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Joy to Joystiq, the holiday gift guide has come! Here is the early list to give you a head’s up on a lot things that the kids will love this Christmas, but be sure to check back for our Official List in a few weeks.

+ Gamespot features a console specific list and is the most comprehensive gaming gift guide we’ve found. Their top game picks include RE4 (GC), Civilization IV (PC), Forza Motorsport (Xbox), God of War (PS2), Advance Wars (DS), Burnout Legends (PSP), and Nintendogs (DS).

+ Barnes & Noble contains their top picks on games from all platforms. We’re not quite sure about their logic since it’s a hodge podge of random games.

+ CNET has the goods broken down by affordable, midrange, and expensive prices. Toping the list are the GameCube, GBA, Micro, Xbox, DS, PS2, and ironically, the N-Gage. Looks like they just picked everything.

+ Gamestop’s guide is console specific citing top selling games. See also the now sister company EB Games guide as well.

My wishlist is a bit more convoluted than these, but they do a great job relating the most appealing trends and fashion in the age of electronic gaming.

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Xbox 360’s Power Supply Web-Comic

Posted in Xbox 360, Art by ubersoldat on December 3rd, 2005. [Del.icio.us]

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Remote-Controlled Mario

The latest and greatest toy capitalizing off of the Mario franchise is here! This remote-controlled Mario is sure to be on your kid’s Christmas wishlist, so go out and get it!

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King’s Quest IX In Production

On November 29th, Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) announced that Phoenix Online Studios, the group producing the sequel of their King’s Quest franchise, would be allowed to continue their endeavors, granting them a fan-license. The negotiations required that the name of the sequel be changed from “King’s Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining” to merely “The Silver Lining”. The VUG press release is as follows: “After extensive evaluation, Vivendi Universal Games is pleased to announce that the fan developed trilogy project ‘The Silver Lining’ (previously known as King’s Quest IX: Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining), based on characters from Sierra Entertainment’s ‘Kings Quest’ series, has been given approval to continue development. We look forward to seeing the first of its three upcoming chapters, ‘Shadows’, completed soon.” This is great news for the KQ series, as now the halted fan-developed project of the ninth sequel has been officially revived and should debut in the main-stream market sometime in 2006.

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Newsflash: Second Xbox Shipment December 18th

A few people have been able to find Xbox 360s after launch date, either on eBay or in less searched stores, but now there is news of the second official shipment of 360s. The date to watch and wait for is December 18, 2005. I would suggest checking with your local BestBuy immediately as to whether or not they will recieve a shipment, and if they will, you should even perhaps camp out just to be ensured an Xbox 360 for the Christmas holidays!

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IGN Awards 2005

Posted in Awards, Holidays, Christmas by ubersoldat on December 25th, 2005. [Del.icio.us]

Everyone seems to be making a “Best of” list these days, but especially around the holidays. IGN has picked their top games for the year per platform, with some big awards still pending. The best per platform are:

-PS2 - God of War
-Xbox - Jade Empire
-360 - Call of Duty 2
-PC - Civilization IV
-GameCube - Resident Evil 4
-GBA - Wario Ware Twisted!
-DS - Mario Kart DS
-PSP - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
-Wireless - Skipping Stone

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Xbox 360 Mod Chips Available

At least in a few weeks… maybe. The “hack-proof” Xbox, at least as Microsoft deemed it initialy, will probably be hacked soon. They have admitted that “sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security”, but it seems to be sooner than later. “SPOnG is reporting that the first mod-chips for the 360 will be available within a month, allowing the play of “backup” game copies, which, with the recently released software that allows Xbox 360 game data extraction, means that Microsoft might have some piracy on their hands before too long. Though, if it’s any consolation for the boys in Redmond, SPOnG is reporting that ‘Microsoft’s security is the best we’ve seen to date for a disc-system. It it weren’t for the fact that DVD is used, it’s likely that further development wouldn’t have been worth anyone’s time.’”

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Game of the Week: Defend Your Castle

So I got bored recently, and decided to take a stroll down memory lane, aka Flash Games Avenue. I rediscovered a classic: Defend Your Castle. The goal here is to defend your castle from barbarians, who are actually just stick figures. I find the first few stages the hardest because you have to do everything by hand. You have to click on each stick figure and fling him into the air, letting gravity chalk up another kill. As you accumulate points, you can upgrade your castle such that you can “convert” the barbarians and train them to man your castle as archers, wizards, kamikazees, or craftsmen.

