The new Pro pack will have all the same ammenities as the previous Pro Pack, just more room under the hood, although next month the new Jasper edition Xbox 360s will start to hit the floor with a suspected price drop.  When the Jasper version comes out it will replace the current Falcon models. The new Jasper model is supposed to be much quieter than the Falcon model as well as have less of a chance to overheat which causes the famous red ring of death. There has been rumours that whent he Jasper version comes out there will be price drops of $279.99 to $200.00 for the arcade version and $350.00 to $300.00 for the new Pro pack.  If Microsoft does decide to drop the price of the arcade version to $200.00 then they will have the title for the cheapest next-gen console out doing the Wii’s current price of $249.99. So if you are planning on buying either a PS3 or an Xbox 360, wait until next month as both will be getting upgraded and possibly have their prices slashed.

This game does have a wide range of 36 events but most of them have some serious faults. One of the worst issues is levelling up your team of athletes in the qualifying rounds. You start of with a group of unfit, slow and weak people and have to win events so that you can train them up. You do this by adding points into things such as stamina, speed and power. If you fail to achieve the goal of the day you are said to have failed and have to start the entire day over again. Also due to your embarrassingly unfit athletes you will often find your opponents way out ahead.

Cycling claims the title of worst event ever. This race involves rotating both analog controls for over four minutes non-stop. Serious if you definition of ‘fun’ you really need to get out more.

Do you know what “yuko” and ‘ippon’ mean? Well in the Judo tutorial you are not told the rules and have to figure out what terms like this mean by your self.

Beijing 2008 does have one good feature and that’s that the graphics are pretty good. The athletes are well animated and detailed. The post event replays all show of with some eye candy but even these after a while these repetitive animations just added to how annoying this game is.

Playing with friends can help to add some fun to this game but it’s more about laughing at each other. It’s one of those things that just so bad it’s funny.

All in all, Beijing 2008 is pretty poor. There are so many better games on the market at the moment. Why waste your money on something this horrendous?

The game play in Unreal tournament III is incredible. The majority of the game is played on foot. Where you run about with a wide range of weapons to unleash on your enemy. Every single gun and weapon in the game has dual-fire mode. This offers Increased variety and versatility for you to blast your opponents with. For example, the Flak Cannon lets you fire a shotgun-style mode allowing you to hit targets over a wide range. Its second mode of fire is fireball burst, perfect for less vulnerable foes.

This game also has vehicles, which adds a whole new dimension to the game play. These are found on certain maps and include aerial vehicles, tanks, buggies and even hover boards! The only problem is it takes a bit of getting used to, as this switches you from first to third-person view.

The game also offers a wide range of game modes. Including the popular Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and the fast paced Vehicle Capture the Flag. There are also two brand new game modes in Unreal Tournament III, Warpath and Duel.

Warpath is more strategic; this is where you have to power up nodes to access the opponent’s core. Duel is a simple one-on-one where players can battle it out and prove their skills. These two new modes really help to add greater varitiy to the game. This is deffiently not a game you put down after a few hours due to feeling you have already experienced everything the game has to offer.

If you are a fan on the previous two Unreal Tournaments or just a fan of first-person shooter in general then do not miss out on this game. It will make an excellent addition to any gamer’s library. The fast paced multiplayer action is a total non-stop frenzy that every gamer will enjoy. The added two-player split screen mode also makes this game well worth getting. It’s great for inviting a few friends round and blasting hell out of each other. This game is one of the best games so far this year. Do not miss out!

Right from the opening cutscence, SCIV has an impressive start. This gives you a chance to watch some of the game characters including Yoda who is exclusive to the 360 version. For all the Star Wars fans out there Darth Vader has also been confirmed and will be available via DLC in the near future. You are then presented with a great looking menu screen where you will notice you start with 20,000 gold. This can be used to unlock charaters, which are 4,000 each. They have made Yoda playable straight from the start with no purchase needed. I think it was a nice touch as other games often make the good characters hard to unlock. You then have the choice of several different play modes including Arcade, Story Mode, Tower of Lost Souls, Training and Museum.

They have also balanced the abilities of Yoda and the new boss The Apprentice with the use of a Force Meter. This allows them to use special moves when they have some force available in their bar. If they perform Force abilities with an empty bar they will then take damage. Yoda’s Force moves allow him to create additional height, which allow for some fast lightsaber attacks. The Apprentice can use his powers to slam people around in various directions as well as a Force Pull, which brings opponents closer to him to then slash with his lightsaber. The use of a meter was defiantly a wise move because without it the game would be seriously unbalanced.

