Archive for December 19th, 2007
Filed under: Best of 2007
 Stay tuned all this week as we reveal the our nominees for the very best games of 2007. Winners will be declared on December 27th.
Who doesn’t like puzzle games? 2007 saw the release of a plethora of puzzle games on systems like the Nintendo DS and the PSP, but lucky for us, loyal PS3 addicts worldwide got their hands on a few excellent brain-teasers as well.
The nominees for PS3 Fanboy - Best Puzzle Game are…Stay tuned all this week as we reveal the our nominees for the very best games of 2007. Winners will be declared on December 27th.
Who doesn’t like puzzle games? 2007 saw the release of a plethora of puzzle games on systems like the Nintendo DS and the PSP, but lucky for us, loyal PS3 addicts worldwide got their hands on a few excellent brain-teasers as well.
The nominees for PS3 Fanboy - Best Puzzle Game are…
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Filed under: Best of 2007
Stay tuned all this week as we reveal the our nominees for the very best games of 2007. Winners will be declared on December 27th.
Driving games are big business and the PS3 has more than its fair share of them. While Gran Turismo 5 Prologue sadly missed the window for nominations this year, the other contenders more than make up its absence. But which of them is the best of 2007?
And the nominees for PS3 Fanboy - Best Driving Game of 2007 are:
Stay tuned all this week as we reveal the our nominees for the very best games of 2007. Winners will be declared on December 27th.
Driving games are big business and the PS3 has more than its fair share of them. While Gran Turismo 5 Prologue sadly missed the window for nominations this year, the other contenders more than make up its absence. But which of them is the best of 2007?
And the nominees for PS3 Fanboy - Best Driving Game of 2007 are:
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Filed under: Best of 2007
Stay tuned all this week as we reveal the our nominees for the very best games of 2007. Winners will be declared on December 27th.
Fighting games used to be 2D. Some still argue those are the best. Others have adopted the 3D fighters as the new standard and the PS3 had some fantastic additions to that roster over 2007. We’re here to highlight them.
The nominees for PS3 Fanboy - Best Fighting Game are…Stay tuned all this week as we reveal the our nominees for the very best games of 2007. Winners will be declared on December 27th.
Fighting games used to be 2D. Some still argue those are the best. Others have adopted the 3D fighters as the new standard and the PS3 had some fantastic additions to that roster over 2007. We’re here to highlight them.
The nominees for PS3 Fanboy - Best Fighting Game are…
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Filed under: Game Patches, News
We’re in two minds whether to post this news because the last thing we want is for Incognito to lose money on the sterling work they’ve put into Operation Omega Dawn for Warhawk. Unfortunately, it seems that some people are able to already download the expansion which isn’t supposed to go live tomorrow. Not only that, but the update is listed as free and removes no money from your PlayStation Store wallet.
Hopefully Incognito will notice this soon and will fix things so that no-one else can download the expansion early. Yesterday’s PlayStation.Blog post stated that the game servers will be offline for six hours today while they “roll out” the patch (which is now available, by the way). There’s just under two hours to go until this maintainence is due to be completed, yet the server list is as populated as ever.
[UPDATE] It seems that the price glitch has been sorted out, but the booster pack itself hasn’t been taken down. That is to say, Operation Omega Dawn has been released a day early. Go get!
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Firmware 2.10 has paved the way for an update to the Folding@Home client. which will arrive soon. The improvements are definitely quite interesting in that they are actually very useful. No longer will you need to worry about leaving your PS3 on all the time - F@H will be able to shut down your console after either the current work unit has completed, or after a certain amount of time.
Not only that, but we can confirm that Folding@Home will receive custom soundtracks. No longer will you have an attack of conscience when using the PS3 to play music - no more will you think to yourself “I’m really enjoying this music, but I feel so guilty that I’m not curing cancer … “, for now you can do both at the same time. Astonishing!
In all seriousness, though - this is a very handy update and we’ll certainly be running our music through Folding@Home over the holidays. No word on exactly when the updated version will be available, but it should be pretty soon, all things considered.
[UPDATE] The update is now available to download. Simply start Folding@Home and you will prompted to upgrade.
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Filed under: Cell Phones, Celebrities
Hey, it looks like sometimes “stars” just aren’t like “us,” at least when they’re flouting rules about using handheld devices on airplanes during take-off. According to TMZ, do-nothing himbo and reality star Brody Jenner — the son of Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner and sometime love interest of Lauren Conrad on MTV’s The Hills — was kicked off of an American Airlines flight due to take off from Dallas this past Saturday.
