Well for a start, you get Aaron Sorkin to write, David Fincher to direct and Trent Reznor to score it.  There, you have my attention..

Favourite trailer of the year so far by a country mile.  Just love the feel of this - the two teasers have been brilliantly understated too.  Casting looks spot on, say what you like about Timberlake but Jesse Eisenberg does the twitchy geek better than anyone.  I doubt Mark Zuckerberg will be flattered, and it's based on a pretty contentious book, but as I said, you already have my ticket.

 

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Categories: Geek | Movies | trailers | want

I thought I'd focus on a couple of games for a change, as I haven't really touched on gaming here on the blog.  I'm not much of a gamer, I have a good spec PC and a PS3 but don't spend very much time on either in a gaming capacity.  What few games I do play are normally older titles and I take my time with them.  I'm not in the habit of rushing out to the shops on launch day to get something only to finish it later that day.  However, occasionally there are things that pique my interest and convince me to open my wallet for a title as soon as it's available.  Just so happens there are a couple of those this month.

Split/Second
I do like racing games.  I'm not the best at FPS on PC and downright rubbish at them on console - just cannot do the shooting thing with a joypad, but I guess that is down to lack of practice.  Anyway, Burnout has always been a favourite of mine, and this looks like a natural successor.  It's from the developers of a game called "Pure" which I have still to check out.  I played the demo on a friend's 360 the other evening and it seems very promising - it was a bit slow and the handling a little sluggish but I assumed 1) It's a demo and 2) gotta be an early introductory level.  Didn't put me off at all.  Here's some footage:

 

Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands
I loved and finished "Sands of Time", really enjoyed but got stuck on "Warrior Within", and own but still haven't played the last eponymous "Prince of Persia" title.  I was a bit put off by the "no death" scenario from that one, but having been assured that it's very good I do want to get around to trying it - I've owned it since January 2009 for pete's sake!  Told you I wasn't an active gamer...  Anyway, this seems more like a return to form - here's a preview.

 

Now, this isn't really my thing but looks cool anyway - Mechwarrior!!!  Big armoured walking tanks blowing the crap out of other big armoured walking tanks.  I remember the original versions and this definitely looks the business compared to those.

 

For all old-school Mechwarrior fans, the free version of Mechwarrior 4 is now available for download, but the site seems to have been flattened by traffic at the moment

 

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Categories: Games | trailers | want

There's been a flurry of interest in Google Wave this week, mainly people desperately trying to get hold of invites to the initial beta programme.  Google released 100,000 invites, and all of these people could invite 5 friends to the next test.  This, quite predictably, led to madness on eBay within minutes - but also has led to spammers jumping on the bandwagon, so be aware if you get an invite by mail from someone who probably doesn't have an invite themselves...

So anyway, what's all the fuss about?  Well, you could watch the whole amazing Developer Preview but its a bit long so here is something significantly shorter - just about 2 minutes total in fact and gets the point across nicely

So there you have it, Google Wave in a nutshell.

Anyone got a spare invite?

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Categories: Geek | tech | want | Web

I've been looking to change my DAB radio for a while now, so when I spotted the new Logitech Squeezebox radio yesterday it immediately went to the top of my "want" list.

At the moment I have a Pure "Bug" which I'm pretty sure has been discontinued now.  Nice piece of kit, and yes I admit I bought it cos it looked quirky (and you can record onto SD cards) but there are a few issues with it, mainly to do with the controls which are very fiddly and not really suitable as a bedside radio.

I already have a Squeezebox Classic downstairs, connected to an amp which is basically my entire hi-fi system.  As I mentioned briefly in an earlier post, whenever I buy CDs now they immediately get ripped to FLAC and stored on a central server which is used as a hub for all my media.  This means that the Squeezebox can stream lossless music via wifi.  So having another Squeezebox in the bedroom makes perfect sense, as I'd have access to my entire music collection.  Of course there is the fact that Internet stations will be available too - be wonderful drifting off to sleep with SomaFM playing quietly...

Plugins and a great developer base make the Squeezebox a no-brainer choice, all the BBC stations plus ListenAgain are available, and anything that is on DAB usually has an internet-broadcast equivilent.

I was planning to get the Boom, but this just looks like a smaller and more practical option.  Available late September in the UK, for about £159.

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Categories: Geek | gadgets | want | tech