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Something I avoided because I pretty much avoid all things dicaprio but turned out to be a great rental was the movie "Catch me if you can." Its a Spielburg flic that flew below my radar that was just really well put together and a great story loosely based on a true story.

Yea, that was classic. 2B was a straight up swipe with a decent jump on the pitcher, but third didn't even have a throw because they just ignored him figuring "No way that fossil attempts another one."

I remember seeing him last year on a hot saturday afternoon game in chavez ravine. The guy was ...

Ah, a lefty today so I'm in much better shape... Jordan, Smoltz, and the ultimate grandpa
- Julio Franco.


Combined ages of yesterday's battery = 5 years younger than Julio Franco


Julio Franco is obviously old, but it really, really hit home to me this past summer when they showed some Sid Bream ...

Ol' Bobby humbled me last night...

First time the starting lineup was made of players who were all younger than me:

DH Orr 6/8/79
2B Giles 5/18/78
LF Johnson 2/22/82
1B LaRoche 11/6/79
CF Jones 4/23/77
RF Langerhans 2/20/80
3B Marte 10/21/83
C McCann 2/20/84
SS Betemit 7/28/80
P Davies 9/9/83 ...

I snagged mine at compuplus I believe. They've got it for just over $100 right now:
http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php ... id=1003679

I have the 676 and it has been great. I have hdtv, dvd, receiver, hddvr, xbox all hooked up and controlled by it, and everything works perfectly. The activity-based buttons are the way to go as you just setup what you want to do, and the touch of one button automatically turns on/off the necessary ...

NHL 94 with some upgraded graphics and an online mode would smoke anything EA has put out in hockey for the last 10 years. That game rocked, especially multiplayer.

Bought time the figured out their retro strength with this series too... When they had the chance to port an older title for the GB ...

For the record, I would like to apologize to the baseball gods for my statement about the Rockies winning four in a row. I did not expect such horrible retribution so quickly. I believe Clint Barmes fell down those stairs within a minute of me posting. I'm sorry Clint, I'm sorry Rockies fans ...

The Cards will probably cruise to another easy central title because the rest of the division is crumbling, but where is that going to leave them? They probably won't make any significant moves because their regular season is going so well and they'll take their mediocre pitching staff and subpar ...

http://www.xboxgamers.com/?temp_view=vi ... iewid=1993

These are pretty nice looking

the PS3 Killzone, "motocross", (and a couple others) were spellbinding, IMO. We will see, if this is indeed gameplay footage...

It wasn't.

Sony was just pouring out the hype machine in an attempt to derail the 360's momentum. E3 was obviously full of hype on both sides, but all of Sony's next ...

I was gonna go for Mears...

Good grief, its speculation based on the reality of the past. We do know that the 360 will launch this holiday season. There are clips of several games up and running on 360 alpha kits (the twin G5's)...even clips of PD0 gameplay.

I want to be floored by a reworked next-gen Madden engine just as ...

I think they'll have a Madden for launch as promised, but without any screens of what it's going to look like yet, I'm really wandering what its going to be. There are two courses in my mind - your mentioned ps2 port in which they try to boost the res, or a ground up rebuild for the next gen that ...

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9204

J. Allard says "in the neighborhood" of $300 for the 360

Obviously none of them are in-gameplay because the pics aren't from drivable angles. I'd imagine they are from pre-rendered stuff as opposed to replay movies because most of them don't look like your typical track angles for that either.

I did see something about them currently working on a 360 ...

Classic stalker case.

[It's a] pretty small install base...

Yea, there are a lot more ps3's out there than 360's...

This comment makes no sense. Obviously they didn't rule out ever developing for the 360, just not going to have a launch title ready.

Probably not going to be a big deal either way as Midway doesn't ...

Yea, I liked the camera angle comment... "If any part of the gameplay involves the character running towards the camera, send it back to dev, because its not done yet."

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/gam ... festo.html

Pretty good article on gaming trends and annoyances from marketing to gameplay. Nothing that hasn't been exposed, but a decent and entertaining conglomarate look.

E3's style has certainly changed in recent years for the worse. It is now all hype and no substance on the floor with all the info being taken care of with back-room meetings. You used to be able to approach each developer at their display to talk to the people who were working on the games. Now the ...

Wow I did not know the NCAA even sanctions games at that type of level. (Acutal game play issues) Thats interesting, thanks.
Yep, and they even have room to change their mind from year to year it seems. Obviously they only have a say in games that are licensed by them, but NCAA 99 and 2000 on the ...

I got to spend a little time with NCAA yesterday, and here are my thoughts:

I was happy to see that it was running much better on the xbox than last years version, but the game just left me with a "this is what 2005 should have been" feeling... maybe they've had to tone down the dev team to ...

My plan is to snag the 360 early. It should be competitively priced as they are in a race to get it into as many hands as possible before ps3 launches.

Sony has a lot of questions to answer, and I'll be content to wait "buzz becoming reality" out to see if it ends up being a truly superior machine ...

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HD-Ball sac ...I believe that's an Xbox360 exclusive.