Hide your coke, Wolverine. Kelsey Grammer will be playing Beast in X-Men 3

Epic Games (Unreal series) announced Gears of War exclusively for Xbox 360. It looks like a mashup of Ghost Recon, Half Life, Resident Evil, and a good measure of cocaine. The Unreal engine is gorgeous. Check out the shaky-cam movies.

IGN has a Q & A article on what to expect in Civilization IV. Among other things, it has a completely new government model, it uses a 3-D engine, and it will have multiplayer out of the box. This last bit was moronically omitted in the first release of Civ 3.

Team 17, of Worms fame, is releasing Lemmings for PSP. There will be classic and new levels with a promise of downloadable content. Boomtown has some screenshots. The next question is where the hell is Worms (2-D) for the PSP?

Extreme Tech asked a M$ veep what wireless technology will be used in the Xbox 360 controllers (wi-fi, bluetooth, etc.). Here’s what the company man said:

It’s a proprietary technology that we developed. In order to do great games in a wireless fashion, you want to make sure you address some latency issues and some bandwidth issues. So we developed a proprietary technique in order to do that.

You don’t say. Microsoft has piss-poor developers, but hawk-like brand managers. They’ll take a popular technology developed by someone else, tack on a few random bits of code or hardware to make it incompatible with the tech on which it’s based, and sell it as their own.
Case in point, the controller ports for the original Xbox are USB. They changed physical shape of the connectors from rectangles to ovals. For the 360, expect them to take bluetooth, cripple a component that’s not critical to work most of the time, then brand it “ActiveNoWires”.

Our good friend, Electro Rock (aka Kid Angry), registered here last week. His chosen user name was in reference to the bad guy crew in the movie, Breakin’. Having not thought about that movie for some time, I decided to take a stroll down memory lane and see what I could dredge up on the topical flick. I found that someone actually wrote a review. I like how it starts:

Breakin’ is one of those films that do not translate well into a review.

Need a GBA you can hide in your mouth? The Nintendo Micro is 4″ x 2″ x 0.7″

The reasons why Firefox kicks ass are many and well documented, but the one relevant to this topic is its extensibility. GreaseMonkey is one such extension. Wired has a good article on it, but if you’re lazy…
GreaseMonkey allows Firefox users to use site-specific scripts to alter the look or behavior of websites that they visit. For instance, if you use Netflix, but you like to read about movies on IMDB, you can enable a script to display a “Add to my Netflix queue” link on each movie page on IMDB. Another script bypasses the interstitial ad pages and in-content ads on IGN.com. Well done geeks!