Where all stupid comes to congeal neatly in one handy tub.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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Monday, December 11, 2006
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Wireless MIDI for the Nintendo DS
DSMIDIWiFi - Wireless MIDI for the Nintendo DS.
The Nintendo DS hardware offers a variety of possibilities for creating
music as well as interacting with music. TheRain first had the idea of
using the DS as a MIDI controller and created the DSMIDI, a DS cartridge that added a standard MIDI port to the DS that could be used by homebrew DS software.
The old ET rumour... or is it?
The Atari Landfill Revealed
Welcome to the Atari Landfill Revealed Project!
Welcome to the Atari Landfill Revealed Project!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Lets see how these stats pan out in a few years shall we?
Development Group's Q3 report on the future of the game industry has
been released, and Next-Gen has some exclusive highlights and stats.
The full report details annual predicted hardware and software sales
across all formats in every major North American and Western European
territory through to the end of the decade, as well as average sales
prices and predicted sales of digital downloads.
IDG and
Next-Gen have collaborated to bring you a small portion of the detailed
report, with an emphasis here on Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 in the U.S. The
full report also covers handhelds and PC games in dozens of countries.
You can get more information, and order the report here.
image copyright IDG.
Xbox 360
"Sales
of Xbox 360 hardware have remained on a path to achieving an estimated
4.9 million units sold through in North America in 2006 – a
significant improvement over the original Xbox’s first full calendar
year of 3.4 million units.
However, sales still trail the PS2’s
impressive “GTA‐fueled” 6.1 million units in its first full calendar
year of 2001, and the system continues to be outsold on a monthly basis
by the PS2 today. The 2006 holiday season will prove particularly
important as the industry’s first live test of next‐ generation console
market share.
IDG does not anticipate a price reduction on the
core Xbox 360 hardware in 2006, but bundling at the retailer level
seems likely. Sales should also benefit from the constricted supply of
both PS3 and Wii. The installed base of the Xbox 360 is also projected
to lead all other next‐gen platforms until 2009."
ESTIMATED NORTH AMERICA HARDWARE SALES and INSTALLED BASE
2006
4.9 Million / 5.6 million
2007
6 Million / 11.6 million
2008
5.3 million / 16.9 million
2009
4.1 million / 21.1 million
2010
2.8 million / 23.9 million
PlayStation 3
"The PlayStation 3 launch
continues to weather difficult news however, such as the delay of the
European launch to Spring 2007 and a pre‐launch price reduction on PS3
hardware in the Japan market generally perceived to be reactive to
Japanese consumer sentiment. IDG has adjusted its forecast model to
account for the new launch statistics, and the ripple‐through effects
are substantial.
Sony may be unable to catch Microsoft’s
installed base lead from the Xbox 360 until 2010. For the industry as a
whole, however, the smaller launch inventory is not expected to
significantly impact total market size for 2006 or 2007, as spending
will likely just shift to substitute products.
From a market
share perspective, a more balanced market structure between the three
new consoles now seems even more probable. Publishers appear to have
adjusted their portfolios to minimize exposure from any individual
system (although Microsoft recently announced several 360‐exclusive
third party console titles).
IDG’s projections show that Sony will still “win” the race, as its brand remains strong
(particularly
so in several European markets). However, winning the race may only
mean being on the larger side of a 55/45 split, and will be a longer
and more difficult battle."
ESTIMATED NORTH AMERICA HARDWARE SALES and INSTALLED BASE
2006
0.9 Million / 0.9 million
2007
5.6 million / 6.5 million
2008
6.3 million / 12.7 million
2009
5.6 million / 18.4 million
2010
5.2 million / 23.5 million
Nintendo Wii
"Nintendo’s
confirmation of a global Wii launch in November/December and Sony’s
reduced launch quantities have given many observers an increased degree
of confidence in Wii’s prospects for 2006 and 2007. Nintendo certainly
stands to benefit from reduced PS3 inventories in North America and
Europe, and the reintroduction of the launch bundle makes Wii the only
self‐contained gaming gift option.
