Microsoft finally released the backwards compatible games for XBox 360 today...thanks heavens...seeing as it's less than a WEEK TILL LAUNCH NOW! 5 days exactly. Let's hope they have enough for preorders. I really want mine launch day! Ahhh! Bolded are the games I'm planning on keeping for the system. Time to package up the XBox and sell it off :P

Here they are so far. Get ready for it:

* Airforce Delta Storm
* Alias
* Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction
* All Star Baseball 2003
* Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding
* Army Men: Sarge's War
* Atari Anthology
* ATV Quad Power Racing 2
* Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance II
* Barbarian
* Barbie Horse Adventure
* Batman Begins
* Battle Engine Aquila
* Battlestar Galactica
* Blinx 2
* BMX XXX
* Brute Force
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Chaos Bleeds
* Cabela's Dangerous Hunts
* Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 06
* Cabela's Deer Hunt 2005
* Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2004 Season
* Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
* Call of Duty: Finest Hour
* Casino
* Catwoman
* Chicago Enforcer
* Circus Maximus
* Close Combat: First to Fight
* Colin McRae 4
* Combat Elite
* Commandos 2
* Conflict: Desert Storm
* Constantine
* Crash Bandicoot: Twinsanity
* Crash Nitro Kart
* Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* Curse - The Eye of Isis
* Dark Angel
* Darkwatch
* Deathrow
* Digimon Rumble Arena
* Dinotopia
* Dead or Alive 3
* Drake
* Egg Mania
* ESPN MLS Extra Time 2002
* Euro 2004
* F1 Championship Season 2001
* Fable
* Fable: The Lost Chapters
* Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
* FIFA 2003
* FIFA 2004
* FIFA Street 2005
* FIFA World Cup 2002
* Fight Night 2004
* Fight Night Round 2
* Ford Mustang Racing
* Ford vs. Chevy
* Forza Motorsport
* Freedom Fighters
* Frogger
* Futurama
* Fuzion Frenzy
* Genma Onimusha
* Goblin Commander
* Grabbed by the Ghoulies
* Grand Theft Auto III
* Grand Theft Auto Vice City
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
* Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
* Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
* Half-Life 2
* Halo
* Halo 2
* Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire
* Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone
* He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
* Hitman: Contracts
* House of the Dead 3
* IHRA Drag Racing 2005 Sportsman Edition
* IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005
* Jade Empire
* James Bond 007: Nightfire
* Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
* Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death
* Jurassic Park Operation Genesis
* Kabuki Warrior
* Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
* Kids Next Door: Operation VIDEOGAME
* kill.switch
* Legends of Wrestling
* Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Loons Fight for Fame
* Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
* Manhunt
* Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2
* Max Payne
* Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
* Medal of Honor 3 Rising Sun
* Medal of Honor Frontline
* Medal of Honor: European Assault
* Mega Man
* Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
* MicroMachines Odyssey
* Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
* Monster Garage
* Mortal Kombat: Deception
* MTV Music Generator 3
* Murakumo
* MX World Tour - featuring Jamie Little
* Namco Museum X Next Generation
* NBA Live 2003
* NBA Live 2004
* Need For Speed: Underground 2
* NFL Blitz 2002
* NFL Blitz 20-03
* NFL Blitz 20-04
* NHL 2004
* NHL Hitz 20-03
* Ninja Gaiden
* Ninja Gaiden Black
* Outlaw Golf 2
* Outlaw Volleyball
* Pariah
* Phantom Crash
* Pinball Hall of Fame
* Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
* Predator
* Prince of Persia 4: The Sands of Time
* Pro Evolution Soccer 5
* Pro Race Driver
* PUMP IT UP
* Pure Pinball
* Puyo Puyo Fever
* Quantum Redshift
* Rayman Arena
* Raze's Hell
* Red Dead Revolver
* Red Faction II
* RedCard 20-03
* Robotech: Battle Cry
* Rocky: Legends
* Rogue Ops
* Rugby 2005
* Samurai Jack
* Samurai Warriors
* Scooby Doo: Night of 100 Frights
* Scrapland
* SeaWorld: Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
* Sega GT 2002
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Shellshock:Nam '67
* Sid Meier's Pirates!
* Simpson's Road Rage
* Simpsons: Hit and Run
* Sneakers
* Sniper Elite: Berlin 1945
* Soccer Slam
* Sonic Heroes
* Sonic Mega Collection
* Speed Kings
* Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
* Splat Renegade Paintball
* SpongeBob Square Pants:Battle for Bikini Bottom
* Spy Hunter 2
* Spyro: A Hero's Tail
* SSX 3
* Stake
* Star Trek: Shattered Universe
* Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
* Star Wars: Clone Wars
* Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
* Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic
* Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic 2
* Street Racing Syndicate
* Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse
* Super Bubble Pop
* Super Monkey Ball DX
* SX Superstar
* Tecmo Classic Arcade
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
* Terminator : Dawn of Fate
* Test Drive: Eve of Destruction
* Tetris Worlds
* The Great Escape
* The Incredible Hulk
* The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
* The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
* The Thing
* Thief: Deadly Shadows
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
* Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
* Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
* Tony Hawk's Underground 2
* Tork
* Toxic Grind
* Ty The Tasmanian Tiger
* Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2
* Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3
* Urban Freestyle Soccer
* Vexx
* Volvo: Drive for Life
* World Series Baseball 2K
* Worms 4: Mayhem
* Worms Forts Under Siege
* WWE Raw 2
* XIII
* Yourself!Fitness

