable of 5-megapixel picture capturing, which rivals most full-sized digital cameras currently on the market. This is great if we need to take a picture of documents, locations, or other things a spy might need to retrieve. I’m not really allowed to go into details here…
Some other specs include that the Spycam has a small memory, only 128mb, and a rechargeable battery. It also comes with a 1.5-inch picture view screen and flash that is attachable. It is almost the size of the camera, so hopefully you take good pictures by looking through the viewfinder, and don’t need a great flash. The actual size of the camera is 3.5″ long, and 1.6″ wide… in other words tiny. To quickly take pictures and conceal the instrument without being noticed - we’ll want one of these.
Check out Payworxx.de/Minox for details on the Agent M DSC.
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Entertainment | October 23rd, 2008 by Staggs
I saw a trailer (shown below) for Seth Rogen’s latest movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and couldn’t help but think of how funny it must be. Although I wonder how Seth Rogen is able to stay funny and pop out with comical movie after comical movie, I am confident in his latest movies, particularly this one. Rogen’s movies are extremely funny, and Zack and Miri Make a Porno will be hilarious addition to his accolades.
The movie takes on a story that is fit for insane amounts of laughter. It is R-rated so we can be sure that crude jokes will be made without limits, as well as a lot of comedy that a typical PG-13 movie wouldn’t be allowed to have (e.g. nudity, cursing, etc). The idea of making a pornographic video with a female room mate could make any of us keel over with stomach pain and put tears in our eyes. I’ve never heard of any movie with as unique of a plot as this. To add to the plot, the cast is phenominal and I think this movie will be worth the time to go out and see.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno comes out on October 31st, so be sure to see it. The trailer is ridiculously funny!
“There’s poo in there…”
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Gadgets | October 20th, 2008 by Staggs
Oh So Sexy
Apple has some of the best designers in the country. Their intuitive user interface design that originally was used in the iPod, is now being applied to all other Apple hardware. Where we saw the first updated Macbooks, small white or black we thought they were great. If you got a white Macbook, you might be wondering how to get the faded coloring off of the trackpad and the keyboard. The plastic also underwent stress cracks, and wasn’t very durable.
Well, those same designers agreed the white wasn’t such a great idea. The new Apple Macbooks are now aluminum, like the older Macbook Pro and new iMacs. The keyboard has black keys as well as the border around the screen. So much more sleek than the previous model. We’re salivating all over it.
Apple has also made changes to the features of the Macbook, faster CPUs, more graphics processing, and has ultimately updated all of the hardware on the inside. The new Macbook doesn’t only look cooler, it is more advanced, and more up to date. The basic (old) Macbook model now goes for $999, while the new model will begin at $1299.
There is only one thing that makes me upset, which is the idea that the base Macbook model has a 2.0Ghz processor, while the previous Macbook model featured a 2.16Ghz as the basic processor option. Overall though, everything else is more. So where the processor is lacking, everything else about the new Macbook is stunning.
Check out, and even purchase a new Apple Macbook from Apple.com/Macbook. Peter Yan made a great fan advertisement featuring the new Macbook. He says he won’t be able to afford one. Here it is:
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We were ecstatic about the Max Payne release, and had high hopes. Those hopes came up empty after the movie officially releasing this Friday, disappointing a whole lot of people. This is a close, if not final string for video game movie adaptations.
Entertainment | October 16th, 2008 by Staggs
Any regular Halo fan has, by now, definitely heard of Bungie’s latest project title, Halo 3: Recon. It uses the same engine that was used in Halo 3, with some new swagger and shine, as well as a chance to play through new campaign levels as a new character. The game will even feature Halo 3-style multiplayer modes and achievements.
Halo 3: Recon Looking Good
Details about the game are scarce as of yet, but Bungie doesn’t seem to want to keep this title quiet at all. You’ll get to play as an ODST (Orbital Drop-Shock Trooper) that is deployed during Halo 3 and the story will continue from this character’s point of view, rather than from the regular Master Chief hero.
I was starting to wonder what Bungie had under its sleeves, given the fact that they were silenced during this year’s E3 and have been quiet until now. Prior to that, I was worried that Halo 3 would be the last we saw of the utterly disappointing storyline, and downturn of the Halo franchise. Hopefully Bungie will be able to resurrect new hope for the Halo storyline, and offer fresh ideas for the new character.
One more thing, Bungie is no longer completely tied to Microsoft, so technically they can start offering games to fans on other gaming consoles, and expand outside of the Xbox 360. Halo 3 Recon will definitely be Xbox 360-exclusive, since it wouldn’t make sense for it to be on other consoles at this point, but we’re positive they may be creating other games that may be cross-platform in the future.
The trailer isn’t very revealing, but its definitely hype-worthy. The game will be out sometime Fall 2009. Better yet, Bungie has already started answering community questions about this game. Check out official updates at Bungie.net.
Update: Halo 3: Recon is now Halo 3: ODST. The name change better fits the game’s focus on the new character.
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Gadgets | October 13th, 2008 by Staggs
The G1 is Competition for the iPhone
The Google Android powered G1 phone from T-Mobile already has many, many pre-orders - enough to rival even the Apple’s iPhone. Pre-orders in the 1.5 million-unit-range are very significant numbers to be looking at for T-Mobile. The only big problem for T-Mobile is the fact that the cellular services are dominated by Verizon and AT&T; how many people will be willing to convert?
Despite the large shadow left by the two competing companies, the G1 phone is very promising, and could wind up competing with the iPhone on a whole new level. Why? Because it has all of the same goodies you would get with an iPhone, plus the backing of Google’s backbone of users that are committed to creating applications on the Android platform.
Despite the fantastic software that Google has created in the past, everything is on the line for T-Mobile and Google Android. The software has never been used before, and could very much not be all it is hyped up to be. Though, I don’t think Google has had too many flops in its day, they seem very confident that the G1 phone will be a large success.
Given that Android is completely new, we’re saying that you should wait for a little bit to see how things turn out. Either this phone will be a complete success, or a buggy piece of hardware that’ll make you want to cry. If you took a chance with an HD-DVD player, you might want to sit this gadget round out.
There is a great walk-through of the G1 phone up, done by Eric from HTC:
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Entertainment | October 9th, 2008 by Staggs
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While I’m a big fan of James Bond movies, the games have been a little less than impressive - that is unless the game is Goldeneye 64. Since Goldeneye on the Nintendo, I have never been able to rate newer Bond games quite as good. Something about turning on DK mode and using the Moon Raker on people was just better than anything ever. Multiplayer? Forget about it, best thing since they invented bendable straws.
So what does this say about the new Bond title, Quantum of Solace, coming November 4th? Well, it means that it probably won’t be as good as Goldeneye. But for the sake of gaming and keeping it l33t, it won’t be a bad game - I’ll take playing a character like James Bond and first-person shooters any day, especially now given high definition graphics and oh-so-sweet large TVs that Goldeneye didn’t get to see.
The new game uses the Call of Duty 4 graphics engine, which I couldn’t be happier about. The game looks realistic, and knowing Bond games, there will be many weapons to play with and various ways to use gadgets to get the upper hand on your opponents.
The game also has awesome, Splinter Cell-like, espionage and sneaking around. You can knife people, and creep up behind opponents to kill them when they least expect it. We can’t tell everything, so we suggest you just watch this gameplay trailer, thanks to GameTrailers.com:
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People think it would be a great idea, and so do we. Microsoft has the hand up by offering a cheaper system. Why should Sony sit back and take the beating?