With each and every instalment Soulcalibur has continued to improve leaps and bounds. Each time the developers have kept increasing just how good this game really is. Things like faster load times and quicker ‘retry’ options have given people smooth and fast game play. This has helped the game become much better in my opinion as nothing ruins a game more than spending half your time looking at a loading screen.

If you are looking for a fast paced action packed fighting game then check this game out. It sure will impress you in so many ways. This game is hard to put down and offers hours of fun. I hope you have found this Soulcalibur IV review helpful and I hope you go out and try this fantastic game.

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If you look at Samsung f700 deals you will see that there are many unusual mobile phone offers for this gadget. do you think it will sell millions? it remains to be seen, but we think that it can.

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In what was considered a very optimistic look, analysts at Pacific Crest Securities stated that Sony should have 1 million PS3’s ready to ship at the expected November launch of the system. However, this number is chump change compared to the estimates provided by Pioneer, who happens to be a leading producer of the Blu-Ray disc format which the PS3 will come equipped with.

“The PS3 is launching right at the forefront of Blu-ray disc,” Parsons, executive VP of Pioneer, said. “If Sony ships the kind of numbers we expect them to this year, that will provide a very rapid growth of players out there hungry for titles. We’ve been hearing between 4 and 7 million [PS3s] could ship.”

4 and 7 million PS3’s is indeed a lofty number and such a shipment would lead to incredibly high launch sales and few shortages. Is Sony indeed going to be able to match those numbers? Guess we’ll all have to wait and see.

Capcom, the company behind the Resident Evil series, is one such company. Although tentative to say whether the popular Resident Evil games would make an appearance, it was stated that a new franchise would probably appear on the Revolution. Capcom producer Minoru Nakai was quoted as saying, “”It’s certain that the Nintendo Revolution controller is its key element, but the real question is whether the innovation within the Resident Evil series requires the usage of all of this unique controller’s functions?” he asked. “We recently redefined the series with Resident Evil 4, in which the camera is repositioned behind the hero and elevated the action and intensity of the gameplay. Even if the gameplay of Resident Evil 4 remains up to my taste, we’d clearly love to exploit the potential of the Nintendo Revolution controller to prevent players tiring of this style of gameplay.”

Capcom is just one of a few companies to begin announcing their support of the Revolution, and this news is sure to be very welcome to the ears of Nintendo fans who have long worried that the only games that would be appearing on the new Revolution system would be first party titles from Nintendo alone.

The videos display how simply pointing the controller at the screen and moving it results in a seemingly very responsive corresponding action from the game. For instance, a clip of Mario was shown from “Mario Sunshine� where simply flicking the controller upwards would get Mario to jump. Further flicks up resulted in a double and the final flip from Mario’s jumping combo. Mario could also be seen effortlessly jumping from side to side up and between the walls by using similar methods. The two buttons were merely used for action and interaction purposes.

Although the new controller hasn’t completely quelled the near uprising of Nintendo fans, these new videos have indeed brought about a new feeling of interest that is rippling throughout the gaming community. Hopefully, this will be just the first of many promising aspects of the upcoming Nintendo Revolution.

Ubisoft revealed that each system will carry its own multiplayer aspects and has been confirmed that there will be online play, however details are very sketchy at this point and no specifics were spoken of in the press release. The most interesting aspect of the game is that instead of just one studio working on the game, Ubisoft Montreal has been responsible for two of the three games so far, three different Ubisoft studios are collaborating on this title. Montreal, Shanghai, and Annecy, France are all working to make this newest Splinter Cell the best one in the series so far.

The gameplay plot details include that Sam Fisher will be infiltrating a high security prison and will have to work as a double agent within. He will have to answer to both the NSA as well as terrorist organizations and he will have to run a fine line between trying to not do too much evil while on the same hand trying to discover crucial information without giving away his true identity and therefore risking his own neck.

Stay tuned for more Splinter Cell: Double Agent details in the near future including whether or not this game will indeed be making a Playstation 3 debut as has been rumored.

While EA has gone to great lengths to insure that The Sims 2 is safe for teenagers to play, including “blurring outâ€? the nudity on naked Sims and by choosing to not show alcohol and similar items in its recent University expansion, Jack Thompson insists that EA is “cooperating, gleefully, with the mod community to turn Sims 2 into a porn offering.” This attack is the result of mods which can be readily downloaded from various websites which will remove the blurring on nude Sims.

EA’s has countered this recent controversy by saying, “This is nonsense. We’ve reviewed 100 percent of the content. There is no content inappropriate for a teen audience. Players never see a nude sim. If someone with an extreme amount of expertise and time were to remove the pixels, they would see that the sims have no genitals. They appear like Ken and Barbie.” Indeed, once the blurring has been removed, all that can be found underneath are mannequin like models which contain no unwanted body parts whatsoever.

