Archive for July, 2006

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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

After many weeks of redesigns, and late night conference calls, we are proud to welcome you to the launch of Tipcast!
Tipcast is a daily Tips and tricks podcast from the minds of Uncompressed, Tony Nilles and Thom Wetzel. Joining our team is Sean Partridge, who has himself been on many episodes of Uncompressed. For a [...]

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Monday, July 24th, 2006

If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that after nearly a decade in various stages of development, 3DRealms’ Prey came out a few weeks ago and it looks awesome. A rare video interview with Paul Schuytema, the one time team leader of the Prey project popped up on Google Video and it’s [...]

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Monday, July 24th, 2006

The latest issue of the Offical Xbox Magazine includes a demo of the GTA-esque Saints Row for the 360 on the cover disc. It looks like subscribers are starting to get their issues because YouTube is awash in demo footage.
Here’s a little taste. There isn’t any sound, but it looks pretty [...]

-image-AMD Buys ATI for $5.4 Billion

Monday, July 24th, 2006

After all the rumors, the deal finally materialized.
Full press release below…
Edit: Intel has also pulled ATI’s chipset license.

-image-Next-Gen Star Wars Video

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Here’s something neat — some game footage from a next-generation game they’re working on at Lucasarts. Verry cool stuff.

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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

We have talked about this nifty program on previous shows, but it looks like the boys over at http://antonstruyk.com/freetar/ have finally gotten around to releasing a new version of their beta.
If you want to help support the project, you could probably also give them a bit of love over at Digg.

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Friday, July 14th, 2006

On the latest show, I mentioned how Kevin Smith (of Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy) fame has a DVD where he talks about how he was involved with writing a draft of the long-in-development Superman movie. It’s really funny stuff.
Warning: Contains strong language

If you dig this, you should pick up his An Evening With Kevin [...]

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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Despite a lack of regular updates, the Uncompressed legacy forges forward with this, Episode 27. Even though schedules have been tight lately, we managed to round up Tony, Thom, Matt, and Sean to talk about Movies, Video Games, and ponder the mysteries of email related incontinence.
Some of the highlights on this weeks show included a [...]

-image-Wii launch date Nov. 6 says SI for Kids - Joystiq

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Now you guys don’t have to wonder what to buy me for my birthday… lolz
Wii launch date Nov. 6 says SI for Kids - Joystiq