Christopher Colombo....mobster...and guy people get my name confused with. Not Peter Falk...the great tv detective...

Heading back to NJ from Atlanta in a few hours. Let's hope no stinky, smelly, crying, or bi-polar people are in a seat next to me. Or in the adjacent row. Or on the plane at all.

Fan size was interesting. We originally wanted to put in a single 80mm fan. But we couldn't fit it in the final form factor chassis.

We couldn't just go with one 60mm fan because it would not provide the required cooling—as the diameter of the fan increases the air flow performance per revolution increases exponentially. So we ended up putting in two 60mm fans, and we came up with a water-cooled heat sink as well for the CPU. We've actually applied for a patent on that one.

The water cooled term is being used loosely; actually it is a heat sink constructed of a copper base, aluminum stamped fins and copper heat pipe. The heat pipe contains water and a vacuum is pulled on the pipe prior to sealing.

Water under a vacuum boils at a lower temperature than at atmospheric pressure, so when the water boils and becomes steam, the steam rises and moves the heat higher into the fins where the air flow from the fans can extract the heat more efficiently. Once the steam is cooled it condenses and flows back down the pipe as water to the copper base of the heat sink, which is attached to the processor to continue the condensing and cooling processes cycle.

XBox 1 week from today. HOO HA. Also today's Halo 2's 1 year anniversary. Happy Birthday!

"You can say one thing about New Jersey politics:
It makes "The Sopranos" look like "7th Heaven."

The typically dirty Jersey campaign has so far featured a Forrester ad quoting Corzine's ex-wife, Joanne, saying: "When I saw the campaign ad where Andrea Forrester said, 'Doug never let his family down and he won't let New Jersey down,' all I could think was that Jon did let his family down, and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

From Kotaku:

Gamestay has tracked down a source inside EB Games that is telling them that the chain is getting a total of 40,000 Xbox 360’s nationwide. While that may sound like a whole heaping, Gamestay is reporting that total pre-orders number 75,000. Sounds like things are going to be getting ugly at EB come Nov 22.

Here’s the breakdown:

GameStop: 18 at one store, despite 90 pre-orders. ( VE reports that GS employee tells them that everything’s fine and they will be able to fulfill all preorders.

Target: 10 to 50 Xbox 360s depending on average volume of store.

Best Buy: 20 to 60 Xbox 360s with a larger shipment coming “later that week.”

Wal-Mart: 10 to 50.

::sigh:: I hope I get mine on launch. Peter really wants his on launch. I've never gotten any system on launch day so it would be kinda cool.

In other news flying down to Atlanta this Sunday. Business training all week. Don't really want to go but I DO want to take the training course we're getting. I should have had this course last February...!

Started playing World of Warcraft. Interesting game and I'm having a lot of fun so far. All you Syracusians sorry we couldn't make it up for Halloween or Homecoming. Check out myself and Jess though. We did well for scrambling for costumes last minute. We were supposed to be Fred and Wilma Flintstone but the costumes never ever fit.

Lets analyze this with the awesome power of analogy. If the video game industry was Disneyland, Microsoft and its lounge would be the “It’s a Small World” ride. Meticulously engineered and expensive, but ultimately there is very little to do and you leave the premises feeling deflated and filled with the desire to indiscriminately kill gnomes. Carrying the analogy further, Sony with its PS3 is Space Mountain — everyone is in the dark and you haven’t got a clue what’s going on, but it’s ex-citing and even makes you pee a little. Nintendo then, is that old bouncy castle on the outskirts of Disneyland, run by a single old man who bought it on eBay and is charging $1 for 10 minutes. The old man hammers a crude “Open 4 bizness” sign into the ground, upon which a stampede of 500,000 children crash their way onto the bouncy castle and have the best time in the whole world, incidentally allowing the old man to do a healthy side-business in bouncy castle-themed merchandise.


