Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat will write five episodes for the next series of the show.
Moffat said, “I’m doing the [2010] Christmas special plus five, so it’s the same. Six again.”
“I’m basically following what Russell (T. Davies) did,” he confirmed. “Having worked out the sums and worked out how he does it, I thought that’s a perfect way of doing it.”
Between Doctor Who and his new show Sherlock, he hasn’t been enjoying much of a work life balance.
“The last year has been extraordinary,” he claimed. “I’ve had about four days off, and that includes Christmas day. I work every weekend, I get up early in the morning, I go to bed late at night. There is no way of balancing it.”
The next series, starring Matt Smith as The Doctor, is scheduled for broadcast in 2011.
OK so me and ian were talking and we want to compile a list of XBLA games that everyone should buy. Especially being that a few of us have thousands of MS points to spend. Multiplayer games would be ideal, but leaderboard games are good too. Trials HD for example is a good leaderboard game that's competitive but has no multiplayer.
Complete list so far:
Multiplayer/Leaderboard Games
XBLA
Battlefield 1943
Defense Grid
Snoopy Flying Ace
OutRun Online Arcade
Afterburner Climax
Super Puzzle Fighter HD
N+
Pac-Man C.E.
GeoWars 2
South Park
Vigilante 8
MvC 2
Perfect Dark
Trials HD
Marble Blast Ultra
UNO
Worms 2
Castle Crashers
Carcassonne
NHL Arcade
Boom Boom Rocket
Final Fight
Streets of Rage 2
Golden Axe
Metal Slug XX
Metal Slug 3
TMNT
XBI
Kong360: Gorilla Warfare
General Games
XBLA
DeathSpank
Castlevania: SOTN
Greed Corp
Winterbottom
Mega Man 9 & 10
Peggle
Shadow Complex
Splosion Man
The Maw
Monkey Island: SE 1 & 2
Braid
Age of Booty
Lazy Raiders
Earthworm Jim HD
Rocket Knight Adventures
Banjo Kazooie + Tooie
Limbo
XBI
Breath Of Death VII
Gerbil Physics
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1
Towers
SFG Soccer
Shoot 1 Up
Miner Dig Deep
Zombie Estate
Ophidian Wars: Opac's Journey
Apple Jack
Crossfire
Sleepwalker
Arkedo Series 03: Pixel
Soulcaster
AvaGlide
News: Randy Jackson Last Man Standing On American Idol
Posted: Bandit @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:13 am
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The American Idol judges' panel has gone through a major shakeup in the last 24 hours, as Ellen DeGeneres quit, Kara DioGuardi was reportedly fired, and Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler have apparently been brought on to replace them.
DeGeneres released a statement Thursday announcing her exit from Idol after only one season.
"A couple months ago, I let FOX and the American Idol producers know that this didn't feel like the right fit for me," the comedian said, as per People. "I told them I wouldn't leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next. It was a difficult decision to make, but my work schedule became more than I bargained for."
She added: "I also realized this season that, while I love discovering, supporting and nurturing young talent, it was hard for me to judge people and sometimes hurt their feelings. I loved the experience working on Idol, and I am very grateful for the year I had; I am a huge fan of the show and will continue to be."
In response, Idol executive producer Simon Fuller had nothing but good things to say about DeGeneres.
"I loved Ellen's passion for the artists and her nurturing skills," Fuller said. "She brought honesty and optimism to our judging panel and I will miss her greatly."
Meanwhile, TMZ reports that DioGuardi has been given the boot for next season, and that Idol will be going back to a three-judge format.
So who are the new judges? Deadline Hollywood Daily claims Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler have been offered the jobs, and it's practically a done deal. Lopez's handlers apparently approached Idol producers months ago about joining the show, and a deal was secretly reached earlier this week. Tyler is reportedly still in negotiations, but it seems very likely that he'll be joining the show for Season 10.
This means the only returning judge for American Idol's 10th season will by Randy Jackson. Congratulations, dawg!
Who is possibly going to take Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler telling people they can't sing seriously? Bring on Lemmy Kilmister to replace Simon while we're at it. (Actually I'd watch that.)
Drug maker Pfizer plans to release a version of its popular aphrodisiac Viagra for children, as a “humanitarian gesture.”
Pfizer intends to release the new drug under the name of “Revatio.” Both Revatio and Viagra use the same active ingredient, Sildenafil. Viagra has been used for years to treat these disorders.
