Plasma TV not-so-good for Gaming?

Since getting and setting up the new TV I have been pretty happy with what it can do (well sort-of...).

The TV being a plasma is very susceptible to burn in and constantly shows after images from using it for anything BUT full screen video.

Games that have a HUD (Mass Effect ^_^) or allot of static content on-screen (Wii Fit), tend to do this and I am slightly regretting the choice of plasma over LCD, but I am kinda glad, because it doesn't look like you can buy a (non-SONY) LCD TV bigger than 50" without 3D!?!!

Oh well, at least we ($GF and I) will be able to watch all those TV shows that we have been hording :-P

MOAR LANZ!

Seems to be LAN season at the moments as I will have attended at least 3 LAN's within 3 week(ends) in a row.

At the 1st one we fired up AVP2 (which lasted most of the night :D ).

The last LAN is a student oriented LAN at which I will be adminning game servers (that I installed, patched and configured using Linux dedicated server software) etc.

On another note. It looks like the UT3 Linux release (rumoured to be released soon) won't make it in time for the last LAN unfortunately :(

Now, this begs the question: Before the last LAN, what should I spend money on:

• 2 x Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 7,200 RPM HDD (for the XPSM1730)
  or
  
• 2 x 1Tb Western Digital HDD's for the server...?

I really should buy myself a Gigabit switch, but HDD space is more important. Apparently :)

No more games for Linux?

As I am now a dedicated Linux user, I am finding it interesting (and annoying) to see a decline in Linux games. For example NWN2 and UT3, both of which were released last year have both previously had Linux versions made, but no more.

Is this because it's easier/cheaper to develop for directx/windows?

If this trend continues, I will never purchase a windows game again and I will continue my gaming shift from PC to console.

Dusting off the PSP

In a feet of awesomeness (and some help from a fiend), I was able to get 3.52 M33-4 (CFW) on my (Japanese) PSP Last night :)

I'm not sure if this is even worth it because I can't find any decent (working) media players for ogg/flac/vgm/ffmpeg and I want to be able to play my games as iso's but so far, no success.

I am also going to pandora (battery) it, but I would like to wait until I have at least 1 spare battery.

At least I have emulation :)


UPDATE: 26/03/2008 @1307
I found out why some homebrew apps and iso's won't load, I apparently have fake memory sticks that don't properly implement magicgate :(

I'm shelling out $150 for a genuine 8Gb SanDisk (I won't buy anything Sony anymore), I should be able to run just about everything :)

In what appears to be an attempt to (possibly) minimise FUD, this GameTab article points out that Vivendi (aka Blizzard) are purchasing a significant amount of ActiVision and will be merging with them creating the company name Blizzard Activision (for corporate brnding only).

I for one, welcome the new Blizzard Activision overlords... Well no. I don't :P

I foresee another EA simile, that is going to drive developers away from quality game development and instead towards a kind-of "sweat shop" like setup.

But I could be wrong. I can only hope that they don't become an "EA-like" managed company, although it would be nice to a Diablo-based MMORPG in the near future :)

Wrath of the Lich King Revealed

I really shouldn't but I'm stealing bandwith (78Mb total) to download the trailer for this from 3dgamers :P

The whole destructible buildings concept seems unneeded but hey lets try make another red faction-like game of which these features will probably only be available in instances...

Seems pretty uninteresting but (apart from what I wrote above) I will try to withhold judgement until it comes out as I will inevitably buy^H^H^H pre-order it.

Not only but also, seems like the official wow community site has suffered a slashdot-like effect soon after the anouncement :P

I keep getting "404 Not Found" error every time I try to download it from there:

Not Found

The requested URL /wrath/movies/wrath-trailer/Wrath_Of_The_Lich_King_US.avi-downloader.exe was not found on this server.

lol

ZOMG SoulCailbur4!!!111!!1

This is probably old news already but I like to post stuff that I find anyways :P
As noted on gametab, Soul Calibur 4 is comming!

I'm a bit sceptical about the Wii spin-off: "Soul Calibur: Legends" but, as a fan of the series I will probably end up buying it anyway :P

If it comes out on the XBOX360, then that will be my ultimate buying decicion for buying the aforementioned console!

I just hope that it's not a Playstation 3 exclusive like Soul Calibur 3 was...

EzyDVD starts EzyGames

Through the regular spam^H^H^H^H email that they send me each month, I just discovered today that the DVD franchise known as EzyDVD now has en eStore for video games as well!

Unlike Games Warehouse, EzyGames - like EzyDVD - will ship within Australia for free!!!

Now I am wondering if I should write to Games Warehouse and see if they will compete by offering the same shipping...

ZOMG!!1!1 Pokemon is here!

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl is here!!!

Like a good book, I'm finding it really hard to put it down :P
Anyways, not time to blog right now, gotta go catch 'em all...

R.I.P. Lik-Sang

This is old news but I'm posting it because it should be known EVERYWHERE!.

Multiple games sites have reported that Lik-Sang have ceased business and are closing down after receiving lawsuits from Sony EU (SCEE) possibly due to lack of potential future Sony sales.

This is a classic example of Sony's poor customer attitude.
I however have decided to boycott purchasing ANY Sony product from now on.

More details here, here and here

P.I.P Lik-Sang. You will be missed by many gamers.