That’s right it says “weak”, as in not strong. Below are some news stories from the past week or so that just didn’t seem super enough for their own headline post. However, they still hold a special place in my heart. So, without further ado, here it is. Weak sauce.
New Flash Player gets HD Video Playback
The future is HD and everyone on YouTube can look forward to a high-definition experience sooner now. The scientists over at the Adobe labs have brought the newest version of the Flash Player into HD. The latest version includes HD video support using the highly popular H.264 codec (Apple’s baby). As well as that is improves overall load on your CPU by using hardware acceleration instead of relying on software decoding and rendering. H.264 isn’t the only Apple friendly addition. The update also includes AAC (default encoding in iTunes) sound support. Oh, and Linux is also finally getting the update it’s been desperately needing.
EA’s Convinced C&C Renegade Wasn’t Enough
Enter Tiberium. The newest entry to the C&C universe. Wait, didn’t they already do this back when it was called Renegade? Or, the way they describe it, it sounds more like one of the updated Battlezone games.
EA describes Tiberium’s gameplay as a “blend of first-person shooting and tactical squad combat,” allowing players to control multiple ground and air units in addition to the game’s central character, Forward Battle Commander Ricardo Vega.
Source [Joystiq]
Amazon Takes Preorders for Gears of War 2, Then Stops
Guess they realized no one knows when the game will come out or anything else about the game for that matter. So, we all pretty much know they’ll be making a sequel, you don’t stop when there’s so much money on the table. But, I guess the good folks over at Amazon wanted to get in on some of that money first. The pre-orders where up and down within two days. I wonder if people that preordered will get a refund?
Sorry, No Dreamcast 2. Just Business Stuff
Recently Sega fanboys were peeing their collective pants as Sega updated it’s Dreamcast trademark. Sorry everybody, according to GameDaily, Sega of America PR Director Charlie Scibetta said, “SEGA has no plans to get back into the hardware business, but we also want to protect our past and current brands. The trademark application was filed to protect our current and potential future use of the word DREAMCAST and to prevent other parties from using it in a way that could be confused or linked with SEGA.”
I still have my Dreamcast, and was always a Sega gamer, so I was actually excited about the potential for Sega to get back into the hardware business. Sigh.
Boom!
I remember analysts originally saying how the PS3 would dominate the next-gen console wars. Well, it’s been over a year now, and, not so much. Analysts and industry “experts” still claim a comeback. Some say as early as 2008 the PS3 could bring Sony back into the next-gen war.
Media analyst firm Screen Digest is feeling confident in the media capabilities of the PS3. They think it’s going to make a strong increase in 2008. Senior games analyst, Piers Harding-Rolls, says “Now that these multi-media services - online video, IPTV, digital terrestrial TV and PVR functionality - are now available or poised to come on line in different markets, this ‘hub’ strategy is emerging as a key console battleground for Microsoft and Sony.” [Computer And Video Games]
Other sources have said it may take as long as 2011 before the Playstation 3 catches up with the runaway success of Nintendo’s Wii. Me, well, I think it’s gonna remain in third place as long as the price remains higher than competitors and the console’s library consists of more than a few decent Blu-Ray movies and one or two good games each year.
What are your thoughts? We love to hear what everybody thinks. Comment below and let us know.
Boom!
According to an article from Reuters, Activision had the top-selling video game in November with Call of Duty 4 which “killed the competition” by selling more than 2.01 million copies for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
And while we’re talking numbers, Nintendo’s Wii had the best month of it’s life to date with some 981,000 units sold.
Boom!
First things first Cheapassgamer.com is a great site. The multitudes of gaming deals it brings us everyday are amazing. David Abrams aka CheapyD or your man in Japan, has turned a simple forum for those of us who hate paying full price into a community of like minded gamers who hate paying full price. Along with his partner in crime Wombat they offer a great podcast called the CAGcast. Cheapy’s insight into video games is pretty dead on and sometimes he is even funny.
CheapyD can’t use is online fame just for selfish purposes though. Even though he was recently featured on G4TV’s Attack of the Show in the Global LOOP, he has not forgotten the kids. Once again CAG has set up a fund so that visitors to CAG can donate to the Child’s Play Charity that Penny Arcade set up. As of this post they have collected over 13,000 dollars overtaking the mere 10,000 dollars they donated last year. For every $5 you donate you get a raffle ticket from CAG for some great prizes from CAG. They are running this through DEC. 31 although CheapyD hinted at making it go longer.
Good on ya CAG way to do something good.
From the premiere footage shown at Spike TV’s VGAs last week, it looks like the new Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 will be a choose your own adventure style movie game. Right? I mean what the crap is with promoting a big time game like this with live action footage? They’d teased that they would reveal a trailer for the upcoming game at this year’s VGAs, and this is what we get. Wow, that’s worth watching Samuel L. Jackson swear for a few hours about stuff he doesn’t even know or care about.
Where is the beef? The meat of the game? I want to see the next-next-gen version of Vegas. Don’t you? I want to see something like new gameplay, or at least renderings of game footage. Come on Ubisoft.
Boom!
The new video from SpikeTV’s VGAs actually looks like it might be a decent game. At least the graphics look good.
Boom!
I’ve tried a number of video game rental services as of late. The majority has been quite a let down. Let’s see how they did.
I tried Gamerang.com and even after I paid the first two months up front they sent me hardly any games. When a game said it was available, I would move it to the top of my list, within a few hours to a day, the game would eventually change from ‘Available’ to ‘Short Wait’ or something similar. During the two months (remember I’ve already prepaid right) the credit card I used with them happened to expire. Well, I never went to my Gamerang account to update the expired card. I thought it wouldn’t matter, they already had my money for the first two months and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue the service past that. I wait more than two weeks for a new game in the mail. Nothing. I email them and they tell me, now, their system put my account on an automatic hold until my credit card info is updated. Before this, they never sent me any notices that this was the case. So I update my card info and in the next couple days they finally start sending me games again. Yeah, they suck.
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Well, this photo pretty much says it all. Best Buy is giving you $10 off any video game $29.99 and up. This is “In-Store” only. You should be able to print this coupon and use it at your local Best Buy. Expires November 28th, Wednesday this week.
If you haven’t seen this then check it out it is amazing. The UC Berkley marching band took the field at halftime and let their geek flag fly. Usually halftime is a time for beer refills and pee breaks but i would have stayed for this show.
You knew it was gonna happen and now it has. Gamepro.com has put the 2 potential game of the year candidates up against each other in 9 different categories. The results might surprise you (although i think they are right on with this).
Whats your pick? Mine is COD4 I’ve been screaming this game for months and now that its out I WAS RIGHT! This game is awesome.
Check out the article here Gamepro.com .
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