Sony’s UMD media is dead. Videos for PSP available as downloads
By walking leaf • Dec 19th, 2006 • Category: Videogame NewsThe future of distributing video content for Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) will be downloads instead of UMD discs, according to a report from The Financial Times.
With the failure of UMD (Universal Media Disc) for the PSP system, all video content will be available to download from Sony’s digital video services similar to Apple’s iTunes online [...]
Wii forecast is available now followed by Opera
By walking leaf • Dec 19th, 2006 • Category: Videogame NewsIf your Nintendo Wii is emitting a blue light today, it means a new function is now available on the console. The Wii Weather Channel has gone live, which means you can check the weather forecast around the world.
As for accessing the Internet with your Wii, the Opera website has been updated, revealing the official [...]
Metal Gear Solid 4: Available on PS3 or Xbox 360?
By walking leaf • Dec 19th, 2006 • Category: Videogame NewsOver the weekend, there has been a real buzz on the Internet regarding Konami’s Tactical Espionage Action game, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
The rumours are over Solid Snake’s new stealth mission would be appearing on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 instead of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console.
Why on Xbox 360? Perhaps the software publisher [...]
Nintendo Wii prototype controllers
By walking leaf • Dec 19th, 2006 • Category: Videogame NewsEver wondered what the Nintendo Wii controller would have looked like if the Japanese firm didn’t go for the ‘remote control’ concept we known now?
Well, this scanned image taken from a Japanese weekly magazine Nikkei Business features a number of Wii controller prototypes.
You can see that two of the designs were inspired by television remote [...]
Santa Claus: “This is the longest night of my life”
By walking leaf • Dec 19th, 2006 • Category: News, RandomnessCelebrate the Christmas holiday in the style of hit ‘real-time’ drama 24 with this amusing video clip.
Entitled ‘24th’ it takes places between 11.58 pm and 12.00 am. Santa Claus has a dilemma: there’s no chimney to climb down… Santa needs help. Who does he call? Well, CTU of course (Christmas Toy Unit)!
At CTU, an elf [...]
Photoshop CS3 Beta download
By walking leaf • Dec 18th, 2006 • Category: Creative Arts, Technology NewsAdobe Photoshop is the leading photo manipulation application used by graphic professionals and the software developer has just released a new Beta version demo of Creative Suite 3.0 for the PC and Macintosh platform.
The new Photoshop CS3 is now running on Universal Binary (first time on a Mac) that will work at its optimum performance [...]
The tribulation of owning a supercar, as told by Jeremy Clarkson
By walking leaf • Dec 18th, 2006 • Category: Entertainment News, NewsWith the news that Top Gear will be back on our TV screen on January 28th 2007, it’s time for a classic YouTube video featuring Jeremy Clarkson’s on-going difficulty with his unreliable supercar.
Clarkson’s never-ending Ford GT saga has been well documented since his initial purchase back in 2004.
A few articles in his Times newspaper [...]
Fancy eight-bit desktops
By walking leaf • Dec 18th, 2006 • Category: Creative Arts, Retro Gaming, Videogame NewsAre you a fan of retro gaming? Want a new look to your computer desktop? If you answered these two questions with an enthusiastic ‘yes’, then head over to Freaky Fonts to download some retro-looking wallpaper images.
The simple looking ‘spirits’ will look elegant as your background picture and won’t clutter the screen as much as [...]
Nintendo Wii’s Opera Browser out soon?
By NeoBlade • Dec 17th, 2006 • Category: Videogame NewsHow soon? If rumours are true it will be available on the 23rd December. We believe that the browser will support Flash but there is no news about Java support or indeed what other standards it supports. Also it seems that the final version of the browser might be available sometime in March… With the [...]
Taxi 3
By Janus • Dec 16th, 2006 • Category: Entertainment News, Movie Reviews, News
Information:
Title: (Taxi 3)
Certificate: (15)(UK)
Released by: (Optimum Home)(It should be noted that the releaser is different for the first two films)
Run Time: (84 minutes)(PAL)
Origin: (France)
Language: (French)
Subtitles: (Hard coded American English)(i.e. non-removable)
Vintage: (2003: original) (2006: UK release)
Right I guess the first thing to say is that this is a follow-up to my reviews back in august of [...]









