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What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe this week? In Japan a DS game called Dokidoki Majo Shinpan! (Thump-Thump Witch Judgement) was launched and proved very popular with the anime girl touching crowd. Meanwhile, Ninja Gaiden Sigma has revitalized PS3 sales in America and Europe.
See how completely different the DS global sales are:
North America: 1. Pokemon Diamond (Nintendo), 2. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo), 3. Brain Age (Nintendo), 4. Pokemon Pearl (Nintendo), 5. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo).
Japan: 1. Dokidoki Majo Shinpan! (SNK Playmore), 2. Zelda no Densetsu: Mugen no Sunadokei (Nintendo), 3. Eigo ga Nigate na Otona no DS Training: Motto Eigo Duke (Nintendo), 4. Chikasete! Chibi-Robo! (Nintendo), 5. Miru Chikara o Jissen de Kitaeru: DS Ganryoku Training (Nintendo).
Europe: 1. More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima (Nintendo), 2. Dr. Kawashima?s Brain Training (Nintendo), 3. Cooking Mama (505 Games), 4. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo), 5. 42 All-Time Classics (Nintendo).
New, new, new. Everything about the very latest in a long line of Need For Speed games is brand spanking new. Except for the fact that you drive cars, obviously.
In highly technical communications to the FCC, a man named Michael Hartleib makes a strong argument for the possibility of current satellite radios becoming interoperable—or gaining the ability to switch between Sirius and XM as easily as traditional radios do AM and FM. A firmware download could be all that's needed to upgrade the players...that is, if XM and Sirius followed FCC regulations and produced interoperable receivers in the first place. From the way Hartleib tells the story, XM and Sirius are more interested in selling you newer, "dual-mode" tech...
"Dual-mode" allows both signals to be downloaded to a radio at once, as if you were receiving AM and FM concurrently. But that difference—between needing or not needing to switch between music providers—would not be worth the cost of upgrading components to most consumers.
Let me make this one clear to Sirius and XM: if you offer me both services through the stuff I already own, you have a much better chance of up-selling my subscription.
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We stole their nice picture, too.
They survived the jail, but the worst is far from over. Jared, Miguel and the rest of the team have taken shelter in a hospital in the hopes of out running the living dead. But Warden Steed has resurrected an army of the dead and has set his sights on enslaving humanity.
Joystiq writes: "During out whirlwhind tour through the new Quantum of Solace game, we were able to spend a few minutes speaking with Treyarch's Jeremy Luyties, who serves as design director on the title. Luyties has worked on everything from Return to Castle Wolfenstein to Call of Duty 3 to the heavily Bond-influenced classic No One Lives Forever. Find out what secrets he spilled about the new Bond title after the break.
Q: How final is what we saw, graphics wise?
A: It's still got a bit to go, it's still a work in progress. It's definitely moved along, but we'll be going through optimization tweaks, texture changes, things with sight and vision. There's definitely a lot more to tweak to get more out of it, but you can already see the texture and depth in the carpet, the shining of the wood panels, the bump-mapping with the lights, and so on."
Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP.
This patch includes new maps, balance changes, bug fixes, and more.
This patch will update Arena Wars Reloaded to v2.0.15
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Bill Gates will officially retire from his day-to-day role at Microsoft on June 30. As he prepares to leave, the big question is whether his company's best days are behind it.
Date Added: pitcure of my grandpa at nursing home 06/22/2008 17:51
Now hitting mailboxes and newsstands is the latest issue of Star Wars Insider.
Josh relaxes in the company of a British murderess.
Eric and Steve fight each other for chips.
Death Track: Resurrection is a successor of the legendary Deathtrack, one of the founders of the combat racing genre.
Death Track: Resurrection is a combat racing title that plunges players into the not too distant future when the world is in chaos. The population is tired of traditional sports. Replaced by far more aggressive, violent and thrilling types of entertainment the public screams for more.
"Incredible Hulk" director Louis Leterrier and co-stars Tim Blake Nelson and Ty Burrell reveal what they hope a sequel will include.
Halo 3 (X360)
Clever Bungie fans piece together clues to reveal weird sites and pictures.
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Confirms Snow Leopard sighting. With anticipation at a fever pitch, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 3G to an appreciative audience during the opening keynote speech at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.
Hilton Back in Los Angeles Jail, Believed to Be Undergoing Medical Evaluation
They all desperately need haircuts anyway.
A reputable dutch distributor e-mailed in to let Maxconsole know about some strange events going on in the Netherlands. Big corporate retail chains such as Dixons (Netherlands) have had to send back ALL their PSPs to a big Sony warehouse, an in return they will receive a new batch of 'unflashable' PSP units. Poor game sales in the region are seen as the main reason for Sony conducting this operation. However, the distributor notes that this is a nationwide approach from Sony, and it is possible that there is 100% NO STOCK of PSPs across mainstream stores in Netherlands.
The Sony Tropfest 2007 finalists get together for an official photo shoot.
Eidos has declined to comment on rumours that Tomb Raider Anniversary is heading to Xbox 360.
Speculation erupted after a listing for the game was found on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board website. It suggests that four different missions, or maps, will be released on Microsoft's console - probably through Live Marketplace.
