Friday, December 5, 2008
Xbox360 goes Portable!
You can thank, and secretly envy Benjamin Heckendorn, since you will never own one yourself. looks good for carrying to a friends house to play, would make LAN games easier to arrange if you can just plop it in a laptop bag. Wonder if it handles overheating well? Enjoy the pics!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Gadgets and things
I was hitting up Slashdot this morning and stumbled on an article for a new handheld device called Pandora. The concept behind it is to create a strong hand held gaming platform with open source development behind it. So far it carries some decent hardware, actually in terms of power it rivals the PSP, however it relies more on the home brew scene supporting it then actual commercial game developers making the latest and greatest Grand Theft Auto etc. While it can run some GTA versions since the main game library comes from its ability to run most emulators, the umpf is clearly lacking when everything your playing is from systems that are now collecting dust in your house.
Its not all hate, there are some pro's. The system can run Linux, sports a full keyboard and a decent amount of RAM, what you may end up with is a tiny handheld PC in the end, but for 330$, seems a bit steep. Ok, back to hating, whoever designed this thing really needed to stop and think of aerodynamics, cause this looks like it would start to hurt after 20 minutes of usage.
In other news, after scanning Murphys Facebook page I noticed Marc Ecko made a line of Star Wars inspired clothing including Boba Fett and Stormtrooper hoodies. Now in terms of design the Boba Fett one kinda looks cool, but the Stormtrooper one is just ugly, and not very practical since it closes in the front, just in time for Halloween I guess. In the line came a decent t-shirt of Princess Leia in the infamous bikini, not something I would wear but a little more fashionable.
In the last piece of news I will be starting my new addiction / time filler today or tomorrow. I am going to pick up Warhammer right after the check hits the bank account. I had a good time playing the beta and the game was really geared toward getting people to play together, thought the general environment didn't seem as talkative as in Warcraft where general chat was an amalgamation of the inane and the rare intelligent political conversation, one that would often end in ranting and a mixture of letters and numbers that you just knew it was being directed at you in a vulgar manner. We will see soon enough if Mythic sucks or not.
Its not all hate, there are some pro's. The system can run Linux, sports a full keyboard and a decent amount of RAM, what you may end up with is a tiny handheld PC in the end, but for 330$, seems a bit steep. Ok, back to hating, whoever designed this thing really needed to stop and think of aerodynamics, cause this looks like it would start to hurt after 20 minutes of usage.
In other news, after scanning Murphys Facebook page I noticed Marc Ecko made a line of Star Wars inspired clothing including Boba Fett and Stormtrooper hoodies. Now in terms of design the Boba Fett one kinda looks cool, but the Stormtrooper one is just ugly, and not very practical since it closes in the front, just in time for Halloween I guess. In the line came a decent t-shirt of Princess Leia in the infamous bikini, not something I would wear but a little more fashionable.
In the last piece of news I will be starting my new addiction / time filler today or tomorrow. I am going to pick up Warhammer right after the check hits the bank account. I had a good time playing the beta and the game was really geared toward getting people to play together, thought the general environment didn't seem as talkative as in Warcraft where general chat was an amalgamation of the inane and the rare intelligent political conversation, one that would often end in ranting and a mixture of letters and numbers that you just knew it was being directed at you in a vulgar manner. We will see soon enough if Mythic sucks or not.
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