This week's TNT is Dyn-o-mite!
Wow a lot has happened this week in Tech. First of all, the iPod Nano's just blew up in Apple's face. Tons of people who bought them had broken screens within like a week. Of course Apple is going to replace them, but this is just showing how fragile they are, which is a bad thing. I mean really, what's going to happen next, will they start breaking in half easier then potato chips? The next piece of news is about the Nintendogs/DS bundle that Zam told
you about last week. He said they were coming in teal, well, they have also decided that all the little girlys out there need a pink version. It has been announced that they will cost $150, and include Nintendogs: Best Friends, a Nintendo DS, a bone shaped screen cleaner, and a Nintendogs DS skin. If you are asking yourself what Best Friends Edition is, I am going to tell you so slap yourself in the face and be quiet. It is regular Nintendogs with the 6 starting dogs being, Lab Retriever, Golden Retriever, German Shepard, Beagle, Yorkies, and Dachshund. I would buy this if I didn't already have a DS, I might still buy it though, I want the bone shaped screen cleaner. By the way, it is being released on October 24th. RESIDENT EVIL IS COMING TO THE DS!!!.......In Japan........That's right, RE is being turned DS, and once a game turns DS, there's no turning back. In Japan it is being called Biohazard: Deadly Silence, which in English translates to Resident Evil: Deadly Silence. Sadly, no date has been set for a US release of RE:DS (That is kind of odd). For some very stupid reason, Nintendo is coming out with 2 new GBA:SP colors. WHY?!?!?! The
Micro is out so really, no one wants an SP. Anyway, the 2 new colors are Pearl Blue and Graphite, how special. Nintendo is really laying back lately, first LOZ: Twilight Princess gets delayed, and now they are delaying Metroid Prime: Hunters. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE???!!??? At least they have given a good reason, they are adding online multiplayer, which is a welcome feature. A little note, Animal Crossing DS is now Animal Crossing: Wild World. Sadly, we have to wait to December 5th to taste the AC goodness. Nintendo is really taking up this edition of dynamite (TNT). Next up to bat is Burnout Legends on the DS!!! FINALLY!!! It was announced before, but now there are a bunch of details on it. There will be 12 tracks and 10 cars, a big
boost over the PSP version. All of the cars you know and love from the old Burnout games are here, including the '30s Gangster car. Also, in crash mode, you will use the touch screen to steer your car into targets (AKA cars). There is a new James Bond movie coming out in 2006 called Casino Royale. This time James Bond may or may not be Pierce Brosnan, they haven't decided yet. MIT is being cheap and making a $100 Linux laptop, you don't need me to tell you it will suck. Also, some idiots were stupid enough to illegally release Star Wars Episode 3 online a DAY before it came out. For one thing, they weren't making any money from doing it, and two, it was ONE DAY before the movie was released. They were
asking to be arrested. In other news, Intel and Microsoft have decided to back HD-DVD, which is a massive deal. This will really affect what next-gen DVD format will be used the most. Also, you know that movie that is coming out in 2007......ummm.......I forgot the name. Oh yeah Spiderman 3, well, it has been proven that Topher Grace will play Venom and Thomas Haden Church will play the Sandman. I don't know about you, but I think Tobey Mcguire vs. Topher Grace is going to be the biggest slap-fight the world has ever seen. As well, the funniest thing I have ever heard on the news happened this week, dolphin assassins armed to the fins with lasers are rampaging in the Gulf of Mexico. Apparentely the navy trained dolphins to kill terrorists with laser beams, and during the hurricanes, they got out. There are 36 , yes, 36 killer dolphins in the gulf. We can only hope dolhpins know the
difference between regular people and terrorists. What next? Kittens flying fighter jets? Lambs with rocket launchers? Who knows. The last thing that happened this week is IGN has started to make concepts of what the Revoution controller could do. The first concept I have seen is a shotgun, check it out, it is hot though so have your air-conditioned controllers armed and loaded. That is all the tech news this week, I shall leave now to let it all soak in.
