Archive for August, 2002
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.
August 27th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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”.
August 27th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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 [...]
August 27th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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.
August 27th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
PC.IGN has one on - C&C Generals and Battlefield 1942.
August 27th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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.
August 26th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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 [...]
August 26th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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 [...]
August 26th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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 [...]
August 26th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
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 [...]
August 26th, 2002 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off