Here’s a video of Dread Zeppelin, and their cover of The Immigrant Song. The description on their website says “Imagine Led Zeppelin tunes with a Reggae beat and an Elvis impersonator on vocals.” - that about sums it up.
Remember a while back when we featured a very cool NES mod, where someone had managed to squeeze the guts of the classic console into one of its own game cartridges?
Well, someone on the Ben Heckendorn forums (of all places) has gone and topped that - by making a portable, entirely self-contained version with a backlit 2.5″ screen built right in. Unlike the last mod, this one doesn’t accept standard cartridges, instead opting for a 99-in-1 system, but I’m sure we can overlook that as that built-in screen is just so uber-cool.
Benheck.com forum user darkeru, we salute you!
For those of you out there who can’t wait to get their hands on the much-anticipated Gears of War 2 this November, Microsoft have just released a huge load of screenshots showing off the multiplayer and single player modes - 43 of them, in fact. Read the rest of this entry »
Wow… This is one of those things that I look at and think “why didn’t I think of that?”. I bet the inventor of this thing is rolling in the dough now, and probably has even more chicks and Ferraris than Evoroth himself.
Essentially, it’s a rack that allows you to mount a Mac Mini under a desk, or maybe on the underside of a shelf in your TV cabinet, perfect for the Home Cinema stuff that the Mini really excels at. It also adds some much-needed front USB ports, although you’ll need to plug the thing in to the mains to actually use them.
The bad news is that it’s actually called a Hang With Mi, but the good news is that it’s only $50, so maybe we can overlook the crappy name. I’d be mighty tempted to get one of these and save myself 6.5×6.5 inches of valuable desk space, but to be honest, it’s probably more hassle than it’s actually worth.
Oh, and you can even get the dubiously named Power Grip Bracket to go with it.
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Believe it or not, Halo 3 isn’t actually gone and forgotten at all, even if a lot of us haven’t signed in for some Team Slayer action in quite a while. There are 400,000-odd players who are still playing every day - after all, we’re talking about a game that’s been lurking around the top of the most played games list ever since its release last September.
And it looks like Bungie’s best-selling shooter will be getting another boost in popularity shortly, as the eagerly anticipated remake of Halo:CE’s excellent (and very tiny) multiplayer map Chill Out, now known as Cold Storage, will be released for free on the 7th of July. That’s the 7th of the 7th, for anyone who’s still doubtful about the whole Bungie 7 fetish thing.
Also, for one day only there will be an exclusive gamerpic and Xbox Dashboard theme, and the Legendary Map Pack will be reduced in price from 800 to 600 points (although Bungie Pro is no longer included). Check out the official announcement here.
Everybody knows that the original Minis were awesome - much better than that German rubbish they make nowadays. So why not celebrate their awesomeness every time you need to move some files about?
These 1:48 scale USB-enabled replicas will be available from Vavolo as of this August. There’s the Cooper model you see above, as well as LBL 6D, the iconic Mote Carlo winning Works Cooper from 1967, and even a little 1960s-tastic Mini police car.
I can’t find any details on prices or capacities yet, but I’m sure that they’ll be surprisingly roomy. In a clever twist, the USB connector is retractable and fits snugly into the boot (or trunk, if you’re American). I think that even a Mini boot could accommodate one of those!
Finally, I’m surprised that they even managed to get the external door hinges, bumper over riders, and twin tanks right - plus the headlights light up when plugged in. Nice!
I’m not sure whether they’ve worked out a way to make these things leak oil yet, however.
Hot off the back of yesterday’s list of rumored songs for the upcoming Rock Band 2, it seems a user over at the ScoreHero.com forums claims to know of even more songs that we be included. Today’s list is:-
So what do you think? Are we going to get one of these lists ‘leaked’ every day from now until September, with people claiming to have inside knowledge on the tracklisting? Or do we think these are the real deal?
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Remember a while back when The Mozilla Foundation announced that they’d be going for the world download record with the release of Firefox 3?
Well, they’ve gone and done it - with over 8 million unique downloads on launch day, Firefox 3 has earned Mozilla a Guinnes World Record for “the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours”. That means that there are now over 180 million Firefox users spread across 230 countries.
Oh, you can also make your very own personalised certificate to celebrate your involvement in this momentous occasion!
It’s true that a large number of graphic designers use Macs - but as it happens, not everyone who’s a Mac fan is also a graphic designer. That’s why things like this awesomely hideous gallery over at Macenstein come about - here we have 21 of the worst Apple-themed desktop wallpapers ever made.
Yes, they are bad - and not in the 1980s meaning of the word.
Inside MGC have obtained a list of achievements for the upcoming XBLA shape-shooting sequel Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, and they say a lot about what we can expect from the game. The achievements specifically mention game modes called Waves, Slalom, King, Deadline, and Pacifism, as well as collectable items known as “geoms”.
Nothing else is known about the game, so of course the goals of the different game modes are as yet unknown, but I’m guessing that Waves is pretty much the same game we saw in PGR4, Slalom is a mode which involves passing through gates, and King (and this one’s a long shot) could be similar to the Halo “king” games, where the player must stay in certain areas to capture them.
Pacifism, I am guessing again, will expand on the well-known “Pacifist” achievement form the first Geometry Wars game, and is a mode which involves surviving for as long as possible without shooting anything. Of course, I could be completely wrong, but it’s fun to speculate.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
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