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It's a widely known fact that the Red Ring or Death has been early Xbox 360 owners? nemesis for a while now. A problem initially addressed by Microsoft by giving every user 3 years of warranty for related problems for every console out there, and money refund for those who ever paid for RROD problems.
These problems have decreased dramatically with the new models though, which have been reported to include modifications on their cooling systems such as new heat sinks and better ventilation but most important, the inclusion of a smaller, cooler 65nm CPU. While the common belief was that the GPU (Graphic Chip) was still unmodified from its original design, this article reveals that this is not the case. In fact, both dies of the Xbox 360 Graphic Chip have been reduced in size, resulting in a considerable power consumption decrease and heat reduction:
"Microsoft never released die sizes for the Xbox's chips so we had to break out the trusty ruler and measure both the old and new chips, to get an idea of how things have changed. The table below shows our findings:
Chip Old Die Size New Die Size % of Old Die CPU 176 mm^2 133 mm ^2 75.5% GPU 182 mm^2 156 mm^2 85.7% eDRAM 80 mm^2 68 mm^2 85%
Here's what's interesting: the CPU, GPU and eDRAM die all seem to have gotten smaller, but at different rates. The CPU sees the biggest reduction in size, the new core being about 75% the size of the old one, while both GPU components are around 85% the size of their predecessors.
It's possible that all three chips are now 65nm, or a mixture of 65nm and 80nm (TSMC's 80nm half-node process was used in ATI's R600 GPU). Needless to say, the chips are all smaller, which should yield some nice power savings."
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Camera maker Kodak has released the first version of its gallery upload plug-in for iPhoto. Once installed, the application simplifies sending photos to the Kodak Gallery website, where family and friends can view them at any time. Photos can be given original names and descriptions, and organized into new or existing albums. Unique to the assoc...
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01 [360] Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
02 [NDS] Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
03 [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
04 [360] Mass Effect (Microsoft)
05 [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
06 [360] Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
07 [WII] Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games (Sega)
08 [PS3] Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
09 [PS2] High School Musical: Sing It! (Disney Interactive Studios)
10 [PS2] Need For Speed: Prostreet (Electronic Arts)
11 [360] Need For Speed: Prostreet (Electronic Arts)
12 [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
13 [PS2] The Simpsons Game (Electronic Arts)
14 [360] Halo 3 (Microsoft)
15 [360] Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock (Activision)
16 [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo)
17 [PS2] Wwe Smackdown Vs Raw 2008 (Thq)
18 [PS2] Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami)
19 [PS3] Need For Speed: Prostreet (Electronic Arts)
20 [NDS] Cooking Mama (505 Games)
Top 40 Breakdown
DS = 12
X360 = 8
PS2 = 7
Wii = 6
PS3 = 5
PC = 2
PSP = 0
The box office bounced back over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend as moviegoers spread their dollars across a wide variety of films which collectively helped to bring the marketplace back to life after a mostly uneventful fall season. Disney led the way with its new family pic Enchanted, which ruled...
InstaColl, a company co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia of Hotmail fame, has introduced an online office productivity suite.
Pretty cool... Whatever it is.
Please, ladies, do not allow your (straight) boyfriends to subscribe to the UrbanDaddy newsletter, for it will only unearth whatever latent homosexual tendencies they may have been keeping submerged successfully for years. To wit, today's installment, about new men's fashion line Loden Dager (we think that's Swedish for big cock), started by a couple Marc Jacobs refugees:
But where the Loden Dager boys really step it up is in the subtle touches that only you'll notice. The Cassidy peacoat has double-sided Italian wool stitching and the cotton button downs have added screen printings on the inner yolk. And since someone has to watch over your wallet, check out the inner lining of the Taylor jean pockets, which are reinforced with paisley-printed fabrics to prevent unwanted tearing.
Don't say we didn't warn you.
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The video piece for Absentstar's "Half Life" was created by NYC artist
Jonathan Rosen (www.jrosen.org) who's illustration was recently featured
in the NY Times special section on Sleep. "Sea Trials," Absentstar's debut album produced by
Dan Wilson (www.myspace.com/danwilson) will be released next Spring on
Canvasback Music (www.canvasbackmusic.com)
350,000 StarCraft and Diablo 2 users banned for using third-party hacks.
Blizzard has administered a mass-suspension of 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo 2 accounts from its system after detecting the users had been using "third-party hacks" on the Battle.net service.
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The Locoroco team have added a page at Sony careers' section where they announce they are looking for new members to work on the new PSP game.
If you look at the central processor in Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360 you will see something that can trace its ancestry right back to the Intel 8086 of 1978. Over its evolution this has forced endless fudges and compromises. An analogy might be trying to build a working supertanker on the plans of a model rowing boat. And the 360 itself owes its architecture to the IBM PC of 1981 and so carries with it the accommodations that this architecture imposes. These factors, ultimately, must impinge on the working of the console.
Compare that to Sony (SNE), who were able to design the processor and the console it is in with a clean sheet of paper. The Cell processor, designed jointly with IBM and Toshiba at a cost of $400 million is the state of the art in processor dessign. It is scalable, highly flexible and excellent at distributed processing.