Repair Damage: Fix damage incurred to your castle
Upgrade Walls: Increase your castle’s ability to withstand the onslaught
Temple: With this upgrade, you can drop enemy units (gently) into your castle to convert them to your side. These converts can be trained or deployed as kamikazee units.
Archery Range: Train archers to defend your castle automatically
Workshop: Train craftsmen to repair your castle automatically
Mana Pool: Train wizards to use powerful spells
Demolition Lab: Allows you to deploy kamikazee units by clicking the convert icons below your castle hitpoints. Click the unit to detonate.

My strategy is to buy a Temple, and then an Archery Range as soon as possible after that, training my converts into archers. Then I skip the Workshop and the Demolition Lab, and save up for the Mana Poll. It is crucial to get the Mana Pool because wizards have powerful spells such as instant kill, massive explosion, and instant conversion. Thus you can eventually begin to compound the number of converts you get, and the rate at which you get them, by investing in wizards. It gets extremely simple when you have a sufficient amount of converts there is literally nothing left to do!

Even though the stick figures have buffed-up, do more damage, and run extremely fast, they are of little challenge to take out because I have 1630 archers, 728 craftsmen, and 215 wizards. You should get over 200 wizards so that mana-regeneration doesn’t become a problem.

That’s right. I didn’t get bored until I got to the 59th stage of Defend Your Castle and had acquired over 13 million points. That’s how addicting it is. Two thumbs up for this flash game! You can play it here.

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2008年7月29日星期二

NAB 2008: Pro camcorder highlights

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Each year the National Association of Broadcasters holds its trade show in Las Vegas and manufacturers trot out their latest professional camcorders. Here are the highlights from this year's show, so far...

Canon XL H1S/XL H1A: Canon checks in with an update to its HDV XL H1. The two new models each include three 1.67-megapixel 16:9 1/3-inch CCD sensors, 20x optical zoom lenses with Canon's SuperRange optical image stabilization, and more granular controls. For instance, the iris is now adjustable in 1/16-stop increments instead of 1/4-stop, and gain, white balance, selective-color noise reduction, and global color controls all have finer adjustments over the XL H1. The difference between the two models comes down to HD SDI, Genlock, and SMPTE timecode support. The $8,999 XL H1S has them, while the $5,999 XL H1A does not. Expect the H1S in June and the H1A in July.

JVC GY-HD200UB: This is really an update to JVC's $5,995 GY-HD200 pro camcorder. The main difference is that the HD200UB adds real-time output for 1080/60i and 1080/50i signals through the camcorder's FireWire port, so you can pair it with an optional JVC hard drive to record 1080i video with this model instead of just 720p. Existing GY-HD200 owners can send their camcorders in to the factory to be upgraded if they purchased the camcorder after February 1, 2008.

Panasonic AG-HPX170: This new pro camcorder offers three 16:9 1/3-inch CCD sensors, 14-bit A/D conversion, 19-bit processing, a 13x optical zoom lens with a wide 28mm-equivalent at its widest setting, and can record at up to 1080i or 720p in the DVCProHD format, as well as a number of other HD and SD formats. The kicker is that this camcorder records to solid-state memory in the form of Panasonic's P2 cards, which are available at the 32GB size right now for up to 64 minutes of recording, though 64GB P2 cards will hit this fall and offer double the recording time. The ZG-HPX170 will be available this fall, though pricing has not yet been announced.
Panasonic AG-HMC150/AG-HMC70: These two camcorders were originally announced back in February, though at that time Panasonic hadn't announced pricing for the AG-HMC150. According to news coming out of Vegas, Panasonic has set the price of the ZG-HMC150 at $4,500--that's about $1,500 cheaper than Lori Grunin's estimate back in February. Looks like I lost the office pool.

Sony PMW-EX3: This follow-up to the PMW-EX1 adds the ability to change lenses and can record up to 1920x1080 HD onto Sony's SxS memory cards, which are very similar to Panasonic's P2 cards, though Sony was only able to show a prototype 32GB card, while Panasonic is was teasing 64GB cards at the show. The PMW-EX3 includes Genlock and SMPTE timecode support. The PMW-EX3 will be available this fall for about $13,000.

