US vs Japan gaming

Gametrailers.com in their Bonus Round segment look at differences of two largest gaming markets in the world at the moment - US and Japan. It is very interesting to see how Japan tends to reject western games for their lack of good and compelling story and FPS games in general. Yet western world takes so much from the Japanese gaming market and so many top tier games today are Japanese. Follow the link here to take a look and let me know what you think, but I believe that many games today really should do better on the storyline...

The Crossing

The Crossing is a game that expects to merge multiplayer skirmishes with single player missions...
What I have understood the idea is called CrossPlay and it features single player which is connected to many multplayer skirmish games. so when user ventures in one of those maps he is no longer playing against AI but real players...
I must say that this sound very interesting and I really hope they can deliver. Although I hope that multiplayer as such will also be very engaging, this will make the game to be a fresh new thing... This should eliminate 'there is a enemy around the corner' and many other stupid AI things...

more here and here

Pointing the flash..

one of the best sim games ever - Operation Flashpoint is expecting a sequel some time in 2008.
Here is a small preview of the game.

must say that it looks amazing and even better is that it is set in today, rather in past of future. Also looking forward to trying out the driving part as it will feature engine developed for DiRT racing game...

Extreme Graphics

Nvidia is planing to introduce 3-way SLI configuration later this year. This configuration will only be available on high end cards, which brings me to wonder about why? I could see this beeing needed for designers or something but there are no games out there that are not maxed out already by Ultra in SLI... so why there is a need for a third one?
So here comes one of the possible reasons.. Ultra hi-res gaming and multiple monitor arrays. Not many people have these perks.. but for those select few these seems to be good news... as long as they do not get the same fate as quad SLI which is not supported in Vista!!
One would also would want to say that this high spec setup will also last longer but i realy doubt that. for a simple reason that tech is advancing too fast and also for a fact that in 5 years when dx 11 or even 12 comes... this will be out of date specs and will not support the games....

Intel's rebranding scheme

Some time ago Intel announced that starting next year they will rebrand all their processors. This is due to many different names that apparently can be confusing to the customer. They intended just to settle for Core / Core 2... and so on.
Now aparently do to many complaints particulary form OEM's they have abandoned that idea. In my opinion that is a good idea, otherwise how will I know if it dual or quad core? Even though Core branding will remain the same they have redisigned the Centrino stickers to have unified design and Viiv brand to be under Core branding with little Viiv under the Core logo...
Good for them IMO!! :P

Source

News...

Must say that news are not the best show on the TV... Of course they supply us with the information but it would be much more engaging if all people on TV looked like this:

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Unplugged street...

If you ever wonder why there are no street lights on... late at night that is....
This might be the reason: