IRock!

After watching TV and listening to CDs and MP3s during the last so many years, I am slowly becoming a radio guy. FM in India never fascinated me. I always preferred CDs and MP3s. Of course, I have never been much of a TV guy, but I always appreciated good music on channel V or MTV.
In Normal we get this fantastic radio station called IRock( "The only music station that really rocks - 96 7 IRock!") which plays only Rock 'n' Roll music 24/7. I must admit that In the last couple of months I have heard some really good songs that I had never heard before. These days they are airing a lot of AudioSlave (btw, I recently came to know that AudioSlave is 3 members of the erstwhile RATM and Chris Cornell of SoundGarden), Nickelback and Ozzy. Good music. I am lovin' it.

My 3D Card

I have an inbuilt 3D card in my laptop and I always wondered - how good or bad is it? Is it really capable of doing anything?Will I be ever able to play my dream games on my laptop?

So I downloaded the PrinceofPersia - Warrior Within demo 2 days ago...and guess what? It worked!! I saw my sword yielding Hero after roughly 4 months - ripping everyone's asses and raping their souls! It was fantastic. I remembered my good old Xbox days, and became nostalgic.
I immediately downloaded the Need for Speed Underground 2 demo. And ya, it worked too. But to be very honest, these kinda games are no fun on the computer. You can enjoy them to the maximum only on the consoles - with the controller.

Now I am downloading the Need for Speed - Most Wanted demo!

XBOX 360 launch

Hey guys, did you see the XBOX 360 by any chance? Microsoft is launching 360 on November 22 this year. And boy, Am I sad! This time around, they are launching 2 packages - One is called the XBox core system, priced at a decent $299(!), basically to impress losers like me who don't have money on them. This one has just the console (without the hard drive), a WIRED controller ( just like its predecessor) and an AV cable - that's it. To save your games you need to buy extra memory cards. By the way, the core system would not play older Xbox games if you don't have a hard drive. And if you decide to buy one - that's an extra 100 bucks!



The other package is simply called Xbox 360 - for "the ultimate gaming experience" . This one comes with the console , 20 GB detachable and expandable hard drive, a WIRELESS controller,AV cable, Headset and ethernet cable. This one is priced at a whopping 399!

You may intially decide to buy the core system, but it will just not help in the long run because any and every gamer knows that gaming is no fun without the hard drive. Saving games on memory cards is pretty sickening. Plus, if you have a hard drive, you may store songs and movies on to it too.

No news on the PS3. Anyway, Sony has already anounced that PS3 is going to be an expensive gadget, so no point cosidering it.

But I really like the PSP. Big screen, amazing graphics. But the price really lets you down.


Nintendo is also planning to launch its new console called revolution. It seems that it will be pretty cheap and "full of surprises". i don't know, never felt like buying the Gamecube - Nintendo doesn't impress me anymore.