Not only is there a Doom game for your cell phone, it is an RPG. Doom RPG is availble to download to your java enabled mobile phone. Now typically cell phone games are subpar at best. Let’s just hope ID doesn’t keep dragging down the Doom name with things like, gimmicky mobile games and crappy movies.

Doom RPG is a first-person turn-based role playing game set in the Doom universe. Developed specifically for your mobile device, you reprise the role of the Doom Marine made famous in the groundbreaking id Software titles Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3. Say goodbye to humdrum mobile gaming and prepare yourself for the return to Mars in a showdown with the legions of Hell!

Features:

* Smooth-scrolling 3D gameplay from a first person perspective
* A brutal aresenal of 9 weapons including old favorites like the Super Shotgun and BFG, and some cool weapons new to the Doom universe
* 10 action packed levels filled with dangerous monsters, incredible power-ups, and secret areas to explore
* Over 8 hours of engaging RPG gameplay
* A compelling story, scripted sequences, tons of characters, and interactive environments
* Sound effects and classic Doom music
* Save game feature allows you to quit at anytime and pick up later where you left off
* Collect UAC credits and use them to purchase items and ammunition
* Earn experience and gain levels to become stronger
* Purchase stat boosters such as strength and accuracy to customize your character
* Replay game levels as many times as you would like to build up your character’s abilities
* Full-screen rendering that matches the maximum resolution of your mobile device
* Supports a wide variety of carriers and cellphone devices

IBM has been working with Microsoft for the past two years to develop a next generation processor specifically for “high definition gaming and entertainment.” In order to meet the demand, still unnamed processor, is being produced in both East Fishkill, NY and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore. IBM engineers have been working on the chip since 2003 at three locations including, Rochester, Minnesota; Austin, Texas; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The chip features a customized version of IBM’s industry leading 64-bit PowerPC core. The chip includes three of these cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clock speeds greater than 3 GHz. It features 165 million transistors and is fabricated using IBM’s 90 nanometer Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology to reduce heat and improve performance. The chip’s innovative 21.6 GB/s Front Side Bus (FSB) Architecture was customized to meet the demanding throughput and latency requirements of the Xbox 360 gaming platform software.

Other Xbox 360 chip features include:

* C 3 identical multi-threaded PowerPC-based CPU cores operating at 3.2 GHz enhanced with specialized function VMX acceleration for gaming applications and high speed 128 bit vector unit

* C 1 MByte Shared L2 Cache with custom logic for high-speed data streaming for graphics and system applications

* C 5.4 Gb/s per-pin Front Side Bus (with an aggregated bandwidth of 21.6 GBs)

* C Highly configurable and programmable utilizing e-fuse technology

This week in iPod or TWII for short.

1) Academic institutions begin podcasting lectures. And not just to students. Now everyone can be bored by “Introductory Agricultural Business and Economics”.

2) Doctors can carry around medical images and more with an open source medical imaging program for the iPod. So get yourself and MRI and download the OsiriX Medical Imaging Software.

3) Research firm Intelliseek, also located in Cincinnati - as is one-half of YL, says that iPod owners are more likely to “create and spread consumer generated media” and to blog about the iPod. Stating that 1% of all blog posts are directly or indirectly about the iPod. So the bottom line is, if you want people to talk about it, make it iPod compatible.

The study finds that iPod users also are product innovators, significantly more likely to own digital video recorders, personal digital assistants, digital cameras, laptop computers and cell phones than non-iPod owners. They tend to link to the Internet via broadband and wireless connections, and are more likely than others to skip past or filter advertisements, especially online, a behavior that may be linked as much to high usability/interface expectations as it is to a dislike of advertising.

4) How about building the world’s largest iPod dock? For $1,015 you can build a iPod dock that will let you rip LPs to your iPod.

5) Get cartoons on your iPod directly from iTunes.

We’re packaging together some of the world’s coolest and funniest cartoons and sending them straight to your iPod each week.
Subscribe to Channel Frederator now. It’s free and easy, and each week you’ll get a fresh new 10- to 15-minute episode featuring some of the hippest animation on Earth.

That’s all for now.

In preparation for the release of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has released the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK.

The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 redistributable package installs the .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed to target the .NET Framework v2.0.

