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An anonymous reader wrote in to tell us that "The new Nintendo game system is going to be made with the PowerPC architecture, as well as DVD and networking from Matsushita. Next Gen has a story up."

Things have been a bit crazy: server troubles, spent some quality time in the ER after the gf got in accident (she's fine), and unusually stressful 'biz stuff (note:in utopia everyone pays their bills ontime instead of leaving us with a nearly empty checking account, a massive looming bandwidth bill, and all these unpaid invoices? I seem to be balding at an accelerated rate :) As for the images on port 81 of flotsam, I'm sorry about that- those of you behind firewalls will be glad to know that the new server will be in soon and hopefully the dust can settle. Allright, some quickies already: Toddius Maximus wrote in to tell us that Performance Computing has started a bi-monthly Linux Section Anthony Fuentes sent us an Interview with John Carmack webslacker sent us a nice little article on Pixar if you're curious what Steve Jobs' other company is up to. Wouldn't be quickies without Star Wars: James McP sent us linkage to a wired story about a Star Wars fan site featuring toy based mini movies, webslacker noted the new 12" Star Wars figures, and Dave Lowe sent us Star Wars Parody Music More cool movie stuff: patowic noted that Bruce Cambell (of Army of Darkness/Evil Dead fame) has his own web page, which features a sound bite archive And some Slashdot media sightings: Duke of URL noted that the recent Katz/Littleton stories got a mention on Suck. RKemp noted that The Economist noticed too. nene noted that an article about Slashdot appeared in Der Standard (although, with a name like that, its no surprise that it ain't English :)

aheitner writes "The winning games at the first ever Independent Games Festival have been announced. The Grand Prize and Audience Choice awards both went to Fire and Darkness, one of the two Linux games among the finalists. Other winners were: Visual Art: Crime Cities, Game Design: Resurrection, and Audio and Programming: Terminus "

Leon writes "Sony will use Linux and SGI as the development environment for the PlayStation 2. Apparently, they are staying away from Microsoft Windows altogether. This may be the push Linux needs to once and for all solidify itself as the OS of the future. "

Boofo writes "The skinny on what will be in the playstation 2 Firewire, USB, PCMCIA, a fill rate of 2.4 billion pixels a second and draw 20 million polygons a second....blows the doors off a pentium III with a Voodoo III."

CerebusUS was the first to send specs for Sony's unveiled Playstation 2. Currently, Wired is also carrying some interesting information regarding the new machine as well. Some of the more tasty highlights include a confirmed 55 million polys/second, 128-bit CPU, along with a FPU and two floating point vector units. Total: 5 billion floating-point calcs per second. 500 mips with compiler optimization. /me wipes drool from face.

long-live-atari writes "Hard to categorize this under one subject. Found this link on NextGen regarding Motorola's announcement of their upcoming set-top box codenamed 'Blackbird'. This is the first high-profile commercial product (I believe) to be unveiled which uses the new Project X multimedia chipset by VMLabs. VMLabs was formed by a host of ex-Atari hardware/software engineers and managers soon after Atari's demise. This new 128-bit Project X chipset supposedly offers some prodigious perfomance."

Michael Chisari writes "If you're a fan of Squaresoft's games, you've probably seen some renders from the up and coming Final Fantasy VIII. However, you also might be interested in seeing what kind of artwork Squaresoft's other graphics-only division is capable of. This image comes from their Honolulu studio, which will be working on the new Final Fantasy Movie. It seems Pixar is about to have some heavy competition. "

Nick Vlku writes "Wow... this is pretty neat. According to next-generation online, Diamond multimedia has announced a wireless LAN for the average home user that'll operate at 2.4ghz and reach speeds of 1Mbps at up to 150 feet. All that for $200 with two NICs included. Now we just need to get those Linux drivers out the second this thing comes out. " I want a PCMCIA adapter too. Oh, and wireless electricity.