The new version is intended to treat a condition involving abnormally high blood pressure in the lungs of children, which afflicts 600 children a year in the US.
Unsurprisingly for a pharmaceutical company, its motives are thought to be far from altruistic – the US Food and Drug Administration has offered Pfizer a 6 month extension on its Viagra patent in exchange for pushing the drug.
The patent would otherwise expire in 2012, paving the way for a horde of generic manufacturers to copy the drug and make low cost versions available to consumers.
2009 US sales of Viagra were some $1.9 billion – Pfizer can expect sales of its version to plummet as its monopoly is broken and generics take over the market.
At an effective cost of nearly a billion dollars to treat only 600 patients, it appears “erectile dysfunction” sufferers are getting the shaft in more ways than one. Pfizer shares rose 1.7% on the news.
There is conspicuous silence on the matter of Viagra’s primary effects being applied to young children. sankaku as usual some nsfw stuff on site, work safe version of the news
News: Japan’s 2nd Oldest Man Found to be Mummified Corpse
Posted: Hawq @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:12 am
The 111-year-old man recognised as Japan’s 2nd oldest is in fact a mummified corpse which died 30 years ago.
The man was born in the 32nd year of the Meiji era, or 1899 in barbarian dates, making him 111 as of 2010.
Seeing his advanced age in their records, bureaucrats at Tokyo’s Adachi ward decided to pay a visit to their ward’s oldest resident and present him with a gift in celebration of his birthday on the 29th of July.
Arriving at his residence with a police escort, they met his 81-year-old daughter, who declined their offer of a gift on his behalf, saying “Father doesn’t want to meet with anyone.”
A 53-year-old grandchild of his subsequently paid a visit to a local police station, explaining to them that “Grandfather said ‘I want to become a mummy’ and ‘I’d like to attain Buddhahood during my life’ 30 years ago and shut himself up his room.”
Police quickly moved to investigate his residence and found him still in his room – his corpse completely mummified.
Adachi officials had previously wanted to check up on the man, but had been turned away “as he didin’t want to see anyone” at that time as well.
The practice of “Sokushinbutsu,” where Buddhist monks would ritually starve themselves to death with the objective of leaving a perfectly dessicated corpse behind and thus attaining Buddhahood (and incidentally leave behind a corpse which the faithful would worship), is well documented in Japanese history, although the practice has long since died out after being banned in 1879.
On a more worldly note, police have launched an investigation after it transpired that $100,000 in pensions had been paid out to the man since he attained “Buddhahood.”
The whole incident also raises some very disturbing questions about just how much of Japan’s ancient and pension receiving population is actually still alive – notably, Japan has some of the lowest autopsy rates found anywhere in the developed world. sankaku some nsfw stuff on site warning applies as usual
News: Jimmy Fallon Fails To Play 10 Game Consoles In 60 Seconds
Posted: Dr. Zoidberg @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:17 am
Jimmy Fallon Fails To Play 10 Game Consoles In 60 Seconds
Jimmy Fallon Fails To Play 10 Game Consoles In 60 SecondsJimmy Fallon had 10 game consoles set in front of him on Late Night yesterday. He tried to claim a world record by playing each in 60 seconds. Officially, he fell short. But did he really? Watch and decide.
The games in play were:
NES - The Legend of Zelda
Sega Genesis - Sonic the Hedgehog
Super Nintendo - Donkey Kong Country
Sega Dreamcast - Crazy Taxi
Nintendo 64 - Star Fox 64
PlayStation - Tomb Raider
PlayStation 2 - Katamari Damacy
Xbox - Halo
PlayStation 3 - Street Fighter IV
Wii - Tiger Woods PGA Tour (year unknown)
Xbox 360 - Madden NFL (year unknown)
News: Original Shining Force now available on App Store
Posted: Dr. Zoidberg @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:03 am
Original Shining Force now available on App Store
Sega hasn't found a whole lot of luck porting its classic titles to the iPhone and iPod Touch, largely due to the twitchy nature of games like Sonic the Hedgehog and the totally non-twitchy nature of the devices' virtual controllers. However, that might not be too huge a problem for the latest Genesis game on the App Store: the classic strategy-RPG Shining Force.
The game is currently available on the App Store in North America for $2.99, and doesn't require any split-second spin dashes or evasive maneuvers, meaning you might be able to play it on a glassy, buttonless surface. That's as good a selling point as any, we suppose.