Jack has a terrible secret. He is really the notorious Boy A (Andrew Garfield) who committed a terrible crime when he was just a child. Recently released from a juvenile prison, he enters a world he has never been part of. He is haunted by his grim past, and is more a boy than a man at 24. His caseworker Terry (Peter Mullan) sees the good in him and does everything in his power to give Boy A a second chance. Boy A chooses the name Jack and is set up with a job, a home and the opportunity for a new life. At his job he forms adult relationships for the first time. He bonds with Chris (Shaun Evans) and finds a girlfriend in Michelle (Katie Lyons), both co-workers who witness Jack’s newfound compassion and loyalty. Others are drawn to his shy, kind ways. As relationships develop, he is torn between the deceit in concealing his past and the potential exoneration by revealing his crime. Jack no longer doubts his capacity to love and has more to lose than ever. He seeks Terry’s approval to confess the truth to Michelle but is implored to keep his secret for fear of his own safety. Spending 14 years in prison has done nothing to persuade the public he’s paid his dues. Accompanying his release is a widespread, media frenzy which re-ignites public indignation. The crime and trial are covered as current news and feed a hunger for revenge. Although Jack bears little resemblance to the young Boy A, it becomes increasingly clear that the past may be impossible to escape.
IBM has agreed to buy Watchfire, a developer of Web application security auditing tools; it plans to incorporate Watchfire into its Rational business unit.
Ian mourns this show's extinction.
Poor us. It appears that her international jet-setting schedule and her husband's call to service by the Brisith national football team means that Victoria Beckham, aka
Skinny Spice, will not be able fulfill her commitment to tape an NBC
reality series about her family's move from Blighty to Beverly Hills.
Poor everyone, because the reality series was produced by
Simon Fuller, the genius behind
American Idol, The Spice Girls, and
Spice World, the Spice Girls movie that's on Tabloid Baby's list of the Top 50 movies of all time.
Poor NBC, who's looking for some numbers.
And poor E!, saddled with
Katie & Peter, their imported reality series about a C-list (and double-D) couple that was to explained and forgiven by the Becks series.
Yesterday we learnt that 100 games had been added to the Virtual Console and that 4.7 million had been sold since launch, however what Nintendo didn?t tell us was that unlike the quarter previous virtual console sales were up in Q2.
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"This started out as a rumor today, but Intel has since more-or-less confirmed that licensing discussions between Intel and Nvidia for Intel's next-generation processors are not going well and the resulting conflict could have implications for high-end gaming PCs"
Recently the Game Developer Magazine's audio columnist made a poll regarding the importance of music and sound in games.
Click on the link for the article.
If you want to take the poll, click "Mister Poll: Video Game Sound" at the bottom of the article.
RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw graphics.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
DATE was modified. CONVERT was rewritten to fix a
security bug. Absolute paths are added to all
external programs. A minor bug was fixed in
recherche_type() because all external functions
were case-insensitive when they were evaluated
from RPN expressions. The HELP function was
rewritten to be more friendly. An external wrapper
(rplplot) was written to force usage of gnuplot
provided by RPL/2. Gnuplot was added to the source
tree. Lapack was upgraded to 3.1.1, GSL was
upgraded to 1.9. The RPL_TMP_PATH environment
variable was added. A major bug was fixed in
SYSEVAL.
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On June 30, Microsoft will require all of its OEMs and retailers to stop selling the Windows XP operating system. What will happen to price and availability between now and then? We're watching the developing situation and have our initial findings.
esocid writes "Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific semiconducting crystals of nanometer dimensions. This physical effect could pave the way for cheap, high-output solar cells. Solar cells currently have relatively low output, typically 15%, and high manufacturing costs. One possible improvement could derive from a new type of solar cell made of semiconducting nanocrystals and could theoretically lead to a maximum output of 44%, with the added benefit of reducing manufacturing costs. In conventional solar cells, one photon can release precisely one electron. However, in some semiconducting nanocrystals, one photon can release two or three electrons, hence the term 'avalanche effect.' This effect was first measured by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratories in 2004, and since then the scientific world had raised doubts about the value of these measurements. This current research does in fact demonstrate that the avalanche effect can occur."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Seeing a Pamela Anderson upskirt is nothing new, but what makes these pictures unique is that she is wearing panties and that's a good thing, because at her age the last thing I want to see is her coochie. I have to admit though, Pammy has some pretty decent legs which funny enough is [...]
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The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits.
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Paramount has just sent us the final one-sheet theatrical poster for the big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. Am I the only one who hates the tagline “This Summer A Star Falls. (...)
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Great image and sound quality. Minimalist but effective background. Great acting. All this is getting combined with a great storyboard and a great ending. Needless to say that we love this video!
The intelligence on SOCOM: Confrontation has largely been under tight wraps, with bits of information leaked here and there, mostly by way of the official SOCOM site. With E3 and other events quickly approaching, that should all change soon. To get IGN up to speed and ready for their impending time with the game, they fired off a number of questions to David Seymour, design director over at Slant Six. Here's what he had to say.
ORLANDO, Fla. — In a forthcoming memo, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy plans to outline clearer guidelines for agencies to follow when awarding task orders under multiple-award contracts, OFPP Administrator Paul Denett said.
The memo, which could be released as early as next week, is likely to require agencies to seek multiple bids on task orders that cross a certain dollar threshold, said Denett, speaking at the General Services Administration Expo here.
Too often, an agency will hand a task order to a vendor figuring that the competition for the original contract was sufficient, he said. But today's multimillion-dollar task orders need more scrutiny than that, he added.
He said the memo might mirror or closely follow similar guidance issued by the Defense Department.
In addition, OFPP will remind agencies that they must appoint a competition advocate who reports annually on competitive practices. OFPP plans to rank agencies based on those reports to highlight their efforts, Denett said.
He added that Congress already values such statistics, but lawmakers have twisted the data to make a point about agencies’ lack of competition.
Although they are correct when they say the amount of money awarded through noncompetitive contracts is rising, the number of competitive deals has increased, too...
Cosplay Esmeralda from Disney at GAME in Paris 4
Service Games of Japan, aka SEGA, has produced many great games over the years. GameDaily look at the top 25.
Company is listening to fans upset over 'phone home' anti-piracy protection.
