The first thing that pops up when you select "Play Movie" on the DVD is a notice reading "This film has been modified from the original theatrical version." I missed it in theaters so I have no clue what's been removed or otherwise altered. Has anyone heard anything about this?
http://www.evilavatar.com/modules.ph...rder=0&thold=0 The deal starts on November 17; MSRP is the same ($99.99). You can get it separately by either a) registering your GC system and two eligible games (Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Mario Party 5, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and 1080...
http://pocket.ign.com/articles/401/401266p1.html A summary of the significant part: they've added text at the start of each little mini-game telling you exactly what you have to do. Given that 90% of the challenge of Wario Ware is figuring out what you're supposed to do in the >5 seconds you...
IN COMPETITION A Cinq Heures de l'Aprés-midi (At Five in the Afternoon) - Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran/France Akarui Mirai (Bright Future) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan The Brown Bunny - Vincent Gallo, U.S. Carandiru - Hector Babenco, Brazil Ce Jour-là - Raoul Ruiz, France Les Côtelettes -...
......according to these guys, anyway. Included with the game: Sonic & Tails Sonic & Tails 2 Sonic Blast Sonic Chaos Sonic Drift Sonic Drift 2 Sonic Labyrinth Sonic Spinball Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble Woo woo woo woo woo...
From Gamasutra (free registration required) The gist of the story is that DTS will no longer be charging a licensing fee for developers who want to use DTS in their games. Given the performance hit that results from using multichannel sound on the PS2 I don't expect a whole lot of games will...
Just box art for the time being. The first three have been known about for a while but #4 is a total surprise:
by Brakhage
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
My Life as a Dog
Straw Dogs (!!!)
EDIT: The covers seem to be gone now. I've left the links in place just in case they go back up.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...895274,00.html
To sum up: Sony sued some guy in Sydney for selling mod chips for the PS2, which Sony claimed violated Australia's copyright protection laws (which are apparently very similar to the DMCA in the U.S.). A federal judge ruled that mod chips...
Gaming Age has a neat Link Removed up. Some of the rumors aren't particularly new (the backlit GBA), some of them aren't even rumors (Zelda GC has been pushed back in the U.S.), but there are still some interesting tidbits there, namely:
-A new 2D Castlevania game from the SOTN team will be...
This is a new Lucasarts game, not to be confused with the now-cancelled X-Box game by Infinite Machine. The hitch, of course, is that it won't be out until 2004. Here's the press release: SAM & MAX TO HIT THE ROAD (AND OTHERS) IN LONG AWAITED CLASSIC ADVENTURE SEQUEL FROM LUCASARTS Popular...
http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic....21122&forum=25
To sum up: the X-Box version has been pushed back to Spring '03 and the PC version to Summer. Huzzah, or something.
From Jaime at the CriterionDVD boards:
>Hi Jon,
>
>Just wondering about von Sternberg''s SHANGHAI EXPRESS. It''s long
>been a
>rumored title - wasn''t it announced in the News section a while
>back? If
>so, what''s the status of that title? If not, is it on the slate
>(or...
http://redherring.com/insider/2002/0...ion071902.html
Basically this entire article seems to be based on what one guy at Sony sees in his wet dreams. A point-by-point examination of this nonsense is not worth anyone's time but here are some choice comments:
"Buoyed by so much processing...
No surprise here but there you are.......
http://www.cube-europe.com/newsphp/news.php?id=1234
It'd be nice to know how many copies were in the original shipment, though.
(Edit: before anybody else says it.......SHINE GET!!!)
After months of speculation, it's official:
http://www.evilavatar.com/EA/News/M39291/
Summer 2003?! I hope MS doesn't plan to sell a whole lot of copies of this.
From his latest .plan update (6/25):
The Matrox Parhelia Report:
The executive summary is that the Parhelia will run Doom, but it is not performance competitive with Nvidia or ATI.
Driver issue remain, so it is not perfect yet, but I am confident that Matrox will resolve them.
The...
Check out Jeffrey Wells' column:
http://www.reel.com/reel.asp?node=mo...s/confidential
I'm going to be honest, I think he's full of it (I'm not even sure I should believe his claim that he once worked as a projectionist, since even the worst projectionist should know about soft-matting and...
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/index.cgi?page=News&id=3161
I didn't care much for this but I know it has a lot of fans and I also know that the current UK and R3 releases are far from satisfactory. Unfortunately, the wording of the last paragraph ("The disc is designed to be compatible with UK NTSC...