It's Not Microsoft that Halo Movie Studio Loves, But Nintendo

New Zealand effects and production studio Weta Workshop brought us optical magic for Lord of the Rings, and is working on Peter Jackson's Halo film. Seems innocuous enough, but up close, the statue reveals the truth: Halo or not, Weta are hardcore Ninty fanboys.

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Wii looking like an Xbox inside?

- Nintendo Wii’s ‘Broadway’ CPU operates at 729MHZ with a maximum bandwith of 1.9gbyte/sec.
- Nintendo Wii’s ‘HollyWood’ GPU is clocked at 243MHZ, the internal memory of it includes 3mb of embedded graphics memory and 24megabytes of high speed main memory.
- 64megabytes of GDDR3 (MEM2) as the external main memory. Just like the internal memory, it can be accessed from the CPU and GPU with a maximum bandwidth of 4gbytes/sec and can also store programs in the MEM2.
- The GPU of the Wii is identical to the GC’s but it is on average 1.5X faster.

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E3 is no more?

Senior industry sources have revealed to Next-Gen.Biz that the E3 industry event, in its present form, has been cancelled for next year and the foreseeable future.

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XBLA Lumines 2 & PSP are the same game?

Sharp-eyed reader DA360 noticed that Lumines Live for XBLA and Lumines 2 PSP are the same game -- except for the price:

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"Today's Birthdays" EB Green, gigantor (44), Karack (37)"

Video of record breaking Geometry Wars game.

I recently stumbled across this video posted by k4rn4ge, the dude with the all-time high score on Geometry Wars Evolved for the Xbox 360. I have no idea how anyone can have reflexes that are this fast or vision that is this good.

Huge list of Totally Free World of Warcraft servers.

World of Warcraft Private Servers Top 200.

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DX9 games run faster on Vista than XP

If you have Windows Vista and an older DirectX 9 card, you should still see better performance with Windows Vista than Windows XP, even if the hardware remains unchanged. "DirectX 9 on Vista will run faster throughout due to the better device driver model..."

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