Spore!

• CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic—From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.
• EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages—It’s survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.
• EXPLORE Other Players’ Galaxies—Will your creature rule the universe, or will your beloved planet be blasted to smithereens by a superior alien race?
• SHARE with the World—Everything you make is shared with other players and vice versa, providing tons of cool creatures to meet and new places to visit.

Available September 7th, 2008

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer

Tom Clancy's End War

Tom Clancy's End War

Strategy for the next generation: Led by creative director Michael de Plater (Rome Total War), EndWar will redefine strategy gaming. Designed exclusively for next-gen consoles EndWar will create a theatre of war, immersing you in the drama of World War III in a way you never thought possible. Fight For Your Nation: Pick a side US, Europe, Russia - the fate of the world is in your hands. If you don’t step in to save your homeland, who will? Command Your Army: Grow your army into the most powerful force on the planet. Your army is completely customizable, and experience breeds strength - your units grow more powerful with every campaign you fight. Light Up The City of Lights: Tom Clancy’s World War III won’t be won by capturing remote deserts or grasslands but by striking countries in the heart. Paris, Moscow, Washington D.C. will all erupt in flames as you battle your way through the fully destructive playground. A Whole New Kind of Massive: EndWar will be an online multiplayer experience unlike anything you’ve ever encountered. 16 player matchups? Try hundreds. 30 minute battles? Try persistent matchups lasting for months at a time. This isn’t a skirmish, it’s World War III. Talk Your Way to Victory: Put the controller aside and start shouting commands. EndWar can be played almost entirely via voice command.

Soul Calibur IV

It's finally here!

In a monumental alliance, legendary Star Wars icons, Darth Vader and Yoda invade the Soulcalibur universe! Soulcalibur IV continues the series’ tradition of reinventing, enhancing and breaking new boundaries. Now the world’s favorite fighting game redefines the entire genre for the next generation of both new, and fiercely loyal Soulcalibur fans.

FEATURES

• Unleash the Force – Iconic Star Wars characters, Sith Lord Darth Vader and Jedi Master Yoda challenge the Soulcalibur fighters for the future of the powerful swords
• Unparalleled High Definition Graphics – Experience the legendary Soulcalibur level of graphics now in 720p HD resolution for the first time
• Take the Fight Online – For the first time ever, fight opponents around the world online in multiple versus modes
• The Ultimate Roster – Battle with classic Soulcalibur characters, exciting newcomers or customize your own unique fighter
• New Fighting System Elements – Exciting new fighting game elements including the Active Matching Battle System and the ability to execute devastating critical strikes
• Multiple Gameplay Modes – Experience Soulcalibur with Story, Arcade, Tower of Reminiscence, Training Practice, Character creation, and Museum View modes

Legend: Hand of God

Thanks to the innovative Cinematic Combat System, orcs, ogres, trolls, goblins and their ilk will all be fought heroically in their own right. The Cinematic Combat System makes every monster brawl special. In Legend, gamers won't use their sword to tickle giant enemies at the knees anymore, but will fight them in a challenging and realistic manner – and in beautiful, spectacular 3D graphics. At the same time, Legend – Hand of God remains just as easy to control as other action RPGs.

Features:

• Action RPG set in a fantasy world
• Breathtaking 3D graphics courtesy of the Master
• Engine, which was designed specifically for action RPGs
• Luminous spirit doubles as mouse cursor/dynamic light source
• Written by top American author
• Star-studded team of developers
• Cinematic Combat System

Release August 1st

Gameplay

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Features:

• A war of mythic proportions - Lead awe-inspiring fire-fights where high-caliber ordnance meets beak, talon, claw and fang. Dynamic environments crumble around you as you and your enemies tear an interactive, living, breathing environment apart in your battle to stay alive.
• Global combat in stunning locations - Devastation is realized on an unprecedented scale. See internationally recognized structures and monuments to mankind fall before the primal onslaught of titans. Every feature, every location is realized in breath-taking high-definition.
• Think fast or die combat - Man is no-longer top of the food chain and you are the hunted. Witness stunning artificial intelligence in action as packs of werewolves attempt to outflank you and giant gryphons tear through buildings to drag you screaming into their world.

