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So I haven’t had any time lately due to school and just random events, but I am still trying to make an effort to log my life in pictures.  I am taking my camera with me everywhere now, which is good, but I still miss opportunities to just snap away when I should.  I did [...]

Super Street Fighter IV has been announced today as a stand-alone separate title.  The game will include 8 new characters, improved online play, and balance changes to all the current characters based of feedback from the community. 

Today, Valve released Crash Course, a DLC campaign add on for Left 4 Dead that aims to close the gap between the first and second campaign.  It is available on PC free of charge and $7 for Xbox 360 owners.

Google’s Chrome Frame is an open source plugin for Internet Explorers 6, 7, and 8 that essentially replaces the built in rendering engine with WebKit and Chrome’s Javascript VM. Get it here. What’s the point? The only reason anyone ever uses IE is to download another browser or view web pages that were foolishly designed [...]

A killer episode of ASOT this week, it is pumped with 2 hours of CLASSICS!  The special occasion? The release of “A State Of Trance Classics Volume 4″.  This is an ASOT you don’t want to miss!

Blockbuster is planning on closing 960 out of its 7000 stores due to those stores being unprofitable.  Expect 300 stores to be closed by the end of this year unless Blockbuster decides to redo their business model to make those stores profitable.

So when I was first entering college, I was under the impression that my grades would be determined by 1 or 2 tests in each class during the semester and nothing else.  Well – for some classes this is true, but, for the most part, your class work, homework, and the whatnot factor into your [...]

Wireless ISPs like Verizon and AT&T are up in arms against the FCC’s new Net Neutrality rules. The FCC plans to formally adopt six principles – the first four generally enforced since 2005, plus two additional rules: 1. Consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice. 2. Consumers are entitled to [...]

Capcom has revealed the latest character addition to Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.  It is none other than Frank West from the zombie killer Dead Rising.

GoogleSync has already been on iPhone for a while but not in its entirety.  Just until recently, GoogleSync only synced calenders and contacts but now finally mail support has been added with Push support.

Today is the day AT&T will finally roll out MMS free of charge to it’s users (about time!).  However, don’t expect things to go smoothly the first day, there are already reports of the network being overloaded and texts not even working today.

Lately, Jake and I have been uber busy, not having as much time to post.  Therefore, we are going to need some people to help write for us.  If you’re interested in such a position, please leave a comment or email us at webmaster@chenzen.org Guest writers are even good too!

So lately I’ve been pretty busy – this week especially since I’ve been sick, tests are coming up, and I’ve gotten a healthy dose of X-Box live gaming.  One of my housemates has moved his X-box 360 downstairs to the living room, where we have a 52” HDTV setup. 

News has come forth that Left 4 Dead 2 has been refused classification in Australia.  While it isn’t necessarily banned, it has the same effect. Below are the reasons highlighted in the official report.

Today’s ASOT is celebrating Armin’s next installment of Universal Religion ‘Chapter 4′.  Recorded on August 11th in Amnesia in Ibiza.  Expect to hear relatively new tunes! Enjoy.

The founder of the infamous social networking site, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has released the statistic that Facebook has reached 300 million users worldwide.  And it doesn’t stop at that; they are also cash-flow positive now.

So apparently LG is going out on their own and has begun to produce the GW620: their very own Android running mobile device!  Unfortunately for us, US dwellers, it is only going to be released in Europe for the time being. 

As you may have known, school has started for both Jacob and I recently.  For me the first week has just passed and going forward from here, our schedules will be packed pretty tight. So some things I have been planning to do are videos and LOTS of them.  To accomplish this, I have purchased [...]

Back with a new ASOT this week, I however missed it, so let me know how this episode was!

Remember the full refund promised by a Wolfenstein developer if the game sold more than Madden? Well you can forget about that, NPD Group has released sales for Wolfenstein and revealed the game sold poorly.

With a superconducting magnet, scientists have been able to generate a field powerful enough to lift the water inside living animals.  The most amazing part is that the field can operate at room temperature! Researchers have setup a plastic cage that keeps the mice in during levitation.  The results so far seem to be pretty [...]

So, if you’re from the Touhou community, today was Cirno Day!  I assume that if you know what Cirno Day is, you already know why.  Here is a brief explanation for those of you who don’t know though!

So this caught my attention today because, quite frankly, I’ve hungering for a new phone and refuse the iPhone trend.  Not for any particular reason, other than just to satisfy my ego.  I am also highly dissatisfied with the selection of phones Verizon has to offer, but unfortunately I am stuck with this provider until [...]

So on Sunday, I decided to delve into the secret arts of baking Apple Pie.  I didn’t expect this to be difficult in the least, so I even took the plunge to try to make 2 of them.  Oh boy, did I fail epically.  Let’s see how and where I went wrong!

So apparently yesterday in Japan, there was some ad on YouTube saying that the release date would actually be announced today.  Some people were able to figure out how to manipulate the ad to actually display the date, and thus presented it yesterday leaked as December 17, 2009. 

So what’s really creating problems for Microsoft right now?  It’s the users who do not want to give up on their dated machines that are still running Windows XP.  With 71.8 percent of the market share still running XP, things look pretty bleak at the moment. 

As you may or may not have heard, people have developed programs that would simulate you being in a server ‘idling’.  You would just leave it on overnight, then in the morning, wake up to loads of goodies in your inventory.

Red Faction: Guerrilla due for PC on September 15th will have the ‘Demons of the Badlands’ DLC included, console pre-order bonus and a total of 8 new maps (2 exclusive to PC) from the forthcoming DLC. Seems like this time around the PC version is getting good treatment, not to mention with a price tag [...]

Haha, the other day Danny linked me to a user movie on GameTrailers.  Needless to say, I enjoyed it enough to share it with the rest of the world (if you haven’t already seen it).  It’s called the ‘Anime Boob Jiggle Montage.’ 

Here is yesterday’s ASOT for download, sorry for the slight delay was busy last night. Tracklisting and Download below!

So GameTrailers has released a trailer revealing BioShock 2’s multiplayer gameplay.  After watching the trailer though, I wasn’t thoroughly impressed with any of the aspects of it. 

So the manga series, To-Love-Ru (also pronounced, Trouble), has come to a close recently.  As it so happened, I was reading this series pretty faithfully, so I finished reading it soon after the last chapter was scanlated and released.  Now the big question though, why? 

So, Amazon has finally come out and taken a huge step in their fight against the Google Books settlement.  They have filed a brief with the U.S. District Court (of which you can read here).

So school life here at Lehigh University has started again.  This means classes have started, endless nights of parties have started (I have so much homework already), and (well at least for me) working has started again. 

Check out the new trailer for Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.  At the end, there is a reveal of the new host migration support where if the host drops out, the game will seamlessly reconnect everyone to a different host.  Shortly after, the player executes a throwing knife kill. Sweet! httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PMRFkx07g