Category: Entertainment

  • TimeShift, GT review of a FPS game

    Game Trailers, on top of providing a good source for video material distributed by the designers and distributors of video games, has sometimes a good video review of games. Here comes one: TimeShift from Sierra, one of the few First Person Shooters being handed out before Christmas. link to GT videolink to HD video Definitely…

  • No DRM is good for the media business

    Or so it seems from the more recent news I received through different channels these days. First, BluRay BD+ copy protection and DRM system appears to have been cracked. In the latest revision of AnyDVD (a quite well known DVD copying software), there is now an option to handle BD+. It means that even the…

  • Crysis, available tomorrow

    Crysis, available tomorrow

    After months of expectation organised by marketing and advertisment, the FPS video game most awaited of the year, Crysis, will be available tomorrow (you can already download it on Steam and the Electronic Arts online shop/store -on-line electronic payment and validation- but not use it yet). Graphic card providers are already dreaming of the rising…

  • What good is the Crysis demo?

    As plenty other people you may have already downloaded the Crysis demo because you wanted to taste the PC game of the end of the year. But some Internet web site went further and stressed the demo to the point that you can get a good feeling of what this video game will be capable…

  • Durian

    Durian

    Graphic animation to be seen at least once. link

  • Crysis, the demo is coming

    Crysis, the demo is coming

    We are told that the demo for the Crysis PC video game will be available tomorow (Saturday) on a large number of game web sites. Update: The demo is now available. Beware! It’s no less than 1.7GB of a download. Go and fetch it from one of the following sites: FileFront Worthplaying Gamershell 3D Downloads…

  • Star War, the backstroke of the West

    Star War, the backstroke of the West

    What happens when you translate English to Chinese to English? This is the question that should have been asked before translating the subtitles to Star Wars, the revenge of the Sith (or is it Star War, the backstroke of the West?) It’s so bad, that it may have been good to store it under “culture”.…

  • Darth Vador privacy breached

    Darth Vador privacy breached

    We knew already all about Darth Vador youth. But his private life was staying out of reach of even the most courageous paparazzis. This is no longer the case, thanks to Esteban Diacono.

  • Blu-Ray bad DRM scheme

    The very first discs for BluRay+ (BluRay discs with BD+ newest DRM technology) arrived: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow. Unfortunately, these discs are nearly useless because of the DRM scheme used to protect them. For the first time, they use a virtual machine technology that allows to load code at…