New search engine

A new search engine, claimed to do a better and more comprehensive job of indexing info and web sites than Google, has just been launched. It's called Cuil, which is pronounced 'cool'. It's founders are former workers from Google who wrote much of Google's vital code. Many analysts believe Cuil, as with other search engines, won't be able to match, let alone defeat Google. Cuil claims it uses more than 120 billion webpages in its index. It claims this is more sites than Google, but Google has stopped reporting how many sites it indexes. Google claims its index is still bigger, without revealing any numbers.

An interesting article concerning Cuil and Google can be found here

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Achievments

While Wrath of the Lich King will improve many of World of Warcraft's existing features, it will also introduce plenty of brand-new ones to keep the game fresh and interesting. One of these new features is sure to suit a wide range of play styles: achievements. These self-contained goals will offer new challenges, satisfy goal-oriented players, allow others to see your accomplishments in World of Warcraft -- and are just plain fun.

World of Warcraft's achievements system will launch with more than 500 individual achievements covering every aspect of gameplay, including world exploration, PvE, PvP, professions, and character development; from the purely whimsical to the truly epic, there will be something for everyone. Some achievements come with in-game rewards such as tabards, vanity pets, and titles. All of these rewards are purely cosmetic and just for fun, but you'll certainly stand out when you proudly display them.

Types of achievements:

• Player-vs.-Player: This includes arena, battlegrounds, and world player-vs.-player objectives. A few examples:
  • Hot Streak: Win 10 ranked arena matches in a row.
  • Alterac Valley All-Star: Capture graveyards, towers, and kill the enemy leader all in one game.
  • City Defender: Kill 50 enemy players in your faction's capital cities.
• Dungeons and Raids: Every end boss of every raid and dungeon in the game grants its own achievement. Future achievements in this category may include ones for completing a run without any player deaths, with fewer than the maximum number of players, or within a certain time limit.
• Professions: Advancing to each tier of mastery in a profession earns you an achievement, and there are specific achievements for secondary skills (with major professions to follow).
• Quests: Quest-based achievements include completing a certain number of quests and completing specific quest lines. This category contains zone-specific subcategories.
• Events: Seasonal events such as the Midsummer Festival, the Lunar Festival, and Hallows’ End have specific achievements of their own.
• World Exploration: You’ll earn achievements by exploring each zone in the game -- and get meta-achievements when you fully explore a continent.
• Reputations: This set of achievements includes attaining exalted reputation with each faction in the game.
• General: These achievements tend toward the whimsical, including getting a shave and haircut (a new feature of Wrath of the Lich King), obtaining a certain number of tabards and vanity pets, falling from a great height, and more.

World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game

Fantasy Flight Games has just released World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game, a fast-paced board game of danger, conflict, and heroes. Two to four players engage in a struggle for glory and valor as they travel the Eastern Kingdoms of Azeroth completing quests and battling monsters -- and each other -- in a bid for supremacy.

Watchmen

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the watchmen?

The Rocker

A failed drummer is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally given up all hope, he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer. They reluctantly make him the newest member of the band, giving him a chance to reclaim the rock God throne he's always thought he deserved, and taking the young band along for the ride of their lives.

Rainn Wilson is so hilarious. I love him on the office as Dwight Schrute.

Three New Mountain Dew Flavors

Mountain has introduced three new flavors: Revolution, Supernova, and Voltage. Revolution is a translucent blue-colored, wild berry fruit and ginseng flavored Dew. Supernova is a pink colored strawberry, melon, lime, and ginseng flavored Dew. Voltage is a blue colored raspberry-citrus and ginseng flavored Dew. What's your favorite?

Richard Branson's new space plane

In the middle of the Mojave Desert today, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson unveiled a new space plane that will carry the passenger space rocket to a launch height of 48,000 feet. a $200,000 price tag for tickets limits the thrill of commercial space flight to only the wealthiest. The maiden voyage could possibly be before the end of the decade. After the space plane carries the rocket to it's launch height and releases it, passengers will experience four minutes of weightlessness. Branson will take his family on the maiden voyage and 250 other wealthy people have reserved seats.