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Welcome to this week's MDM, I have found a lot of great deals this week that I think you'll like. Oh yeah and by the way if you didn't read before, it's Ton instead of Zam today since he's just gotten back. I know he usually does games so I'll do mostly them today. First up, a deal that is not for games, but it is reaaaally good. Now you have no reason to pirate music because I have found a deal - 
and you have to pay for it unless you send it back (at their expense). You can also just tell them you don't want it. It's easier to just get it all over with at once and nothing else happens though. They've got a 
Sorry that DS week has kind of been spread out, we've kind of been busy. Now to finally end it up, a review of the DS. This two-screen touchable wonder is surprisingly cool. First off the features are great, a microphone, 2 screens, one touch screen, wifi multiplayer, and soon online multiplayer for free thanks to Nintendo. Thank you Nintendo for making everything weirder then it already is. This is a really cool handheld like I said before, it's very innovative, except it's uniqueness (weirdness) makes it kind of hard for developers to make games for it. Developers aren't really using the DS's abilities very much either. The DS is available in Electric Blue and Silver. It has a download play feature for multiplayer so if your friends don't have a certain game that you want to play multiplayer on, you might be able to download a kind of demo to their DS so they can play. Another cool feature is the Pictochat, it is preinstalled and it lets you chat with your friends
wirelessly using pictures and text. Obviously it can play DS games and also GBA games as well. It doesn't play movies like the PSP does :-(. Then again the games are microscopic, which is a good thing/bad thing, I'd rather not lose a game I payed $30 for. That's right, the games are like $30-$40, unlike greedy Sony who wants $50 for the PSP games. Also, as of now the DS is like half the price of the PSP at $130. Oh yes did I mention that it doesn't use memory cards like the PSP does (Yippee!), it saves right on the game like Game Boys have always done. I have said PSP too much in this review. That pretty much closes it up. I give the Dual Screen DS (I don't think thats a coincidence) 5 stylus rubs out of 5. (Check out Meteos and Nintendogs if you get one!)
Genji: Dawn of the Samurai is a hack and slash game, where you save Japan from guys trying to take over. Very Japanese based. S.L.A.I. Steel Lancer Arena International is a mech game, (not another one). It is pretty much based on a future sport. In this game, you play a bunch of mech competitions. Sounds interesting, like a Madden 06' with robots. Yes, i know, DICE is going to be for the GBA, but that hasn't been released yet, so I get to talk about this one (haha Nintendo). So, the DICE game is based off of the "popular" tv show. Basically, it is a team of guys riding Dinosaurs, so they made a game out of this, (yippee). Now, for the PS2 game you have all been waiting for, We Love Katamari!! Oh how the name is so true. We do all love that unique style game known as We Love Katamari, and it was finally released, and it has co-op!! YAY!!! Ok, next I will list the games that came out Only on Xbox. 1 game. Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes. Kindom Under Fire: Heroes, is a new addtion to the series. It brings some more things from the last one, 7 new characters, and some other things for you to control. Next, the games Only for the munchkin system, the Gamecube. Also only 1 game. Battalion Wars. Battalion is a RTS style game. This game offers a bunch of vehicles for you to 
drive around, and blow up cartoony bad guys with the comfort of you A button. Next, the PC (and some for Mac and PC). There were a bunch this week. America's Army: Special Forces, Myst V: End of Ages, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, and the best one, Real Deal Vegas Casino Experience. America's Army: Special Forces, is a spinoff of the free online game that is trying to get people to join the army. This has more pizzazz to it, adding more weapons, and enviroments. Myst V: End of Ages, goes by its name, it is the last one. This game is much more beautiful than all other Myst games. This game picks up right where the other one lets off. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition is pretty much Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War with more environments. And, the PC game you have all been waiting for, Real Deal Vegas Casino Experience! This is of course a gambling game, but it is based in Las Vegas, YAY!! Ok, we kid, it is just gambling, nothing more. The PC always gets a ton of games. Next, we have the ones that came out for the PSP (movies
