Monthly Archives: October 2005

World Of Warcraft: Expansion

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard’s award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, lands, Battlegrounds, professions and items, and more. Here is just a partial list of what you can expect from the World of Warcraft expansion: An increase [...]

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School band play ‘Endtroducing’ with real instruments

The after-school percussion group at Minnetonka High School, Minneapolis, rehearsed for months and can now play two tracks from DJ Shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’ album. The music was arranged by 25 year-old geographer/law student/vibraslap enthusiast Brian Udelhofen, who teaches the group. The Shadow Percussion Project page links to this amazing video [65mb WMV] of the group’s live [...]

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Patch 1.8.1 Released – WoW

The World of Warcraft team has released patch 1.8.1, which fixes a few minor bugs in the game. Battlegrounds * Certain geometry exploits in Arathi Basin have been fixed. Items * The tooltip on the Lightforged Blade has been updated to correctly show its minimum level requirement of 47 and its Bind on Acquire status. [...]

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XBOX 360 Controller on Windows

Playfeed has a good write up on the new Xbox 360 controller made for windows. Juicy tidbits like shots of the installation, close-ups of the controller and more!

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Underworld : Evolution Trailer

Trailer for the second great vampire vs. werewolf trilogy is finally available online. Although the trailer is slightly confusing, I have high hopes for the film.

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Cardboard PC Case

Manufactured by Japanese company Lupo, it is constructed entirely out of cardboard. All you need to do is remove perforated sections of the cardboard into the respective parts, fold along the lines as directed, and voila! A perfectly functional PC case that’s biodegradable. Lupo Cases

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Patch 1.8.2 Released – WoW

General Fixed a crash in the German client. If your looking for patches check out these spots: http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/wow-repository http://www.3dgamers.com/games/worldofwarcraft/downloads/

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Amen Break

A video on the audio history of the most amazing sample ever used, the Amen Break. The break that influenced hip-hop and electronica, was originally a drum solo on a track called, Amen Brother from the 70s funk group, The Winstons. Watch the video!

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ATI Catalyst 5.10 drivers

New drivers for ATI cards today, which include support for the new CrossFire cards. Also issues have been resolved in the following programs and games: 3Dmark03, Dungeon Siege 2, Graphedit, Max Payne 2, Pacific Fighters, Prince of Persia, Silent Hunter 3 and Stronghold 2. Download | ATI Catalyst 5.10 drivers Release Notes | Release Notes

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Dungeon Siege Movie Named

The upcoming film adaptation of the hit action RPG Dungeon Siege has been given the title, In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. While so many of us groaned about hiring Uwe Boll to direct the adaptation, it looks as though he’s proving us right. MTV.com has reported that the film is [...]

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