Apple iPhone 3G

Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again.

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

This entry in the Star Wars saga casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice", unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. The expansive story, created under direction from George Lucas, is set during the largely unexplored era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In it, players will assist the iconic villain in his quest to rid the universe of Jedi - and face decisions that could change the course of their destiny. As its name implies, The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force by taking full advantage of newly developed technologies that will be seen and experienced for the first time anywhere in videogaming.

A Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo is on its way to PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE in August. The demo will be a special secret version of the Tie Fighter Construction Facility level, modified with a different ending than in the final version of the full game itself. Unlocked Jedi powers will also be available for players to experiment with.

Eagle Eye

Second trailer for 'Eagle Eye' - starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Azizi, and Billy Bob Thornton.

A slacker and a single mother are framed as terrorists and forced to become members of a cell with plans to carry out a political assassination.

Release Date: September 26th, 2008

Call of Duty: World at War

Call of Duty: World at War completely changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming and thrusting players into the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen in WWII. Powered by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare technology, Call of Duty: World at War brings an uncensored edge to combat, as soldiers face the most harrowing and climatic European and Pacific battles in which an enemy, who knows no surrender and no retreat, will fight to the last breath, unleashing an arsenal of lethal surprising tactics. Peril and danger lurk throughout the battlefield as players combat the unknown risk of the new chaos of battle.

Pre-order ships 11/11/2008

Diablo 2

I'm really anxious for Diablo 3, and decided to try out the previous game, Diablo 2. You can download the demo for Diablo 2 Here. The demo is 141 mb and did not take very long to download or install. So far I've really enjoyed the demo and might even purchase the full game from the Blizzard store.

Wolfenstein 3D

Feel the need to play a classic game?
Here's a good one, Wolfenstein 3D. The game that started it all.

Download it Here

Wolfenstein

Can't wait for the new Wolfenstein.



Compare the trailer to the original Wolfenstein 3D :P

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an action-packed game created by the same Pandemic Studios team behind the best-selling Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Battlefront II titles. Set in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" universe as depicted by the Academy Award-winning films, players will finally fight the entirety of these epic battles any way they want. In addition to crusading as the heroic forces of good, for the first time ever in a 'The Lord of the Rings' action title they'll conquer Middle-earth while playing as the legions of Sauron's evil army, including Cave-trolls, Oliphaunts, the Balrog and Sauron himself.

Pre-Order ships 11/4/2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Animated

The 90-minute premiere episode of the CGI animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will have a limited release in U.S. cinemas starting August 15th.

Not only will this be the first 3-D animated movie for the highly-successful saga, but this will also be the first Star Wars movie not released through Twentieth Century Fox. Fox released all six Star Wars movies, plus the original microseries The Clone Wars on home video.

The new series will premiere this fall on The Cartoon Network, later airing on TNT.

Half Life Full Life Consequences

Just had to share these videos. You may have seen them already, but they are still funny to watch :P

PC Problems

Last week I had a really big problem with my computer. I turned it on, and it immediately came to a black screen and said there was a disk read error. I thought it must be some sort of virus so I decided to try and salvage all the data off of my hard drive and then try to use my windows CD to get back to the last safe partition of my hard drive. Well, i had one problem. I had an SATA internal hard drive and the only thing I could think of was to take it out and put it in my old computer. The problem here is that I had no place to put the data once the hard drive was in the old computer. Then I ran out to Circuit City and bought a Western Digital 500 GB external hard drive and an Antec SATA hard drive case with a USB 2.0 interface. So I pulled my hard drive out and set it up in the Antec case. Then I plugged the case and external hard drive into the USB 2.0 ports on my old computer. Now the long and tedious task of copying all the files and folders from one hard drive to the other sat before me. This ended up taking about 5 hours. Now I was ready to take out the SATA drive and put it back in my computer. I did this and turned on the computer and guess what? This time there was no disk read error. The computer booted up normally and everything was fine. It has been working since then. It must have been an issue with the hard drive like dirt or something that got fixed when I put it in the Antec Case. What a waste of time! At least my files are backed up now.

