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Just Hours after it released, the new Tomb Raider CG Trailer is here!!



Tomb Raider (2012) is a reboot of the original, which stars a 21-year old Lara Croft.

“Fresh from academy and in search of lost relics, a 21-year-old Lara Croft journeys to an island off the coast of Japan aboard the Endurance, a salvage vessel helmed by Captain Conrad Roth. Before anchoring at bay, the ship is cleaved in two by an unforeseen storm leaving Croft separated from any other survivors and washed ashore. She must endure physical and emotional torture in order to survive the island.”


There have been no clear indication how the gameplay would be, if it will be similar to Crystal Design’s past Tomb Raider game (Lara Croft and Guardian of the Light), or it will be like the old tomb raider game or something like Uncharted.



It seems that the release date will be move to Q3 of 2012, as indicated in the trailer.

Here is the trailer:

I’m a bona fide Multi-monitor user, and for me, it is one of the most beneficial setup for PC Users. I pity the people who uses one monitor as they haven’t yet feel how uncanny and surreal the feeling a multi monitor setup will bring you especially for your work.

Time and time again, I have been asked of countless questions, why am I using multiple monitors, what are the benefits, why don’t I just use one and so on.

In this blog, I’ll try to answer the 6 most frequently asked questions concerning the dual monitor setup. Here we go!

* I’ll do the Review and Recommendation either tomorrow or the other day, I’m finishing some stuff first

*I will write a blog about the advantages of a dual monitor setup etc.



Here is the Video

*Tune in tomorrow for Eijan’s Recommendation




I’m now Fucking back, Hail to the King baby!!

There have been tons of news happening during my absence, to ease my return, I’ll be showing you the list of TV shows that were renewed and cancelled, my condolences for your lost(s) .

*Fox had a genocide with their rookie TV shows as majority will no longer see the sight.

* I was disappointed Chicago Code was cancelled, it was one of a hell exciting show and my second favorite Police drama behind Blue Bloods. V’s cancellation was another disappointment as it had one of the best finale ever killing half of the regular cast.




Legend
* – Tv series that I’m following/watching

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Jax and Kano awake gingerly from the explosion while the gunfight between Stryker's men and the Black Dragon clan continues. Sonya sneaks up behind three of Kano's men and maliciously kills them. She then enters a security control room. Upon observing Kano running from Jax on a closed-circuit monitor, she flees to find them.


Jax, still demanding to know where Sonya is being held, engages another fist fight with Kano, who continues to taunt him with threats against Sonya. This sets Jax off in a rage and he retaliates with increasing force. After savagely beating Kano into a stupor, Jax lands one final left hook squarely on Kano's eye, cracking the socket and dislodging his eyeball. Sonya arrives to see Kano unconscious and Jax resting. She takes out one final henchman but not before he tosses a grenade towards her partner. Jax rises and runs towards Sonya to keep her safe from the blast.

To learn more, watch the entire episode:

*Might have some spoilers, be Warned

What can I say, I was blown away with the opening sequence as if my imagination when I was reading the novels turned to reality. I was amazed how they depicted the Great Ice wall and also the land of Westeros especially Winterfell. * If you have a hard time knowing the geography of Westeros, it is basically like Italy with 7 kingdoms (Like Rome,Naples,Turin etc.), it has a wall on the north that blocks off other clans, and on the west across the ocean is Pentos were the heir of the Mad King resides. Think Westeros as Italy, the northern wall is somewhat the Rubicon which separates the Old roman empire from the Gauls and across the Mediterranean is Greece which is depicted as Pentos here. Some little history for you.

The biggest news in the gaming world last week was the rumors about Nintendo’s Wii 2, also known as ‘Project Café’. And maybe two of the talk about topics about it are its processor and its controller. According to rumors, Project Café’s processor is much powerful compared to the Xbox360 and PS3, it seems as no surprise to me because when I think about it,  PS3’s CPU, CELL, a 3.2 GHZ microprocessor that was developed by Sony with IBM and Toshiba is already old and in fact, the one inside the PS3 is the first commercial model which is really under par with the new CELL processors being made today. The Xbox360 uses a CPU which is as powerful as the CELL but has an architectural difference compared to the CELLS as this one uses 3 cores vs. a single core for the CELL.

I recently changed browser from Orca and Chrome to just one browser which is Opera. I was looking for a browser that has the features of Orca/Avant that I really liked and the performance of Chrome. I really liked Orca (have been using it for 4 years) because it makes my browsing experience a lot easier with its address nickname features, its online password storage and mouse gestures. But with its aging engine (Firefox 3.0), I’m starting to feel its downside with the newer sites that uses the latest CCS and HTML commands and keeps on crashing with multiple tabs streaming videos (about 10 – 15 websites at once). I decided to move all my bookmarks and passwords to chrome because of its performance with the newer sites but I was quickly turned off because of the lack of features and stupid plug-ins.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (what a long title) is a prequel to the Planet of the Apes series, The 5 original films not the 2001 Tim Burton Debacle. If you don’t know what the planet of the apes is about, it is basically chronicles the fall of mankind and the rise of some kick ass intelligent apes through the eyes of George Taylor and some protagonist apes.

One of the newest and coolest hardware that making noise right now is Sifteo’s Sifteo cubes.

Here is my old post about the preview of Mortal Kombat: Legacy (It was called Rebirth before but changed to Legacy), please read it before watching this video to get an Idea. (Click this paragraph)

Here is the Video of the first Web Episode:

One of the top stories for the last 24 hours in the world of technology is the settlement of Sony and George Hotz.

