Time for an update.

Wow, it’s been some time since my last entry. Only really big news with me lately is that I gave in and signed up for college. It’s nothing fancy, just our local community college, but still, that’s something. Being the picky bastard I am, I had to opt for the Associate in Liberal Studies degree. […]

ESA Threatens Kotaku

Last month someone created a genius T-shirt that put a gamer’s spin on the age old "yo mamma" bag. The shirt read "Your Mom’s Rated E for Everyone." Who wouldn’t think that’s friggin hilarious. The ESA, that’s who.
Earlier this week the Entertainment Software Association sicked their lawyers on us. Demanding that we take down the […]

Mediacoder (Windows)

Windows only: Open source app MediaCoder is an audio and video batch transcoder designed to give you super-simple conversion to and from some of the most popular media codecs.
Among other great features, MediaCoder’s Devices tab makes converting videos for your iPod, PSP, smartphone/PDA, etc. a breeze. MediaCoder is simple to use but does a lot.

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UMD Not Over Yet Says Sony Boss

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s UK MD, Ray Maguire, claims that the heavily criticised UMD format has a future, despite a number of film studios opting out of producing movies on the format and numerous retailers scaling down their UMD* offerings.

Yeah…right! The UMD is doing poorly.
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Full Support for v2.70/2.71 Firmware

Awsome now I can get some homebrew on my 2.70 PSP. I have played two SNES games on it so far. There is an downgrader, but it is still…uh “buggy.” I don’t want to risk my PSP to bricking.
eLoader Version 0.99 brings us this. Read on.
The major new feature is support for v2.70 and v2.71 […]

Game-Overdrive Image Editing Contest

“Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my duty as Community Manager of Game Overdrive to inform you of something terrible. It has begun. In a stunningly unprovoked move, Iceland has started the end. It’s bombing of Denmark over their relationship with Sweden caused Britain to have to back childhood friend Denmark up by leveling Reykjavik. Having been […]

Ricky’s Revolution Rant

Nintendo is finally ready to unveil the juicy details of their plans for the Revolution launch. Whilst perusing IGN at two in the morning(as I am often apt to do, as mentioned in another rant), I happened upon an article detailing much of the information that I have wanted to know about the upcoming launch […]

Official US Wii Launch Details

The word is out. Nintendo is finally ready to announce the launch details that it has been avoiding for months now. Read for yourselves:
Nintendo fans finally have a price and release date for the company’s new generation console, Wii. The Big N is set to officially announce that the system will hit retail in North […]

Wii - November 24 for £149?

According to the industry trade magazine MCV, the highly anticipated Nintendo console is set to debut in Europe on the 24th of November, with a price tag of £149. After a quick google, that appears to convert to about $282 in US dollars.
Nintendo will release the Wii in Europe by 24 November for £149, according […]

Wii Really Can Rumble!

Turns out the ‘Wiimote’ rumble story I commented on yesterday was innacurate. See for yourself.
No Wii Remote rumble? Kittsy spotted that I’d made a mess of page 15 just after we finished the mag. It was too late to correct and resend the page to the printers (apparently yelling “Hold the presses!” doesn’t actually result […]