Archive for August 2nd, 2003

Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge Preview

XBox.IGN has posted up an extended preview of the upcoming Crimson Skies game for XBox. They seem pretty impressed.
The cool thing about Crimson Skies’ combat is that you can hop in and out of your plane sort of like in Battlefield 1942. As you fly around shooting down bogeys, you’ll notice green circles show up [...]

Battlestar Galactica: Preview

Just as Star Wars raised the bar for theatrical science fiction, Battlestar Galactica revolutionized how we would view space on our televisions. High production costs, however, led to an early demise of the groundbreaking series, leaving diehard fans with only 22 episodes to watch in syndication. Of course, the last five years have seen a [...]

EA wants console price cuts

In an interview with Reuters, EA CEO Larry Probst said he’s looking forward to seeing some more console price cuts and is waiting for the next generation of consoles to be arriving.
In an interview with Reuters, EA CEO Larry Probst also said he expected industry leader Sony Corp. to make a decision in the next [...]

Worm masquerades as note from IT staff

A new mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer user’s network administrator, began infecting systems Friday. The worm, which is being dubbed “mimail,” attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows a script to be executed by an infected computer. The worm then tries to use that script [...]

Microsoft’s Web Site Brought Down By Attack

Microsoft’s Web site was made inaccessible for an hour and 40 minutes Friday afternoon when a denial-of-service (news - web sites) attack overwhelmed the site with traffic, making it impossible for legitimate page requests to get through. The outage, which began about 1:21 p.m. Pacific time, was the result of a conventional denial-of-service attack [...]