Kinect Sports developer Rare has offered its best wishes to a long-running fan site that blamed the Microsoft-owned developer for its closure.
Rare said it was "very sorry" to hear of nine-year-old fan site MundoRare's decision to shut its virtual doors.
MundoRare announced its closure earlier this week after it claimed Rare knocked back a planned video documentary on the UK studio.
According to the site, Rare denied access because it reckoned the film would not be "on message".
"It simply makes no sense," said the site.
"It has changed our perception of Rare forever and leaves us with no other option but to end our support for them. Yet it wasn't the only cause."
While MundoRare remains puzzled by Rare's decision, it's easy to understand why Rare predicted the proposed documentary would not be "on message".
The fan site said its disappointment in Rare's Kinect game Kinect Sports, and indeed in most Rare games released after Microsoft's 2002 purchase of the studio, played a part in its decision to close.
"It is really hard to think that a blatant copy of a four-year-old Wii game is the best idea Rare could come up with when facing a device with so much potential as Kinect," said the site.
"Sadly, we see Kinect Sports not only as an uninspired response to Nintendo's success, but also as a major turnabout that collides with the interests of our website.
"As a game targeted to casual players, its audience doesn't include our readers or us. Naturally, if that's the path Rare wants to follow from now on, we can't go along with them."
Predictably, Rare refused to take issue with MundoRare's stinging criticism.
"Everyone at Rare was very sorry to hear that MundoRare would be closing," read a statement issued to Eurogamer.
"We've appreciated all their support and work over the years. We wish everyone involved with the site all the very best for the future."
Make your own mind up with the Kinect Sports E3 2010 trailer, below. Kinect's out in the UK this November.
The internal Bethesda Softworks development team has no plans to develop for Nintendo systems because it feels its games are graphically and thematically better suited to other formats.
That's according to executive producer Todd Howard, who told IndustryGamers, "The stuff we're doing is a better fit on the other platforms. You can never say never, but I think for the kind of games that we like to play and make, it fits the other platforms."
Howard acknowledged that this was more down to a mismatch of audiences than any kind of prejudice.
"Even if there's going to be some bigger, more mature games on it, the system, for better or worse, has been moved to this demographic [of casual gaming]," he said.
"If we had an idea that we thought would really take advantage of that platform, we would do something for it. Usually, we're thinking more in terms of graphically doing things that the other systems do. That's what we get excited about."
Nor is Bethesda considering iPhone or social game development for the time being, although in each case for different reasons.
"Once the id thing came about [Bethesda owner ZeniMax acquired id Software in 2009], they were doing enough mobile stuff that I kind of felt, 'OK, they're doing some really good stuff right now; let's see how that market goes before I start putting my own time or other people's time into something that, at the end of the day, might be a distraction from the bigger game that we need to be making.'" Howard explained when asked about iPhone.
"At the end of the day, [it] might be a distraction from the bigger game that we need to be making. For now, it's definitely on the back burner."
As for social platforms like Facebook and the success of games like Farmville... "I've got to be honest, I don't get it," said Howard. "I look at it and try to understand but for now I've just decided to ignore it."
Bethesda Softworks is currently working on an unannounced project that we assume everyone hopes is a new Elder Scrolls game...
The latest PlayStation 3 firmware upgrade is reportedly causing issues for users attempting to upgrade their hard drive.
PS3 users have informed CVG that they are also having difficulty updating their system to firmware 3.41, and are also experiencing system crashes.
The few that have managed to install a new HDD are greeted with an error stating that 'no applicable data' can be found.
The latest firmware was initially thought to contain just a "You May Like" section, however we later learned that the firmware may have introduced a new patching system.
News: Katy Perry Says Parents Feared She'd Be Prostitute
Posted: Bandit @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:28 am
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Katy Perry says her parents were strict with her because they didn't want her to 'turn out like a prostitute.'
The pop star has always enjoyed rebelling against her Christian pastor parents Keith and Mary Hudson and regularly tested their rules when she was growing up.
She joked to Q magazine: 'Some people are fascinated with the idea of a great storyline: good girl, Christian parents, goes bad. My song 'I Kissed A Girl' provided the perfect storyline, so it's entertaining for people. My parents were really strict at first, because they didn't want me to turn out like a prostitute.
'There's a button that all kids have with their parents. It's like this red button that we push. And the paint has chipped off of my red button in a few places because of the constant pushing.'
