Need for Speed Series to be Suspended

Recession hit US so badly until EA plans to put an end for Need for Speed series due to financial crisis. According to the Electronic Playground, EA has canceled all Need for Speed production after the failure of Need for Speed Undercover. If you realized Need for Speed series lost it’s ‘mojo’ ever since Most Wanted going to downhill.

However, let’s wait for the official announcement from EA.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

After had enough teasers from Mozilla project community about upcoming features in Firefox 3.1, the second beta finally released for testing. The release notes list are:

• This beta is now available in 54 languages - get your local version.
• Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
• New support for web worker threads.
• The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for web content.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
• Support for new web technologies such as the

As usual most of your extensions will probably not work with beta 2. I will for the portable version.

Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

Saw Video Game in Crisis?

Saw is really an awesome movie not only because of it's gore and vicious killing scenes but for it's storyline and unpredictable ending. In January 2008, Brash Games announced that they were working on Saw video game using Unreal 3 engine for next gen console. Imagining playing as Jigsaw the serial killer setup those awesome traps, it may sounds sickening but maybe interesting just like Manhunt.

However, recent update by Bloody Disgusting the game is nearly complete but without publisher since Brash Games facing bankruptcy. The same problem faced by Ghostbusters but picked by Atari in the end.

'How far would go to save your own life?'
The famous quote from the movie Saw and I wonder how far would they go to save this game?

Half Life Recreated in Source Engine

At the age of 15 the first game I was played in my Windows 98 desktop is Half Life. I glued myself on chair and playing the game for hours, stops only when shouted by my mom. Only God knows how many times I played the game.

Recently I stumbled a very cool teaser trailer of Half Life in Source engine. It's a complete recreation (a *mod made by guys from Black Mesa) of Half Life into Source engine. The storyline remain unchanged except the graphics. The graphics almost like Half Life 2 and I guess it's more realistic than Half Life 2.

The mod is still under development but worth to wait. Till then Half Life fans watch the teaser trailer after the jump.

p/s: After this I want to see Half Life in live action movie or at least in animation with graphics quality equals to Final Fantasy: Spirits Within.

Google Adds Themes for Gmail

Previously I did mention about the third-party design customization for Gmail with a sleek black design.Now Google finally decided to spice up Gmail by adds almost 30 new themes to spice up your inbox.

If you open your Gmail inbox you can notice the update about the theme availability on top of your inbox. Besides that, you also can access to the theme settings by accessing through Settings (on your top right corner) and when the settings panel open you can see the Themes link on your far right.

Head to Official Gmail Blog for a quick look of the available themes.


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