So it is little surprise that the PS3 now holds the Guiness world record for the most powerful distributed computing network. Or that an astrophysicist has replaced a supercomputer with eight PS3s. This is one very special and very powerful machine and when game programmers eventually work out how to get the best from it we are going to see some spectacular results.
But there has been a price to pay. Whilst the 360 was cheap to develop and cheap to make, the PS3 has cost a fortune. Sony has absorbed some of this cost in losses and passed some of it on to end users in the form of higher prices, which has hit sales. Sony has bet its computer entertainment division and maybe the whole company on this device.
PlayStation 3 consoles were selling at about a 50 percent mark-up on their retail price on Saturday evening in Japan, about 12 hours after launch.
The Hundred Years' War, the brutal, tragic conflict between England and France over claims to the French throne, is a subject greatly lauded and retold in fiction, film and (perhaps more recently) videogames. KOEI has entered the ranks of those that attempt to capture and depict these exhausting, blood-soaked times with Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War, its newest title developed by Omega Force. While it suffers from a number of serious problems that many other KOEI games face, Bladestorm is surprisingly enjoyable. Were it not for the technical and presentation-oriented flaws that plague it, this could be one of the best KOEI games IGN has seen in a while, delivering a refreshingly different experience than the Dynasty Warriors series, which has been intensely stale as of late.
Overall score: 6.5/10
This kid manages to fall masterfully.
Editor's Note: "In a world where the big conglomerates and industries tend to roll over the little guy, it was really nice to see the government of Nigeria put the kibosh on Microsoft's planned takeover of the Mandriva/Classmate PC deal in that country..."
Here is a behind-the-scenes look at Beowulf and voice actor Ray Winstone!
According to IGN's GamerMetrics, the current top ten most-anticipated titles are as follows (ranked by percentages of mindshare among IGN's audience):
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) 5.00%
2. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (PS3) 3.11%
3. Assassin's Creed (XB360) 2.63%
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 2.54%
5. Mass Effect (XB360) 2.33%
6. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 (XB360) 1.99%
7 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 1.91%
8. Assassin's Creed (PS3) 1.86%
9. Rock Band (XB360) 1.70%
10. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 1.29%
11. Crysis (PC) 1.24%
12. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii) 1.13%
In addition, GamerMetrics analyzed IGN's traffics of Assassin's Creed for different SKUs (see the image below) and forecast that the game will sell 1 million units for Xbox 360 and 350,000 units for PS3 by the end of the year.
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Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick are responsible for creating some of my favorite TV shows:
thirtysomething,
My So-Called Life, and
Once and Again. They've influenced my writing and even my desire to write for TV probably more than anyone else in Hollywood. They've been absent from the TV landscape for a couple of years, and I've definitely missed them.
Luckily,
Herskovitz and Zwick are back with a brand new series, called
quarterlife. The series, however, will not currently be available on ABC or any other network. Herskovitz and Zwick are bringing this new series to life on the web. And in
a recent L.A. Times item, Herskovitz explains why they've left traditional television behind.
Herskovitz believes "the business of television has become an exclusive club, closed to new members," which has some producers "turning to the internet to have a voice."
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Under discussion are the current "casual gamers" trend in Sony and Microsoft's marketing plans. What does this mean for the industry going forward? Will either publisher tap into Nintendo's stranglehold on the console industry? All these questions and plenty more are answered:
IGN Games Editorial Manager, Jeremy Dunham sits down with video vixen, Jessica Chobot, PlayStation Editor Greg Miller, and News and Features Editor Daemon Hatfield.
It's hard to deny the appeal of a World War II game. You have the historical backdrop with all of its massive battles; Nazis, the ideal evildoers whom you can kill with reckless abandon, are your enemy; and, being a world war, there're plenty of diverse locations to see. With such a convincing trifecta, It's no wonder we have so many of them and why they sell so well.
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We have already declared our love for wooden keyboards, but Geeks.com's offering has stolen our hearts without defiling our wallets. At only $20 for a mouse and keyboard, made from the original hard stuff, we are not too sure what more you could ask of the fine people at Geeks.com, nay, of life. Though the product description seems a little misleading, with the entry of "wood colored keys," the chaps at Wired are seeking the real down-low as we speak. We can only wait with baited breath as the news comes in. We pray for real wood...nightly...we have problems. [Product Page via Wired]
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Action, First Person Shooters, RPGs, Metareviews
Dementium: The Ward surprised the hell out of us at
Gamecock's E3 retreat at the Hotel California. The survival-horror game brought the genre to the Nintendo DS in an incredibly smooth package. We actually almost missed our next appointment at E3 because the game just grabbed us with an unexpected level of design, unexpected from a survival-horror FPS on a handheld. But did it hold reviewers' attention beyond that initial shock of
Renegade Kid's technical proficiency?
- GamesRadar (80/100): "The DS isn't supposed to do FPS horror right? Those were our initial thoughts too, as you start out in a dark room with a layer of black fog. But as soon as you snag a flashlight (which is immediately), Dementium proves its worth by displaying vast areas, numerous enemies and lengthy corridors with disturbing zeal and no loss in framerate."