The .NET Framework version 2.0 improves scalability and performance of applications with improved caching, application deployment and updating with ClickOnce, support for the broadest array of browsers and devices with ASP.NET 2.0 controls and services.

Link to .NET Framework 2.0 SDK.
Link to .NET 2.0 Redistributable Package.

Tecmo and Bungie will play nice in Dead or Alive 4 by including a female spartan. Dressed like our favorite alien stomping grunt, Master Chief, the female spartan will battle against DOA veterans.

X05 set the stage for Tecmo and Bungie Studios to reveal a surprising collaboration between the two Xbox lovin’ companies: a female Spartan would appear as a fighter in the upcoming Dead or Alive 4. It’s not quite Halo 3, but hey, it’s pretty close.

Despite what you may have learned from BJ and the Bear, chimps are not nice people. A recent study in the behavior in chimps shows they lack an altruistic instinct. And will choose to reward themselves over other chimps everytime.

They devised an experiment in which chimps on one side of a window could pull a handle to provide a tray of food for themselves or to also give the same reward to a monkey in another room on the opposite side of the window.

Both groups of unrelated chimpanzees behaved in a similar way. They decided to reward themselves but not others, according to the research reported in the science journal Nature.

It sounds like an episode of Survivor to me.

This is a little old, but we like the content. Programming The Nintendo Game Boy Advance is a free downloadable eBook, albeit split into seperate PDF files. I wish there was a combined PDF to download.

This unique and highly-anticipated book was not released in book stores due to legal problems with Nintendo. As a result, the “e-book” edition is available here, exclusively, for free as a downloadable PDF e-book

We like that despite the fact, the author did not get the book published, he didn’t drop it. And instead allowed people to download his book.

If you are interested in console programming this could give you a start.

The editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary has confirmed the use of fake words to track anyone copying their text. Akin to a watermark. In 1975 you could find Lillian Virginia Mountweazel in the New Columbia Encyclopedia. But there never was a Lillian Virginia Mountweazel.

“It was an old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect your copyright,� Richard Steins, who was one of the volume’s editors, said the other day. “If someone copied Lillian, then we’d know they’d stolen from us.�

What did the New Yorker uncover to the be fake word in the 2001 New Oxford American Dictionary?

esquivalience—n. the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, “dodge, slink away.�

Way to dissemenate bad information!

In a world of SUVs and comically large vehicles like the Hummer. Researchers at Rice University have built the World’s smallest car, dubbed the Nanocar, it is 4 nanometers across and 3 nanometers long. The Nanocar is slightly larger than the cargo it is meant to carry.

The car is built from a single molecule. And thus the smallest you could ever build.

But why build a Nanocar? For bottom-up fabrication, of course. The Nanocar was built to transport cargo across a nanoscale surface, which has always been difficult to do gracefully. This cargo could then be used for fabrication on the nano level. For example, a fleet of Nanocars could carry the materials necessary to build a computer chip on a silicon wafer, and deposit them in the appropriate location. According to Tour, this provides a more graceful strategy for chip fabrication, and should enable more precise construction and fewer defects.

The axles really do work. And part of the research was proving it was rolling and not gliding across the surface.

At room temperature, strong electrical bonds hold the buckyball wheels tightly against the gold, but heating to about 200 degrees Celsius frees them to roll.

The next Nanocar will have an internal motor, which the team has already built, that will be powered by photons of light.

OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, has finally released version 2.0. With grumblings about Microsoft Office in government and a plethora of new features, OO 2.0 could be ready for corporate desktop.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source.

With new features, advanced XML capabilities and native support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org 2.0 gives users around the globe the tools to be engaged and productive members of their society.

OpenOffice 2.0 sports a new database front end. Whether it can challenge MS Access in usability is a wait and see, but it does sound interesting.

OpenOffice.org always had database front end tools, but in past versions they were very hidden. OpenOffice.org 2.0 starts to handle databases like any other application, i.e. a new database can be created via the “File - New” menu. For novice users OpenOffice.org provides a new Table Wizard that allows creating database tables without any knowledge of databases or SQL. The new embedded HSQLDB database engine, based on Java technology, allows creating “database documents”. These simple database files don’t require a back end database server like MySQL or Adabas D. All information (table definitions, data, queries, forms, reports) is stored in one XML file.

You can download OpenOffice from their site using bittorrent