The bundling of Wii Sports
is likely to dampen initial software‐to‐hardware tie ratios however, at
least for early purchases. This is only an issue for third party
publishers, since Nintendo still benefits from the sale. IDG does not
expect the bundle to reduce the tie ratio by a full software unit as
many consumers can still be expected to purchase an initial library of
games – particularly given the system’s position as theleast expensive
of the three new platforms."
ESTIMATED NORTH AMERICA HARDWARE SALES and INSTALLED BASE
2006
1.1 Million / 1.1 million
2007
3.4 million / 4.5 million
2008
3.9 million / 8.4 million
2009
3.1 million / 11.4 million
2.2 million / 13.6 million
Monday, October 23, 2006
Saturday, October 14, 2006
New blogging tool
Friday, October 13, 2006
Testing another insta blogger thingy...
PS3's Oblivion will come to Xbox 360 and PC too
As many of you well know, the PlayStation 3 will be getting an updated version of smash-hit RPG Oblivion,
heretofore only available on the Xbox 360 and PC. This announcement
prompted concern amongst PC and Xbox 360 loyalists who worried about
missing out on content exclusive to the PlayStation 3 version of the
game.
Bethesda says don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Asked
by IGN about the issue, Bethesda's Todd Howard replied, "We always aim
to have all our content available across all platforms, so that is our
goal."
Welcome to the new generation! So long as no single platform has a
major lead over the others, we can expect that most publishers will opt
to launch their games for all platforms, assuming there are no
technical limitations to doing so. Analyst consensus is that this
generation of the console wars will be far less lopsided than the era
in which the PlayStation 2 dominated. Publishers will naturally produce
products for the platforms on which gamers congregate.
To put it another way: if you see an exclusive, someone paid big money to obtain rights to that exclusive.
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Friday, October 06, 2006
Neat offices... and a break from youtube links :)
10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one.
And I’m not talking about the outside of the building. Many companies have buildings that are sleek, modern, architectural glass-steel-and-cement sculptures on the outside - and cubicle wastelands on the inside. These companies need to remember that most employees tend to work inside the building.
With that in mind, here’s some eye candy from 10 different innovative, well-designed workplaces.Test 3. It sort of sucks but is better than nothing I guess.
Tiny house sculpture
Artist Willard Wigan made a model of a house that fits on the head of a pin.Link'I spent 15 hours a day for seven weeks sculpting a minute piece of diamond. The beams are made out of floating fibres that you see in sunlight.
'To paint the house, I took the hair from a dead spider's legs and made a paintbrush. Then it was a case of being very patient and careful.'
Test number two!
IFComp '06 & More!
Posted by BMcC 5 hours ago
This just in from our man who likes Japan, Shih Tzu:
The 12th annual Interactive Fiction Competition started October 1st and runs until November 15th. The IFComp is a community-driven competition of homebrew text adventures in the style of the old Infocom games (think Zork).
Everyone is encouraged to download the games and rate as many as possible.
Also! Defcon has been reviewed by The Onion A.V. Club, “proving once again that they are totally deliciously indie.”
Thanks, Shih Tzu!
Testing a new pliugin thingy...
Their big screen debut, The Big Dirty, hits theatres this weekend. In the meantime, for fans and those unfamiliar alike, here's an episode from seasons past.
Looks like it doesn''t link :(
Thursday, October 05, 2006
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Acid Trip: 9 Drawings
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
For my loyal readership of one
Cool little demo and if they were charging $10 bucks instead of $25, I'd be sold faster than Oprah eats pancakes.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
Things I hate
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
Indie Games. Fuck them.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
BBQ hut of doom
This looks like the place I want to live. I think BBQ's are the best invention ever and if I could, I would marry one.
This has to hurt.
