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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.

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!

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.

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.

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 [...]

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

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

Here are Steam’s and Direct2Drive’s last week sales charts.  Not much has changed since the previous week, although with the THQ Collectors Pack getting a $20 price cut, it has managed to sneak on last week’s steam charts.

Here we go again, another XBLA title now takes the crown of “the most downloaded single-player title in Xbox Live Arcade history”.  The game is reported to have sold over 200,000 copies in it’s first week of release. Shadow Complex is a side-scroller with heavy influence from Metroid, and powered by Unreal Engine 3.  It [...]

Disney has announced that it plans on purchasing Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion dollars. I am not quite sure what to think of all this? What exactly is Disney going to do with Marvel property?  Also, $4 billion dollars? Marvel is doing pretty well from themselves.

The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto franchise will be making its debut on the iPhone via Chinatown Wars, which was originally a Nintendo DS game, now coming to PSP and iPhone. As expected, the graphics look sharper and cleaner than on the DS, other improvements have not yet been announced, but this will be exciting [...]

Sony is bringing God of War and God Of War II to the PS3 with refinements.  These improvements include 720P support, trophy support, and 60 frames per second.  Of course with the added benefit of Blu-ray, both games will fit on one disc.

From the creators of 3DMark benchmarking software, Futuremark Game Studio has been working hard on a full-fledged retail game.  From what we know of the game, it takes place in space and people will be fighting in zero gravity situations.  It definitely looks pretty sweet and something that hasn’t been quite done before.  I will [...]

The highly anticipated release of Warsow 0.5 is released.  A little background information for those who don’t know what this fast-paced action game is.  Btw, It is free!

Getting Snow Leopard today?  Then you will probably want to know which applications will work with your fresh OS.  Snow Leopard will automatically move your incompatible applications into a separate folder, as well as prevent incompatible software from launching until they are updated.

Following the critical acclaim of the new Batman game (yes finally!), it has been given the record of the ’Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever’. It’s kind of odd to me that such a record exists but you know, Guinness World Records seem to have records for everything nowadays.

People are finding out that the $29 dollar Snow Leopard upgrade actually installs whether you have Leopard or not.  Essentially what you’re getting is a full Snow Leopard disc for $29, a hell of a deal! So far the reviews from the press have been extremely positive with Snow Leopard numerous under the hood improvements [...]

New experimental add-on for Firefox will defragment your Firefox “Places” database which stores your history and bookmarks. It claims to reduce start-up time as well as get rid of lag while typing in address bar. I just tried this on my work computer and it made a big difference! Vacuum Places Improved – [FireFox Add-On]

Pretty awesome episode today, it started off pretty epic with beautiful tracks.  Seems like old school style trance is on the rise.  Most of the first hour was gold, however second hour Armin started to lose me.  Anyways enjoy this one people.

Rare’s upcoming port of Perfect Dark (N64) to Xbox Live is looking rather sexy.  New screenshots have been released that compare the old and the new. Feast your eyes on the screens after the break.

Last week’s weekly sales for PC games via Steam and Direct3D were published.  It was a winner for MMOs, specifically Aion and Champions Online. Aion is getting great reviews from outlets and I myself cannot wait to get my hands on it when it hits stores next month.

Futurama is returning to the airwaves with the full original voice cast.  The series will now be on Comedy Central beginning in June 2010.  This is rather exciting news, as I am a big fan of this series and loved the animated movies that were released every year.

Good news for PC gamers, Mass Effect 2 apparently will be simultaneously released with the console versions.  The same team will be building both versions at the same time therefore the game will not be a port. However, given BioWare’s current treatment of Mass Effect 1 for PC, I would be skeptical.

Capcom’s mashup fighter currently available in Japan in arcades and on the Wii will be getting 4 new characters when it comes to the states.  However, no news on who the characters may be. There will also be improved online matchmaking over the Japanese version and will be cross compatible with all territories around the [...]

News has just come out from Apple that Snow Leopard, the next iteration of OS X is set to ship August 28th.

A new expansion has been announced for World of Warcraft entitled Cataclysm.  This expansion will introduce two new races, Goblins for Horde side and Worgen for the Alliance side. The level cap will also be raised to 85 and there will finally be more race combos, so you can play as a gnome priest, a [...]

It seems like AT&T are answering the numerous service complaints by rolling out 850 MHz 3G to areas that need it most, in this case Atlanta and in San Francisco.  These improvements according to AT&T will offer more speed capacity and coverage.  Other areas will have 850MHz  at later date.

Missed this one yesterday, let me know how it was! Download and tracklist below!