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[GraveRobberX]

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I think the next Burnout game is due in January, Burnout Paradise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_Paradise

You can get Assassins Creed

Dead Rising (I think its @ the Baragin Bin price now)

This will help you also

<<link removed due to copyright issues>>

[SupHammer]

I was wondering if there were any non-shooter, non-GH3ish online multiplayer games around that anyone would recommend?

lol I don't think any 360 games meet that criteria.

Ace Combat 6 is the only one i can think of. A great underrated game imo.

And I know it's a shooter, but seriously get COD4.

[BRP]

I was wondering if there were any non-shooter, non-GH3ish online multiplayer games around that anyone would recommend?

lol I don't think any 360 games meet that criteria.

Ace Combat 6 is the only one i can think of. A great underrated game imo.

And I know it's a shooter, but seriously get COD4.

FFXI

[SupHammer]

FFXI

well yeah, but he already knows that one. That's one of the reasons he got a 360.

[Pyro]

Looks like my thoughts about SE's new game Lord of Vermillion were correct. It's going to be a card based game running along the same lines as Eye of Judgment.

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/lov/index.html

[Xavier]

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the PS3 or anything like that, but I saw an article today that just made me chuckle at Sony. Just as soon as Sony announced that their PS3 price cut had tripled sales of the PS3 in America, selling somewhere around 322,000 units between November 1st-24th, Nintendo announces that they sold 350,000 Wii's between November 18th-24th.

To anybody who works at a Gamestop, did Nintendo purposely have you hold off on selling the Wii until Black Friday? Because thats a fkton of systems to sell all at once for a system in low supply, even if it was Black Friday.

Sony sales. & Nintendo sales.

[Semitry]

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the PS3 or anything like that, but I saw an article today that just made me chuckle at Sony. Just as soon as Sony announced that their PS3 price cut had tripled sales of the PS3 in America, selling somewhere around 322,000 units between November 1st-24th, Nintendo announces that they sold 350,000 Wii's between November 18th-24th.

To anybody who works at a Gamestop, did Nintendo purposely have you hold off on selling the Wii until Black Friday? Because thats a fkton of systems to sell all at once for a system in low supply, even if it was Black Friday.

Sony sales. & Nintendo sales.

Wii's are going for $500-600 on Ebay...

From what I read, Nintendo sold 400kish prior to black friday, so expect like a 1m+ NPD for them and prior to the holidays, they mentioned doubling up production so I doubt they withheld anything.

[Deejay]

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the PS3 or anything like that, but I saw an article today that just made me chuckle at Sony. Just as soon as Sony announced that their PS3 price cut had tripled sales of the PS3 in America, selling somewhere around 322,000 units between November 1st-24th, Nintendo announces that they sold 350,000 Wii's between November 18th-24th.

To anybody who works at a Gamestop, did Nintendo purposely have you hold off on selling the Wii until Black Friday? Because thats a fkton of systems to sell all at once for a system in low supply, even if it was Black Friday.

Sony sales. & Nintendo sales.

I don't work for EB anymore but it isn't uncommon for our district to advertise that we will have Wii's in stock for a certain date and just hold all of our shipments of Wii's in the back room and just sell them on the day we say we'll have them. If you read anywhere that Wii's will be in stock Black Friday then it probably means all the EBs/Gamestops in that area are just holding all the shipments they get from now until then.

[Exoduso]

In case you missed it, new(ish?) MGS4 trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5aFz5JTYoQ&feature=related

[Kazen]

They withheld for black friday on the wiis, at least where I work they did. The UPC's didnt become active till friday morning.

[Headspace]

Toys R Us sold all of their stock that week on Sunday because they didn't want to deal with Wii's on Black Friday as the store is jampacked anyways

[izembo]

was held till black friday.

[thestalkmore]

In case you missed it, new(ish?) MGS4 trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5aFz5JTYoQ&feature=related

that's been out for quite a while >.>

[Exoduso]

In case you missed it, new(ish?) MGS4 trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5aFz5JTYoQ&feature=related

that's been out for quite a while >.>

And it came out in mid September.. it hasn't been around for THAT long.

[Headspace]

In case you missed it, new(ish?) MGS4 trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5aFz5JTYoQ&feature=related

that's been out for quite a while >.>

And it came out in mid September.. it hasn't been around for THAT long.

Mid-September in internet years is 2002 now.

[Kazen]

lol...

Hacker Uses Sony PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords
Using a PS3, a senior security consultant has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords.
GamePro Staff
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:00 PM PST
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Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords, using a PS3.

By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10--15 million cycles per second -- in Intel-based architecture -- up to 1.4 billion cycles per second.

