Archives for June 2006

Tomorrow, June 11th, 2006, ECW starts back up.

The PPV… Will suck.

PLEASE START WATCHING THE SHOW AND GIVE IT 6 SHOWS! That is all I ask for any one to do. Paul E is a genius.

Andrew

What is a podcast?

iPod + Broadcast = podcast

Why am I talking about Podcasts? For the new people to my shitty blog, I have 4 podcasts. I try to release of them once every other week and the Kewanee Sports 2 times a week. Please take the time to listen to some of the NEWER shows I’ve done! Thanks for giving us a chance FOOLS!

Andrew

The last two days have been great. We have been REALLY busy! Today; Not so much. I have been really wondering why Monday and Tuesday? I think that some people get some free time and like to car shop. I noticed more and more people car shop on Mondays and Tuesdays. I always thought those would be the slow days. Who thonk it? This day has been good and bad for us so far. I hope I get more peeps in tomorrow. That would be fuckin kewl!

Andrew

666

Hide!

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Hide!

That is all…

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Andrew

taken from: Gamespot.com

Acting on advice of Jack Thompson, sheriff’s deputies search home of suspected Louisiana killer and confiscate M-rated games.

Last week, sheriff’s deputies conducting an investigation into the murder of a 55-year-old Louisiana man seized a number of games rated M for Mature from the home of a 16-year-old suspect, according to a report in the Baton Rouge paper The Advocate. The action was taken at the suggestion of controversial Florida attorney Jack Thompson.

Thompson told The Advocate that he suggested the sheriffs look for violent games in the youth’s house because he felt the killings mirrored a scenario from Grand Theft Auto. The original reports indicated that the victim was beaten to death and shot in the face by the 16-year-old and a 17-year-old accomplice.

“Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer,” Thompson told the paper.

While the police did seize the games, it’s unclear exactly what role they will play in the investigation. West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Captain Spence Dilworth told the paper, “I think it goes beyond video games, but who’s to say?”

taken from: Gamespot.com

Fuckin BULLSHIT!

Andrew

taken from Nintendo’s Forums.com

“This article from the upcoming Game Informer magazine focuses on the pros and cons of the development environment of the upcoming Nintendo Wii. As well as revealing the last big secret concerning hardware functionality. Here are some summarizations from that article.

-Pros-

-Inexpensive graphics development.
-Developer-friendly “camera” program
-Will support HDR lighting, normal maps, bump-mapping, nurbs rendering, and panoramically-composted depth-composited cubemappng, ray-tracing.
-Chipsets are very inexpensive although EXTREMELY powerful, WILL incorporate many aspects of the Project Reality study.
-Nintendo is providing extensive documentation to ease the incorporation of the Wii-mote.

-Cons-

-Challenging to program effectively for the Wii-mote, due to it being very new to the industry.
-Marketing to be more challenging for bigger third-party franchises due to nature of the innovative qualities.
-The development cycle to possibly equal the time cycles of PS3 and Xbox360 due to the time needed to be innovative and effectively program for the controller.
-The challenge of marketing the Wii’s controller in ads and commercial may turn third-parties away from exclusivity. (The challenge to display through ads how “playing is believing”)
-The Final Secret/minor surprises also-
-Wii will include a built-in decent resolution camera that can be used to add your face to character models and add innovation to games. These snapshots can be tweaked as well. It is still being decided whether to allow camera to record and stream video. Mention made to have this feature be a strong feature in online play.
-A wireless headset will be made available at launch.
-SD cards will range from 2GB to 7GB and will be priced “within reason”.
-A new router technology is still in development and not yet available to developers. In the final product Nintendo hopes to be able to make every Wii a sort of “Wi-Fi hotspot” with each user connecting to that user and so on. They also want to be able to allow different users to share things and are thinking about setting up a pseudo-P2P network through Connect24, where users can share content and “other things”. This means that even if you have a dial-up connection or no internet, you can still connect to Wii Connect24.

-The Wii will indeed have a PPU included in final hardware. It will have only 32MB though, which will still take a considerable amount of pressure off of other chips.

-A still-in-development simple dev tool will be made available to users through the Connect24 network. It will allow users to create a simple game in 2D or simple 3D and share it with the world. This will hopefully be available on the network by launch.

-The last big secret is the “graphics solution”. It revolves around a whole lot of non-volatile RAM (opting out of HDD support, RAM is much faster than a HDD). And a development interface that centers on a AI-controlled command-line interface. This additional tech only included in final dev kits, while most developers don’t have access to final dev kits.”
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So, what do you think?

taken from Nintendo’s Forums.com

As I have thought ALL along, Nintendo knows what games want/need. Camera… Video Chat… The possibilities are endless!

Andrew

taken from: Soft Pedia.com

Having numerous advantages over other consoles, one of the most important being the backwards compatibility, Xbox 360 has all the cards to become the most popular gaming platform in the world.

But since good things don’t last forever, Microsoft is about to commit a grave error and cancel their biggest advantage.

The statement made by Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft Corp, has sparked the gamers’ anger, who think they will end up with old titles ‘gathering dust’ on the shelves.

“Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It’s a very complicated thing… very complex work. I’m just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible,”
Peter Moore said in an interview for Kikizo.

The editors at 1up.com, a famous gaming site, remind Moore of a statement made by Xbox PR manager Michael Wolf.

“At launch, Xbox 360 will be backward compatible with the top Xbox games. Our goal is to have every Xbox game work on Xbox 360. You will NOT need to purchase a new ‘version’, your original games will work on Xbox 360,” Wolf told GamesIndustry.biz in 2005.

Most gamers have sold their old Xbox consoles in order to buy the new Xbox 360, and now they are finding out their game collections are almost useless.

Microsoft should also take into consideration Sony’s and Nintendo’s policies towards old titles, the two companies having the ability to rock Xbox 360’s temporary stability.

taken from: Soft Pedia.com

Nice.

Andrew