Katy ' who got engaged to reformed ladies' man Russell Brand in December after a whirlwind romance ' is still upsetting her parents now by agreeing to be a part of 'The Smurfs' film.
The 25-year-old singer voices the character of Smurfette in the new animated movie ' which is based on the 80s cartoon series about the miniature blue-skinned characters ' and has revealed her mother and father disapproved of the show when she was a child.
She added: 'My parents felt that the Smurfs' reliance on sorcery and magic was sending the wrong messages to me as a child. But it seems I am destined to push my mother's red button.
'They stopped me watching 'The Smurfs' and I f***ing became one. They banned me from eating sugar and I got sugar. I cannot be f***ing well stopped, baby!'
Am I the only one who'd be prouder of my daughter being a hooker than if she made songs as awful as Katy Perry?
News: Catch KZ on 107.7FM The Bone on Friday July 30th~!
Posted: zombie matt @ Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:59 pm
I'll be a guest DJ on 107.7FM The Bone's "Hey Mom I'm on The Bone" show. I'll be on LIVE from 12pm pst to 1pm pst and I must say the playlist that I put together will blow your mind! If you can't catch it on the radio you can listen to the live stream at http://www.1077thebone.com !
News: Sony Studio Liverpool staffing up for new project, probably not Wipeout
Posted: Dr. Zoidberg @ Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:30 am
Sony Studio Liverpool staffing up for new project, probably not Wipeout
Despite having culled its workforce earlier this year, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Studio Liverpool -- which has historically produced the Wipeout franchise and is bunked up with former Evolution Studios (MotorStorm) staff -- is hiring once again. In this case, it's looking for a senior designer to pitch in on a yet-unannounced title. One that, from the want ad, sure sounds like a third- or first-person (or both) action game. Last we checked, neither Wipeout nor MotorStorm would fall under that heading.
The job posting calls for an individual who has "shipped at least one successful action game" and possesses an "encyclopaedic knowledge of games, especially 3rd / 1st person action." The studio also desires that its ideal candidate be an "enthusiastic, confident, positive personality," which pretty much rules out any of us for the position, though we probably never had a chance and couldn't care less.
There's no specific platform experience mentioned in the listing, so the target platform for whatever the title is could be PS3, PSP, PS4, PSP2 or jump right to the PS5 (although it's probably 99.99 percent for one or both of the first two). We'll let you know when we learn more.
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Jason Andrews was a bisexual Chicago DJ with a British accent, whose chiseled jaw and good looks landed him roles in countless gay porn videos. Amanda Logue was a married, bleach-blond Georgia woman who once owned a lingerie shop, dabbled in prostitution and starred in several X-rated videos herself.
Together, they stabbed and bludgeoned a 41-year-old tattoo shop owner to death with a sledgehammer -- and hatched some of their plans in typo- and expletive-laden text messages, Florida detectives said.
"I'm so glad you're really commited to this take. Keep eyes for a knife, etc for me!" Andrews typed on his BlackBerry hours before the slaying, according to a transcript of the messages included in court records.
Logue replied in a nearly incomprehensible text that she was excited -- and she wanted to have sex after they killed him.
Nearly two months after Dennis "Scooter" Abrahamsen was found dead in his Tampa-area home, Logue and Andrews were indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder charges. Logue is being held without bail at Florida's Pasco County Jail -- her attorney didn't return calls for comment -- and Andrews was arrested Thursday in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Andrews was arrested by U.S. Marshals and the Chattanooga Police Department after working for several weeks as a manager at the Chattanooga Billiard Club, an upscale pool hall and cigar lounge.
"I would say he was very surprised. He was very clean cut, broad shoulders, dressed in a suit, not in a suit and tie, but more 'Miami Vice,' more of a GQ appearance," said Paul Salayko, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
He is jailed in Tennessee until he can be extradited to Florida. Authorities did not yet know if he had a lawyer.
Police in Florida say the pair killed Abrahamsen in the early morning of May 15 and swiped $6,000 cash, his credit cards and a video camera. Abrahamsen had hired Logue -- whose porn name is "Sunny Dae" -- to work at a sex party at his house, and police said that's when Logue and Andrews set him up. They traded dozens of text messages about their homicidal plan, police said.
According to an affidavit, Logue would later deny that she had anything to do with the killing and claim Andrews was the one who bludgeoned Abrahamsen.