Breese, who has been working on the project, called "Crackstation", for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research. PS3's Cell Broadband Engine technology was created by IBM, Toshiba and Sony. The companies collaborated to create the CBE, commonly known as Cell, processor, which consists of one scalar processor and eight vector processors.

By design, PS3 is very suitable for cryptography, says Breese. Intel processors are designed to do all kinds of complex calculations, whereas the PS3 is good at doing simple things very quickly. "And believe it or not, cryptography really is simple," he says. "Lots of simple operations being done one at the time."

The strength of cryptography implementations is usually based on its cracking time -- how long it would take for someone to sit down and crack it, says Breese. His discovery has demonstrated that the capability of cracking encryption algorithms has multiplied by 100.

Breese's discovery "will unfortunately make cryptography cracking faster", he says. However, he hopes that his research will help drive the need for stronger cryptography to be used, and push for better implementations of cryptography.

The big implication for the industry is the fact that using Intel processors as a benchmark just is not good enough anymore, he says.

Within PS3, in Breese's case running Linux, there are six SPU (Synergistic Processing Unit) processor cores. Each core is able to do four calculations -- so across all of the cores it is possible to do 24 calculations at the same time, he says. The simplistic design of the processor architecture also helped increase the speed, he says.

Breese was looking for a way to optimize processing to make MD5 calculations go very quickly, he says. MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is one of the most used cryptographic hash functions. The PS3 managed to conduct over 1.4 billion MD5 calculations a second, he says.

But the speed increase relates to the use of SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) computing, rather than solely the PS3, he says. "It's just that the Cell processor cluster within the Playstation 3 is very good at it," he says.

Vector, or SIMD, computing involves performing calculations against a data group, rather than against a single piece of data, which is known as scalar computing, says Breese. Using vector computing allowed him to run cryptography calculations in parallel, he says.

Breese presented his findings at the Kiwicon hacker conference, held in Wellington earlier this month.

"We seem to have a world's first here, with potentially huge implications around the validity of some encryption algorithms going forward," says Security-assessment.com chief executive Peter Benson. "While we have not currently worked on distributing load across PS3s, the theory is there to increase this level of performance further."

The team rewrote some of the code to run under the vector-based methodology, and as soon as they did that they started getting "some pretty spectacular results", says Benson. It took a while before the company decided to release the numbers "because we just didn't believe them," he says.

Breese also increased the speed in x86 processors by using the same method on the x86-equivalent technology known as SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions), but the increase was not as significant. He found that the x86 SSE2 implementation could conduct over three times the number of MD5 calculations than the scalar equivalent.

Breese says the initial reason for embarking on the research project was to get the company to buy him a PS3.

For more computer gaming news, visit GamePro. Story copyright © 2007 IDG Entertainment. All rights reserved.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,14006 ... ticle.html

[Semitry]

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the PS3 or anything like that, but I saw an article today that just made me chuckle at Sony. Just as soon as Sony announced that their PS3 price cut had tripled sales of the PS3 in America, selling somewhere around 322,000 units between November 1st-24th, Nintendo announces that they sold 350,000 Wii's between November 18th-24th.

To anybody who works at a Gamestop, did Nintendo purposely have you hold off on selling the Wii until Black Friday? Because thats a fkton of systems to sell all at once for a system in low supply, even if it was Black Friday.

Sony sales. & Nintendo sales.

UPDATE: More than 310,000 Xbox 360 consoles sold in the U.S. for the week of Nov. 18, including Black Friday, rounding out its third holiday season on the market. While Xbox 360 consoles continue to generate great consumer demand, the strength of the Xbox 360 ecosystem remains unmatched by any console on the market.

Microsoft sales

So from the initial reports, the price drop, commercials and great new exclusives for the PS3 hasn't helped.

[Exoduso]

Of course it helped... PS3 sales don't necessarily come instead of 360 sales, as people might buy both.

And the PS3's sales have tripled according to Sony.

[Semitry]

Of course it helped... PS3 sales don't necessarily come instead of 360 sales, as people might buy both.

And the PS3's sales have tripled according to Sony.

Yeah but the ratio have not changed saved the halo months. It's usually 2:1 on 360 to PS3 sales with the Wii selling w/e they can produce. PS3's sales tripling have a lot to do with the holidays, as I'm sure 360/Wii sales probably near tripled too.

[Po]

Kind of a bold statement here by Konami, though I don't think they have anything to worry about.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164636

Maybe Sony will find a way to fabricate the numbers to make it appear as the "biggest release in multimedia history (or w/e)" just like M$ did. lol wouldn't be surprised.