Crysis Warhead

Take on the fight as the volatile Sergeant “Psycho” Sykes in a new parallel story taking place during the events of Crysis. Psycho’s secret mission will take him to the other side of the island on a ruthless pursuit of a North Korean general hell-bent on obtaining powerful technology. With the versatile powers of his Nanosuit and an arsenal of fully customizable weapons & vehicles at his disposal, Sykes will do whatever it takes to carry out his top-secret objective.

Pre-order ships 9/16/2008

Fallout 3

Vault 101 – Jewel of the Wastes. For 200 years, Vault 101 has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec® engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you’ve ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.

Pre-order ships 10/7/2008

Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is the next-generation first-person shooter from Ubisoft, discover the real sequel to the award winning PC game. More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry 2 will make you take part in a brand new gaming experience. Discover one of the most beautiful but also most hostile environments in the world, AFRICA! You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies’ weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and of course brute force.

Pre-order ships 10/1/2008

Trailer

Killzone 2

Throughout the campaign, players will encounter lifelike and adaptable artificial intelligence (A.I.) from enemies as well as fellow soldiers, destructible environments, and stunningly detailed scenery. Additionally, players will be tasked with utilizing a host of new weapons and vehicles in the war to stop the Helghast. Featuring an extensive single-player campaign and thrilling multi-player mode, Killzone 2 delivers a host of new gameplay elements and an intense storyline that will once again drive gamers to join the ranks of the ISA and fight the Helghast…this time on the enemy’s home planet.

Pre-order ships 2/24/2009

Left 4 Dead

Running on the Source engine, Left 4 Dead leaves four armed survivors of a world overrun with zombies, and they must fight their way out to escape the outbreak. Designed for co-op play, the four players must work together to finish each stage of the game, lending each other artillery support, sharing ammo and rescuing each other when zombies are on top of them. In addition to the standard four players as humans, another four players can be amongst the masses of assaulting zombies, seeking to take down the other players. Zombie players might even find themselves become one of the four mutant "boss" zombies, who have unique powers that can be used to devastate, injure, tie up, mark and track, confuse, or even humiliate the gun-toting human survivors.

Trailer Here

This game will also be available November 4th, 2008. Pre-order

Resistance 2

After a valiant struggle to stop the Chimera invasion in Europe, mankind must make its last stand on the shores of the United States. In the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling PLAYSTATION 3 game, Resistance 2 places players in the heroic role of Sgt. Nathan Hale as he struggles against overwhelming odds to defend mankind from the unstoppable Chimera. While wrestling with this insidious war machine, Hale must also battle the virus raging inside of his own body that threatens to transform him into the very creatures he fights against. Powered by Insomniac Games' third-generation PLAYSTATION 3 technology, Resistance 2 will deliver unprecedented console gaming breakthroughs with a standalone eight-player, class-based online co-op campaign and 60-player online competitive multiplayer. An epic single-player campaign will feature a new weapons arsenal to combat giant boss encounters that increase the scale of the conflict to new heights. And players will enjoy a new level of community support.

Sure looks good just from watching the trailer.
Comes out November 4th, 2008.
Available for pre-order at Gamestop.

Resident Evil 5

The biohazard threat has not ended: Just when it seemed that the menace of Resident Evil had been destroyed, along comes a new terror to send shivers down player's spines. Chris Redfield, returning Resident Evil hero, has followed the path of the evil literally around the globe. After joining a new organization, Chris heads to Africa where the latest bioterrorism threat is literally transforming the people and animals of the city into mindless, maddened creatures. Chris must take on the challenge of discovering the truth behind this evil plot. In Resident Evil 5, Capcom will teach players to fear the daylight as much as they have feared shadow in previous games.

Resident Evil 5 won't be available for a long time, March 5, 2009 according to Gamestop :(

Here's the E3 2008 Trailer

Gears of War 2

Gears of War 2 blends a best-in-class third-person shooter with unsurpassed high-definition visuals, all layered on top of an engaging story of survival, loss and retribution. Of course this is going to be an awesome game, so you can pre-order your copy at Gamestop today. Gears of War 2 will be available November 7th, 2008.