This, however, is not enough for Jack Thompson who plans on moving further with his case against The Sims 2. In reference to the blurring, he has stated, “”Electronic Arts has done nothing about (the blurring removing modification).” Stay tuned for more developments on Jack Thompson’s cases against gamers everywhere.

In support of these games, the Japanese actually lined up to watch trailers of them at a recent event. Given the Japanese’s minimal support for Microsoft, this was a major victory for the big MS. The two games displayed were Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, with both games showing a lot of Squaresoft flavor in them.

Although neither game had too much on display in terms of actual gameplay, both apparently left the crowd very excited over the future prospect of the games. The Squaresoft feel and the simple fact that they are actually Japanese influenced RPG’s on the Xbox 360 appear to show that Microsoft is heading in the right direction for many gamers.

Despite this, Microsoft assures that they are working on the shortage problem and will continue to provide stores with whatever they can. Gamers, meanwhile, can basically count on not being able to actually be able to find and buy an Xbox 360 from any store for at least a few months (some speculation points to March or April of next year).

All that can be recommended is for gamers everywhere to remain strong and have patience as they wait for their long awaited systems to arrive in any sort of meaningful quantity.

Vice president of Universal (the company who is overseeing the release of the Doom film as well), Jeff Kirschenbaum, will be overseeing the God of War film release. Brought on to produce the film are Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Mosiac Media. Roven has a now proven track record after producing the amazing Batman Begins film. No other cast or director announcements have been made.

One thing that can be said about God of War is that it’s premise is perfect for a feature film movie, but then again the premise of video games in general always seems to be fitting for the silver screen. Yet, for some strange reason, the transition can almost never go through without some kind of hitch. Whether it be some change of the storyline that completely throws off the original fan base or terrible casting or directing that makes it unbearable to watch, video game based movies are almost destined to fail in the box office.

Will God of War be a rare piece? Will it be one of the few games that can make the difficult transition into a feature film? That all remains to be seen, and needless to say now is the time to cross those fingers.

“Video games are hot holiday items, and there are certainly wonderful games that help our children learn and increase hand and eye coordination,” Clinton said in a statement. “However, there are also games that are just not appropriate for our nation’s youth. This bill will help empower parents by making sure their kids can’t walk into a store and buy a video game that has graphic, violent and pornographic content.”

This bill is currently being put in front of Congress to be passed. If it becomes law, it would be the first of expected many attacks on the video game industry by the federal government. Woe to gamers who may be seeing the last of the modern gaming euphoria if the federal government moves forward to begin placing restrictions on the gaming industry.

Current modifications that have already been found and have begun to be carried out include LED modifications. Similar to those for the Xbox, modders have begun to take apart systems and controllers and input LED’s, or little colored lights, into them that light up when the Xbox is on. Although designed purely for show, such modifications can be very appealing.

Skinning has also gone completely crazy. The Xbox was by far the most skinned system ever, and already the Xbox 360 has quite a skinning following behind it. Gamers everywhere are making and ordering their very own custom skins from various online sources and putting them onto their Xbox 360’s. These skins vary from custom designs to action shots from games such as Halo. The biggest appeal of skinning is in the fact it allows gamers to set their own systems apart and make them unique amongst the pack of systems. Also, custom skinning is cheap, easy to find, and generally very easy to install.

Thanks to the fact that the Xbox 360 can hook up with things such as mp3 players and digital cameras, there are already a ton of modifications in the works for these areas. Things such as being able to listen to podcasts on the Xbox 360 have already been done and other media modifications (such as being able to watch or listen to various types of media and being able to install a media player different than Windows Media) are already in development and should hit the Xbox 360 very soon.

Although the Xbox 360 runs off of a Windows core, similar to the original Xbox, the process of attempting to crack the system and use another application, such as the highly modifiable Linux, has already begun. Simply put, the potential modding ability under a different application like Linux is almost endless, and hackers/modders absolutely drool over the possibilities.

No mod chips are currently available for the Xbox 360, however, fear not because they are under development and will most likely be available online very soon. Despite efforts by console manufacturers, no one can stop the mod chip business. The Xbox was able to be modified so that it could have a larger hard drive, play illegal copies of games, and store games on the enhanced hard drive thanks to mod chips. Expect similar capabilities of Xbox 360 mod chips when they eventually arrive.

Essentially, it all boils down to being able to improve the hardware in the Xbox 360. And, since the system is essentially built like a computer, improving the hardware should be a snap once the process is figured out. The future seems very bright indeed for Xbox 360 modding and hacking.

