Gaming News and Debate

Wii Homebrew

Wii homebrew development has been increasing ever so slightly since the original twilight hack was discovered. The original hack was discovered by inputting a huge name as the name for your Zelda character; this then sent the memory into buffer over flow mode, which then enabled some clever people to run a script on it. [...]

Ad sense for Games?

We all know that adverts on WebPages help pay for the running costs etc, but do we really want this in a game? Ad Sense is basically an advertisement service run by the guys and gals at Google, People who own websites can sign up to this service, which will then allow Google to show [...]

Which DL media should I use?

This is the question I asked myself prior to acquiring the knowledge; at first I always thought that all disk media quality was the same and that the only difference between the more expensive ones and the cheaper ones were brand name. I soon found this to be untrue after an hour or two of [...]

Xbox360 RROD Fix

The xbox360 rrod affects around 30% according to a report published earlier this year; this in my opinion is disgusting. Prior to receiving the rrod, I thought that it only happened due to a combination of things, for example when people were playing for multiple hours along with the xbox360 being placed in an unventilated [...]

How to Reply to Davenport Lyons

According to one member of the www.slyck.com forums, he states that he had success with Davenport Lyons, they replied saying they would not continue with any futher action. This is what he sent them:
“I recently received a letter from yourselves, acting on behalf Atari France S.A.S, regarding “Infringement of Copyright: The Witcher”. This file was [...]

Davenport Lyons Vs Game File Sharers

With the recent news of a polish woman getting fined 16 thousand pounds for illegally sharing a 9.99 pound pinball game I decided to see what all the fuss was about. According to various sources like slyck.com the alleged file sharer is one of around 500 that received a letter demanding a sum of 300 [...]

Old Xbox Uses

So you have acquired an old Xbox, now what? Well there are various things you can do with an old Xbox I’m going to focus on using it as a media extender and retro console. So basically you find a way to mod your Xbox ether soft mod or hard mod i.e. a chip, personally [...]

Leaked xbox 360 Dashboard Video

The new xbox360 dashboard has been shown off at the official Microsoft conference some months ago now, and the leaked version of the dashboard has also been floating around the web for the same amount of time if not longer, despite this it is becoming increasingly harder to find the original video of the new [...]