http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com Spreading Faster Than Agent Smith Wed, 14 May 2008 02:03:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So here's my take on the titles just announced by Microsoft to be part of the spring collection for the XBOX 360 console: Ninja Gaiden II - Didn't really enjoy the first, but alot of people did, definitely a solid rent. Gears of War 2 - Again, didn't really enjoy the first ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/games-the-x360-spring-collection/ GADGETS: Blackberry BOLD Not since the iPhone have I seen this much buzz on the techblog scene about a smartphone. Engadget, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and Wired can't all be wrong now can they? —————————————- MUSIC: M.I.A - Paper Planes This song, the theme for the upcoming comedy/crime flick Pineapple Express, is being played quite a ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/heat-may-12th-to-18th/ Slashdot has found this little gem: a fully automatic 3.5" floppy disk cannon. Video after the jump. Bob Loblaw, the mad scientist behind said floppy cannon says "I ran across a huge stash of floppies at our office, and after some discussion, it became clear that rather than throw them ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/gadgets-datastorm-v10/ Gizmodo reports that RIM has officially listed it's new model of the popular line of smartphones on it's website. Gizmodo originally predicted that it would be made official May 12th and be called 'the Bold', good call boys. [RIM via Boy Genius] By the way, for those keeping score, Engadget was about ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/gadgets-blackberry-9000-bold-now-official/ Engadget is reporting that Microsoft's Zune MP3 player recently broke the 2 million units sold mark (having hit 1 million in May 2007). That brings the Zune's estimated market share to roughly 3-4%.  Seems most of that market share was taken from Creative Labs' line of MP3 players, as they ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/gadgets-zune-growing-slowly/ This week sees a few VC titles dropping, including: Double Dragon (NES, 1988), Pokemon Puzzle League (n64, 2000), and Renegade (NES, 1988).  The thing that excites me more than these particular title is this line from VIRTUAL CONSOLE News that landed in my inbox: 'Hi Alexandre, the content of your weekly ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/games-virtual-console-this-week/ Engadget brings up an interesting scoop on a coffee table(srsly?!?!). This coffee table is essentially a very scaled up NES controller, the best part being that it actually works. Apparently, 'Kyle spent months putting this together, starting with a scanned image of his original NES control. This he then simply ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/gadget-the-nes-controller-coffee-table/ Kotaku is reporting that Realtime Worlds, the company behind Crackdown and headed by the man who created the GTA franchise, is currently working on an MMO GTA-style game called 'ABP'. The rights to the game have recently been bought back from Webzen, a Korean publisher, and the rumor is ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/hot-tip-gta-mmo-in-the-works/ Okay, before I hop into this feetfirst maybe I should intro this. The plan is to make this a weekly post, typically on Monday, the goal of which is too kind of make a quick list, maybe 3 things, that were hot this week. GAMES: GTA4 6 million copies. $500 million. Numbers ... http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/heat-may-5th-11th/ So, while I work on some of the stuff, like opening posts, finalizing layouts, and so on so forth, this 'Hello World!' post will have to do. -Alex http://pewpewmatic.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/hello-world/