Archive for November, 2005

Original Xbox Games on Xbox 360

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Darn, Microsoft just announced the compatibility list for the Xbox 360, and my most recently bought game, Burnout Revenge, is not playable on the 360 yet :(

I have a pre-order for the 360 so I can pick it up on December 2nd.
Halo & Halo 2 are ofcourse playable, Project Gotham 2 isn’t. Seems I need to keep the old Xbox attached for a while.

Lost: Have they lost it ?!

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Damned, I’m soooo disappointed this year with the new season of Lost

Last year, I couldn’t hardly wait to download* new episodes of Lost, and I really enjoyed the tension building up, the development of the characters, the cliffhangers etc. I loved the various characters, and while wondering how they could wave everything back together I came up with a lot of possible explanations for the island. I though it was the best series in a long, long time.

This year, I feel I’m watching a terrible accident: You don’t want to see it anymore, but you can’t stop yourself from looking at it. I get annoyed with some of the characters (e.g. Locke/Michael/Jack), the plot is beginning to feel way too much constructed, they haven’t answered a single question we had last season (except for the hatch), and only have given me more questions. Last episode (206- Abandoned) was the first time this season I felt a bit good about watching it, though it only set in in the last quarter of the episode…

I think they had a great idea for a single season, but somehow, due to the success, they had to come up with a lot more episodes/story than they originally anticipated, giving me shitty episodes right now. Wonder if the original storyline is still the same.

Too bad. No DVD box for me if they don’t come up with decent episodes soon. I might even stop downloading the new episodes and wait for the end of season to watch them all at once. Especially since they are quite good at taking breaks of OVER A MONTH mid-season. Twice.

This year, I’m into My name is Earl, CSI (as always) and, above all, Prison Break. The last one once was promised to be a single-season story, so I hope they keep up to that (like 24: each story is a single season). I don’t get my hopes up, but please, let me keep the dream…


* Yeah, I download television episodes, as I have to wait for months (or even more than a year) before they come over the the Netherlands. Given my DVD Collection, I feel I’m entitled to sometimes take sneak previews :)

Google Sitemaps

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

How the hell did I miss this ?!

Google Sitemaps, an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. Seems to me one of the more hidden features on Google, so, coming to a game-site near you soon :)

Play an online game, win a ride in space?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

This autumn, SpaceShot will be offering a skill game where players can win a suborbital trip into space.

We offer a highscore-table, now others begin to offer flights in space. Oh great :)

Wedden……?

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

I’m usually not the guy that goes around in pubs making bets with other people, but when somebody claimed that PSV did not beat Volendam with 10-0 a couple of years ago, I was into it. So we wagered 2 bottles of Schrobbelèr on it.

Well, ofcourse they did, so, after waiting for more than 3 years, yesterday I finally received the wager.

*grin* Tonight is PSV-Sparta, so we might be up to a new 10-0 :)