know what you are saying, "But Zam, Madden 06' came out week ago." Well, it wasn't released included). Madden 06', Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Lords of Dogtown, and Frantix. Now I for the PSP until this week, (oh poor PSP owners). I really don't need to explain this game, I will sum it up in one word, Football. Moving on. Two Adam Sandler movies came out for the PSP this week. Big Daddy (why so late) and The Longest Yard. Pretty self explanitory. Lords of Dogtown is another UMD movie that came out this week. That movie is pretty much guys skateboarding, and getting girls. Frantix is puzzle games that offers a ton (as an adjective, not Ton) of levels. So many puzzles to keep you busy for hours. Nothing came out for the exclusively for the DS, and nothing good came out for the GBA (except Barbie: Double Pack), so lets move on to the multi-platform games. A nice list of 5, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06', X-Men Legends 2: Rise of the Apocalypse, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Tak: The Great Juju Challenge, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Gretzky NHL 06'. Tiger Woods 06' pretty much golf. It 
came out for pretty much everything. Next, X-Men Legends 2, came out on pretty much everything too (except the DS). This is the sequel to number one (duh). The game offers more mutants and enemies. Sounds cool. Mortal Kombat: Shoalin Monks came out for almost everything as well. Pretty much all you have to say about this is, a fighting game. And everyone has probably played Mortal Kombat, so you know what I mean. Tak: The Great JuJu Challenge, is the third installment in the Tak series. This game was released for almost everything, but is probably going to sell more on the Gamecube. Tak brings a nice co-op play, and is a nice platformer. Ultimate Spider-Man is the game everyone has been waiting for. It is based on the popular comic-strip, so that is the game style.In this game, YOU FINALLY GET TO TAKE ON VENOM. Gamers and Spider-Man fanboys has been waiting for something like this on the consoles for months, even years. It is definetely going to be one of the top sellers. Gretzky 06' is hockey. That is all you pretty much have to say about it. So a lot of games came out this week. Hope you play them all. And I hope you enjoy this post where i use Next way to much. Yeah!! 
The Nintendo Revolution controller. It explaines it in itself, it's weird. It is from Nintendo people. Well, Nintendo has finally announced and shown off their new controller at Tokyo Game Show 05' in Japan (lucky japanese). The controller is in a remote kind of style. So now, if you lose the controller, you can say the ever popular phrase, "Darn, I lost the remote!" Ok, so it is weird, but this is no ordinary remote, it has the controlles on it. This is going to feel WEIRD in you hands. So, you probably won't get this remote mixed up with the T.V. remote. Now, there is an analog stick, but one thing, it is an attachment! Oh man, that is Out of the box. This is actually pretty cool. I mean, easier to hold. Now on the remote controller (the main one), on top there is an on and off button, a D-Pad, A button, then the select and start button are in the same row, but with the home button in the middle. Under that is the usual B and A buttons, then 4 lights labeled 1-4. Probably to tell you how many controllers the Revo can read.
Under that is the classic Nintenod symbol, and under that is the slot to connect attachments, such as the analog stick. On the back is a weirdly placed B trigger, which is weird because there is already a B button. Now on the analog stick attachment, there is of course the analog stick, and 2 Z buttons. Yes 2! Who knows what those are for. Apparently there is no R and L trigger, so we are still wondering what is going on with that. Now, there is no C-Stick, but that is ok. You know why? The controller is you C-Stick!! "What?!" you ask, well, the thing has a sensor that is used as the C-Stick. Move it left, the camera goes left, move it right, it goes right, and so on. This is really, really cool. The only problem with this, is that if you move it slightly by accident, it moves. This will get annoying. We are hoping that is not the case. The thing is wireless, which is good.
