Splatterhouse Trailer!

Here is the trilaer for the upcoming game Splatterhouse for the PS3 and XBox 360.

Splatterhouse Trailer

Quake Live Preview

Lately i've been BETA testing Quake Live which is id Softwares newest Quake Game. It is browser based and includes selected maps from all Quake Games. The game is completely multiplayer with serverds around the world.It features an advanced matchmaking system which tells you wether a server is at your skill level or more or less chalenging. The graphics are crisp with very few graphical errors. There is little to no lag so the action will always be fast moving.

There s a vast array of weapons from all Quake games as well as a capture the flag mode reminiscent of Quake 3 Team Arena.

All in all Quake Live is a solid browser based FPS which will be ready when it is ready. To sign up for the beta program go to http://www.quakelive.com/.

NEW COMP(mabey)

Well you see i was sitting there bored and i thought what could make the blog funner and i thought "i no a competition". You will not win any prize apart from the respect or your fellow ausgamers. Play the vid and guess the song. I modified the song in many ways. Hopefully we can do this every week with a new song but that depends if you like it. I no the quality of our new intro(it was excellent and somewhere along the way if became bad quality)but i hope you like it. So if you like the idea or no the song(this week is pretty easy but oh well)please guess and tell me if i should continue or not:)
Soz about the quality again and hope you enjoy:):)



Now just a small unrelated side note. Remember the animated Christmas light display vid i posted a couple of months ago. Well there are some i am finding all over aus. and finally after months of looking i have FINALLY FOUND A DISPLAY IN BRISBANE!!!!!!!
Here is one of the 4 vids and go to the videos info for more(it is in Rochedale i think)



See you next time and happy guessing

AndrewCow

So long then 3 in one

Hi
Sorry i haven't posted in a while. I have been a combination of busy and lazy. I have very bad news. I still cant review Windows 7 cause it has stuffed up on me. I am very sorry but i can tell you I is AWESOME. The Beta is still laggy but every day there were ad leased 8 updates. :) Now i no what i am about to say will be VERY VERY controversial but I LOVE WINDOWS VISTA. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER THAT XP IN EVERY WAY SHAPE AND FORM. people say it has bad security but who cares. since when has anyone only had 1 security. even if you think you only have 1 i can guarantee you you have more. Yea so you get it i love vista and 7 is just as good if not better. Now there are some things which are not as vista but i presume that's just the beta.

More of that will be in the next(hopefully) post. Now for something completely different.
iTunes Plus-- I have bought my first DRM free and really good quality songs off it and it is AWESOME. To those of you who think it will not make much difference you are completly wrong. Now not all songs are available with the Plus features but quite a few are. I no this is a bit off topic but the song i downloaded was this one(link below) except the later version where they are the Jackson 5 not just the Jacksons. I no this isn't very relevant but i found this funny vid. LOOK AT THE COSTUMES. THEY ARE SPACE MEN(maybe that's why they can sing so well)

Well thanks for reading and sorry again but now enjoy:)



AndrewCow :)

MMOs May Be Illegal In Australia

John Hatzistergos, New South Wales Attorney-General recently said that online games are illegal in his part of Australia.

Video game publishers and retailers are risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines by illegally selling online role playing games such as World of Warcraft without age classifications.

The games industry believes there is a legal loophole exempting online games that don't have a single player component from classification requirements but this view is contradicted by the federal and state attorneys-general.

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All are sold as boxed sets in retail stores across the country without classification by the Classification Board or the appropriate labelling, for instance M or MA15+.

A spokesman for NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said the NSW Classification Enforcement Act prohibited publishers and retailers from selling unclassified computer games.

"The NSW legislation covers computer games bought online as well as those bought in stores, and treats single, multi-player and online games the same way," he said.

The spokesman added that enforcement of the act was the responsibility of police but penalties for breaking these laws ranged from $1100 to $11,000 for individuals and/or 12 months' imprisonment. For corporations the fines were approximately double.

"If there is any suggestion that any business is trading illegally, police need to know, and it should be reported," he said.

Source:http://news.bbgsite.com/content/2009-02-03/20090203030641095.shtml

News Original From: smh.com.au

EA Third Quater Results and Google Monoculture?

EA Today ported their 3rd Quater results for fiscal year 2009. They reported a net revenue of 1.65 billio dollars,up 165 million citing FIFA 09, Rock Band™ 2, Need for Speed™ Undercover, Rock Band, Left 4 Dead™, Dead Space™, Madden NFL 09, LITTLEST PET SHOP, NBA Live 09 and Mirror’s Edge™ as reasons for the profits.

On another note, I have been reading a lot lately about the world becoming a Google monoculture. I really think that may be true. People are relying on Google for search and email and if something goes wrong, people become confused. Sadly I believe this can't be helped and Google will continue being a major source for information.

Finally, The Sims 3 has a new ship date. It is now June 2. Just in time for US Summer holidays and our Winter holiday season.

Eight Cores on Feb 9?

ZDNet reports that Intel has revealed plans to release an Eight Core Xeon Processor on Fewbruary 9 at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. For consumers this would mean being able to run more programs at once or the same number of programs faster. This is a pleasant leap foreward for the CPU industry but we are still waiting to see the first 16 core processor for the home market.