- IGN (80/100): "It's pretty amazing that, for a system that's been out for three years now, there have been very few first-person shooters made for it. The Nintendo DS is a prime (no pun intended) system for the genre, what with its touch screen that can easily mimic the precise movement of mouse controls. Dementium: The Ward fills that void nicely - it's appropriately gory (it is a shooter, after all) but also adds an element of mystery to the whole thing. Some design issues do get in the way a tiny bit, but not so much that you'll hate on the game...and unless you've got the expectations of a PC shooter fan, it's hard to not be impressed with what Renegade Kid managed to pull off on the Nintendo DS hardware."
- Game Daily (80/100): "Dementium doesn't do anything we haven't seen before, such as playing a piano to reveal a secret, acquiring special colored keycards to open doors and shot gunning monsters. Yet at the same time, the experience feels new, since there's almost nothing like it on the platform, save for the aged Resident Evil Deadly Silence. So shut off the lights, put on a pair of headphones and get lost in this demented adventure. It's without question one of the DS' most under hyped games, and also one of its best."
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Strange things are afoot as we're given a tour of Fallcreek University in Hydravision's upcoming survival horror sequel.
Simba loves to be as high as he can. this perch is one of his favorite places to be, although he is too large to fit easily on it!
Wireless in the plaza. Colubris Networks has been selected to provide equipment for Europe’s largest municipal Wi-Fi project, in Paris.
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I have no clue what ski-republic.com is, and I’m way too lazy to look it up, but they did a smart thing dressing Danielle Lloyd up as a bikini-wearing ski bunny. Yup, slutting up hot girls as a marketing ploy is a great way to get free advertising on Hollywood Tuna. Keep it [...]
There's a wealth of opportunities available for aspiring and small to medium-sized business e-tailers looking for shopping cart technology. While this makes it easier than ever to find this important piece of the e-tailing puzzle, it also means startup and SMB e-tailers face greater challenges when it comes to choosing shopping cart software and putting it to good use.
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Two undercover New York City police officers arrested a man on hate-crime charges Monday who, they say, assumed the cops were gay and proceeded to threaten and harass them. ...Though the officers purposefully exaggerated their relationship by snuggling, they were in the park primarily to curb local violence from gangs and students from nearby Washington Irving High School as well as the Union Square subway station.
Give's "New York's finest" a whole different meaning, no? Hats off.
Undercover cops playing gay arrest potential basher [Advocate]
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XCMLive is back with a new edition of its XFPS keyboard and mouse adapter for the Xbox 360.
GT sat down with three GT users to see if E 4 All is really about the people.
Sara Melson performing "Be With You" from her forthcoming album.
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Mechanism for tracking in-game ads causing a backlash.
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Businessweek reports that Apple may indeed be launching an official software development kit at this January's Macworld Expo.
According to "sources familiar with the company's plans":
Apple will release a software-deve...
Thursday night is Office night and we thought you might want to see a few snippets of tonight’s episode, titled “Baby Shower” a little early. Be warned, the videos and captions posted in this article are obviously a bit spoilery!
Running with Scissors writer-director Ryan Murphy tells /Film that Brad Pitt, Sharon Stone and Jim Broadbent have joined the previously-announced Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jill Clayburgh in his Richard Nixon film, Dirty Tricks .
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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter believes that Halo 3 acted as a catalyst for bumper software sales through September, with Microsoft the obvious beneficiary in terms of moving games and Xbox 360 hardware.
Commenting on this season's "console wars," Crave Entertainment COO Rob Dyer thinks it is great that there are multiple consoles on the market.
"In fact, we see it more of a four consoles, two handhelds market," Dyer said, including the PlayStation 2 in the software sales battle.
"Christmas will be very strong and we see PS2, Wii and the handhelds leading the way for us," he said.
Recent software sales support his observation. In August, the PS2 version of Madden 08 was the second highest selling game in the US, with Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s for PS2 also making the charts.
The PlayStation 2 version of FIFA 08 is atop the charts in both Germany and Spain, outselling versions for the current generation of consoles.
With Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter forecasting September PS2 software sales in the US at USD 101 million, this puts the seven year-old console only slightly behind the forecast September sales for current generation software.
Responding to rumours of a lower-priced PS3 appearing in the US, Dyer said that the price of development, not the retail price of the console, is the gating issue for smaller publishers.
"Until there is an affordable and predictable middleware solution for the PS3, it will be tough for smaller publishers to get games into market for the next year or two," Dyer said.
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To most people, camping involves a fair share of roughing it—sleeping in a tiny tent in an uncomfortable sleeping bag on a rocky floor, but for a mere $50,000 the Treetent can spare you the grief. The 13-foot-tall tent resembles an under-inflated balloon, but it features a round hardwood floor that's nine feet in diameter and a round bed that comfortably fits two adults. The Treetent also includes "adjustable planetary landing steps" to get in and out easily. Pampered outdoorsy types can pick up a Treetent from Neiman Marcus. [Neiman Marcus via Crave]