Red Scarlet: According to a report on Camcorderinfo.com, Red Digital Cinema was teasing its latest HD model, which will include a 2/3-inch mysterium X sensor, 1-to-120fps (or 180fps burst) recording, a 4.8-inch LCD, and an 8x optical zoom lens. It has full auto or full manual shooting modes, as well as HDMI, HD-SDI, FireWire800, and USB2 outputs. It is expected to cost $3,000, though the company is saying that it won't be available until 2009 and states very bluntly on its Web site that specs, delivery dates and design are all subject to change. Indeed, the company's original Red One camcorder went through a number of revisions from the time it was announced until it finally became available.
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Record high-definition video with $499 Canon HV10 camcorder

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I've mentioned before my love--no, lurve--for high-def camcorders. Here's your chance to grab one for just about the lowest price I've seen: Vanns.com and WilloughBys are both offering the Canon HV10 for $499 shipped. (Actually, it's $499.98 at Vanns, so budget accordingly.) These are factory-refurbished units that include a manufacturer's warranty (though neither site specifies the duration; I'd ask before ordering).

The tape-based Canon HV10 captures full 1080i video and 2.7-megapixel still photos. It's chock full of advanced features, including optical image stabilization, a 10x optical zoom, and lots of manual controls. CNET didn't like the camcorder's ergonomics or short battery life, and I'm bummed that it lacks an HDMI output for connecting directly to your HDTV.

Nevertheless, the HV10 captures absolutely dazzling video for a price that's hard to beat. Before soccer season ends and you miss your chance to record your little superstar in full HD glory, jump on this deal.
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CNET's camera and camcorder review status report

Just posted: Nikon Coolpix S600 review.

I'm not too proud to steal a good idea, in this case Katz's most excellent CNET's HDTV review status report. I, too, get besieged by e-mails asking when we're planning to review camera x, why haven't we yet reviewed camcorder y, as well as escalatingly irritated e-mails as to why I failed to respond to a reader's previous e-mails regarding the previous two questions. And since today is Phil Ryan's last day with us, I, too, have just become a lone reviewer staring down an onrushing tide of the almost 200 new products in my categories announced since the beginning of the year (not to mention the 30 or so announcements I expect over the course of the next few months). Toss in the review videos, blogging, weekly newsletter, and podcast, as well as crappy weather that can delay field testing, and, well, not as many reviews will get posted as we'd like. Thankfully, I still have Matt Fitzgerald trapped in our camera-testing lab to do the heavy lifting of target shooting and analysis, and have recently gotten the go-ahead to start freelancing out some reviews again.

So here's what we've got imminently on deck--reviews you should expect to see over the next few weeks (in no particular order):

Nikon Coolpix P80

Olympus Stylus 1030SW

Nikon D3

Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1

Canon ZR950

Creative Vado

And here's the top of the list of the 30 or so products we've got on hand awaiting their turn in the lab over the following weeks. Some popular products that should be on the list aren't yet, but I won't bother you with my product acquisition woes. (FYI, I prioritize reviews based on internal traffic metrics that have shown to be satisfactorily representative of which products people are interested in. So bombarding me with e-mails requesting that I move something up in the queue will not persuade me differently. Unless you're my boss. Or his boss.)

Nikon Coolpix S210

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5

Canon PowerShot SD790 IS

JVC Everio GZ-MG330

Canon FS100

Canon FS11

Canon PowerShot A580

If you don't see your potential favorite here, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't be reviewed within the next couple of months--it just means I don't want to get your hopes up. Hopefully, we'll fill Phil's job soon (though no one can really replace him) so that the reviews machine can grind a bit more quickly.

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2008年7月28日星期一

New RCA Small Wonder video cams now available

The EZ210

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The latest iteration of RCA's Small Wonder video cameras is now available. Along with Creative's just-released $99 Vado, the new trio of Small Wonders is competing with Flip Video's popular budget cams, which--by some estimates--have snagged up to one-eighth of the overall camcorder market.

We liked how previous Small Wonder models had a flip-out LCD, and we're happy to report that two of the new models sport this feature. It's also worth noting that all the models have some form of removable memory, which means you can always carry around an extra card with you to store more videos. Alas, RCA hasn't gone with a rechargeable battery--but the new models are pretty affordable. Two come in at less than $100, while the splash-resistant Traveler model comes in at $149.99.

There was some talk at CES about the EZ300HD, a Small Wonder that would allegedly shoot at "HD" resolution (1,280 x 720). However, that model hasn't materialized yet.
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