"Logue told (the detective) that Andrews grabbed the back of her hair then twisted her arm behind her back. Andrews forced her to view Abrahamsen's crushed skull and told her that's what would happen to her if she told anyone."
Logue and Andrews met on the set of a porn video late last year and fell in love -- even though Logue was married to a man in Leesburg, Ga., authorities and friends said. Her husband did not return phone calls from The Associated Press.
Andrews' Chicago friends find it difficult to believe he was involved in the killing. The 27-year-old Andrews was known in that city as DJ Veritas, and his Facebook and MySpace pages feature several video clips of him playing techno music in large clubs.
"He was a really straight up dude," said Michael Sarkowicz, a Chicago club photographer.
The 28-year-old Logue seemed like a decent person, said Kristen Cameron, a Florida-based model who met her last year. According to several profiles on modeling websites, Logue did bikini and fetish modeling.
"She was professional, prompt and seemed all around normal, well so I thought," Cameron wrote in an e-mail to the AP. "She was nice to me and was a great model! I felt a connection to her since we both have southern backgrounds."
But Cameron's opinion changed this spring when she saw how Logue acted around Andrews, her new boyfriend.
"Amanda wasn't the Amanda I knew," Cameron wrote. "She wouldn't talk, all she did was text with Jason."
Andrews, Cameron said, was obnoxious and brash. He often bragged about his military service, of which Cameron was skeptical.
In April and May, according to their Twitter accounts, Logue and Andrews spent several weeks in Florida, shooting porn videos, lolling on the beach and professing their love for each other. Photos on Logue's Facebook show the pair grinning and hugging.
On May 14, Andrews posted a link to a pornographic photo of Logue and wrote on his Twitter account: "therealsunnydae and I are killing time waiting for a party to find us!"
The next day, detectives said, Abrahamsen hired Logue to have sex on camera during a party at his house. During the party, Logue texted her boyfriend several times, witnesses told investigators.
Text messages retrieved from Andrews' BlackBerry show the couple discussed vinyl gloves, when other guests would leave Abrahamsen's home and what was inside a safe.
News: “Expendables” Trailer Fell Victim to the MPAA Shutdown
Posted: Hawq @ Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:43 am
The trailer of forthcoming “Expendables” movie, recently produced by the fans, that was exhorting “true” men to go and watch the film “in a f*cking theater” but not “off your torrents”, finally was shutdown due to a DMCA request initiated by the Motion Pictures Association of America.
According to the recent news, the fans of the star-studded action movie “The Expendables” (the cast including Mickey Rourke, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li and Bruce Willis) had created a movie trailer issuing a call to arms for “real” men to regain the theaters back from the films for teenage girls, like “Sex in the City,” “Twilight,” with, for some reason, special attention given to Julia Robert’s new “Eat, Pray, Love” movie.
The trailer told those men staying at home and doing their job that by refusing to go to the theaters and switching to downloading movies off the torrents they are literally handing the keys from Hollywood to the teenage girls.
However, it was actually expected that the creators of the video won’t get away with this direct declaration of war to the girls. It was really a bold step, but not a very wise one, as the teenage girls could appear smart enough to respond with a blow. It’s not clear whether the initiator of the shutdown was a man or a woman, but she or he definitely favors Julia Roberts and the fair sex to win the battle the guys have started.
It was announced just several days after the trailer’s appearance that it has fallen a victim to a DMCA shutdown request initiated by the Motion Pictures Association of America. The spokesperson for the MPAA says that it doesn’t normally get involved in this kind of things, but this case is outstanding. The matter is in a shot in the beginning of a video, making it look like an ordinary trailer – you all remember the customer green screen appearing at the start, containing the phrase “the following preview has been approved by the MPAA.” Thus the trailer was suggested to be submitted for approval by the MPAA’s advertising review board, and the video creators didn’t take care of that.
The fact that the video advocated men to go see the movie legally, calling them not to infringe the copyright, didn’t help. Seems like profanity-laced videos are not welcomed in Hollywood, but chic-flics are.
news from the news bit of ET so no link
News: Blizzard Confirms StarCraft II Overheating Bug
Posted: Hawq @ Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:26 am
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Anyone else have StarCraft II try to melt their hardware? Blizzard admits that it's a known issue and has a fix for you.
