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Bollywood loving farmer from the heartland of India.
Most gamers recognise that movie tie-ins are generally an exercise in soul-crushing disappointment. But, optimistic fools that they are, since when has that recurring fact ever stopped gamers getting feverishly excited about reliving big-screen action for small-screen kicks? Never.
For the benefit of everyone that lives in hope of a blockbuster game based on a blockbuster movie, GamesRadar cast their eye over some of Hollywood's hottest properties for 2008 to see if there's anything that looks genuinely worthy of anticipatory hysteria.
Date Added: Bald Rat 12/01/2007 01:01
Rivet International's nano Combo Pack includes their Grab case and their Rhythm earphone lanyard, compatible with first and second-generation iPod nanos.
Now that SAP appears to be washing its hands of the third-party service and support subsidiary, could the company be destined for a reunion in Sin City?
Shiny sport cars and ladies lacking clothes go together like? errrr selling and sex, so it wasn?t entirely surprisingly to see EA promoting the latest version of Need For Speed in conjunction with The Sun?s Page 3 girls Becky and Amii.
Or was it?
Too bad he couldnt have used a bigger nail and cleared out his brain pain.
A new mod turns your Xbox 360 gamepad into a tilt sensitive controller, while bringing Rapid Fire (turbo) to any combination of buttons, triggers and bumpers.
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Assassins Creed 4 (Dull Contrived and disappointing)''
Mass effect 9 (brilliant and this is only the beginning)
COD4 8 (Fantastically exciting but hugely unoriginal)
GH3 8
Kane & Lynch 6
Crysis 9 (Upgrade your PC for this game)
Chibi-Robo! 7
Need for Speed 7
The Simpsons 4 (Very Funny but not very fun)
Hellgate London 7
Mario and Sonic 8
Tabula Rasa 7
Silent Hill 7
Sam and MAx S2 8
Scene IT 6
The Witcher 7''
Date Added: I wonder if it will give me another! 11/24/2008 02:57
We find out which modern console really came with the worst games.
LinuxWorld: "Discussions of kernel quality are not a new phenomenon on linux-kernel. It is, indeed, a topic which comes up with a certain regularity, more so than with many other free software projects..."
Noah takes a picture of himself every day for six years.
Runtime: 5 min 45 sec
It’s official: the game is coming to the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, Nintendo DS and Wii next year.
Mini Doc of former stunt man Tom Widener
zCover has introduced a new pre-printed keyboard skin to match the screening on late 2007-edition MacBooks.
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Get your thinking caps out... from the looks of these new screens buzz is as challenging as it is zany!
I bet this guy never gets stuck in the snow.
In the grand scheme of things, the outcome of the console wars between Sony's PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's two-year old Xbox 360 shouldn't matter too much to the individual gamer. But, in a way, the outcome of the most competitive three-way race for console dominance in history affects you personally. The system that ends up with the most users generally wins the most attention and support from game makers, while the others get stuck with half-assed ports and throw-away games. Or, to tow the psychobabble party line, everyone feels good picking a winner, and owning the best-selling system can be comforting to uncertain consumers.
Now, a year after the battle started, which contender will come out on top?
Frank Hayes speculates that Google's mobile phone software is a winner, even if it loses in the marketplace.
Wiz Solitaire is a collection of card games with the ability to use beautiful custom decks. It supports different deck formats, allowing you to choose between thousands of available card sets. You can also easily create your own decks with the included Deck Editor. It includes more than 20 games including Klondike, Free Cell, Spider, Pyramid, Eagle Wing, Baker's Dozen, Seahaven, Rouge et Noir, Scorpion, La Belle Lucie, Golf, and Yukon.
License: Shareware
Changes:
This release makes it possible to save the game and resume it later.
Filed under: Comedy, Casting, New Releases, 20th Century Fox, Politics, Review Roundup, Toronto International Film Festival
Borat Sagdiyev (
Sacha Baron Cohen), Kazakhstanian TV reporter, is dispatched to America on a mission. Borat and his producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian) are supposed to shoot interview pieces around New York City and, in theory, also bring back some ideas that might help Kazakhstan move into the 21st Century. Hence the full title:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. And judging by
Borat's opening scenes in "Kazakhstan" (which were actually shot in Romania), maybe even making it to the 19th Century might be a stretch in some areas. But anything can happen when traveling. Borat becomes obsessed with that symbol of all things American, Pamela Anderson, and abandons his mission to begin a poorly-funded, shoddily-planned and wildly ill-advised trip across America. ...