The worst video game injury I have suffered so far (not including the mild heart attacks from lack of excercise) is a Street Fighter II blister the size of a medium pizza on my d-pad thumb. This kid stuffed up royal,
Monday, August 21, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Holy crap!
Three Mexican fishermen who say they spent about nine months drifting across the The three men said they survived on rain water, sea birds and fish after the engine on their eight-metre (25ft) boat broke down. They were eventually picked up by a Taiwanese tuna trawler close to the A trip to catch shark off the Mexican Pacific coast turned into a 5,000-mile (8,000km) ordeal, they said. 'Twice we almost sank' The three men, identified as Salvador Ordonez, Jesus Vidana and Lucio Rendon, are all from the Mexican town of Their fibreglass boat, equipped with two 200 horsepower outboard motors, ran into trouble soon after setting out from the
"We ate raw seagulls, ducks and fish. We ate everything raw - any fish that came near the boat we grabbed it and gulped it down," Jesus Vidana told Televisa channel in an interview late Tuesday. "We drank rain water because it rained every day," he said. "Twice we almost sank. The waves washed into the boat and we thought we were going to die." The three shipwrecked mates took turns reading the Bible and praying together. Lucio Rendon said they went several months without sighting a ship.
"Then suddenly we saw ships going by and we'd reached the other side [of the Pacific]. We were with the Japanese and Chinese," he said. Eugene Muller, manager of Koo's Fishing Co Ltd, which owns the trawler that found the men, said details of the ordeal were sketchy because of language difficulties between the fishermen and their rescuers. But he said there may have been five men on board when the boat set out and that two may have jumped overboard a few days into their ordeal. They were presumed dead. Mr Muller said the survivors were recovering well and that the boat carrying them would dock as scheduled in the Mr Muller said he thought the men may have been drifting even longer - 11 months. Some relatives had initially told government news agency Notimex it was only three months. But Mr Vidana said: "One of the guys on the boat has a watch that shows the months and the days." | | |
Suddenly we saw ships going by... we were with the Japanese and Chinese 
Lifte from BBC News. I just neede to post the whole thing 'cause it's friggin' amazing. Did they poop in their hands and fling it over the edge or did they balance on the edge of the boat? How sunburnt did they get? Crazy stuff!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Planet or chunk of rock?
Is Pluto really a planet or is it just a big chunk of crap? Dudes argue about it here. I hope they get it sorted because I know I'm not going to sleep a fucking wink tonight if I don't know which it is.
Sign me up!
The Rocketbelt Convention of 2006
Runs from the 23rd to the 24th of September. If you can make it to 345 3rd St in Niagra Falls, New York on these dates and you don't, you should be shot in to the moving blades of a helicopter by a dodgy home made jet pack.
Monday, August 14, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
Vid test benchmarking
I want a new card but it's way too confusing. All I want to do is play Titian Quest without having to sell my house. PC's suck nuts.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Mmmm....
After I get millions of $$ for my house burning down (I have George Washingtons' wooden false teeth in my cupboard. Really, I do Mr. Insurance wanker.) I'll buy all these.
Make a projector
Since I suck at gathering enough currency together to purchace things, I figure I'll make crap I don't really need instead. Gonna try this one at some stage. Only problem I see is that its still slightly expensive so when I screw up, I'm going to loose money I could have put towards the real thing. Hmm... maybe if I get lucky it will burn the house down and I can tell the insurance bastard that I had 10 projectors!
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Dead Rising get the demo now
http://www.b3ta.com/
http://www.b3ta.com/
I dunno if I like this place or not so I'm going to try it on for a few days.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Rick Dangerous is awesome
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
What the graphic says
I also suggest checking out his other work. It's crap and good at the same time. Crood? Gorap? Gapood? Croodap? Crapood?
Monday, July 31, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
I knew it!!
I knew there was some more gaming time I could squeeze in to my day! Let there be pee games everywhere!
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Game and Watch rules!
