If Intel has its way, consumers will soon be asking if their home entertainment PC has “VIIV” (rhymes with “five”) inside. The new technology combines Intel’s in-house software, processor and chipset to enable a system to perform entertainment tasks with ease. Tweet betanews.com
Daily Archives: August 24, 2005
How Microsoft 95 Became Microsoft 2005
In 1995, Microsoft was in trouble. Big trouble. OS/2, despite its fans, was going nowhere. Windows 3.11 was, at best, a great GUI for running Microsoft Excel, but not a whole lot else. And then, as now, Apple owned the graphical desktop with the Mac. If that wasn’t bad enough for Bill Gates and his…
How LEGOs Are Made!
This is a neat interactive flash movie that shows you how LEGOs are processed through factories and how they are shipped, molded, and all that good stuff. It is fricking sweet, especially if you are a die-hard LEGO fan. Tweet digg.com
New Doom Trailer Hits
Universal Pictures has launched the full trailer for Doom at Yahoo! Movies . The big screen version of the videogame franchise will hit theaters on October 21st. Tweet comingsoon.net
Skype opens up to Web sites and software programs (Reuters)
Reuters – Free Internet telephony firm Skype will allow its instant messaging to be built into Web sites and software applications such as music playing programs and multiplayer online games, it said on Wednesday. Tweet yahoo.com
XBox 360 Bundles Top $700
Gamespot is reporting that, with some idea of the skus that will be available for the Xbox 360 when it launches, game retailers are now prepping incredibly expensive console bundles for the first of the next-gen systems. From the article: “…when hot new gaming systems come out, supply is short, and demand is often so…
Empire Earth II v1.2 Patch Coming Soon
It will address everything from balancing, lag and improving the editor to key bug fixes Tweet gamershell.com
Age of Empires III demo to be released in September
Many among us have long awaited this joyful news, but the wait is at an end. Ensemble’s Dave Pottinger has confirmed that the demo of Age of Empires 3 is nearing completion and will, in all probability, be released September 2005. Tweet fragland.net
Update on Auto Assault
We have an update on the overall status of Auto Assault from Producer Steve Snow now available in the forums here. Tweet autoassault.com
The Paragon Times: Chasing Sally
Is Sally, the Salamanca Lake Monster, really a threat? Join Paragon Times senior correspondent Jackson Turner and folklorist/parapsychologist Skipper LeGrange as they pursue the truth behind Sally. Read the special guest column in the Paragon Times. Tweet cityofheroes.com
