Archive for June, 2004
EvilAvatar came across a pretty neat 23 page preview of Avengers #500, this comic weighs in at 48 pages in total, for those who have 5-10 minutes to go through a decent(so far) new comic arc from the creative team of Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil to mentioned just a few) and David [...]
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Comic Books | Comments Off
A 16-year-old boy was caught early Wednesday using a camcorder to tape the first showing of “Spider-Man 2″ at a Los Angeles theater, MPAA said. The teen was spotted by a projectionist scanning the audience with nightvision goggles. The boy, who was not identified because he is a minor, was arrested on suspicion of violating [...]
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
Last week we reported that Arnold Schwarzenegger - and not rumoured replacement, Triple H - might be returning to the role of Conan for the long-awaited “King Conan”, and TheArnoldFans checked in with creator John Milius’s camp to get their take on the news.
Milius’s camp isn’t aware of the WB’s intentions, but can confirm that [...]
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
So you have some change to spare and want a shiny new graphics card for your Athlon 1.2Ghz with a GeForce 2, but can’t afford to get a new mobo. So who’s card is gonna give you the best improvement in performance both now and when your poor, unemployed ass finally has some cash?
When we [...]
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Hardware | Comments Off
The official UK Far Cry web page has posted up an update on the status of the 1.2 patch for the hit Ubi Soft first person shooter:
Patch 1.2 is in its final stage of production: a nasty scoreboard bug and a CDkey security issue remain to be fixed, but otherwise a huge list of improvement/fixes [...]
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
Just in case you might have been put off by webcams that showed people staring off at a strange angles, you can now be totally weirded out by a webcam system that compensates so that the foreground person is always looking you in the eye. A setup of two webcams transforms the video images [...]
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Hardware | Comments Off
Intel has taken the wraps off of Nocoma, the newest Xeon processor. Along with the 90nm process, the new Xeons feature Intel’s 64-bit answer to AMD’s x86-64
arstechnica.com
June 30th, 2004 | Posted in Hardware | Comments Off
The first update, Through the Looking Glass, goes live today - June 29th. Download the update now so you can jump into the new content immediately. For more information see the offical post. The updates page also give a break down as well.
June 29th, 2004 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
Shawn Ashmore, who won Breakthrough Male at the MTV Movie Awards for his role as Bobby Drake (a.k.a. Iceman) in ‘X2: X-Men United,’ recently spoke with MTV about his upcoming project ‘Earthsea.’ Ashmore also commented on ‘X-en 3′ and the conflict between his character and the fire-wielding Pyro.
“There’s a bitter rivalry there, so I [...]
June 29th, 2004 | Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off
You won’t be seeing Sandy Collora or Aaron Schoneke’s new ‘Batman’ movies at Comic-Con Interntational this year. Eli McElmurray gets to the bottom of the rumors.
comics2film.com
June 29th, 2004 | Posted in Comic Books | Comments Off