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Nintendo Wii still in short supply

December 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment

When we were browsing the local Best Buy last Sunday, I noticed there is a large section devoted to the Nintendo Wii: games, accessories, etc. One thing still is ominously missing: the Wii console.

Wired has an article describing the woes of Nintendo. After increasing capacity from 1 million to 1.8 million units per month, they sell about as much units in a week as the XBox 360 does in a whole month. Yet no store seems to have them in stock. Only EBay has a large supply: about 8,000 auctions were active, selling the $250 Wii for $400-$600.

Yahoo! has a Wii Finder in their buyer’s guide – but the only results I’m getting are “Out of Stock” for the online store, and there is no information for local stores. The “official” Wii Tracker shows a bit of history: Yesterday eToys got some Wiis in stock at 12:30PM, and were sold out at 12:40PM. Toys R Us has the Console for sale a whopping 30 minutes before they too were sold out.

If you’re looking for a Wii, be prepared to do a lot of calling and driving around. A better bet is EBay. Or you can follow the Wired advice and just follow the UPS man from store to store…

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Linux game company opens doors, releases first game

November 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment

On November 3rd, 2007, Sixth Floor Labs LLC announced that they launched their business. The press release can be found here.

They also released the first release of Project Alexandria, an Asteroids-like arcade game. This is downloadable for free here.

Although it’s commendable that a company decides to make Linux games, this game’s graphics look very much like the Commodore 64 graphics. I haven’t played the game yet, but I’m not sure the world is waiting for the next 1980′s game. Hopefully future release will look a little better…

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Spore available as pre-order item from Amazon

September 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This morning I received an email from Amazon, informing me that Spore is available for pre-order!

The price is $49.99, and the expected release date is March 31st, 2008. Hopefully this will bring an end to the long wait for this game.

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Penny Arcade, the game – a preview

September 2, 2007 By 3 Comments

Wired has a sneak peak at the first computer game of Penny Arcade, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode I. Besides the familiar Penny Arcade humor, this game is special in that it will be released in episodes, only available directly from the PA website.

Each episode will presumably be cheaper than a complete game, therefore lowering the threshold for buyers. However, it also puts a lot of pressure on each episode: make a bad episode, and you might lose some of your fans, resulting in lower sales.

I’m looking forward to the game, especially after seeing some of the screen shots: they capture the comic’s style perfectly. And it will probably be my only chance to ever see the Fruit Fucker in action…

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And we’re back…

September 30, 2006 By 1 Comment

That was an interesting three weeks. Without any posts to the blog.

First reason was my mom coming over for almost two weeks. She’s from the Netherlands (as am I originally), and visits almost every year. It’s always fun to have her over, but it’s also very tiresome – apart from doing my day job, I now have a second job as tour guide of the area, and a third job as translator. She’s home now though, safe and sound.
Second reason was my wife (and me!) having to make several trips to a fertility doctor in North Carolina. It’s only about a two hour drive away, but added on to the tour guide and translator jobs, this started to wear me out.

Third reason is a project at work, being several months in the making, decided to go into testing phase. Of course some bugs appear, which need to be fixed sooner than ASAP.

And of course all this happens in a period with exciting stuff going on:

  • TiVo releases the Series 3. And it’s on sale. Very expensive though. And some problems with CableCards (long live our cable companies).
  • The release date for the Nintendo Wii is announced (November 19, 2006). And it’s price ($249). It still looks pretty exciting, and I hope I can convince my sweetheart I need one…
  • I caved and bought a Nintendo DS. First of all because of the cool game Brain Age. And second of all because there seems to be interaction between the Wii and the DS (wireless).

Apart from that, lots of new exciting stuff is happening at home itself. Ubuntu is getting a strong foothold here, and I’ll tell more about the 4 things I needed to be able to do. So far I’ve been able to do 2 1/2… We might be getting a dog, so there goes that free time. But more about those things in a different post.

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