XBOX 360's "Stand Off"

The company we all love to hate, has done another great bit of marketing here with their "questionable" ad Stand Off. Reminds me of being a kid... unfortunately we wont see it airing on US television any time soon.

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New DS games

This is a list of upcomming DS games and a few screens to go with them.

Mario Unleashed

This is a video of four people playing some Mario themes on the marimba

I know I've posted people playing Mario music before but this is just awesome.

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Jack Thompson gets his Law License in Alabama REVOKED!!!

Florida lawyer's request to leave case denied; judge opts to revoke temporary license to practice law in the state instead. BURN!!!

He had it comming, I wonder if this will happen in florida as well. Perhaps now that something like this has happend CNN and MSNBC will stop inviting him onto thier shows as some kind of expert.

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Hard Drive Coffee Table

Do you remember way back? Like when hard drives would not fit in your hand or even on your lap? Maybe even when they were about the size of a table top?

This is very cool, I want one. Now to find a really old hard drive that takes up a whole room.

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Buffalo Wing Recipe

Since I live near to the home of the Buffalo Wing, I have inside information as to the secret ingredient of the Anchor Bar's Buffalo Wings. Amazingly enough, it's only Frank's Red Hot... big suprise eh?

Easy Buffalo Wing Sauce Recipe

3 Parts Frank's Red Hot
2 Parts Margarine or Butter (I prefer Olivio to replace the margarine for a healthier olive-oil based spread that tastes just like butter)

Heat Butter/Margarine and stir into Red Hot. Dip your fried or baked wings into the sauce and serve (fried works better in my opinion because it bubbles the skin and creates pockets for extra sauce to soak into).

For a milder or spicer sauce, add more or less Red Hot as desired. For even spicer wings you can add in black pepper or mash up some Jalapeno or Habenero pepper.

Enjoy.

In Other News

Save the Pencatis, in recent years the pencatis population has dwindled as they are hunted for their whiskers and wings. On a completely unrelated note if you happen to have a good recipe for buffalo wings, please send it to Recently Retro, Care of : Pencatis

Hi-Res Zelda Ocarina Of Time

The long awaited mod that takes The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and updates the graphics with hi-res textures is finally out. Of course, you will need a ROM of the game and a compatible emulator to run it…but it’s worth it!

This is pretty cool, I downloaded it and will try it out in a few minutes, will it run on my system? Time to find out.

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Mark Reign eats his words

I wasn't bashing Nintendo, I wasn't bashing the controller, I was really just saying that a byproduct of having a device like this is that people are going to make games that possibly are just there because of the controller, as opposed to being great games of themselves, and I said it badly... I regret that.
--Mark Reign

I haven't seen anyone backpedal this hard since, well.... I don't know, ever or something. I'll believe his bullshit when Epic starts making Revolution games. Until then you dug your own grave on this one Mr. Reign, you sounded like an uninformed idiot before, and now you sound like an uninformed idiot that is afraid of the backlash his comments might bring.

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Thanks 4 color rebellion

NewTech Inc.: Using Sony's DRM Against Itself (circumventing Sony DRM Measures Legally)

Okay so I was so pissed about Sony using rootkit methods for hiding it's presence and limiting how many CD's you can burn. Then I had a really funny idea....

This is too funny, I love it when the tables get turned on someone who thought they were smarter than everyone else. Way to go man, you win the Awesomtastic award for 11-11-05

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EA Relases Steam-like Updater

EA downloader is a lightweight PC application (approximately 5MB) that downloads EA games in the background. It keeps you up-to-date with the latest patches, trailers, and new game content without requiring login every time you play.

I hate EA, and I don't want their bullshit software on my system, if they make it so you can't install a game on your computer without installing this "updater" I will be buying even less EA games than I already do.

This is just masked DRM bullshit, I don't care how lightweight they say it is, I don't want extra crap running on my machine.

Quoted from the F.A.Q.

In short, EA downloader ensures that your game never wears out by delivering the latest content

Bullshit, this is just another way to track what your playing and report it back to them, I doubt there will be a much content being pushed down to the users, most likely just patches for the unfinished crap EA likes to call games.

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And now the decline of civilization...

... has begun. Maielm has officially joined up forces with Arkitan to cause as much damage to people's minds as humanly possible!


More to come later.

Hand-built mini-NES

Hand-built mini-NES:

Cory Doctorow: This hardware hacker rebuilt a Nintendo Entertainment System into a tiny, hand-held form-factor, ingeniously stuffing all the parts into a tiny case and rewiring the guts to run off batteries. He even laser-etched a professional-looking faceplate. God, I wish these things were in regular production -- hand-built, bespoke mini-NESes with a little explanatory card would make brilliant gifts. Link (Thanks, Mike!)

This is pretty cool, I have a broken NES in my closet and a small box of nintendo games that I would love to play, oh well, perhaps someday I'll find a way to fix my NES, I know it can be fixed for about 10 bucks, I just keep putting it off. The only drawback to this portable is you can't really play Duck Hunt or Hogan's Alley, which are two of my favorite games on the system.

Revolution Information

Here is a short interview with Jim Merrik about the Nintendo Revolution. I found this over at 4 color rebellion. I like how he pretty much told Mark Reign to put up or shut up.

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Balloon Fight.

According to the official site, Mario Kart DS will have Balloon battles, which makes me very happy, up until now there was question as to weather or not Nintendo would include it, I'm very glad to see that they did. Is it just me or is the music on the website very "gunbound"?

I downloaded the screensaver just to check it out, and I noticed that every so often the DS in the picture shakes, I wonder if that means the game will ship with a rumble pack like Metroid Prime Pinball. All very interesting.

Napoleon Sig

I've been meaning to make this since I saw the movie about a month or so ago. Anyway, here it is.

Enjoy.

Jack Thompson issues a press release hyping the opening day of a lawsuit

"This Thursday, November 3, 2005, at 1 pm the Alabama fireworks ignite in the Fayette County Courthouse. This may make the OJ Simpson trials look like quilting bees."

Wow, just wow, this guy is actually comparing a video game to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Seems like Jack will do anything to stay in the spotlight.

I would love to see some Pearl Harbor survivors get pissed at Thompson for making something they had to live through seem so trivial and inconsequential.

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