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Screenshot roundup: Project H.A.M.M.E.R.

Jul 15th 2006 12:11AM (Joystiq Nintendo)
Mr. Hinkle, you do realize that the term "cyborg" does in fact imply that the persona in question is half-human, right?
Just sayin'.

Best. Achievement. Ever.

Jul 11th 2006 7:23PM (Joystiq Xbox)
Small Arms looks more like that old freeware game Soldat than Smash Bros., really.

Superman needs no health bar [update 1]

Jul 4th 2006 4:17AM (Joystiq)
To #35...

Things like giving Spidey natural webs and killing off the Punishers family and such are not liberties taken by movie writers. The movies are simply based off of the more modern comics which were basically re-workings of the stories. Notice that Peter Parker is also a teenager, he joins a wrestling match in the first movie and is cheated out of money, and Mary Jane is the only girl in his life and not the original chick who was killed by the Green Goblin in the original comics.
Originally(correct anything if wrong), Peter Parker started as a college student, he makes those web-slinging gauntlets, he makes a Cable TV show starring the Amazing Spider-Man which is cancelled(leading to Parker's apathy for the robbery of the TV station), and Mary Jane was not yet in the picture(he had another girlfriend who was actually killed by the Goblin).
Those are a few of the many changes which were made in the making of the new comics(the Ultimate series, I believe...). In fact, I think Superman Returns is the first comic book movie which is not based on the newer versions of the comics and rather the originals.

So, yeah, it's not the movie writers liberties, it's the CREATOR'S CHANGES. Just a little FYI.

Powered Shoes take virtual reality input to new level of nerdy

Jun 30th 2006 11:14PM (Engadget)
Man, screw the video game! I'd use these as an easier method to walk around!
Seriously. Motorized rollerskates, how kickass would that be?

Under the flap!

Jun 30th 2006 6:56AM (Joystiq Nintendo)
No, it'll be like with the Xbox 360. If you hold down the sync buttons on both the console and a controller, then the console "tethers" that controller to that console.
This is to prevent signals from one controller from also controlling another console, in multi-console situations.

Perhaps they left it under the flap to remove any unnecessary buttons from the front, making it less cluttered and improving the aesthetics of the console by that much.

Kaz Hirai: Microsoft is just a copycat!

Jun 30th 2006 6:48AM (Joystiq Xbox)
"any other credible journalist would of shot him down with various question very quickly"

No, no, no. They would not shoot him "down" with "questions" quickly. They would shoot him "in the face" with "a gun" quickly because of these blatantly stupid comments.
Sony only continues to annoy me with their undue arrogance and ignorance every single effin' day.

Another list of ten top things: game weapons

Jun 30th 2006 6:34AM (Joystiq)
"I got another 10 ten list for you. the 10 ten RTS games."

The fact that your list included no Blizzard games and lacked the original Red Alert means it utterly fails. Sorry, try again.

The Ultra TV-B-Gone strikes fear in the hearts of couch potatoes

Jun 30th 2006 5:47AM (Engadget)
This mod just made TV-B-Gone into the best prank idea ever.
Yes, I know it was designed that way in the first place, but the direct line of sight requirement hampered the possibilities. Now you could just stick your hand into your pocket to shut off any TV within 90 feet.
Oh, the unlimited possibilities!

Stringer says PS3 is "future proof."

Jun 28th 2006 5:46AM (Joystiq Xbox)
"The Blu-Ray disc will only open up one thing, the ability to let developers do sloppy programming."

Actually, the more space a disc has, the less compressed a pre-rendered or recorded video must be in order to fit. This could make pre-rendered cutscenes look better, but that's it. And I doubt that a 5GB difference in these 25GB and 30GB discs will affect the abilities of either. Companies will never use that much space to fill with uncompressed videos.

"10 years life cycle? Playstation 1 did it, Playstation 2 will do it, i don't doubt Playstation 3's potential for a 10 years cycle."

But what you don't understand is that PS1 and PS2 had 10 years forcefully SQUEEZED out of them. PS2 games cannot even compare to Xbox 1 games graphically, since Xbox was released later and had twice the hardware power. The same thing will happen to the PS3. It will supposedly "survive" for 10 years, but once the next generation of non-Sony consoles hits, the PS3 will suck in comparison and all games released on it will be graphically sub-par with the current consoles of that time.
5 years for any type of PC-like hardware is already a stretch, 10 years is just spreading it too thin. WAY too thin.

We couldn't resist

Jun 28th 2006 12:39AM (Joystiq Nintendo)
The video would have been pretty good, but the HORRIBLE syncing really ruined the entire effect.

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