SEGA, courtesy of their Hitmaker division, are giving you the chance to build your very own limited edition Dreamcast! If that tickled your fancy, try more of the same (but slightly older) and then redecorate your desktop.
Warning, some of these pages are Japanese... learn a bit of Japanese or try randomly clicking on links near words like "Windows" or "Macintosh". Sorry about that, but the contents are well worth the effort, I promise.
Can't wait for Metal Gear Solid 2 to arrive on PS2 ? Look what's coming to Dreamcast..
TendoBox has a translation of a Famitsu interview with Yuji Naka and Toshiro Nagoshi of Sega. They love Gamecube, although things aren't looking too good on the PSO front, 4 player split screen and no apparent online support mean it may need to be renamed Phantasy Star Offline :(
Its reassuring to know that the artists you love are inspired by the artists you love.. Check out what inspire the likes of Ken Ishii, Photek, Buffalo Daughter, Roni Size, Dandy Warhols and Tricky.. Nick Hornby would be proud..
Google has quietly reinstated the archives it aquired from the Deja news service behind it's beta front end. I've never really payed that much attention to usenet before but, with archived postings dating back to 1995, there's a mind-boggling array of textual information in there on just about any subject imaginable.
Mos Def has a rockband called Jack Johnson. Featuring ex members of Bad Brains, Parliment/Funkadelic and Living Colour they are currently in the studio putting down their debut album for Rawkus. nudeasthenews has an exclusive interview with the man who seems intent on confounding peoples expectations of himself..
Konkurrent have released another in there excellent series of Fishtank recordings. The new budget priced CD features Low and the Dirty Three. Together they do 6 tracks including the Neil Young cover Down By The River. The Fishtank is a project run by Konkurrent, where they ask bands who are touring in Holland to give them 2 days to record a 30 minute album of whatever they like; regular songs, funny versions or improvised pieces..
Nintendo unveiled Gamecube at E3 a couple of weeks ago, and showed the rest of the industry where the future of gaming should lie. Pre E3 media consensus was that Microsoft was going to prove the strongest oposition for Sony's beligerd Playstation2 and Nintendo was being set up to be the also ran. Post E3 though the mood has changed Microsoft are on the back foot and media attention is now swinging to Nintendo. Its a shame that the industry works this way these days, the hardcore has always known what Nintendo is capable of, yet the Greystation genertaion percieve them only as the company which brought us the misjudged N64. In this nextGen world of marketing hype, the people with power seem to be the media, and they appear to have little grasp of the ebbs and flows of gaming history. When the likes of Forbes magazine is looked on to provide guidance on the state of play, we know we are in trouble.. Gamecube is set to launch in September in Japan and November in the US. It will cost around $200 to $300 depending on your location.. Titles will include Metroid, Luigis Mansion, Mario, Zelda, Starfox Adventures, Pikmin, and WaveRace.
If the current trend for reality TV is all about getting a smug sense of self worth from watching the dregs of humanity whore themselves for the sake of their 15 minutes worth, then MTV's Jackass has to be the ultimate antidote.
Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze and Jeff Tremaine have a lot to answer for. Along with co-colaborators Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Steve-O, Brandon Dicamillo, Ehren McGhehey, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna and Ryan Dunn, they have created a show which has the US moral majority on the warpath.
Don't you just love dumb american kids though...
Oh, and check out this shrine to Bam's long suffering Dad Phil..
Veteran 1337 h4X0r5 the Cult Of the Dead Cow were recently in the news with their plans to release a Freenet/Gnutella style P2P browser called Peekabooty to get around filtering and censorship of online content (The UAE blocked access to the cult's site for all citizens on hearing the news). With my interest piqued I had a little trawl round the cDc site, and while the text files on Debbie Gibson fighting ninjas and Poppy Z. Brite's necrophiliac fantasies about William Burroughs certainly caught my eye, it was this explanation of the cults name that made me smile the most.
In honour of the changing of the seasons, here is a little something I just stumbled across: The flowers are blooming pretty, The garden has homey feel about it, Shall we refresh with open air?
Dave Sim wrote beautifull comic books. Dave Sim was kind of a hero to me, I met him once. Dave Sim thinks women and homosexuals are going to bring the world to its knees (sic).. He thinks women are 6 foot leechs, voids, which are holding back human advancement..
IGN are running an interview with the development team behind the awesome looking Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 on the Gameboy Advance, check it out here. Warning : you may need to register to view this interview :(
Last week Apple revealed their new TiBook stylee iBook design to the world. Opinion seems divided on it's looks but there's no denying that this is one hell of laptop for
Or in beta at least. Now that this is the case I'd like to ask you for your opinions on what works, what doesn't, what could be better etc. I know that a lot of this stuff isn't easy to use at the moment but this is it's first functioning incarnation so you can't expect miracles just yet. Please keep your comments as encouraging as possible, and bear in mind that we still have a lot of bits and pieces left to implement so suggestions should be of the minor tweaks variety rather than major revisions.
Guaranteed to mess with your head. Yes, the rational-minded individual understands that the world was not black and white at the turn of the last century. And yet this newly unearthed proof of concept seems oddly, disturbingly not quite right...
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