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Head over to Hardocp and check out the Infernal Engine Velocity Physics Demonstrations.   In case you don’t know, the Infernal Engine is the game design that will powering the new Ghostbusters game being developed for the PC, 360, and Ps3.  It uses the cpu to power the physics to free up the gpu to used just for graphics.

Tornado PC Demo

Plinko PC Demo

Ps3 Demo

If you are one of those lucky Xbox 360 owners who have received an E74 error on your screen, you are now eligible to have microsoft cover the costs as if it were the 3 red light error.   If you previously had it repaired for the same error, you will be reimbursed.

Check Microsoft’s Xbox Support Page for more details

Now this is cool! This guy gutted a Commodore 64 and made it into a laptop.  I am impressed.  If I attempted that all you would have left would be a busted C64

Check out his website for more info.

Nintendo has added a couple more titles to their virtual console library

WiiWare
Bonsai Barber - 1000 Points

Super Nintendo
Super Punch-Out!!!- 800 Points

Super punch out brings back great memories

Sorry I’m late posting.  School life is hectic! More posts this summer I promise you!

Anyways, OnLive is a subscription service that is supposed to stream your game to you in realtime in either 480p or 720p depending on your connection.  The video game rendering is done on the internet cloud of servers and you just receive the video and audio thus allowing you play higher end games on not so high end equipment.

check out more at www.onlive.com

Head over to www.quakelive.com and register for the open beta.
Be warned, there’s a queue to get in.  I registered an hour before posting this and started at 62000 in line, and now i’m at 800 in line.

Hi folks, sorry for the lack of updates.  Balancing work, school (6 course workload) and life has been quite a task lately. I’ll update more I promise!

Anyways, onto the update.

Nintendo has added 1 WiiWare and 3 Commodore 64 titles to their Virtual Console library.

WiiWare
Onslaught - 1000 Wii Points

Commodore 64
The Last Ninja - 500 Wii Points
International Karate - 500 Wii Points
Pitstop II - 500 Wii Points

Epic has released a patch that fixes all those (which is everyone I believe) who have experienced their PC versions of Gears of War not working since the beginning of 2009

FileShack has the patch for download.

In case you haven’t heard, the Halo Wars demo is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Geekzone has posted the SKU lineup for Windows 7. (so if it’s wrong, blame them, not me :))

The lineup according to Geekzone:

Windows 7 Starter: up to 3 concurrent applications, ability to join a Home Group, improved taskbar and JumpLists;

Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate: bitLocker data protection on internal and external drives, DirectAccess for seamless connectivity to corporate networks based on Windows Server 2008 R2, BranchCache support when on networks based on Windows Server 2008 R2, and lock unauthorized software from running with AppLocker.

Amazon has just launched a Video Game Download Section.  For now it’s only casual games priced around $6.99 - $9.99.  Like Steam you can purchase games and download to multiple PC’s.

This is definitely something to be proud of.  Four college students in Toronto built a radio themselves and manage to contact the space station.  They managed to talk to one of the astronauts for 10 minutes.

More info from the Globe and Mail

When Microsoft rolled out the NXE some people had experienced problems getting audio to work through HDMI.  Microsoft is releasing a fix early tomorrow morning to resolve this issue, 2am pacific time.

Credit goes to the artist Alexandria Neonakis for drawing these.  I think these are some awesome and original Valentines day cards.  I know I’d appreciate getting one of these, haha.

3 games have just been released through Nintendo’s Shop Channel.

WiiWare
Snowboard Riot - 1000 Points
LONPOS - 800 Points

Virtual Console
Sonic Chaos - 500 Points

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