My thoughts on the Revo controller is that it is going to change the video game controller market forever. It is a very "Revolutionary" controller, very original, very surprising, very hopeful. I will enjoy using this controller. Ton's thinks that this controller will either bomb, or succeed. He thinks that the controller is great for FPS'. I agree, the analog stick in the other hand, and the sensor aim, great for them. We want to know what you think! So please leave comments. One of our loyal readers, d.s., says, "I'm not feeling the controller. It's different.
It might end up being truly "revolutionary", or it might put Nintendo 6 feet under. I think this is a big move by them, very risky. I'll have to try it somewhere else before I would decide to buy it." He makes good points. Check out his blog, he has more about his thoughts on the Revo controller. It is called, 
Oh Mario. Mario Mario Mario. As you may have guessed, I am reviewing a Mario game, Super Mario 64 for the N6......I mean DS. How horrible your first DS game is, I never would have guessed. Nor would I have ever bought it, that's why I didn't, I got it free (and was FORCED to play it because I didn't have any other DS game right away). Well..It's a good game....but it is the exact same as the N64 version. Oh wait it is a little different, you start as Yoshi not Mario (Only difference I notice is one is red and one is green and together they make a christmas tree), but still if you've played the N64 version don't even bother touching this. Speaking of touching, there's nothing to touch (or poke, rub, or slide) in this game, it uses the touch screen little to none. The only thing it uses it for is menus and mini-games, which by the way are the best part of the whole thing (I am talking about the menus not the mini games). The minigames are actually very fun and make good use of the touch screen. Oh yeah and in the actual game you can play as 4 characters, a red
plumber, a green plumber, a fat dude, and a green rolly thingy. The graphics are good for the DS though. Mario's hat has never been redder or rounder. The sound, well, it's Mario, and Mario music is madly annoying after a while at least to me. Let's see, there's multiplayer. Yay... I am really very happy and I am just not showing it (not really). Lastly, this game gets old fast. VEERY FAST. I think it got old after 5 minutes but most people say it's more like 2 weeks so I guess I listen to them.There's not much else to this game. It is not really worth $30 for an old game remade with new mini games, also it really doesn't use the touch screen to it's full ability. This would have been better remade for the 'Cube instead of the DS. For non-originality, not using the DS to it's full potential, it just being a plain remake, I give Super Mario 64 DS 2
Meteos, oh Meteos, oh how I love Meteos. Now I shall explain my love of Meteos for the Nintendo DS in a review. First of all this is a very good game. It is very weird how both the PSP and DS's best games are puzzle games. The good stuff about this game. Well. The graphics are good. Little blocks look great in Meteos! The gameplay is preeeetty simple. It's like Tetris but different. You use the stylus to move bricks up and down columns to make rows of 3, 4, or if you're lucky 5. Once they make rows or columns, they'll blast off. Before you say goodbye to the Meteos however, you have to meet gravity. Yes, gravity, oh how meaaan gravity can be, pulling down those Meteos that you wasted your time shooting up. However, you can be mean back by making more rows or columns of Meteos in the one you sent up, or shoot up some from below to push the ones already up there up more. Got that? Oh you don't? Too bad.
That's pretty much all there is to the actual game. Let's see. There are 30 planets which I think you are firing off of, all of them have different amounts of gravity and different kinds of blocks. The thing about the gravity has to do with how fast or slow the Meteos go up, how far they'll go, and sometimes if you can't launch blocks in certain ways easily. An example is you couldn't launch a row of Meteos up the if you only tried sending up one set, but if you set up a second one under it and launched it off right after, they would go up lightning fast. There are a few game modes, Time War, Simple, Deluge, and Star Trip. Star Trip is the most fun, you get a path of planets you have to conquer, there are 3 different types of paths, and I think 2 of them have missions on each planet. There is wireless and no online, and you are an idiot if you thought it had online when Nintendo hasn't even started their online yet. The wireless has download play, so you can download the game to other people's DS's so you can play with them without them having a DS. The cool thing about this is you can unlock tons and TONS of stuff out of the Meteos you have launched. Stuff including music you can listen to and new planets to launch from. Speaking of sound, there is so much variety in it you will never get bored of it. One last note, a cool little thing is that you can drag the buttons on the menus around. Oh yeah and there is nothing bad about this game. This is a good, solid, and very puzzling game. It is also 5 Meteoses out of 5.
