Here's some humorous audio clips with Göran Persson, Sweden's prime minister. You'll probably need to understand swedish to find these funny.
I wrote the day before yesterday that Sony Playstation 2 had 83,390,000 units sold worldwide, apparently, that was false and today Sony reports that Playstation 2 has passed the 100 million barrier, the same as the predecessor Playstation.
With alternative distribution increasing in popularity by every day that goes by, Ernest Adams takes the question about copyright and publishes a interesting article about it on Gamasutra. Ernest Adams is a known freelance game designer, lecturer and a author that writes about game development and the industry, parts of his work is used in our education.
As you may see, we have a new contributer to my site, the person behind the world famous blog Calle Starfighter. So let's all be nice to him and wish him welcome, even though he writes like crap. But seriously, welcome aboard Calle.
Another screen comparison between the Xbox and Xbox 360
Gamecube version of the game, shown at E3 2001
"Although that the new version is not annoused yet, you can still download it from Mozilla's main ftpsite, So be sure to get your favorite browser updated."
And thus the first snow came this year... mixed with the garbage that's raining from our balcony, guess some crows or something must have ripped the bags apart...
Microsoft's new gaming console Xbox 360 was released last week and currently the sales are soaring this close to the holiday, where a fatso in red clothes gets stuck in your chimney. But does Microsoft really earn money for every console sold? Xbox is known to be sold cheaper than the production cost, with a loss of $125 per unit. The reason for this is to gain market shares and instead earn the income through game sales and licensing.NES: 61,780,000* Panasonic never released any sales figures for the 3DO
Sega Master System: 13,000,000
Nintendo Gameboy: 118,420,000 (possibly includes color?)
Sega Game Gear: 8,650,000
NEC Turbografx 16: 2,500,000 (est.)
Sega Mega Drive (Genesis): 30,750,000
(Sega CD): 2,500,000 (North America)
(Sega 32X): 50,000-200,000 (est.)
Nintendo SNES: 49,020,000
Atari Jaguar: 10,000 (est.)
Nintendo Virtual Boy: 770,000
Panasonic 3DO:* 700,000 (est.)
Sony Playstation: 100,000,000
Sega Saturn: 9,260,000
Nintendo 64: 32,930,000
Game Boy Advance / GBA SP: 65,740,000
Nokia N-Gage: 1,300,000
Sega Dreamcast: 10,600,000
Sony Playstation 2: 81,390,000
Microsoft Xbox: 19,900,000
Nintendo Gamecube: 18,030,000
Nintendo DS: 2,840,000
Sony PSP: 510,000
Combine a exercise machine with a bike steer and add a couple of buttons, then connect it to the USB, then you'll get a Game runner. Play FPS games while walking or running on the band in hope to give you the exercise you otherwise would've lost by sitting in a comfortable chair. It works with all mouse and keyboard compatible games. Currently waiting for patent before mass production.
Optimus keyboard is just a prototype for the worlds first keyboard to use OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) on every key. This means that every key can be customized instantly and even animate on the keyboard. It will come with a SDK so that everyone who buys it can customize it to their favourite application or game.
Quake 3 layout to the left, and Photoshop layout to the right.
Optimus Keyboard
This most be the most ingenious clock ever, hanging a game of Pong on the wall, with the time showing as the score. Every minute the right player scores one point, and every hour the left player scores one point. I can imagine myself just sitting and staring at this clock for hours, I wish they'll release it to the market.
Intels new chips will be dual core 65nm parts featuring EM64T, VT, EIST, and XD.
A little more than a month since the game hit the shelves, Monolith now releases the dedicated server and SDK, so people now can host their own servers and create mods to the game. I'm looking forward to see if anyone can make something similiar as They Hunger was for Half-Life.
I'm not a fan of books in html format, but one thing I'm a fan of is free stuff. Haven't read anything from this one yet, but I'll give it a look tomorrow.
I was just informed that the supposed to be retail expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein is freeware (and have been that for quite some time now, why haven't anyone told me?). The project was cancelled but Activision was nice enough to release the multiplayer part of the game for free.
Activision and Id Software announced during E3 2005 that Splash Damage are working on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Based on Enemy Territory, but imrpoved in every way possible, you'll take the side of either Earth Defense Force or The Strogg. The game will be built using a heavily modified version of the Doom 3 engine (Quake 4?), but it still manages to look interesting (Doom 3 was not). We'll know for sure if the game is any good when it's released sometime 2006.
Ageia PhysX is a processor for expansion cards that will process realistic physics in-game, taking the load off the CPU and GPU. The chip will support:
Warsow is a free open source 3D first person shooter, built using the Quake 2 engine. Focused on fast-paced action with lots of trick jumping and eSport in general. In my opinion, one of the best multiplayer FPS games since Quakeworld. Some of the tricks that you can do is different kinds of bunny jumping, wall jump, dodge jump, dashing and ramp sliding. Combine this with stylish celshading graphics, balanced maps and weapons. There you have it!
Liero Xtreme can closest be compared to Worms in real-time with online multiplayer support. A great community with lots of maps and mods. You'll always find lots of people playing Liero Xtreme online, so its a good quick play game, just start it up and join a game and play until you get tired of it.
eQuake is a Quakeworld package, with the FuhQuake client, configs, maps, lights and extra textures, fully setup so its ready to play. This includes Quakeworld, so you don't need to have anything except for this installer. The best multiplayer of all time, and still is.
Cyberathletic Pro League World Tour Finals in Painkiller was decided tonight, with one winner that took home the first prize of 150,000$. I won't spoil the movie by saying who won, but I must say that the finals was truly intense. Definetly worth a watch.
World Environment
World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.9.0 Notes
This might be the saddest story GamePolitics has ever covered.
Toledo's Channel 13 News reports that a 24-year-old man has plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the drowning deaths of his 10-month-old twins. Gregg Kleinmark of Fostoria, Ohio left the babies in a bathtub for at least a half-hour while played an unspecified video game and caught a smoke.
The man's wife, Rachael Kleinmark, has since filed for divorce and obtained a protection order against her husband. Gregg Kleinmark, wracked by guilt and remorse, has tried to commit suicide twice since the deaths of the twins. He told Channel 13 he visits their graves every day.
"I messed up and it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life," he said.
Kleinmark will be sentenced in January.
Me and some class mates saw Harry Potter: The goblet of fire yesterday. We were considering to download it and watch it, but in the end we decided to go to the cinema and see it there. We had to pay 85SEK (around 10$) for each one of us, and it wasn't even the premiere. And on top of that, it was very very cold outside that evening. The movie was ok to watch and had some nice effects, but nothing more than that. It did not exceed expectations and the ending was sugar sweet as usual.
So today I've decided to honour free movies (don't have any money left this month anyway). If you're a Trekkie (Marcus, William?), you may be glad about todays movie. It's the most viewed finnish movie to todays date, with over 3 million views in less than 2 months, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. Available for free on the internet, a fan project by a group of finnish students and other amateur film makers. Seven years in the making, so let's hope that it was worth it.
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