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hahah, I did the exact same thing. I decided to go over and see if my BB had this deal though, and sure enough. Picked up the 8800GT for $147.48 after tax thanks to the coupon. Thanks for the heads up guys.

I'm also interested in that 2090 from Directron. I've been scouring the web trying to find a non-TN 1600x1200 for under $350 and this is the first I've seen. I'm a little worried about getting screwed though since it's a refurb. If the unit arrives with dead pixels and or other defects what are...

Unplugging PSU and jogging the power button did the trick. How bizarre, thanks man!

The Problem: About an hour ago, my mouse and keyboard suddenly stopped responding while working on the machine. Upon rebooting, I got a "Keyboard failure" message in the boot screen and was not able to use the keyboard to use the menu in Vista's Boot Manager. After letting Vista boot up...

My brother is looking for a new laptop and has very simple requirements: 1) Reliability 2) No-hassle wireless connectivity. It will be used exclusively for word processing and web surfing. I don't own a laptop myself and don't plan to so I'm not real familiar about what's out there. Anything...

Well, I was kind of expecting the $250 price tag, but I was still hoping for the outside chance of $199 just to see how much ass Nintendo could kick. Ah well. The inclusion of Wii Sports adds at least $30 of value, so it's really not that big of a deal.

Yep, not the problem then. I CTD on launch. Sigh.

I have the same problem, and I ran BF2 fine before 1.4. Uninstalled / reinstalled / used full patch, to no improvement. How can I look at my disk drive's power management settings?

Beautiful. I installed incremental, crash to desktop on launch. I uninstall the game, reinstall, download and install full patch, crash to desktop on launch. Thanks guys.

This is really only true for the Eastern markets. Microsoft "made a name" for itself with the Xbox1 in the West, which is now teeming with Xbox !!!!!!s.They're one of the big 3 and everyone recognizes this. THIS was accomplished by the sheer brute force of deep Microsoft pockets and they...

Eheheh. I think they had more ammunition at their dispotal than they used, but like someone else said, anyone can look like an asshole with the proper editing ;). I thought the "we have implemented elegant system" followed by the guy tweaking out in the plane was the best.

Counting the minutes...

Wha... the guy would defend Nintendo to his grave, but his arguments were more level headed and composed than most the people he would argue against. I rarely saw him resort to personal attacks like most people on forums do very quickly.

I've reluctantly accepted it.

Mr. Jay Wrolstad, please never talk about video games ever again. Yahoo sure can pick the bogus news. All my money is on $199.99 USD. They can't keep doing the $200 price forever simply due to inflation, but this is not the console to break the cycle. The GameCube would have justified a $250...

That'd be a little shady if this is true, but like Steve pointed out, certainly not an uncommon practice at E3. The Inquirer, on the other hand, just lost all credibility with me. The Nintendo N-sider Wii forum is the most sensationalist, fan-boy infested, unreliable 12 year old and under...

Doesn't surprise me. I was a big fan of GTA2 on the PC, but was very critical of their decision to make GTA3 a 3d shooter. They pulled it off well though, and I don't need to tell anyone the rest.

Chris Taylor wins RTS games forever.

In Soviet Playstation, controller move YOU!

Interesting to see the prices adjusted for inflation. Makes the 360's prices look pretty standard. Also interesting to see that the GameCube was the cheapest home console ever released. I'd like to see a chart comparing the price of the console adjusted for inflation with the number of units...

It is true that many parents either won't have the technical prowess to fiddle with complicated settings or simply won't care, but dumbing down the online service for all users because of this isn't the only solution. For instance, they could ship the system already "kid safe" by having the...

I understand what they're trying to do, but this argument simply doesn't hold up for me. Parental controls are really not hard to implement, and for us adults that don't want to deal with the 13 year old racists, we don't need to use voice chat or even participate in the community functions...

Yep, you're right. They mention that in the commentary in the demo. Thanks ;)

I hadn't heard anything about this title until I saw something about it on digg, and it has got me really intrigued. It's going to be a 3rd person shooter with GTA style non-linear missions and freedom. You're basically a spy action hero that kicks ass and saves the world. Most impressive of...

Spore, followed by Twilight Princess.

Wii is a given for me. I'm back and forth on the 360, though. The Live Anywhere concept both intrigues me and makes me think I won't need a 360 if I have a PC/Vista. Some of the games coming out for 360 really are compelling, but I feel the 360 library in general is very FPS heavy. I like...

Those articles Bad_Boy posted are both drawing on pre-2006 E3 sources. It seems Sony has shifted their stance on offering online multiplayer for free at this years press conference. Harrison came out and said in the press conference that Sony will be leaving the actual online multiplayer...

Looks nice. Now make it not use some obscene amount of CPU power like we've heard reports of.

I bet some off-beat Japanese game will use it with decent success at some point. A game like Katamari could be fun with tilting. But for every traditional video game genre, it will just be frustrating/cumbersome/not neccessary/not fun.

This controller personalization sounds pretty sweet. But, Nintendo does not look to be taking the Xbox Live concept "one step further". It seems to be taking one step back, really. Read this interview at IGN. The Wii's online service apparently is going to work the same way as the DS...

Man, nastalgia overload. Looks like a blast.

Seems pretty unintrusive to me. I'm more concerned with the range of its detection.

The thing with coming out at $149 though, is that this doesn't give them any strategic currency later down the road. At that price point, they would likely be selling the machine for zero profit, if not teetering on selling at a loss. Even with manufacturing costs being reduced later on in the...

I anticipated this. A cross platform game with a complicated, button heavy control scheme that isn't reinvented for the Wii should just use the GC controller or classic controller. Copying and pasting buttons for gestures as the rule rather than the exception is just going to make playing the...

Hah, nice interview. Looks like Microsoft is playing to crush, as always ;). Moore seems to genuinely believe in his product, though.

Yeah...voice comm with strangers on the net is trying enough sometimes. This sounds like it'd be better as a friends-list only feature.

PLEASE, PLZZZZPLZPLZZPLZPLZPLZEEEZZZZZ, don't make it based on gestures. If they make this game, it has to give the player free control over the light saber to swing as they wish. Then make it online. Do that, and you win video games. Forever.

Yeah, I'm waiting for a decent resolution version of this to be released.

To be honest, I'd be kind of dissappointed if it was above $200, and I have this gut feeling they're going to price it at $250 because they can get away with it. I'd still get it, but possibly not right at launch. I'd feel much better about the lower tech in the machine if this translated to...

He said he has an Xbox, guys :P.