There is no way to quantify or qualify
Borat as a film; you're pretty much immediately bowled over by a barrage of shockingly inappropriate jokes, and even then each one can be deconstructed down to individual atoms of brilliance. Early on, we get to see some of Borat's TV appearances; in one, he leans over a railing as a group of men wait in the streets for one of Kazakhstan's annual traditions: The Running of the Jews. That phrase is shocking, and so incongruous as to be funny ... but when the main attractions shows up, in a costume with a papier-maché head that looks like a perfect reproduction of a caricature from
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, you're doubled over in laughter and a little awed by the amount of intellectual effort that's gone into a millisecond sight gag. And then there's a third joke that goes off like a depth charge a few seconds later ... and that leads to a perfectly timed, perfectly executed closer. This isn't a structured joke; it's choreographed, a dance of ideas and references and collective memories.
And then, of course, there are naked men wrestling. In the middle of a dinner meeting of realtors. The realtors, of course, did not know that their meeting would be interrupted by naked wrestling men as part of a low-cost comedy releasing on 837 screens in a limited, high-buzz platformed pattern, backed by
20th Century Fox. From what I'm given to understand, no one -- from the RV-driving frat boys to the inner-city homies, from sea to shining sea -- knew, as Borat interviews highly-placed elected officials, car dealers, leaders of clergy and the man in the street.
Put aside the ethical and artistic questions raised by videotaping what happens when you are out for a ride with a professional driving instructor and pull a mickey of vodka out of your coat -- and rest assured, there will be long, weird term papers written, titled The Ethics of Borat, in the near future. What's just as impressive about
Borat is its scope. Driving from New York to California in a new vehicle -- "Something in the six-hundred to six-hundred-and-fifty dollar range," as Borat explains to a car salesman -- Borat and Azamat see America. Like Alexis de Tocqueville did in 1831, Borat's come to see how the American experiment is working. And, just as in 1831, the journey suggests it's a bit of a work-in-progress.
Borat may be one of the most politically interesting comedies of the past 20 years, just in terms of the breadth and audacity of its ideas.
Oh, and there's livestock involved. And jokes about poop. And gratuitous nudity -- gratuitous male nudity -- and that really dumb joke where you tell someone they've just eaten something disgusting after they've put it in their mouth. Of course, the 'someone' in
Borat is former Republican Congressman Bob Barr, and the 'something disgusting' is, in fact, truly disgusting. This is what separates
Borat from, say,
Jackass: Do you think Steve-o is smart enough to get within 50 yards of Bob Barr with a camera? Mel Brooks was once told one of his films was vulgar. His response was " ... my film rises below vulgarity." And so it is with
Borat -- there's something here to offend everyone, which is interesting in that it makes you stop and think about what it is you're actually offended by, and why. And
Borat is even funny in simple, elegant ways -- a gibberish line delivery that, in subtitles, becomes a perfect two-syllable joke; the way Cohen hijacks the singing of the national anthem at a Rodeo in Virginia, or gets a Texas Pentecostal assembly to serve as his collective straight man in an old-time vaudeville joke.
... Which leads into some speaking in tongues, which is not how I remember old-time vaudeville jokes ending. Borat is asked, at the rodeo in Virginia, if he is a Muslim. He shakes his head. "No, Kazahkstan -- We follow the hawk!" The gentleman nods and explains America is a Christian nation. Is the joke that for all we know, Kazakhstan may, in fact, have a long cultural tradition of hawk worship? Or is it that Borat sure believes some funny stuff, and we do too?
One of the films' hardest jokes to take is when Borat observes that a gathering of five or more women in his country is only allowed in a brothel, or a grave. It's as fast and as mean as a knife to the ribs. The laughter gives way to a real recognition of the ugly fact that there are nations where that joke is close to a fact of life. And then, there's the sight of a large mammal in a hotel swimming pool! Which can't be legal, or even a good idea! But there it is! And it's perfect! Borat the man and
Borat the movie both walk through a world gone mad, where every punchline tastes a little like battery acid and you laugh until it hurts. Maybe because it hurt a little already.