THAT IS RIGHT IT IS REVEALED AND IT IS WEIRDER THEN WEIRD (see pictures and you will understand)! No, I am not kidding, this is the real controller. IT IS A REMOTE CONTROL WITH A HANDHELD JOYSTICK! Of course there will be more attachments other then the handheld stick thingy. To make it odderer then it is already, when you move the actual controller, it will control the game. That will be very good for FPS games, but it could be just down right annoying some times. I don’t understand it either but then again I never have understood Nintendo, and now I am lost beyond being found. I am looking into the future and I see Nintendo’s Revolution sales being very bad. Ok returning to regular news, the iPod Nano. It is smaller than a penny! Not really, it is actually like the size of a credit card. Now you can’t tell me that isn’t small. Well actually you can but I am not going to listen. It is going to be available in white and black for you Goths out there. The Nano is available in 2 GB and 4GB capacities. They have color displays too, so now you can look at black and white music lists in color! 
is for you, but I think I will stick with the regular iPod for only like $100 more and a ton more space. Good luck getting one though, they were just released and Best Buy is already sold out, the world is being Nanofied as I speak! Also, since the world has been Nanofied, the world is being un-Minified. That is right, the iPod Mini which we all know and love so dearly is being discontinued! Yes, I know this is horribly sad, but we all have to move on. In other news, Ebay has bought the free (not for long) internet calling program, Skype. Maybe when you buy something from Ebay, you’ll get minutes on Skype. It’s just an idea people, take it or leave it. Why Ebay bought this company, I have absolutely NO idea. The next
(you should buy Ultimate Edition, the biggest waste of the most money). No prices have been set as well as no details on how you will upgrade from XP to these different versions. They’re all pretty obvious, Standard is standard, Home basic is home edition, home premium is improved home edition, Enterprise and Small business are something for businesses, Professional is Pro edition, and Ultimate is what I will be buying because it is for gamers. That pretty much sums up all the Tech News this Thursday. 
characters will be midgets. Yes, Baby Wars has finally caught on like I knew it would. It is so funny to look at an anti-air turret and see a little dot in it instead of a regular person. If this gets popular enough, maybe they’ll change Episode 3 to Star Wars: Revenge of the Babies! Moving on, I have an over clocking (kind of) tip for all you Pocket PC Users like me. First of all, buy yourself a GB memory card so you can store all your stuff somewhere. Don’t know where to get one for cheap? Hmmm I wonder where you could get one (Psst there’s a link to a 1GB card for $60 
shiny shiny!), you will unlock new dog breeds. Also, when you find the Jack Russel Book item, you unlock the Jack Russell Terrier, and when you find the firefighter hat, you unlock the Dalmatian. You can unlock 4 new types of houses to buy at certain trainer point #’s. There is even a space station you can live on, the weird thing is that when you go on walks from it, you still are on Earth, I guess you have a Star Trek crew member and you told him to beam you down. Last in this dog eat dog world of ours, as you gain trainer points, you unlock items that you can buy. To finish this T&T Tuesday, I will give a cheat or 2 for Ridge Racers on that nice little thing called the PSP (Whatever that is). First, when you are entering a race, on the track and car confirm screen, hold down Select so you can sing Zoom Zoom Zoom. This will unlock unlimited nitrous oxide! The other Ridge Racers won’t stand a chance against my continuous stream of blue fire!!! One other odd thing is if you drift into a turn, it will steer through the curve for you and keep you in the middle of the road. That is it, it is over. I hope these trick and tips help you! 
