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This giant Tetris game was created using “eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over 10,000 Christmas lights”. It took over five months of planning and can be seen off Interstate 95 in Rhode Island. Video clip after the jump.
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Despite the recent launch of Sony’s own Media Manager, PSPWare remains the best solution for syncing content to your PSP. Chris and I were lamenting the lack of an easy way to automatically convert DVR-MS files created by Windows Media Center to files ready for playback from PSP Memory Sticks. Here is the solution.
Required Software:
Tweak MCE Power Toy $0.00
Lupas Rename 2000 $0.00
PSPWare $15.00
Windows Task Scheduler (part of Windows XP)
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PS3Portal.com has posted an article called "Inside the PS3" that takes a look at how the competing consoles utilize resources while running the OS in the background of games:
…Everything that one wants to do involving software on a Game Console, specifically while the user is playing games, comes at a cost. In the case of the Xbox360, this cost is approximately 2% of total CPU time and 6.25% of the Xbox360's total available RAM. Balancing these out, one could argue that MS has removed a total of …
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Xbox Live Marketplace honcho Aaron Greenberg talks to VGM about a variety of topics ranging from Goldeneye 007 on XBLA (not happening) to the Euro Diamond Card (happening). Xboxic has a helpful summary of the discussed topics:
50% of users are connected to Xbox Live. And 85% of those connected are downloading content
More downloads on Live (ten million so far) than iTunes had on launch
Talk about Cloning Clyde
How an indie developer gets a game onto Xbox Live Marketplace
Addresses the criticisms of Blizzard COO Paul Sims and Arena Net Co-Founder Jeff Strain. …