Borat's the most interesting, challenging comedy since, say,
Blazing Saddles, and it's a welcome arrival: Desperate times call for desperate laughter.
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ReelBean 2.3 (free, $15 for Pro) updates the movie converter and player software for Mac OS X 10.4. ReelBean 2.3 adds 'Split Movie' functionality in the form of a new button in the toolbar and an item in the Edit menu. The 'Split Movie' functionality is designed to easily split a movie into two separate files based on wherever the playhead slider i...
See, that work paid off... a little
The search for an Austrian woman accused of stalking CSI: Miami star David Caruso has gone global - Austrian authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for her. The unnamed 41-year-old - whose identity is protected under the country's privacy laws
EXCLUSIVE: This is a really fast-moving story. For months now, I've been asking my sources when is NBC going to hire a real programmer since salesman Ben Silverman isn't. So this morning Paul Telegdy suddenly and unexpectedly resigned from BBC Worldwide America. Now I'm told that NBC wants him to become EVP over both unscripted and scripted entertainment. And [...]
When I opened my mailbox this morning, and saw an email from a publicist that read "Here’s the Artist on Artist with Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson the world and its mother has been talking about!" I didn't realize the world, or the world's mother (And who's the world's mother? Angelina Jolie?) had been discussing Owen Wilson MySpace videos, but I only assumed this must be the interview that finally reveals the Secret Pain behind the beloved actor's recent suicide attempt. It wasn't. But there's a lot of stuff in it about how crazy India was, so anyway world, get your mom, because here's the video you've been talking about.
New Zealand’s first private radiation therapy centre, Auckland Radiation Oncology
(ARO), opens for business in Auckland today.
Frank Yu reports the current state of (rampant) piracy and modding of the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, and DS in China. China has modded Wii's that can even get firmware updates online, mod Xbox 360 chips that can be switched on or off so that it toggles between a modded console and an unmodded one to go on Live, and the whole set of pirated DS library that is available for perhaps US$12.
Notes: Frank Yu is a program manager for Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Advanced Technology Center.
Dethklok, Strongbad join the list of 'real' musicians.
RPGSite takes a look at the very first Star Ocean game, now launching in Europe for the first time remade for Sony's PSP. But is it worth playing?
Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor says 360 port of massive-scale RTS likely to arrive before PS3 game; Space Siege also to go multiplatform.
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business
Sony is working on a media store, combining its vast movie and music empire with its Trojan horse PS3 system. Late at night, James Bond movies and Beyoncé music will sneak out of the PS3 to take over your living room.
It's easy to anticipate the PS3-as-media-store angle; corporations love that synergy. John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment gave us a few general notes about the plan. While he said Sony had "no announcement yet," about these media sales, he said that the ready-for-launch PlayStation Store, is "set up to offer any DRM type of content," including "movies, music, and TV [shows]." (Sony had already announced that the store will offer game downloads and add-ons.) Smedley went as far as saying that Sony is working with content providers, so while unofficial, the media store seems inevitable to us.
Here's hoping that Sony maintains the HD attitude and sells HD movies online. Or what if we could rent those titles on the cheap? That sounds like another way for the PS3 to attract a broad audience.
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
Over at sister site
Engadget, they've noticed that a recently released
Sony fact sheet (relevant section pictured above) uses some pretty interesting math to make the Xbox 360 look more expensive than the PS3 once all the extras are added in. Let's go through their list and see what's valid and what's just obfuscation?
- Console: Starting with the lower system prices is a little misleading right off, since a majority of PS3s and Xbox 360s are sold in the pricier premium packages. Still, I'm sure that $499 looks a lot better than $599 from Sony's point of view.
- "Requires Users to Buy": This is misleading because none of the following items are actually required to, y'know, use the system. However, the items are required for 360 owners who want certain functionality that the PS3 has right out of the box. "Extras" or "Add-ons" might have been a better heading.
- HDD (20GB): Yes, this does cost $100 if you buy the core 360, but upgrading to the premium SKU gets you the HDD and extras like a wireless controller, headset and component cables for the same price. Highly misleading.
- HD-DVD drive: A fair comparison, but only if you want to play HD movies on your system, which is far from a valid assumption for all buyers.
