Tag: Gary Cutlack
VIDEO: Reporting from the show floor at ATEI 2008
In case you don’t know, ATEI is a massive trade show for the arcade and amusement world. It’s mainly for businessmen to go to and do serious business, but there’s one very good reason everyone should register and attend – loads of arcade machines all set to freeplay!
So I went. And did a video. It’s a bit long, but you get to see lots of people having fun playing new games, including SEGA’s ultra-odd floor-based-TV game UFO Stomper.
Here are the edited highlights:
Grand Theft Auto IV – coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 29
Finally, the game the world has been waiting for has an official release date – GTA IV will arrive on April 29, and it’s such an important game it’s getting a simultaneous worldwide release.
Coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it was thought for a few worrying months that GTA IV might end up getting re-delayed back to the autumn, after it missed its Autumn 2007 original launch and was sent back to Spring 2008…
Chinavision's solar-powered MP4 player and Nintendo emulator, for the eco-friendly software pirate
Don’t go killing the planet while playing pirated old Nintendo games!
The Mobile Power Station is being sold as a nice little media player, only, thanks to the Chinese and their total lack of respect for international copyright agreements, it comes with NES, Game Boy and Game Boy Colour emulators pre-installed by the kindly factory workers.
Microsoft is making money too – and even Vista's starting to take off
As well as Apple bragging about how much money it’s raked in so far this year, Microsoft is expected to announce some rather pretty upwards-pointing graphs this week too.
Analysts are predicting a huge 66% rise in profits for MS over the last year, as despite the numerous financial disasters going on around the globe people are still buying new computers so their internet loads faster and World of Warcraft looks a bit prettier…
Protect your important bits with the anti-radiation mobile phone case
Bit worried about what your mobile’s doing to you? Think that getting a warm ear after ten minutes of chatting is merely the tip of the iceberg, and that in 30 years time mobile phone users will be forced to stand outside pubs in the rain for the safety of the general population once the SHOCKING TRUTH about DEADLY mobile radiation finally comes out?
In that case, wrap your phone up in one of these – an anti-radiation case. Created, or at least mocked-up in principle – by know-what-you’re-getting-from-the-name Anti Radiation Leather Case Cellular Accessories, the anti-radiation case only has blocking on one side so your phone actually still works and sees the outisde world, while stopping those death rays from penetrating your essential organs.
Compulsory weekly update regarding a new watch from Tokyoflash – the Tibida
We always end up mentioning the new developments down at the insane offices of Tokyoflash, thanks to their regular output of exciting watches with interesting looks.
Tibida’s particularly striking, thanks to featuring 42 little white LEDs. Which, it is rumoured, well-trained wearers are able to interpret to use as a rough guide about what the time is. Or, at least, what the time is near.
Fortunately, the new Tibida comes with a handy visual guide that explains exactly how you’re supposed to tell what the time is with it.
Here’s how it works:
The 10 YouTube videos we're STILL not bored of
Some YouTube videos stay with you long after the first viewing. Sometimes because they have scarred and terrified you, other times because the sheer stupidity on display has lowered the bar further than previously thought possible.
Here are the 10 YouTube classics we go back to time and time again, for endless free entertainment – and have even considered trying to work out how to save to our computer just in case YouTube ever breaks or closes, such is their ‘national treasure’ status.
1. Carol Vorderman spelling out MILF on Countdown. Could literally watch this on a loop 24-hours-a day without any other form of stimulation whatsoever. Would pay to watch a three-hour loop of it at the cinema. Would buy an HD Blu-ray loop of it. And it’d still be hilarious in 2012. She doesn’t even understand, the poor thing…
The iRiver Siren – generic but pretty little MP3 player
We’ve started paying a bit more attention to iRiver press releases ever since it revealed some pretty shiny things at CES. Here’s the first fruit of our new-found iRiver love – an update about the iRiver Siren.
The Siren’s not that special, really. We could say something about art-deco-influenced squared design and its simple yet pleasing range of three traditional colours, but that’d all be a bit unnecessary. It’s an MP3 player. It comes in 1GB and 2GB sizes, no doubt with the 2GB one costing ever-so-slightly less than twice the price of the 1GB model to encourage you to go for the extra space. We know all the mind-games they play.
Web plagiarism a serious problem in schools (and also on the internet)
LONDON (Reuters) – More than half of teachers in a survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem.
Some students who steal essays wholesale from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don’t even bother to take the adverts off the cut-and-pasted text.
Fifty-eight percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) questionnaire had come across plagiarism among their sixth-form pupils…
PocketGuitar – ride the guitar game popularity wave on iPhone
When popular things COLLIDE!
Who would’ve thought the humble old guitar would be one of 2008’s hottest accessories? Thanks to the finger-exercising genius of Guitar Hero, you can’t move for things that replicate the guitar-playing experience – while making it easier for those of use who never put the hours in during our teenage years to learn how to play a proper one with actual strings.