Time to introduce our next segment. Drum roll please. It’s called……RELEASE RECAP!!! THIS SEGMENT OWNS ALL! Seriously it’s actually not very useful but we put it in anyway. In it, we look back (or ahead) to show you what games are coming out this week. Sound boring enough? Oh well deal with it. This week, a bunch of games are coming out. You want to know what they are? Well. You don’t always get what you want, but this time you do I guess. Let’s see. First of all, this is the biggest release week I have EVER seen, and I have seen a lot of release weeks. I guess we’ll start off with Sony’s greedy release of 2 Everquest expansions on the same day. They want $15 a month and still they make you buy so many expansions you’re wallet has been stuck in a drought ever since Sony started making online games. Oh yeah the games are named Everquest 2: Desert of Flames and Everquest: Depths of Darkhollow. There’s a new flight simulator
that looks like the biggest waste of money in the world. It’s from a weird company called Shockwave and it is called Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory. There’s Digital Devil Saga 2 for PS2 – yet another RPG (I’m getting tired of them making a new RPG game every 2 minutes). They’re porting a boring game to the XBOX so they can make more money from the idiots who buy it. I am talking about the game that looks the same no matter what you do in it – Dynasty Warriors 5. These games are so boring I am falling asleep talking about them. There’s a kind of odd looking game for PS2 and XBOX called Evil Dead Regeneration which I really don’t know what to say about. Probably will suck. They’re releasing a new version of GTA:SA for XBOX with no Hot Coffee. Like whoever doesn’t already have it isn’t going to buy the original. Nice way of fixing the ‘problem’ Hilary Clinton, 
you’re about as smart a brainless zombie (if that isn’t what she really is). Also this week, Gripshift, the game that Zam previewed earlier in PSP week. So far, that looks like only thing worth buying. Medieval Resurrection for the PSP, a very odd looking game based on the Playstation Medieval series. Urban Reign for the PS2, another fighting game, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING. A new RTS Squad Assault: Second Wave bla bla bla. World War 2: Battleground Europe for PC, an MMO game, not MMORPG, just MMOG. Iiiiinteresting. Also a few new UMD movies including American Pie 2, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (WHHHHHY????), and Pulp Fiction (A movie based on non-real orange juice……). Now it is time to pass over the mic to the Flash Previews Channel for our 3 word or less previews. Here goes. Animaniacs for Gamecube and XBOX, Junk. Barbie PC, Barbie GBA, Barbie GBA, TRASH TRASH TRASH. Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures for all
3 consoles, not worth $30. Danny Phantom: The Ultimate Enemy, GBA Junk. Elf Collections for PC, Whatever t’is, Trash. Lego Bionicle: Maze of Shadows, weird game. Marine Park Empire, What the heck? Power Rangers: S.P.D, Explanation not needed. Weird gambling games, Don’t buy them (You’ll get addicted and lose tons of virtual money). Caterpillar Construction Tycoon, 5-year-old game. Cinderella GBA, Cinderella PC, THE PAINFUL PAIN!!! That is it. All of them are G-A-R-B-A-G-E. I missed a few games whoops. Rhem 2, don’t touch this game, I played the first and it was horrible. Lastly, BURNOUT REVENGE (PS2 and XBOX) AND LEGENDS (PSP)!!! DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON ANYTHING ELSE WASTE IT ON THESE!!! By the way I will have a review of Revenge in about a week. Finally we are done. My tongue is hanging out…..I look like a dog……I am tired….and these games have given me a disease called Game Sucktitis. I shall be tending my wounds while you read. Goodbye and goodnight.
Yes, the second of our new segments is Marked Down Monday. MDM is for gamers (and hackers) on a budget. So we show you some great deals on the internet. I am doing games, and Ton is doing tech. So lets get on with our first
one. The addictive 
right collector's edition!!! When Halo 2 came out, it was $49.99, and the Collector's Edition was $54.99!! That is a lot. But now, Overstock.com has it for $39.95!!!!!!!!!! Amazing deal!!! You save $15.04!! Ok, now it is the best for last. 