- Wireless controller: This is possibly the worst item, making it seems like the 360 doesn't come with a controller at all. Buying the core 360 and a $50 wireless controller actually gets you two controllers -- one wired, one wireless -- compared to the PS3's $0 for one wireless. And, as stated above, using the premium pack comparison would change this $50 to $0 for an apples-to-apples comparison.
- Online Access/Xbox Live: Possibly the biggest argument in Sony's favor, the $50/year for full-featured Xbox Live balloons into even more over the life of the system (I'm surprised, in fact, that Sony didn't extend this cost to include a few years of service). However, the free silver subscription provides much of the functionality for free, making the comparison a little more complicated.
So is it fair to say that the 360 costs more, in the end, than the PS3? Yes and no. It really hinges on whether HD movies are important to you and whether or not you're willing to pay for online multiplayer. Regardless, implying that you need to spend close to $700 to use a 360 skirts dangerously close to the edge where creative marketing meets false advertising.
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in)
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Our fearless forum moderator is at it again, finding and selecting the best tips from the forums for this week. Come and enter a world of mysteries—some solved, some not. Can you help?
F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (PC)
A new trailer for the stellar FPS.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Regular nerves getting you down? Why not try a bionic nerve? According to reports, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an artificial nerve which could have the ability to bring damaged limbs and organs back to life. In a study published in the medical rag Experimental Neurology, Dr. Paul Kingham and his team at the UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration managed to take fat tissue from adult animals and differentiate them into nerve cells to be used for repair and regeneration. The team will repeat the study with human volunteers, and then develop an artificial nerve constructed from a biodegradable polymer. The "bio-material" will be rolled into a tube-like structure and inserted between two cut nerves, so that regrowing nerve fibers can spread from one end to the other. Next, the researchers hope to create a species of tyrannical man-bots called the Borg, whom they hope will move outward through the galaxy, assimilating all who stand in their way.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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We wanted Sara Evans out of Dancing with the Stars, but not like this. The country singer, who's sizzled up the dance floor with her untraditionally slow samba and clumsy paso doble, has hoofed her way off the show, citing "personal reasons." Specifically, on Thursday, she filed for divorce from her husband of thirteen years. Downer. Kind of like a metaphorical banana on the emotional dancefloor. Marital problems might explain why Sara's never been able to truly let loose on the show. Then again, did the marital problems cause the bad dancing -- or did the bad dancing cause the marital problems? A quandary for the ages.
As I've alluded to in my recaps, I haven't been the biggest fan of Sara, but at the same time, she seems like a very nice woman. I hope she and her family manage to get through these tough times. That being said, the big question is what next for the show? Will she be replaced? How? When? Where? Why? Who? What? For now, ABC is keeping quiet, insisting that we tune in on Tuesday for answers. Maybe Lisa Rinna will sub in. Or maybe there'll be some funky Project Runway-type scheme where a previous flunkee will be allowed back in if he or she can prove his or her worth. Let the contemplation begin!
For more on the situation, click here.
From 1up.com (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170585 ):
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"I don't know if we are going to tie ourselves to a spring/fall release schedule as much," said Schappert to a gathering of reporters. "I think one of the things that I worked with the team with when I joined -- let's do a big release. Spring and fall sounds like there is a lot of distance between the two but there is an awful lot of... it's pretty hard to make a new dashboard because you have to certify it against every revision of the hardware, and there's a bunch of different specs. It's a pretty time-consuming and challenging thing to do. Which is why we only did it twice a year."
But apparently, as Schappert went on to explain, even twice a year may still be too often. "I like staying focused on bigger and more impactful releases, so maybe it will be twice a year, maybe less frequently," he said. "You know, to be determined. I think it's going to be more about: What's the next big launch? What are we bringing? When can we bring it? How can we do it in a big way?"
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Needs a good paddlin'.
Our software smackdown compares Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple iMovie, Pinnacle Studio, and Corel VideoStudio, with tips on the best package for creating your digital camcorder movie masterpiece.
Wal-Mart's original plans would have made its DRM-protected tracks difficult to play on a PC, unless the music was first burned to a CD.
DOS commands have it all over their graphical cousins for times when you want to work with groups of files, fix file associations and manage network settings.
