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Archives for January 2006
MSN Spaces add 360 Styling
Now that MSN Spaces has gone Live, you can now customize your space with some Xbox 360 goodness. You can add your gamercard, and a list of your recently played games, as well as theme the whole space to be more Xbox with five new themes you can use.
MSN Spaces is a personal space to have a blog, show pictures, and whatever else.
Jump over to http://spaces.msn.com/ to get yours.
Joystiq Reviews King Kong
Over at Joystiq they created an in depth review of King Kong, and found it to be a rental so you could earn some easy gamerscore points. They did though give it a high eight point five out of ten on their rating scale.
Curiously, the admission that the Xbox 360 port was tested solely on high definition monitors, resulting in an image that is often too dark on standard definition televisions, wasn’t apparent to this gamer. If anything, many scenes were too dark on both high definition and standard definition screens, with no distinction between the two.
I have only been able to play the demo, and let me say…”Where am I going!?” as I bonk into another stone wall with a dark shadow on it.
Toshiba Gigabeat S Series
Toshiba and Microsoft have joined teams and are offering an eye-catching portable media center, hailed as the Gigabeat S Series. The PMC will be available in either 30/60GB capacities, with a 2.4�? QVGA 320.240 LCD screen and a battery life of 20 hours music playtime or 5 hours video playback.
Supported files include MP3, WMA, WAV, WMV, WMA, as well as MPEG4, AVI, MOV. Other features of the Gigabeat S include FM radio tuner, landscape viewing mode, transfer and view pictures from a digital camera via USB, and it can also be connected to an Xbox 360.
The Gigabeat S will be available sometime this year… for more info visit
Jens of Sweden MP-500
Much smaller than the Motorola RAZR, the new MP-500 by Jens of Sweden is a very attractive alternative to the Ipod Nano.
The MP-500 measures in at 81x40x13mm and weighs only 51g. Supported video formats include MPEG4, MPEG, WMV, AVI, ASF, DAT and MPG, which are viewed on a 1.6�? screen (260,000 colors). Other supported media include MP3, WMA, OGG, TXT and JPG.
Additional features include stereo speakers, with SRS, TRUBASS, WOW, equalizer, radio, scratchproof black or gold casing, and built in USB2.0. The battery has 15 hours of audio playtime, or 8 hours of video playback.
The JES MP-500 is available in both 1GB and 2GB flavours, costing 190USD and 240USD respectively.
Via [Fosfor Gadgets]
GigaBank 8GB USB2.0 HDD
The GigaBank 8.0 new portable USB hard drive, by I/O Magic, packs 8GB of storage space into a tiny 2�?x0.5�?x2.5�?, which is accessible through any USB 2.0 port.
This device is completely standalone, meaning it does not run on batteries/adapters, and has swivel USB connecter built in.
Weight 1.6 ounces
Max speed of 8MB/s
Average speed 4.5 MB/s
Costs 200USD.
The hard drive also comes with:
Extension cable
Driver CD
Sofware CD
1-year Warranty
Quick install guide
I/O Magic product page
iriver U10
The new PMP from iriver measures in at 2.7�?x1.8�?x0.6�?, and some how manages to fit in a 2.5�? LCD, FM tuner and recorder, an equalizer and alarm; similarly, this tiny unit is capable of playing MP3, ASF, WMA, OGG, JPG, TXT, and MPEG4.
As evidenced in the picture of the U10, the real highlight of this portable media player, is the fact that it has no buttons on the front face. Iriver has accomplished this by creating what they call the ‘D-Click system’, where you navigate by pressing either up/down or left/right direction buttons.
The U10 by iriver is small and sleek and costs around 250USD (1GB).
[via EverythingUSB]
Major update for Dashboard and Webcam on the Way
XBOXIC has what is still basically a rumour, as it has not been one hundred percent confirmed, it does look like the Dashboard will be getting a big update soon that will fix some of those annoying freezes or other errors, as well as support for a web cam that will come out around the same time. Now you can see who you are going to kill off in game before you do it.
An inside source at Microsoft informed us that Microsoft is currently finishing off one huge update for the Xbox 360 that is going to put an end to all the common problems in both games and the system itself. It will contain fixes for all currently known lockups in games, missing or impossible to get achievements and a bunch of new functionality in the Dashboard.
The update package will be released as soon as possible via a central dashboard update. The webcam accessory is going to be released simultaneously or slightly after, because one of the Dashboard modifications is going to be camera support.
Texas Candidate wants 50% tax on “violent games”
If you live in Texas, you might just want to read over this article twice. Some details have emerged on Joystiq about a Republican gubernatorial candidate named Star Locke, who would like to impose a 50% tax on “violent games”.
According to the Amarillo (registration required), Locke would propose a 10-percent tax on soft drinks, a $10,000-per-abortion tax, and a 50-percent tax on violent video games. Of course, violent games is a very subjective term – that’s why he proposes a 10-member board that will determine which game is violent enough. “Once it’s reviewed,” Locke says, “the tax would be levied swiftly.”
What a scary thought. You get ten people together that dislike gaming, or know nothing about it, the older the better probably, and you have them put a game in the “violent game” list because of damage effects in a racing game, or the sound of a gun shot, or a cartoon character jumping on another cartoon character…
Don’t let this happen.
Xbox 360 Controller for Windows: Great hardware, Weak software
I was reading an article on Joystiq, and I was like “why didn’t I write about that!?” as a friend of mine that is using the controller for his PC is having the same problems getting it to work as effectively as it does on the Xbox 360.
We’re going to put the conclusion right here at the top: if you use or would like to use a gamepad for Windows gaming, then it’d be hard to do better than the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows. Nothing tops this controller from a hardware perspective.
However, there are some major software problems that prevent us from fully endorsing the controller. Because anybody can create software to run on Windows, and because Microsoft doesn’t manage, certify, or quality-assure software released for Windows, the gaming experience on Windows lacks the conformity of the Xbox 360 gaming experience.
A friend of mine finds it pretty much useless, even after hours of tweaking the controller to work properly for a single game. I would have to agree with the Joystiq article in saying that Microsoft needs to find a way to create software that will be the middle man for the controller auto-mapping everything properly, with the ability to change it if we want.
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