I remember saving up for months to buy my first Game and Watch. It was $30 dollars 24 odd years ago. I don't know what that is in todays terms. I can still remember in vivid detail the second that game became mine. The sights and sounds of the only toy shop in town to have any stock are burnt in my brain for as long as I live. Maybe that was where it all started...
Wow! People are so cool.
Tree sculpture. In the article, this guy goes on to say that he can grow a house. I want to see that. How awesome!
More here
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Bable Fish Babllings
I knew that there was a quantity swearing in this light impact, but at the bare volume am evenly I little betaeubt. It becomes nearly hypnotic. It do not click, if you are easily insulted. Ahhh. click, even if you are easily insulted. It is merry for everyone, which watches out you to watch out vid. If you are easily insulted, which you out kreischen, if you are really insulted by insulting material? Is here the chicken version. Everything swears and to the half time. Handily, if you do not have, much time however buttloads the worldliness to hear must.
The Tub in German
Or should I say Wanne von dummem
I'm just glad to know that 'buttloads' translates both ways
Monday, July 24, 2006
I knew there was a lot of swearing in this flick but even I'm a little stunned at the sheer volume. It becomes almost hypnotic. Don't click it if you are easily offended. Ahhh.. click it even if you are easily offended. It will be funny for anyone watching you watching the vid. If you are easily offended what do you yell out when you are really offended by offensive stuff?
Here is the chicken version. All the swears and in half the time. Handy if you don't have much time but need to hear buttloads of profanity.
Friday, July 21, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Nabacular Drop
Bam!
Once you are done checking out the cool new version have a look at the student game that made it all possible. It's pretty cool. Only a 25 meg download but it more than makes up for it's small size in sheer brain melting game play goodness.
Narbacular Drop
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
Friday, July 14, 2006
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
And this rounds out todays Atari trillogy. If you are really lucky, you will never, ever have to play this game. If someone tries to make you, chop off your fingers and gouge your eyes out first. Maybe do that the other way around so it's easier to get those eyeballs popping out.
Friday, July 07, 2006
This has some serious potential. I't looks a bit gumby at the moment but you have to remember that these 3D images are being totaly created from one still image. It's about friggin' time! If they get this working properly I'll forgive the fact that I don't have a personal jet pack yet. On second thought, nah, I'm still pissed about that one.
Fuuny or complete bastard act?
I vote funny. Does that make me a bad person?
"Can u kick it?" was written on a poster near innocuous looking footballs. So, probably without thinking too long about it, two young guys, aged 21 and 23, took up the challenge and gave the balls a good kick. Unfortunately the leather balls had been filled with concrete and weighed around 10kg each. The men sustained foot injuries so severe that they had to go to hospital.
Hehe...
I want to know what the second guy was thinking when he took his swing at the ball. He was most likely paying the first guy out for being a big skirt for not being able to kick a ball. I so wish I was there.
Sounds interesting doesn't it?
I just pre purchased this game on a whim. It sounds cool but it has 'potential to suck' written all over it. Those whacky graffiti kids can't leave anything alone can they?
Thursday, July 06, 2006
I'm getting one of these...
... and I'm going to freak my neighbours out by covering their cars in snow in summer. It's going to be the funniest thing ever! Well maybe not as funny as a rabbit with pancakes on its head.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
I love this game
Something about a psychotic rabbit and a flatulent dog that makes me laugh. Go figure?
I'm not one to brag but...
I got through Bark at the Moon on Expert. That's right. You heard me. If there was one more note in the song it would have been a different story but hey - I play by the rules, I don't make 'em.
Also it's finally hit me that since no one else checks the site I am really just talking to myself. If I did that in the street they'd lock me up. Is it ok to talk to yourself on the net or is the booby hatch van on it's way as we speak?
Bester neatest blog-o
This is one of my all time favourite engrish signs.
Cool blog about gaming life in Japan. I didn't realise that the Xbox 360 was really that shunned in Japan.
