PSP 2.0 Arrives Next Week

After some pushbacks and vague annoucments, SCEA has made it "official", at least for now, that the 2.0 update for the PSP, the one with the browser update, will launch next week, August 15- 21, at some point. Until then, Wipeout Pure will have to do the trick.

TiVo Jumps on the Online Bandwagon

Looks like TiVo is working on getting connected to the Internet to directly download shows oonto its HD. Media Center PC owners may be syaing "So what?" but heres the catch: get the shows before they air. It's probably just a gimick...but still, catching an early "CSI" would be something that perks my attention.

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Mostly Good...But Not 100%

From soem weird rating thing that uses "vaules" of words...click on pic for info. MN blog got 17% evil, TriXie's got 99% good.

Cheek This Screen Out

From Quake 4 on the 360. Looks like its real-time...and it looks good. Nothing "Oh My God!!" but still pretty nice looking. This game is looking pretty sweet!

IMAGE CREDIT: TEAMXBOX.COM

Current TV?

Last night I just found Current, the new Al Gore TV channel thing. I watched it probably for about 2 hours or so...and its pretty good. Different, but good.

Current dosn't have shows...it has pods. Little seven minute video things, mostly made by amatures. In between are some cool Google stats )Popular searches with "symtoms') and one commerical at a time. The channel also has old news footage from historical days, but I only saw one on the LA Riots...not to sure what else is included.

It seems like a cool channel that can keep you really hooked...but two drawbacks: No Tivo (Its listed as just one 6 hour long block) and it could get old fast

Blogger Down

Just an update for those who, for some reason might care, Blogger will be down at 6 PST Wednesday, August 10, 2005 (thats tomorrow). My blog my not be accessable at this time.

G-Phoria 2005 Winners

Skip the boring speeches, the lame bands and the overall G4 crappyness and just read the winners below. No, I'm not physcic, nor was any hacking needed...TeamXbox posted the list last month. Here 'ya go:

Alt Sports Award Fueled by Mountain Dew
NBA Street V3

Best Adaptation
LEGO Star Wars The Video Game

Best Action Game
God of War

Best Boss
Halo 2 - Scarab Battle

Best Cinematic
God of War

Best Graphics
Half-Life 2

Best Handheld Game
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Best Innovation
Katamari Damacy

Best Licensed Soundtrack
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Best Multiplayer Game
Halo 2

Best Original Game
God of War

Best Original Soundtrack
Halo 2

Best Racing Game
Burnout 3: Takedown

Best RPG Star Wars
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Best Shooter
Halo 2

Best Sound Design
Halo 2

Best Traditional Sports Game
Madden NFL 2005

Best Voice Performance - Female
Half-Life 2 - Merle Dandridge

Best Voice Performance - Male
Halo 2 - David Cross

EB Gamers Choice Award
World of Warcraft

Favorite Character
God of War - Kratos

Game of the Year
Halo 2

Legend Award Presented by Jeep
Ralph Baer

So, Halo2 ends up with 7 awards...pretty good. Perhaps the biggest surprise was KOTOR 2's win...but then again, there really wern't a whole lot of good, popular RPGs this year...save maybe Fable. Expect G-Phoria 2006 to be crowded with all Xbox 360 games... I can hardly wait.

Happy B-Day Blog!

It's offical: this blog is exactly one year old. It was this day last year when I registared for a Blogger accountant and posted my very first entry into "Continual Randomness". Since then, the blog has changed over the months, gone days without updates, and then dozens of updates in one day.

At the start, the blog was desgined for my Black Arrow days. Then it morphed into antipatication for "Star Wars Day 2004", then into a singing coutdown for Halo 2. Since November 9, it served as mostly a Halo 2 fan page...before morphing into just an all-around everything blog that it is now.

What does the future hold for Continual Randomness? I geuss whatever my future holds. Hopefully, this year maybe I'll get serious about blogging, desgin some HTML and maybe even do a PodCast with the blog. Expect more updates about better stuff, and lots more pictures and links of "random" things. This year, I'm heading right to the roots of the blog..."Continual" meaning a lot more posts, and "Randomness" meaning stuff about everything. Some of next years, which starts right now, highlights include:

• My Senoir Year at YHS, including college stuff and graduation.
• The Launch of Xbox 360, PS3, and the Nintendo Revolution.
• The (maybe) release of Bungie's next game.
• Windows Vista and its new wave of crappyness.
• More globe trotting
• Harry Potter #7 build up
• Star Wars Day 05, release of ROTS DVD and BF 2
• More Xbox Live attachments
• And more...

Thats just a list of someof the stuff I know will happen in the rest of 05 and 06. I'm sure there will be plenty of more stuff to talk about...and maybe I few surprises I know about but can't yet say.

Also, I may try to either regroup or start a new blog for this year, as the links on the side are getting kinda long.

Maybe latter I'll set up a special B-day Poll...cheek back here latter and vote.

Lastly, thanks readers. Without you, no one would read. Heres to another year just as good as this one.

StarDrummer