Quote:Nintendo announced today that it has sold roughly half a million units in Japan, bringing global sales of its new handheld over its goal of one million units.
Japanese gamers purchased 460,000 Nintendo DS since its release five days ago (81% of the 570,000 systems available), while another 50,000 units are still being reserved for customers at retail outlets.
Nintendo spokesman Ken Toyoda expressed Nintendo's satisfaction with Nintendo DS's performance in Japan, stating that some unsold units are to be expected and can be partially attributed to retailer's control of the product supply.
Reuters notes that Sony aims to ship 500,000 PSP units in Japan when it launches next week—Nintendo and Sony will likely have similarly-sized Japanese user bases at the year's end.
250 MB storage, 10MB max attachment size (both ways I think), pop3/imap support, web support, VERY powerful spam filter (though it is in pretty absolute terms, I turned it off), e-mail search engine, lets you import e-mail from up to 3 other accounts, and oh yes, it's completely free.
One weakness is there's really no telling what the future holds for it. It could stay free forever like g-mail wants to do with all features intact, or turn into the mush that hotmail and yahoo turned into. However, it's a great service NOW and looks to stay that way for at least a few years more.
Okay, the one thing is setting up the account is a bit tricky. First off, they require honesty in your provided data. No "123 Fake Street", instead make up an address that sounds real :D. Otherwise, expect your account to be deleted within 6 hours.
Also, when setting up your e-mail software, you need to enable outgoing (smtp) authentication required, or it will fail. Also, you may need to change the port for smtp as well, depending on your isp, to 587 instead of 25. That's about it. One last bit, your log-on name is the entire address, not just the part before the @.
Anyway, not sure if this helps anyone else, but I had been looking for a new address for a long time and this does just fine.
Quote:Doom Plot Not Like the Game
But keeping the game's atmosphere is a priority.
December 06, 2004 - Doom the movie was fast-tracked to take advantage of the publicity and fanfare surrounding the release of the Doom 3 computer game, and filming has already gotten underway in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. Polish director Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) has replaced rookie Enda McCallion on the $70 million film production.
Czech news magazine Novinky.ca reports on a visit to the film set, with numerous details about the shoot. They say that although the filmmakers are keen to preserve the dark, spooky atmosphere of the videogames, much of the plot has been changed in Dave Callahan's screenplay. The original Doom and the recent Doom 3 were both about a team of space marines sent to defend a Mars research base from Hellish monsters who invade via an interdimensional portal. The movie, however, will take place not on Mars, but rather a fictional "remote planet." The film's monsters will not be minions from Hades, but humans infected with a mutagenic super-virus.
Doom the movie intends to be more of a horror flick than an action film, but with more shooting and fighting than your average scare-fare. It's beginning to sound a lot like Resident Evil in space, actually. The story will center around soldier John Grimm, the character played by Karl Urban (Eomer in The Lord of the Rings). Many scenes will be shot in first-person view, the perspective used to great effect in Doom 3 and many other first-person-shooter games.
Doom will be released in theaters on August 5th, 2005.
I know I usually get this up earler than now, but I'm so busy. I threw this together in about an hour. Sorry guys. It's a half-assed Christmas. I think it looks pretty nice considering. And I, for one, am glad to be looking at a color not red for a change.
If you're not seeing the theme and you want to, it's selectable on the list at the bottom of this page.
That's right! Simcity rocks in a way that is not unlike other great things, like the wheel and electricity, rock! In fact, I would go as far as to say that Simcity is actually BETTER than the wheel and electricity! Anyway, feel free to discuss why YOU think Simcity rules your PC or just rant incoherently about how other, obviously INFERIOR, products are somehow better than Simcity while the rest of us LAUGH at your foolish...foolishness!!
Just found out there actually is one difference between the original Metroid in Metroid Zero Mission and the Classic NES version. (No, I was NOT dumb enough to actually buy the classic version when I HAD the GB version, but I know someone who was :D.)
Namely, unlike in the version in Zero Mission, they actually found a way to let you save without having to die just like in the original. Now, with Zelda 1, Zelda 2, Metroid, and Kid Icarus too I believe, when you pause the game you can press up and A at the same time to get to the save menu without having to die. Heck, in Metroid you can get in situations where it's impossible to die and yet you are stuck. First read about it in the Zelda 2 instruction booklet under saving. They even kept this intact in their incarnations on Gamecube. On GBA, there's only one controller though. So, in Metroid Zero Mission's version, as I feared, it was gone completely. But, apparently they just mapped it to controller 1 in the Classic version (actually, instead of up and A, you press up and select). So, you can save without dying in classic, but not the one included in Zero Mission... Well, doesn't that suck... Oh well, there isn't a death counter and so long as I keep the deaths low enough I can still get the best ending... Still, I gotta quit every now and then, and sometimes I like to save if I'm afraid I'm actually going to die so I can avoid adding it to the counter. Still, I suppose it's minor.
In fact, it honestly doesn't really deserve it's own thread, not even here...
This didn't work out the first time I tried it, but per the suggestion of A Black Falcon, I'm going to try it again.
To enter, post what character you want, which weapon you want to use (if you don't know the name, a description will do. If no weapon is picked, the characters original weapon will be used), and if you like you can choose a skin too. You can pick any one of the 25 characters in the roster, but the only console-specific character available is Link. Heihachi and Spawn fans need not apply. Once we have enough to stage a tournament, I'll do one-on-one battles in a bracket formation in the Battle Theater until we have a winner.
All battles will be best 2 out of 3 and be held in the Mansion Library stage.
So, sign up!
<b>EdenMaster</b> - Cervantes - Falchion
<b>Dark Jaguar</b> - Link - Great Fairy Sword (I mean, Black Rose Sword...)
<b>A Black Falcon</b> - Seung Mina - Soul Edge (Complete)
<b>Great Rumbler</b> - Nightmare - Soul Edge
<b>Sacred Jellybean</b> - Voldo - Manus & Ayus
<b>Nick Burns</b> - Astaroth - Thanatos