Apparently, the game's menu screens aren't framerate-limited. This means that when there's nothing else going on, your graphics hardware renders the bejeezus out of those screens, causing nasty overheating problems. The fix is easy, requiring players to add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt" "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file (nice catch, commenter LegolElf):
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
Good to know. Personally I would have appreciated a heads-up before my video card fried, but maybe this can save someone else from the hassle I've been dealing with since yesterday afternoon.
On a related note, Blizzard explains StarCraft II's system requirements in detail here. If you're curious, you'll get a much better answer there than you would from me directly. So stop asking and read the official post already!
unsurprisingly its getting nuked from most vid hosting places pretty fast, kinda dumb as its a trailer & leaving it would generate interest in the film, so
grab it here
News: Left 4 Dead 2 New Changes Designed To Make It Less Rage Quit-y
Posted: Dr. Zoidberg @ Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:05 am
Left 4 Dead 2 New Changes Designed To Make It Less Rage Quit-y
Valve is making some noteworthy changes to the way Left 4 Dead 2 plays, the way it scores and the way it can sometimes infuriate players. When Valve polled zombie apocalypse enthusiasts on their rage quitting reasons, this was why.
The official Left 4 Dead site outlines some, but not all, of those impending changes to the Charger, the Tank and how friendly fire between Survivors is handled. In short, the Charger will be better rewarded for utilizing his special skills to take down humans, some friendly fire will be ignore, and you'll be switched to an already flaming Tank a lot less.
Here are some of the specifics.
The Charger
* Charger now receives 300 points for any Survivor that is insta-killed.
* Charger now receives 100 points for any Survivor that is insta-incapped by a charge.
* Any infected that causes a Survivor to stumble into a "ledge hang" situation will receive 50 points.
Friendly Fire
* Bullets that first pass through an infected character before striking a Survivor are now ignored as friendly fire.
The Tank
* Tanks go into a stasis when they spawn and leave stasis when the human player takes over.
* Tanks do not attack when they are in stasis.
* Tanks in stasis are invisible but still show a glow to the infected team.
* Tanks in stasis cannot be set on fire.
Ozzy Osbourne has claimed that he never understood why Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson fell out with him.
The Black Sabbath singer told The Quietus that his wife Sharon only arranged for eggs to be thrown at Iron Maiden during 2005's Ozzfest after Dickinson badmouthed his group on stage.
Ozzy said: "Unbeknown to me, every night he was going on stage slagging me off. And that wasn't fair. If he didn't like the f**kin' tour, he should have said 'I'm jumping the f**kin' tour', but to go on stage and f**kin' slag me off for no reason... I'd never said a f**kin' bad thing to him.
"Sharon got p*ssed off... it was nothing to do with me. I suppose Sharon got p*ssed off. I'll back my wife up to the hilt, but I didn't know what was going down. "
He added: "I don't like all that s**t going down. If you don't like me, just say, 'I don't like you, I'm doing this festival but I think you're a c**t'. That's all right. But to go on my stage and start slagging me off - that ain't fair. They weren't f**king slagging me off when they got paid every f**king night."
"To this day I don't understand what the f**kin' beef was. I just don't get it. To go on the Ozzfest and slag off, that's crazy. I really think he needs a f**kin' psychiatrist if he does that, he's f**king nuts. It's an irresponsible f**kin' thing to do. Sharon must have got pissed off with this c**t, you know."
News: Nintendo Financials Show Big Losses, 2011 Zelda and Games Sales Figures
Posted: Dr. Zoidberg @ Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:38 am
Nintendo Financials Show Big Losses, 2011 Zelda and Games Sales Figures
Nintendo today released its financial results for the period April-June 2010, and amidst all the boring stuff are some points of genuine interest.
Money Comes, Money Goes
First up, Nintendo continues to see a massive decline in both net sales and operating income, the former down 25% from the same point last year, the latter down 45%. Most importantly, the company actually posted a loss for the quarter of around USD$290 million, a big slide from the same time last year when the company made a USD$480 million profit.
You may think this is down to a decline in Wii sales, but it's not; instead, Wii sales actually increased over the same period in 2009, but dips in DS sales, as well as software for both the DS and Wii (not to mention foreign currency fluctuations) accounted for the decline.
Sales Figures
The big sellers for the quarter were (all figures are worldwide:
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 4 million
Wii Sports Resort - 3 million
Wii Sports - 2.7 million
Wii Fit Plus - 1.8 million
Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver - 1.7 million
New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 1.1 million
Release Dates
You can never take anything to the bank from the release schedules in Nintendo's financial results, because they're never intended to be truly authoritative, but there are still some interesting points of note.
