Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Remember when Sony told you don't need rumble anymore? That's so last gen. Well everything that is old is new again. The DualShock 3 is coming state-side April 15th. Do you really need a picture? Dust of your 10 year old Playstation controller. That's what it looks like.
Posted in PS3 | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The wheel are turning in the Wii scene. The gc-linux team has come out of a two year hibernation and has released a proof of concept Linux build for unmodified Wii's with the Twilight hack. Don't expect a fancy gui, but the concept has indeed been proven. Check out the ...
Posted in Homebrew, Wii | No Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Yes, I KNOW HD DVD is "dead." Microsoft is stopping manufacturing this drive, and there wont be many more releases. But come on, it's $50! That comes with King Kong on HD DVD, the full 360 Media Remote, and 5 more HD DVDs after rebate. There are still hundreds of ...
Posted in HD DVD, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Just last week I posted about the Wii ELF loader and early homebrew. Those early demos had no input, so weren't of much use. Programmer extraordinaire Auby now brings us the first fully playable wii homebrew, Tetris!
If you've got a copy of Zelda: TP, an SD to gamecube adapter, and ...
Posted in Homebrew, Wii | 6 Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
You may have heard the GDC buzz about some XNA Community Games trials available RIGHT NOW for all Xbox Live users. But where are they!?! You need to download the "XNA Creators Club Game Launcher" to get access. This will only be available until February 24th! After that, the launcher ...
Posted in Demo, Homebrew, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Notorious toolbag CliffB has announced the second installment of the Gears of War franchise with a November 08' release date at the GDC. Timeshift, Call of Jaurez, Medal of Honor...wait, a History Channel shooter?
Thank goodness for COD4 (or as I like to refer to it: electronic crack). Here's to COD ...
Posted in Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Remember all the hoopla about XNA and the Creators Club, which would let you build and deploy games directly to your 360 console? It sounded wonderful, but the $100 annual subscription was a gotcha for most who just wanted to tinker around. Not anymore. College students can now get a ...
Posted in Homebrew, News, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
When Mario falls down that expanse, did you ever wonder where he goes? Well, the answer isn't too pretty:
Not the most glamorous death, I know. And if you are getting all weepy eyed for Mario, just remember:
First pic via Geekstir.
Posted in News | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
It's stories like this that reaffirms my belief that Tetris is still the most bad ass video game ever. And nothing is more bad ass than playing Tetris on an oscilloscope. Refreshing at 100 Hz, it's got a frame rate that trumps most games you're used to. Tetris purists may ...
Posted in Homebrew, Video | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
There have been a lot of Wii hacking developments this week. The Twilight Hack was released, which is the first exploit of it's kind. It's a classic gamesave exploit triggering a stack buffer overflow. This essentially allows us to hijack the system and run our own code. In it's current ...
Posted in Hacks, Homebrew, Wii | 1 Comment »