Click here for Trailer+Gameplay

The Punisher: War Zone

The trailer for the upcoming "Punisher" sequel, called "Punisher: War Zone". n the new film, continuing his crusade to punish violent criminals in America, former FBI agent Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson) arrives in New York to take on an underworld boss who plots to take control of the underworld.

Terminator 4 Salvation

Here's a pretty cool trailer for Terminator 4 Salvation, which will come out sometime in 2009. hopefully very soon.

James Bond: Quantum of Solace

The James Bond movies have always been some of my favorites to watch. Daniel Craig did a good job portraying Bond in Casino Royale and he will play Bond again in the next addition, Quantum of Solace which will open in theaters November 7, 2008.

PSP Screens

Over the past two years, I've had two PSP's. I dropped one of them and it broke. The second one fell in the shower, and as you can imagine, it no longer operates. So I had two broken PSP's, what was I going to do? Well naturally I took them apart to see what it was like inside. It took a while, and my thumbs were throbbing after try to get all of the miniscule screws out, but I successfully removed both LCD screens from the cases. They still have the connector pins and look okay. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas what I could do with these screens? I might be able to sell them as replacement screens, but maybe someone can think of something more creative.

Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse

Recently I decided it was time that I bought a new mouse. Up until that time, I had been using the regular mouse that came with my computer, nothing special. I did some research and found a few mice that looked like they would work and weren't too expensive. I was comparing the Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse and the Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse, the latter being $10 less. There wasn't that much of a difference between them sensitivity wise, the laser mouse having 2000dpi and the optical having 1600dpi. The G5 had a few extra fancy things such as adjustable weight, but in the end I picked the Mx518 just because it had a better looking skin.

Overall I'm very pleased with the mouse I chose. It's easily ten times better than my previous mouse. I really like the back and forward buttons on the side of the mouse for web browsing. I also like how you can adjust the sensitivity instantly just by pressing a button. The highest setting on the Mx518, 1600dpi, turned out to be too sensitive for me anyway. It;s a good thing I didn't go with the G5.

Saw V

I just saw the teaser trailer for Saw V and thought it looked a bit interesting. I wasn't a big fan of the series until i went to the midnight showing of Saw IV with my girlfriend. I'm not quite sure why I liked the movie so much, it was a bit grotesque, but somehow I got hooked. After I saw that one I went home and watched all of the previous ones. The teaser came out July 24th and the actual movie will open in theaters at midnight on October 24th. Sounds like a good Halloween movie :)

Diablo 3

So Blizzard revealed an upcoming game, Diablo 3 about a month ago at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris. I've never played either of the previous Diablo games, let alone even heard of them. But I do enjoy some other Blizzard games such as World of Warcraft and Warcraft 3. After watching the cinematic trailer that Blizzard released and the additional 20 minute gameplay video, I can't help but think that it's going to be an awesome game. Diablo3 is of the role playing genre, set in a fantasy world brimming with peril and destruction. Players will choose a hero from one of five distinct classes, which so far include the barbarian and the witch doctor. These heroes will then fight their way through beautiful environments and intense dungeons filled with hordes of monsters and bosses. Players can gain experience and unlock new spells by defeating enemies as well as acquiring powerful loot and items. Now my only problem is that I have no idea when the game will actually be available to purchase and play. If Starcraft 2 is any indication, it could be upwards of a year.

• Explore a fully-realized Sanctuary--the living, breathing gothic fantasy world of Diablo III rendered in gorgeous 3D.
• Battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells with all-new character classes like the otherworldly Witch Doctor, or with re-imagined warriors from Diablo's past: such as the fierce Barbarian.
• Rain Hell on your enemies wielding the interactive environment as a weapon: lay cunning traps, turn destructible objects against your foes, and use environmental obstacles to your advantage--all powered by the Havoc physics system.
• Experience the intensity of multiplayer Diablo III over an all-new, wickedly-enhanced Battle.net platform with numerous enhancements to make connecting with your friends easier--and cooperative gameplay more fun.