Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Football Manager 2009 soon…

SI Games has announced the release of Football Manager 2009 (FM 2009).

Source: SI Games

More info to be released on 3 September 2008. Stay tune for more!

Maggie Q to star in Undercover.

Maggie Q starring in Need For Speed Undercover

Maggie Q starring in Need For Speed Undercover

EA’s next installment to the Need For Speed franchise is going to be released on 18 November in North America and 21 November for Europe.

Need for Speed Underground will features similar gameplay to its predecessor, Most Wanted. The game will include underground racing, car chases and highway races.

This time, the leading actress of the game is Maggie Q (above).

Maggie Q will play the role of Agent Chase Linh, who manages players as they race to overthrow an international crime syndicate.

Well, she does look like an undercover. Don’t you agree?

GTA IV coming to PC in November

GTA fan beholds! GTA IV is coming to PC soon.

Finally there is something to look forward on the PC plaform…

World Cyber Games 2008 Asian Championship Gaming Rig

It’s World Cyber Games again. The Asian Championship is once again, held in Singapore.

Last year, I did a coverage on the gaming rig that was used there. This year, I am going to do it again.

As usual, the organiser is going to sell the gaming rigs after the competition at a bargain price.

The rig specification is as follows:

  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83 Ghz, 1333 Mhz FSB, 12MB L2 Cache
  • MSI P45 Neo2-FR
  • Aeneon X-Tune 2GB DDR2-1066 CL5 RAM
  • Seagate SATA-II 250GB HDD
  • XpertVision GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB GDDR3 PCI-E x16 Graphics Card
  • Samsung 20x DVD Rewriter
  • CoolerMaster Centurion 534 Casing
  • CoolerMaster Extreme Power 460W
  • Logitech/Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
  • Samsung T220 22″ LCD 2ms response time / DVI interface
  • 1 year warranty

Price? SG$ 1,688. This is a pretty good price if you want to buy a new computer right now.

The downside of the deal is that 2GB of RAM seems too little for Windows Vista. The Windows Vista should be 32-bit as it is not stated. Graphics wise, 9600 GT is good enough, but HD4850 will be better. The PSU is also not powerful enough. At least a 500W will be fine.

You can make your interest known to the organiser here.

Dark Alex releases new PSP unbricker

Despertar del Cementerio v6 has been released by Dark Alex which is used inconjunction with the Pandora Battery to unbrick bricked PSP.

The new version has solved many bugfixes and also fixes the issue with TA-088 PSP model.

The new Despertar del Cementerio v6 contains the following changes:

  • Installs 4.01 M33-2 straightaway
  • New graphical interface.
  • Allows you to boot firmware from memory stick for testing purposes.

For more information you can go to the Dark Alex website or exophase forum to download the new unbricker.