The Terminator movies changed a genre and can be considered groundbreaking. T3 was kind of ass, but the TX was hot as hell. Now, after the success of the TV show, Terminator: Salvation aims to move the franchise to new places by expanding the story beyond into the end of mankind. Check out this teaser trailer from the VGA’s. Christian Bale as John Connor FTMFW.
Just a reminder to set your DVR for 9pm ET tonight for Spike TV for this year’s Video Game Awards. Should be much better than last year.
The biggest part is the new trailers and reveals for a bunch of new quality titles, like Uncharted 2, GTA IV The Lost and the Damned, and a few others.
Watch and it and let us know what you think.
The new Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update fixed some glaring issues with both VGA and the Wireless Network Adapter.
On the VGA front, you can now select the video Reference Levels in the System Blade. This will allow you to change the output frequency to match your TV’s frequency. No more washed out colors of soft pictures with this fix.
For the Wireless Networking Adapter, you can now connect to a wireless network that is using WPA + WPA2 encryption. This was an issue from day 1 with the adapter. Even though you were allowing a WPA client to connect to your router with both encryptions in place, the official Xbox 360 adapter didn’t want to play nice. Now it does. The official wireless networking adapter still does not support WPA2, but it allows you to connect in the presence of this encryption standard. So for all of you other there using a Draft-N router, you can now connect your Xbox 360 to it with wireless LAN.
Kudos to Microsoft to implementing these fixes. They’re long overdue, but greatly welcome.
Everyone’s favorite gaming retailer, Gamestop/EB Games, will be offering a trade-up program for the Xbox 360 Elite. You get trade-in credit for an Xbox 360 Core or Premium as well as an original Xbox.
For the Core 360, you get $200 trade-in credit. For the Premium, you get $250. You’d think all the extra premium stuff would be worth more than an extra $50. Anyway, you will also get $50 for trading in your original Xbox. Personally, I’d say keep that original Xbox and mod it to run Xbox Media Center.
If you’re looking to get rid of your current 360 for the new, more powerful model, this isn’t too bad of a deal. I’m going to wait it out and see if Microsoft fixes the VGA output issues on the 360.
More pics after the jump.
The Gears of War auto-update is coming today! Get ready for some great Annex action! Fire up your 360’s this afternoon/evening to get the update.
Along with the Annex game type, there’s a ton of bug fixes, including VGA support for new resolutions. That should make some of you PC monitor users happy 
Not only do we get the crazy keyboard controller, but we also get some crazy new features in the Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update.
Of particular note, H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2 (read DiVX, XViD) support has been added. I am ecstatic over this! This is something people have been begging for with the Xbox 360 for a long time. No longer do we need to use Transcode 360 over Media Center to watch these videos.
No official word on having a VGA output level select in the dash with the new update, as was rumored by an HD-DVD insider. I hope that makes it into the update, since I’d love to get full 1080p without having to drop $480 clams on the Elite.
Full details after the jump.
Gamespot had a video up tonight talking about the Spring Dashboard Update for the Xbox 360. The video was quickly pulled, but by the wonders of the intarweb, we get to watch that video on YouTube.
Seems like there’s some decent additions, although no word on the rumored VGA video mode choice.
Yesterday I posted about all the questions I still had about the Xbox 360 Elite. Someone with inside sources at Microsoft from AVS Forum actually got a chance to ask all of those questions.
The 360 Elite will support HDMI 1.2, which means no Dolby Digital+ or TrueHD sound. It will support uncompressed Linear PCM, but only 2 channel. That’s some BS right there. That shoots down my idea of buying one.
Of equal or possibly better news, the Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update will see some VGA improvements as well. You’ll now be able to select your video level, 7.5 IRE vs. 0, to get true 1080p from the VGA port. This excites me. No longer will we have washed out colors and such from the 360 with the VGA connection.
Overall, now that these issues have been answered, I am severely unimpressed with the Xbox 360 Elite. I don’t see any point in buying one. I don’t need the 120GB hard drive either, since I’m not storing tons and tons of content.
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Mark Rein confirmed today that a new game type will be coming to Gears of War’s multiplayer, called Annex. No word on how the game will play out, but given the name, I’d expect it’ll be some sort of territory holding game.
From the Epic forums:
The next title update for Gears of War is currently going through the certification process. We’ll have more detail about the update next week but I can tell you that in addition to fixing a whole bunch of glitches, and providing 720p for VGA users running at 1280×1024, it will contain a brand new multiplayer gametype called Annex.
Some folks who got to play it a few weeks ago said they think it is our best multiplayer gametype yet but I’ll leave it for you fans to decide what you think for yourself when it shows up soon on Xbox Live. More details next week.
So good news for all, it seems. I’d imagine we’ll see this update his in late April or early May.
In case you don’t know what FTW means, it stands for “For The Win”. Get up with the slang, young-ins.
So, in an effort to be more productive, I picked up a Dell 20″ widescreen LCD monitor (E207WFP) and a Happauge WinTV-HVR-1600 HDTV tuner card. I opted for the Dell E-series instead of the 2007WFP because I have no need for the crazy adjustments it has, and the actual monitor is exactly the same. Didn’t feel like spending that extra $100.
You might be saying to yourself, how the bloody hell is an HDTV tuner card going to make this guy more productive? We’ll I’ll tell you. I hate silence; I need something going on. Radio hasn’t been cutting it for me, and I can only listen to the Opie and Anthony replay on XM so many times a day, so I’ve been working at the coffee table in the living room watching my HDTV. This has led to less coding, more gaming on my part, which is putting me behind schedule on a couple projects.
So I picked up a nice widescreen monitor and tv tuner card so I can have something to watch in my office while I do work. The monitor is more for a dual monitor setup on my laptop (which is a 15″ widescreen) than the tv part. I have a 19″ Dell LCD that my desktop runs on.
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