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which we already figured was coming in 2011 in the West, is listed as "TBA" in Japan (and "2011" for both North America & Europe). Could Nintendo be trying for a Christmas launch for the game in its home territory?
- The Last Story, an RPG from Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, is listed as "2010" for Japan but is not listed for a Western release, suggesting any such version would be a 2011 title.
- Monado: Beginning of the World (ie, Xenoblade): Are you ever coming out over here? Because you're still listed as "TBA".
It wasn't Perfect Dark, Trials HD or Castle Crashers...
This year's biggest sellers on Xbox Live Arcade have been estimated, in a report by Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment.
According to FADE, the leading game nudging its way in front on revenue gained is... Toy Soldiers. Yes, you read that correctly.
The first title in Microsoft's Block Party has nudged ahead of Perfect Dark, Castle Crashers, Trials HD, Marvel vs Capcom 2 et al to become the biggest Xbox Live Arcade game thus far in 2010, according to the report.
However, we're in the middle of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion, with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light likely to pose a serious threat to Toy Soldiers' status as the biggest seller.
Here are the numbers...
# Toy Soldiers (Signal Studios) - $4.6 million (1200 Microsoft Points)
# Trials HD (RedLynx) - $4.4 million (800 - 1200 Microsoft Points)
# Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) - $2.9 million (800 - 1200 Microsoft Points)
# Battlefield 1943 (EA DICE) - $2.5 million (800 - 1200 Microsoft Points)
# Perfect Dark (4J Studios) - $2.4 million (800 Microsoft Points)
# Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Capcom) - $1.8 million (800 - 1200 Microsoft Points)
# Family Game Night (EA Bright Light) - $1.7 million (400 - 800 Microsoft Points)
# Shadow Complex (Chair Entertainment) - $1.2 million (800 - 1200 Microsoft Points)
# Magic: The Gathering (Stainless Games) - $900,000 (800 Microsoft Points)
# Call of Duty Classic (Infinity Ward) - $800,000 (1200 Microsoft Points)
Activision has named another batch of songs that will appear in this autumn's Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
Headline act (of the press release) is Alice Cooper, who re-recorded "No More Mr. Nice Guy" for the game. "I am a warrior of rock!" he belted. "Younger fans getting exposed to true classic rock songs is one of my personal crusades.
"The new audience listening to the classic songs of today, like 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', will hopefully be inspired to write the classic songs of tomorrow."
The Runaways re-recorded "Cherry Bomb" for Warriors of Rock, too.
The rest of the songs are a mixed bunch. Steve Vai's "Speeding" and the The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" are in, as are The Ramones' "Theme from Spider-Man" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Call Me The Breeze (Live)".
All confirmed Warriors of Rock songs are below. There will be more than 90 on the disc. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is in devleopment for PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.
New:
* Alice Cooper - "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
* Alter Bridge - "Ties That Bind"
* Atreyu - "Ravenous"
* Bad Brains - "Re-Ignition (Live)"
* Blue Öyster Cult - "Burning For You"
* Bush - "Machinehead"
* Deep Purple - "Burn"
* Edgar Winter - "Free Ride"
* Five Finger Death Punch - "Hard To See"
* George Thorogood and The Destroyers - "Move It On Over (Live)"
* Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Call Me The Breeze (Live)"
* Pantera - "I'm Broken"
* Poison - "Unskinny Bop"
* The Ramones - "Theme From Spiderman"
* Rise Against - "Savior"
* The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb"
* Steve Vai - "Speeding"
* Strung Out - "Calling"
* Styx - "Renegade"
* Sum 41 - "Motivation"
* Them Crooked Vultures - "Scumbag Blues"
* The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
Chord blimey.
Already known:
* AFI - "Dancing Through Sunday"
* Avenged Sevenfold - "Bat Country"
* Black Sabbath - "Children Of The Grave"
* Buzzcocks - "What Do I Get?"
