Archive for October, 2005

A Look Inside King Kong!

Apple has posted an excellent new behind-the-scenes featurette for Peter Jackson’s King Kong , which includes many new special effects from the anticipated film coming to theaters on December 14.
comingsoon.net

Rumor Control: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Blizzcon is done, the new World of Warcraft expansion has been officially announced, so … now what? What do all these new changes mean? Since I have unofficial connections at Blizzard and have been playing WOW over the past four years (yes, you read that right) I thought I would put some of the larger [...]

FEAR v1.02 Patch

Pre-patches the game in preparation for the release of the F.E.A.R. SDK/ Mod tools
gamershell.com

City of Villains Launches

City of Villains Has Gone Live announces that Cryptic’s MMORPG follow-up is live: “City of Villains is available in shops now in a special Collectors Edition, packed with extra goodies.
bluesnews.com

Texting, IM Improves Teen Writing Ability

Cambridge University eggheads have determined that cell phone text messaging has dramatically IMPROVED TEEN WRITING SCORES.
therawfeed.com

Computer Security–What? You Worry?

With the goal of automating network security, Trend Micro today announced its Worry-Free Security initiative. The security software vendor kicked off the program with the release of Client Server Security for SMB 3.0 and Client Server Messaging Security for SMB 3.0.
internet.com

Google throws bodies at OpenOffice

Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense.
OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice suite of programs. Five years ago, Sun turned its proprietary software into an open-source project. Only recently, however, has the [...]

Sci-Fi Channel have a Plan: Battlestar Galactica, Season 3?

‘Sci Fi Channel is readying a third season of its grim space opera Battlestar Galactica’
greatlink.org

Only 37 out of 836099 gamers have 2 GB RAM or more

Valve Hardware survey results page. 47.77% AMD, 52.22% Intel Processors. 41.31% of gamers have under 512MB RAM. Kinda interesting to see how many low end “gaming” systems out there being used to play the Half Life family of games.
digg.com

Red Dwarf: The Movie is Coming.

The original crew of the 1980’s sci-fi series Red Dwarf are going to be back on screen, in a full-length movie. The movie is being filmed in Australia, at either Fox Studio’s Sydney (The Matrix), or Warner Bros. Queensland. Visit www.reddwarf.co.uk to keep up-to-date on the news.
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