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Add yourself to Friends Of Pete on Frappr :)

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That's XBox Live's new TruSkill ranking system. Make no sense? Yeah neither to me :P But it's copyrighted and supposed to change the face of how we game, (or get own by pimply faced 14 year olds) forever!

I'm the greatest Captain of the Queen's navy
And your record will stand as proof
Be it galley or freighter I'm an expert Navigator
And you're also a world-class poof
My man are quite a feat is mistaken on the street
For a sailor who can pirouette on cue
Well despite your point of view I can thrill a girl or two
But I'd rather get it on with you! Ha-Ha-Ha!

Oh Family Guy I love you.

Countin' down the days till XBox 360 launches.

Here's some teaser pics. Wish I had a TV like that lol

Fark.com forums amuse me too much sometimes. The actor, William Hootkins, who played Jek Porkins in Star Wars: A New Hope died recently of Pancreatic cancer. Here is the choice comments on that story:

I always thought his weight problem reflected poorly on the rebels.
I thought I felt a fat disturbance in the force.
If I ever started a band, I wanted to name them "Eject Porkins."
I always wanted to see some food wrappers fly around if he did a barrel roll.
Stay on target Porkins... stay on target.
The first casualty of the Battle of Yavin. His sacrifice will not be forgotten.
I loved porkins. Why couldn't he hold it? HE SAID HE COULD!!! WHY DID HE LIE!?!?! god take me instead!
Okay, I'm not a Star Wars fan, but since I was a little kid, I've always wondered why they used such a big guy in an X-wing fighter. I mean seriously, what was the reasoning behind that? You'd think his weight would hinder the manuverability of such a spacecraft.
Crash and burn, Porkins. I'll see you again on the big Death Star in the Sky.

from IMDB:

EverQuest II (2004) (VG) (as Bill Hootkins) .... Generic Male Barbarian Merchant, Generic Male Dark Elf, Generic Male Dwarf, Generic Male Erudite Merchant, Generic Male Gnome Merchant, Generic Male Half Elf Guard, Generic Male Halfling, Generic Male High Elf, Generic Male Human Merchant, Generic Male Iksar Merchant, Generic Male Kerran Merchant, Generic Male Ogre Guard, Generic Male Ratonga Merchant, Generic Male Troll Merchant, Generic Male Wood Elf

He was also in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman, and a River Runs Through it-not to mention a slew of voicework.

RIP Porkins we miss you.

LOL George Takei has told the world he's boldly gone where no man has gone before...he's gay.

I'm shocked. Next thing you know Richard Simmons is going to come out. (Or take that one to the grave lol)

Oh George we kinda knew already lol.

And of course all the news stories used the gayest photo of him they could find...

Oh my God....we had a hit film! What do we do now? MAKE A CRAPPY SEQUEL!

(As far as I know these are all authentic)

Van Wilder Deux: The Rise of Taj
The Santa Clause 3
Underworld: Evolution
Rush Hour 3
Rocky VI
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Rambo IV
Like Mike 2: Street Ball
The Net 2.0
Mrs. Doubtfire 2
Jurassic Park IV
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction

And they're making a slew of REMAKES too:

Back To School
The Evil Dead
He-Man
Logan's Run (THIS could actually be cool)
Police Academy (WHY GOD WHY)
Porky's
Revenge Of The Nerds

Movies based on TV, games etc:

Get Smart (Steve Carrell as Maxwell Smart? Could be a winner)
Metroid
I Dream Of Jeannie
Curious George (Will Ferrell needs to stop)
The A-Team (Only if Mr. T is in it)

Look them up on IMDB.com if you doubt or dare.

Top 10 Things To Yell Out During DOOM, The Movie:

10. How do I bring up the console?

9. Teh Rock is a n00b.

8. Dude, that hurt. The health is behind the crate!

7. Team kill!

6. This new engine rules.

5. Crap map.

4. This AI is so &%$!ing lame.

3. (as the credits roll) That last boss sucked.

2. #^$!king camper fags!

1. Shit, how do I skip this cut scene? This !@$*ing sucks, it's been going on for like 30 minutes.

HAHAHAH lol. From A Boy And His Computer blog.

Wow Jennifer's ready to pop too!

Civil rights heroine Rosa Parks dead at 92. Will ride in the front seat on the bus to Heaven.

Where Babies Come From In Germany

I'll never watch Lost the same way again.

Sorry to add word verification to my comments, but I was really tired of getting 2-3 comments a day of things like "LOVE THE SITE try out our VIAGRA!" or the even less coy "SEXSEXSEXMYWEBCAMSITE!" Now maybe you won't have to see the "comment deleted by blog owner" (which incidentally I found out would disappear anyways if I chose the "Delete Forever" option which I hadn't been). Yay for spam-free comments!

Wish it was Christmas already?

Here's a little Nintendo Cheer.