Apparently the one-time bad-boy ‘Prince of Malibu’ refused to turn off his handheld device, even though flight staff had asked him to. (Jenner was most likely tapping his fingers on a Sidekick, as evidenced by the pictures of his various appearances at launch parties for that iconic keyboard device, below). But Jenner was not alone — several other passengers refused to turn off their mobiles and got obnoxious with the flight attendants. All offenders, including Jenner, were escorted off the plane by airport police.
According to TMZ, charges were not pressed, and Jenner and others were rebooked on the more downscale ATA airways, which, ironically, is even more strict on the in-flight handheld ban than American, as evidenced by the fate of this poor guy.
So the next time any of you reality or less-than-reality folks out there decide to send one last text message as you’re taxi-ing down the runway, make sure you’re nice to the flight attendants. Oh, and for the love of God, turn off your cell phones!
From TMZ
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Filed under: Audio/Video, Computers, Celebrities, iPod, MySpace, iPhone
Part of the allure of the Internet is that it levels the playing field. Artists can put their wares out there for all to read, hear, watch etc. Sometimes, however, it’s hard to pick out the diamonds in the digital rough.
But their are the occasional Cinderella stories. Joining the ranks of Lily Allen as one of those stars who has risen to fame and fortune (well relative fame and fortune) through purely nontraditional means is Staten Island singer Ingrid Michaelson.
Ingrid got her start playing bars and coffee shops like Martini Red and the Muddy Cup in her native Staten Island, but it was that nefarious beast MySpace that brought her to national attention. It was there that she posted tracks from her album ‘Boys and Girls’ and grabbed the attention of Lynn Grossman, owner of Secret Road, a music licensing and artist management company.
From there it has been an unstoppable climb to the top for Ingrid, who in May was still teaching an after-school program at the Staten Island Children’s Museum. First, ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ picked up one of her songs for its soundtrack, then Gap used one of her tunes in a commercial. Now she’s selling out the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, and has the number two record on iTunes’ pop charts. All of this happened without resorting to many of the traditional means of promotion. Ingrid has no record label, and her Bowery Ballroom show sold out with out any advertising beyond her MySpace page.
But Ingrid has not let her meteoric rise go to her head. She still makes regular appearances at her old haunts when she isn’t on tour, and even recognizes the fragility of her unexpected success, “I worry this is all going to disappear in a few months, and I’ll have to wait tables again.”
From the New York Times
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Filed under: Audio/Video, Car Tech, Cell Phones, Cameras, Computers, Video Games, Advice, holiday gift, Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews
You bought gifts for everyone — even the mailman — except for your gadget-obsessed loved one. Problem is, he (or she) already has everything. Fret not, because we have a category in our legendary Switched Gift Guide just for you. In fact, it’s called “Man / Woman Who Has Everything“. Really. Check it out, and be done with this thing we call holiday shopping. Click here to get browsing >>
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Filed under: Computers, eBay, Green Tech, Gift News, Holiday Gift Guide
Forget past passions of online bidding for hard-to-get holiday gifts. This year the hot items you can’t find are (of course) the Nintendo Wii and (surprise!) Amazon’s new Kindle wireless electronic reader, which is garnering final bids of $1,000 and up on Ebay.
Kindle is sparking a new fury of interest ever since Amazon sold out of all units and isn’t able to deliver any more until after Christmas.
The idea of e-book book readers isn’t new. (Does anyone remember the Rocket eBook? One of our early favorites, indeed.) Our question: are the people bidding on Kindle going to give it as a gift or do they just want one for themselves? It is better to give than to receive….
From BetaNews
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Filed under: Computers, MySpace
 File this under bad parents — a woman in Virginia Beach, Virginia has been jailed for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, thanks to a rather tasteless video she posted on MySpace.
Sandra Venery (seen in her mug-shot glory to the right) posted a clip in which she encourages her two-year-old daughter to smoke a cigarette. The video was enough to put Venery behind bars. But despite it being illegal for anyone under 18 to smoke in Virginia, it wasn’t the smoking that did it. Rather, it was Venery’s often-profane encouragement of her daughter that landed her behind bars. (The video has since been removed from MySpace, so don’t bother looking.)
From WAVY TV 10
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