Here are the things every gamer interested in buying a next-gen console should know:

1. Blu-Ray technology being used for the game drive. Indeed, while the fact that this drive has not yet been released is definitely a drawback, especially in combination with the “Cell� not hitting production yet, the possibilities of this drive make it very appealing. In contrast, the Xbox 360’s drive can currently only play standard DVD’s at only decent speeds, but the Blu-Ray technology can hold disks that hold as much as 5 times as much data as DVD’s and this data is all read at a much faster speed. Even better is that Blu-Ray technology can read DVD disks as well, allowing it to play PS2 games and movies in addition to the PS3’s own library of games.

2. The third party support and unique games. While the Xbox 360 will have its own impressive line-up of unique titles hitting the system, Sony still has plenty of great games that it has exclusive to its own next-gen console. Games such as Killzone 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots should not be overlooked by any means.

3. The “Cell.� While the Xbox 360 has a good processor, it is really not as impressive and doesn’t have nearly the potential of the Cell. While the true potential may not be seen for a long time (hopefully development will be completed sometime soon!), the Cell truly seems to be an amazing processor that will greatly improve the PS3’s stock in this epic console race.

4. Other PS3 hardware should also be given consideration. While Microsoft generally tends to go for standard hardware (good hardware, but standard), Sony is having a lot of its hardware custom made, which always helps the reliability of a console. Indeed, the Xbox 360 is much improved over the Xbox in this department, but Sony’s PS3 still has the hardware edge (despite claims from Microsoft that the Xbox 360 actually will outperform the PS3 – this remains to be seen).

5. Reliability. While this one is still up in the air, the advantage will most likely fall onto the PS3. The Xbox 360 has had numerous problems that gamers are furious about. No doubt that Microsoft will fix these problems soon, but the fact that they are there really hurts the reputation. Sony is always good at making sure they have a reliable product.

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Sure, The Bum has ranted and raved about EA before, but now a serious issue has come to rise from this mockery of a gaming company. Their newest release, Battlefield 2, brings with it a deep, dark secret that will take you on a trip down to the darkest corners of dirty dealings in the gaming industry. Yes, enthralled listeners, you will now be informed of the latest in EA’s evil movements: selling out the Battlefield franchise and hence commencing the Battlefield 2 Conspiracy.

“What you don’t know can’t hurt you� seems to be EA’s motto year in and year out. Basically, if you don’t know of how crappy their games really are and how much of a sellout the company is, then you won’t get hurt by their flaming ninjas that will make a visit to your house if you question their motives in the least (don’t worry, The Bum is safe in his secret lair somewhere in the Caribbean…damn, I’ve already said too much).

But now, moving on with the conspiracy behind the game. Take a look at the graph above. A picture tells a thousand words, but I’ll go ahead and give you about 600 words about this in addition to the picture. Basically, EA has decided to go ahead and sell out to NVIDIA and make it so that their game won’t work on anything less than an FX 5700 graphics card when that same game will work on the Radeon 8200. WTF?! I mean, are you kidding? Just look at the graphs which mark the relative graphical processing capabilities of each card and even a kindergartener will start throwing out F bombs like nobody’s business. It is simply ridiculous, and EA has left yet another dark stain on gaming’s history.

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Their dark empire stretches its devious hands into all forms of entertainment. They snatch up big time licenses like taking candy from a baby. They simply laugh at all who doubt their control over the industry. Since them, gaming has never been the same (nor as good). “Quality means nothing compared to quantity,� this apparently is their motto. They are Electronics Arts. They are the mighty and evil EA empire, hell bent on controlling every aspect of the gaming industry and tear it to pieces as they force you to waste your hard earned money. Yes, indeed their goal is simple. Can you resist their unconquerable might?

Few have dared to try and cross them, and those who have found themselves either out of business or liquidated into the dark beast itself. Really, what they have done is made a mockery of the gaming industry and therefore lost any and all respect from true gamers. Indeed, they still make ridiculous sales numbers from newbies who don’t know what a quality game is. For this reason, it can be determined that EA is by far and away one of the most brilliant strategizing and marketing companies in the history of the industry. Through dirty dealings, huge buyouts, and by spamming ads everywhere they have managed to make the plebians love them and the true gamers hate them with a passion.

Why is EA so bad? Why does a true gamer such as myself wish their end would be swift and unpleasant? Because EA is too smart for their own good. They know how to market a game and they know they can get huge sales no matter how good their product actually is. They know that through intricate marketing schemes they can manage to get just about anyone to buy their products. What this has resulted in is the end of anything quality coming out of the EA giant. In fact, quality is a word that doesn’t even exist with the company. They wear shirts that say “Stop Quality!� (or so I’ve heard…). The fact of the matter is that their ingenius methods have only produced a deviant, greedy empire that would rather see dollars in their pockets then smiles on their customers faces.

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