* Children Of Bodom - "If You Want Peace... Prepare For War"
* The Cure - "Fascination Street"
* Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)"
* Dethklok - "Bloodlines"
* DragonForce - "Fury of the Storm"
* Drowning Pool - "Bodies"
* Foo Fighters - "No Way Back"
* Foreigner - "Feels Like The First Time"
* Jane's Addiction - "Been Caught Stealing"
* KISS - "Love Gun"
* Megadeth - "Sudden Death"
* Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne - "Paranoid (Live)"
* Muse - "Uprising"
* My Chemical Romance - "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"
* Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
* Rammstein - "Waidmanns Heil"
* The Rolling Stones - "Stray Cat Blues"
* Silversun Pickups - "There's No Secrets This Year"
* Slayer - "Chemical Warfare"
* ZZ Top - "Sharp Dressed Man (Live)" source
News: Batman Beyond: The Complete Series (US - DVD R1)
Posted: Hawq @ Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:36 am
Warner Home Video has announced a 9-disc Batman Beyond: The Complete Series for November 23rd. Retail will be around $99.98. The Limited Edition set includes all 52 episodes, as well as creator commentaries, season retrospectives, a bonus 9th disc with 95 minutes of new special features (including a Secret Origin The Story of DC Comics Documentary and 3 new featurettes), and a booklet featuring art from the DC archives. We've attached a trade advertisement with some early art below: source
News: It's A Trap As Family Guy Sends Out Their Third Star Wars Parody This December
Posted: Hawq @ Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:40 am
Family Guy fans who were wondering how long it would be before Seth MacFarlane and company got around to skewering Return of the Jedi, you'll only have to wait until this December. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced that Family Guy: It's a Trap! will be hitting Blu-ray and DVD December 21st, just in time for Christmas shopping.
Fans at Comic Con got an early look at 10 minutes of footage from the spoof this past weekend, but the rest of us will have to wait for the holidays to get our peepers on it. If you've seen the previous two outings -- Family Guy: Blue Harvest and Family Guy: Something Something Something Dark Side -- you've probably got a pretty good idea of what to expect. Fan service, wry observations, and likely a musical number or two. According to the press release, we can also look forward to voice cameos from Adam West and Carrie Fisher alongside Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn, reprising their roles from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Oh, and Rush Limbaugh is doing the voice of the Rancor. Sounds about right.
No word yet on special features, but the last two had plenty to offer so I doubt this one will break with tradition. The press release also notes that you'll be able to pick up a triple-pack of all three Family Guy/Star Wars spoofs if you want the whole trilogy in one fell swoop. Also, SSSDS eventually aired as this past season's Family Guy finale, so there's probably a good chance It's a Trap! will follow suit if you can wait that long. source
PC, PSN and XBLA game Faery: Legends of Avalon has revealed itself.
Published by Focus Home Interactive and made by Spiders, this "unique and original" setting casts you as an elf or fairy that will change entirely (both in appearance and in ability) as quests are completed and monsters killed. There's even a World Tree and a Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship.
Your quest, for which you'll recruit various companions, will be to work out why Avalon - the world - is dying.
Faery has an illustrative style akin to Borderlands, which you'll see below.
Release date is TBC.
Incidentally, while some of the screenshots below are new, the game itself has been known about for around a month. This was news to us, however, and so we hope news to you.
PopCap has decided to bin the Michael Jackson-inspired enemy in Plants vs. Zombies after the late singer's estate got in touch about it.
"The Estate of Michael Jackson objected to our use of the 'dancing zombie' in Plants vs. Zombies based on its view that the zombie too closely resembled Michael Jackson," PopCap told MTV.
"After receiving this objection, PopCap made a business decision to retire the original 'dancing zombie' and replace it with a different 'dancing zombie' character for future builds of Plants vs. Zombies on all platforms. The phase-out and replacement process is underway."
Plants vs. Zombies is a lovely little tower defence and real-time strategy hybrid that sees players rebuffing the advances of the undead - including the aforementioned dancing zombie Jacko - using a range of friendly killer plant life.
We loved it to death on the PC, for which it was released just under two months prior to Jackson's demise, and of course on the iPhone. An Xbox Live Arcade version is in production.
its fucked basically.
anyway. if i do a reinstall of xp pro, i want an iron fist with what goes on it. so they don't wreck it within a week.
i know most businesses lock out any application, with an admin over ride password..
is this just in the security, and user settings of xp, or will i have to get more creative with how i block shit.
i've never needed to do any sort of locking so i know crap all. i've only ever done installs where the owner and only account is admin. but i'm sick of the monthly reinstall due to my idiot brother putting shit on there.
and i can't leave it, cause my dad needs the computer. and when i give them each a password they write them on the fucking side of the tower, and everyone uses all the others. thus all fucked again.
what settings are available?
a handy simple guide would be best
thanks
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