Archive for August, 2002

SONY TO STOP PRODUCTION OF THE BETAMAX

What VHS couldn’t do, digital did. Sony Corp’s Betamax video tape recorder, which famously lost the 1980s video format war but held on for decades as a niche product, will finally be laid to rest after digital formats delivered a death blow to its prospects.

HALF-LIFE 2 FOR XBOX?

Recently posted on the EBGames.com listing was Half-Life 2 for Xbox coming in January 2003. Unfortunately it looks like the listing is false; HomeLAN contacted Valve Software’s marketing director Doug Lombardi who said that the EBGames listing for the game “is completely erroneous”.

BLOG BLOG BLOG

With help from Sara, I think I am starting to get the hang of style sheets. I know about 6 years ago, there was someone at work that used them alot, but I found them confusing. Instead I just kept to myself using FrontPage and doing real basic HTML. Any hoo, the [...]

BATTLEFIELD 1942 SHIPS SEPT. 10

After much confusion, (due to a recall of the gold master due to a couple of bugs found) Electronic Arts has stated the shipping date for its forthcoming vehicle-shooter action game Battlefield 1942 is set for September 10.

A COUPLE OF GAME PREVIEWS

PC.IGN has one on - C&C Generals and Battlefield 1942.

NWN PATCH

Got this from Blues, BioWare has released a patch for Neverwinter Nights. This patch bring the game up to version 1.23; which offers fixes, tweaks and changes. Quite a few things for the game itself, plus also the toolset. Go here for the file.

NEW LOOK FOR THE BLOG

That’s right, starting to get a little class around here. I have contracted someone that knows a heck of a lot more than I do about HTML and Moveable Type to set up a “Template” for this site. Going to be doing a couple more tweaks here and there. A couple [...]

DVD’s WILL REPLACE VHS

Digital video discs and their players, which five years ago were not much more than the toys of gadget-lust sufferers, have now taken full wing as a true pop culture phenomenon.
According to industry projections, Americans will spend nearly $3 billion more on DVDs this year than they did last, an increase of 50 percent. Some [...]

NEW ATI DESIGN WINS BAD NEWS FOR NVIDIA

On Thursday, ATI said its chips would power new computers from both Apple Computer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. The company also said it has shipped its new, widely-anticipated high-end graphics chip to retailers.
ATI said its Radeon 9000 Pro chip is now shipping as the standard graphics component in Apple’s new Power Mac G4 line of [...]

XBOX DVD KIT FREE

It would seem that the console wars are still very healthy. While Sony’s Playstation 2 console allows you to play DVD movies out of the box, you have to purchase a DVD playback kit to enable the same thing for Microsoft’s Xbox console. Now this press release announces that Microsoft will give people who [...]