How The Game Is Played

Preparing for the Electronic Entertainment Expo

Next week is E3, the videogame industry's number one retail show.

Likely I wont blog much next week but the week after should premier a new feature for my blogs-- pictures! I bought a new Cannon Digital Rebel EOS a few weeks back and I'll be taking it with me to E3.

Provided I can (a) get bloged to work for me and (b) can figure out hot to dump pictures from my camera to Linux I should be able to share highlights of the show with you all.

On other news, I've been using the Netbeans Profiler lately, now in beta. This is an AMAZING tool, Particularly since its for free, Its the equal of some very expensive Java profilers I've used in the past. I highly recommend it.

One Caveat, it depends on JVMPI which is broken in the current Java 5 build, but you can use it with JDK1.4 or Java 6 (also known as mustang.) There are instructions for all of this on the pages describing the Profiler at the netbeans site: www.netbeans.org

Another piece of game news. I just heard that M$FT is going to be premiering the Xbox2 on MTV tonight at 6:40pm and again at 10:30 pm. (I don;'t know but assume that's PST.) If you have any interest in either the videogame industry OR consumer electronics, you want to track this. M$FT has already announced that there will be an upgraded “media center” version of the Xbox2 that will play games AND do Ultimate TV AND do all the Media Center PC stuff. Its definitely their latest attack on the consumer electronics market.

I have a comment on whats going on in general in the consumer electronics market, frankly it scares me. But I'm going to save that for another post as its a whole blog in of itself. One last tidbit though, Yahoo has announced a cheap music streaming service (http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20050510203019787) to compete with Real Rhapsody. Like Rhapsody, its based on a M$SFT DRM technology. They say that your music can be”transferred to portable devices.” What do you want to bet thats only portable devices running a M$SFT OS?

Scary stuff. And thats not what has me the most scared, but for that your gonna have to wait for my next blog.

Posted at 06:26PM May 12, 2005 by gameguy in General  |  Comments[2]