Long-awaited game ‘Spore’ shows first signs of life online (USATODAY.com)

Posted June 20th, 2008

USATODAY.com – The video game Spore begins its life cycle Tuesday. For its first baby step, the game’s Spore Creature Creator goes live at www.spore.com. The program, for Windows and Macintosh PCs, lets players design creatures using the game’s editing tools. Those creations will populate the world – actually, [...]

IBM’s Cell-based RoadRunner Supercomputer Is World’s Fastest (PC World)

Posted June 20th, 2008

PC World – A supercomputer based on Cell chips like those in the PlayStation 3 has been named the world’s fastest in a ranking published…

XBMC for Xbox 2008-06-16 SVN rev13573 build – T3CH

Posted June 20th, 2008

T3CH released a new SVN compile (rev13573) of XBMC for Xbox (XboxMediaCenter(info)).This T3CH-compile is a complete snapshot of what is in SVN at the time the build was compiled, with just a few small additions.
Special Notes and Added/Noteworthy/XML/Script changes:* AMT updated to pre-0.99.5a, Lyrics to 1.5.9, Nuka1195’s Plugin Installer to 1.2* added : Key map [...]

MrModchips Appeal Document

Posted June 20th, 2008

MrModchips provided the Appeal Document to Team Xecuter. The court of appeal criminal division the legal argument that modchips do not circumvent copyright protection was upheld by Judge Justice Jacobs (more info).

MrModchips Wins Appeal in 1M GBP UK Modchip Case

Posted June 20th, 2008

From team-xecuter.com:[QUOTE]In a landmark historic occasion today 11 June 2008 at the court of appeal criminal division the legal argument that modchips do not circumvent copyright protection was upheld by Judge Justice Jacobs.
The granting of this appeal based on the argument that the copyright infringement has already taken place before the use of a modchip [...]

XCM 1080p Mega Cool VGABox

Posted June 20th, 2008

XCM announced a new VGA box:[QUOTE]XCM 1080p Mega Cool VGABox* Supports PC video display resolutions up to UXGA (1600 x 1200 @ 75 Hz) or HDTV (up to 1920 x 1080)* Supports 480i, 576i 480p,576p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p* Transfer pictures from GameCube, Playstation 2, Xbox, PSP Slim, Wii, Xbox 360,Playstation 3 consoles that can [...]

XBMC for Xbox 2008-06-01 SVN rev13360 build – T3CH

Posted June 20th, 2008

T3CH released a new SVN compile (rev13360) of XBMC for Xbox (XboxMediaCenter(info)).This T3CH-compile is a complete snapshot of what is in SVN at the time the build was compiled, with just a few small additions.
Special Notes and Noteworthy/XML/Script changes:* I’ve removed “Nuka1195 & Dataratt’s AOL Videos Plugin” and updated “Nuka1195’s XBMC-Addons Installer” to 1.1* I’ve [...]

XBMC Dev Con 2008 Hosted By Boxee

Posted June 20th, 2008

From xbmc.org:[QUOTE]XBMC DEV CON 2008 will be the first event in which the XBMC developers get a chance to get together face-to-face, meet and greet, discuss XBMC, and maybe get a little coding done as well. After 6 years and with so many users, it is time for the XBMC programmers to get out of [...]