Gkaruk's Technological Blog

Yes, someone has turned a 999.9 gold bar into a 24k Gold Faceplate for the Xbox 360. You may think thats gonna cost alot, well yeh, it does and it starting price is $36,000 on ebay.

From the ad on Ebay:

Check the Ebay auction here.

Amazon has caused a major stir in the Xbox 360 pre-order community.  It appears they have cocked-up their pre-orders for mainly August/September pre-orders.  Consumer who ordered later are gaining preference over those who pre-ordered from August and September.

Alot of the Xbox 360 pre-order community very irrate and hence a number of fourms have long threads complaining about the lack of information or guarantee from Amazon they will get there console before christmas.

Due to this huge issue, fellow pre-orderer has created a web site (http://www.digidots.co.uk/amazon.php) dedicated to log consumers who have this problem. Currently registered are 390 consumers of which 75% are within the last 2wk of August pre-order dates have had consoles going to laterer pre-orderers, clearly not first come, first serve.

The BBC and IT Vibe have now picked up this news story and is covering Amazon repsonses.

I strongly recommend all who pre-ordered from 17th August to mid September to sign the petition mentioned above.

Samsung recently showed the largest flexible screen to date.  The screen used two films of non-brital plastic to sandwich the liquid crystal between.  This sounds similar to the screens by Sharp due out in 2007.

check the article here at PC Pro.

It seems Sony may have developed a beast of a power house machine for gaming but apparently its is such a complex beast to developr for compare with Xbox 360.  The Xbox 360 development is based on XNA (a direvaitive or next version of direct x) runnning on a PC.  However the PS3 development kit relies on developers shelling out alot of Yen up front to develop for the console.  Once the development kit has been bought, the developers will only end up with one platform to launch the title on, where as with Xbox 360 developers can launch the title on both Xbox 360 and PC.

The develop in the below article details their reasons for jumping ship to Xbox 360 and why PS3 will require rare super-talented developers.

check the article at ComputerAndVideoGames.com. 

Well it looks like Europe is being screwed over again, the US had over 1 million Xbox 360 consoles for its launch.  The European launch speculation is currently only 300,000 units will be available for 2-Dec 2005 launch day.  If this is true, then its laughable, how can Microsoft justify the large difference across regions.  Do Microsoft see the US as more important than the rest of the world?  I think so.

I and a friend have done some local investigation as to number of units available for Friday (2-Dec-2005).  Our local Toys R Us store told us they were expecting only 24 units for launch day split by 12 Core and 12 Deluxe units all goin on general sale at 8am.

For more on this check the full artilce at Prodigious Gaming.