Grand Theft Auto IV trailer
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops review
The sequel to Snake Eater produced plenty of hoopla when it was announced. After two less-than-ideal AC!D games people would finally be getting a Metal Gear Solid game on the PSP. Good on paper, bad in execution. While the stellar production values of the series translate very well to the portable format, the system just cannot handle action games the way that they’re supposed to be. Pair that up with some dubious design choices by Kojima Studios, particularly with the camera control, and the result is a blown opportunity instead of a great Metal Gear game. Full Review
The PS3 finally has a good use
I knew that $600 wasn’t spent in vain. A while ago Sony announced that it would include a package for Folding@home, a distributed computing initiative done by Stanford University. They use the results to help find cures for various diseases. Basically you download update 1.60 and you get the option to download the client program which is about 50 megs. Once you get that you can run the client on your PS3. This is the longest the beast has been on for since that one week stint I had reviewing Resistance Fall of Man (that was about for four hours a day or so). One day running and it has finished three packets. You can check out the Folding@home program here.
XBL not hacked but hacked
Major Nelson, the Net’s resident Xbox 360 trumpeter, had to run a bit of damage controlafter he had proudly announced that Xbox Live had not in fact been hacked, only it had been. So he clarified the situation in his blog. The Xbox Live network wasn’t hacked, rather criminals gained access to user information through “social engineering” and he provided a neat link to the Wikipedia entry about “pre-texting.” Nice spin Major. Just because somebody gained access to your system using the good ol’ fashioned way of lying to underpaid and under trained tech support over the phone doesn’t mean your network wasn’t hacked.