That show is so horrible. Why oh why did they waste valuable space on Adult Swim with that junk??

Well, hopefully this thread wasn't already done. Anyway what was your favorite

mainstream anime that you thought was good? For me it was either Escaflowne or

Cowboy Bebop. I'm kind of torn between those. These were the first shows that I knew

were anime. Ronin Warriors is still a good anime but it can't compare to Escaflowne. I look

forward to seeing your answers in this thread.

So has everyone heard that the xbox version for Doom 3 has been delayed a month. That really sucks cause I just reserved the collectors version. This for me has been a long awaited game. Just as much as the new GC Zelda. It would seem that Gran Turismo 4 is finally locked in but without liscenced cars from Ferrari, porsche, Lamborgini it still has no appeal to me.

P.S.- everyone avoid the new starfox game and Goldeneye rogue agent.

Was looking around the web and found this website was wondering if this is the main company website?? anybody know??

http://www.animeasia.com/new.html

How long from adding a DVD until it is on the review section so I can review it and add photos

so i own the 26 episode series and it ended in a really wierd way perhaps more like it seemed to end on the 25th episode then the 26th was some add on stuff like whats going on after but there was still no definate end i was looking thru that manga and it looks like they might still be making it because i did not see some of the stuff the manga is about. so what i want to know is have they made more of his and her circumstances or is the manga not done yet or what

i would really appreciate the help thanks

Cyrus

Two great PS3 articles in one day.

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"American Sony reps confirm that there will be an event to premiere its next-generation system before the May game-industry convention. "

Last year, Sony announced it would debut its next-generation console--most commonly called the PlayStation 3--at the 2005 E3 games expo. The event will take place May 18 to 20 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and will also be where the world will get the first glimpse of Nintendo's next-generation console, code-named "Revolution." With it now looking unlikely that Microsoft will unveil the Xbox's successor at next month's Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco, industry-watchers had been betting it will also first see the light of day at E3.

However, now it appears those bets may not be such a sure thing. Sony Computer Entertainment America representatives have confirmed to GameSpot that the US subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant "will have an event to premier [its] next-generation system" before E3.

SCEA reps would reveal little else about the PlayStation 3 unveiling other than saying it would not be at GDC. "The premiere event has nothing to do with GDC," said one. "The event will be before E3, but the date is still not announced."

Sony's disclosure about the PlayStation 3 premiere came just hours after it officially took the wraps off the Cell processor, which the PS3 will use, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. For a full run-down on the Cell processor's capabilities, check out GameSpot Hardware's feature on the chip.

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Wow i cant wait to see this !
now the console war is getting interesting, looks like there will be 3 contenders this holiday season. will all 3 be out this X-mas???

-LE

Some interesting news:

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The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation video game machine will have nine processor cores and run faster than 4GHz, the chip's designers revealed Monday.



Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba revealed those and other specifications for the Cell processor during a press conference at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, where technical papers on the Cell design will be presented this week.

The three companies have been working on the Cell for several years, promising to deliver a high-performance chip optimized for multimedia applications. Test production of Cell chips is set to begin later this year, and the processors will appear later in workstation PCs optimized for animation and other graphics chores. The chip will also power the next version of Sony's PlayStation game console, which is widely expected to be released late this year or early next year.

While analysts and researchers have already puzzled out most of the basic aspects of the Cell design, Monday's announcements included some of the first specifics.

The Cell will have a 64-bit Power processor and eight "synergistic processing units" capable of handling separate computing tasks, said Jim Kahle, an IBM fellow. The multicore design will give software developers tremendous flexibility, Kahle said, allowing them to run multiple operating systems on the same chip and experiment with variations on grid computing.

"It's designed from the beginning to work in a world where all the computers are tied together," he said.

Future versions of Cell chips could have more or fewer processing units depending on what device and software designers require, Kahle said. "There are a number of different ways to implement parallelism on the chip," he said.

How those processing units are used is up to software developers, including the game makers who will soon start wrestling with the PlayStation 3. Kahle said IBM and its Cell partners will provide game developers and other code writers with open-source tools and guidelines for working with Cell, but game developers will have final say on how they chop up computing tasks among the processing units.

"It's really...up to the game developer," he said. "You can program it in many different ways."

Other Cell numbers include the following:

? The first version of the chip will run at speeds faster than 4GHz. Engineers were vague on how much faster, but reports from design partners say 4.6GHz is likely. By comparison, the fastest current Pentium PC processor tops out at 3.8GHz.

? Cell can process 256 billion calculations per second (256 gigaflops), falling a wee bit short of marketing hyperbole calling it a "supercomputer on a chip." The slowest machine on the current list of the Top 500 supercomputers can do 851 gigaflops.

? The chip will have 2.5MB of on-chip memory and can shuttle data to and from off-chip memory at speeds up to 100 gigabytes per second, using XDR and FlexIO interface technology licensed from Rambus. "One of the key messages you hear from the architects of next-generation chips is that their performance is being limited by off-chip bandwidth," said Rich Warmke, Rambus, product marketing manager. "We've really licked that with Cell. 100GB per second is really unprecedented in the industry."

? The chip will have 234 million transistors, measure 221mm square and be produced using advanced 90-nanometer chipmaking processes.

While the PlayStation 3 is likely to be the first mass-market product to use Cell, the chip's designers have said the flexible architecture means Cell will be useful for a wide range of applications, from servers to cell phones. Initial devices are unlikely to be any smaller than a game console, however--the first version of the Cell will run hot enough to require a cooling fan, Kahle said.

Some competitors, however, are skeptical that Cell will find much of a home outside of video games. One of the big problems with Cell, said Justin Rattner, an Intel fellow, is that the processing units aren't identical, a situation that increases complexity and the opportunity for bugs.

"You've got this asymmetry," Rattner said. "It's like having two kinds of motors under the hood. We are very reluctant to adopt architectures like this because they take compatibility and throw it out the window."

By David Becker -- News.com
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Well it looks like Sony will have a very powerful console to hit the market with a giant impact. I just wonder what , microsoft and nintendo are planning now after hearing this news????? this years E3 is going to be full of a lot of answers i hope.

-LE

Someone should add this to the review list. It exists plus I want to review it.

I am trying to find the Chapter black song on disc 9[disc 3 of the third FX Box set] the one from the menu but I can't. I don't know the name or anything so can someone help?