Archive for May, 2004

Xbox 2 To Be A Console/PC Hybrid?

Xbox 2 hasn’t come up in the news much as of late but today, through CNN Money’s Game Over column it seems there’s a possibility that Xbox 2 could be playing both Xbox 2 and PC titles. According to the article, California-based research company, B/R/S Group, recently listed Microsoft and the Xbox division as clients, [...]

‘Babylon 5′ actor dies

Richard Biggs, who played Dr. Stephen Franklin on “Babylon 5″ and also had a long run on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” died Saturday. He was 44, according to the actor’s Web site.
A posting on a “Babylon 5″ message board by J. Michael Straczynski, the sci-fi show’s creator, said the cause of death [...]

Windows XP SP2 Inches Closer

SAN DIEGO — A second release candidate for Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2) could make its debut here as early as Wednesday if developers could work out a nasty bug that affects gaming on 64-bit hardware.
According to people familiar with the matter, beta testers running games on 64-bit systems reported problems [...]

Windows XP SP2 RC2 set for Wednesday

Microsoft is preparing to release the next release candidate of the highly anticipated Windows XP update, service pack 2. Current internal builds are at 2135.040518-1812. Microsoft are compiling RC2 on build servers this weekend and the build will be available on Monday to internal testers before it’s launched widely on Wednesday.
We’re silently expecting an announcement [...]

Blade 3 & Fantastic Four dates

The Fantastic Four Vancouver production office is now officially open and filming dates of August 9th 2004 thru February 2nd 2005 have been set. The six month shoot is right up there alongside X-Men 2, Riddick and I, Robot as the longest feature film shoot in Vancouver history. The production company name is FF Productions [...]

Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?)

Apparently, William Shatner may return to Star Trek, after talks with studio executives for a cameo on the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise. Rick Berman did not disclose which role wants Shatner play, although I’m sure we’d all love to see Captain James Tiberius Kirk again, right?

Slashdot

Halo 2 Weekly Update

Halo.Bungie.Org is once again the lucky host of this week’s official Halo 2 weekly update:
I can’t even tell you how excited everyone was after E3 - a mixture of fatigue, elation and excitement meant for varying degrees of glassy-eyed wonder when the small contingent we sent there arrived back. As planned, the E3 demo was [...]

Star Trek: Enterprise to see a 4th Season

UPN, at their upfronts press conference this morning in New York, officially announced that Star Trek: Enterprise will be renewed for a fourth season and will appear on Friday night this fall. UPN programming executive Dawn Ostroff told the audience of television and advertising executives at UPN’s upfront presentation that Enterprise is an established [...]

USS Enterprise Finally Flies

Found on Slashdot Japan: Model builder Kaname of Kumamoto, Japan has built a flying radio controlled model of the original Star Trek’s USS Enterprise. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for a video. Or go here for an mpeg, and here for a WMV.) The ship measures from 75 cm, and only weighs 16 [...]

REMAINS #1 REVIEW

Intended for Mature Readers
After 30 Days of Night and the promising start of Aleister Arcane, I’ve got a lot of good will built up for Steve Niles. So when I saw Steve Niles’ name on Remains, and saw that great cover, I decided to give it a try. What I found is a serviceable zombie [...]