* Unboxing video is here

I was looking for a new gaming keyboard for a while now, I was really disappointed with my past keyboard, the OCZ Alchemy Elixir, it had faulty software with Windows 7 and just plain bad hardware design especially its polling algorithm.

So I was researching for keyboard, there are few simple rules I follow when buying a keyboard, 1) Never buy a Razer Product (I Simply hate Razer products, their product is over expensive, the so called feature(s) can easily be found on a cheaper hardware *and works much better than Razer's, Software and Hardware are faulty and does not work well) *Don’t believe me, ask the forums, not those Razer fan boy forums, of course they will defend Razer because they are the few who bought it and had to live with their poor choice. 2) It should have tons of Macro buttons, If you haven't use macros,  you are truly missing out. 3) It should have a backlight, I rarely turn the lights up on my room. 4) It should have Media Control Buttons, I don't like having to exert myself to use a mouse then point the pointer to those small media buttons just to pause or stop a movie I’m watching.

* I was playing around with my sister’s cheap HD camera, those camera that can upload to YouTube immediately just using Wi-Fi

 

* My cousin and I decided to shoot some kick ass video and I decided to record some cool star wars inspired scene

 

*After months sitting inside my HD, and being bored, I decided to edit the video using Adobe After Effects

 

 

Here is the Unedited Video:

 

After 30 minutes or so editing, here is the outcome

That’s all for now

 

Peace Out

*I’m not feeling well to blog right now, so I decided to post one of my unboxing videos, I’ll definetly write a review of this product over the weekend, Enjoy

*This video was shot with just 1 take and also I haven’t slept the whole day, so i probably made a lot of mistake and said some jibberish haha,



Here is the video

*I think I'll be one of those fan boys waiting in line to be the first one to watch this movie.LOL

A group of hackers is threating Sony that they will hack their website and the PlayStation store.

It seems that Anonymous is demanding that Sony would allow free distribution of information, in other words, allow piracy and jailbreaks.

This is a response by Anonymous to Sony’s action against George Hotz (legal actions), the one who first cracked the internal gates of the PS3.

* Sorry for the delay again for Eijan’s Recommendation article, there was no internet the whole weekend because of ongoing construction with the telephone lines along the highway

*I decided to do a review and Recommendation at the same time

• 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor , or AMD equivalent (with SSE2)
• 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
• 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3)
• 1024×768 minimum screen resolution
• 20GB free hard disk space

* I decided to make the Weekly Eijan Recommendation article, a weekend thing because I always seem to be busy every friday night. I think Sunday morning or afternoon would be a perfect time to post it, so stay Tune

 

 

One of the top happenings in Starcraft 2 in online and tournaments are the domination of the Protoss race. Those damn High Templars and their feedbacks are destroying both Terran and Zergs. The Protoss race also one of the most powerful combo on clashes with Vortex and Psi-Storm

One of the most anticipitated web series out there is the Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. It is basically about Mortal Kombat the game, but the movie is more serious and more of a reboot of the franchise from the 2 disaster movie that gave Mortal Kombat a bad name and also movies based on Videogames.

*Sorry I missed posting last Friday’s article because I had some important priorities to do.

On this week of Eijan’s Recommendation, I will discuss one of my favorite TV series of all time and why you should watch it.

One thing I’m a fanatic about are browsers, there are around 6 browsers or more installed on my computer and all of them have their own features, but my primary browser of choice are Avant’s Orca Browser and Google Chrome, will Firefox 4 be included on my list? let see



It took me 3 days to fully test and play around with Firefox 4, and Mozilla’s new browser seems to have a lot of hits and also miss.

The Captain America Trailer was just released courtesy of E!

Here you go:



That’s all for now

Peace Out!!

It’s the start of another week, and to start this week,its time for some movie news

If you haven’t heard or haven’t tested the Beta releases and RC, well this might be a surprise for you but the Firefox 4 is coming out next week, March 22,2011

“A Nicolas Cage is now synonymous to a fucking bad movie” -Eijan

For my first Movie Review after a long time, I decided to watch in DVD (I was lucky I didn’t get the Blu-ray and wasted money) Season of the Witch. I have been a fan of Nic Cage since his early career especially after faceoff, the greatest action movie of all time!!. I was expecting this movie to be great as it was based on medieval times, I can’t remember a movie that didn’t do well at the box office which used Medieval times as their setting. Medieval times is synonymous to War,sword fighting. blood and arrogant kings. Well, this movie had it all, War, some sword fighting, an arrogant king and even witches and magic. With all that elements, this movie should be a sure thing at least reach a popcorn potential movie, right?! Wrong!!

*The first article of my new segment every friday, “Eijan’s Recommendation”. As I recommend all the stuffs I like and hopefully you will like it as well.

From the creators of Prison Break, Breakout Kings is about a squad of US Marshals who tries to catch prisoners who have escaped from Prison with the help of some ‘specia’” prisoners. These ‘special’ prisoners are unique and have certain special skills set that can help the US Marshals in their investigation. For the US Marshals to convince these ‘special’ prisoners they had to make a deal. The deal goes,if they agree to help, their sentences will be reduced and they will be transferred to a minimum-security facility. However, if any of them should try to escape, they will all be returned to their original prisons and their sentences will be doubled.

A Funny article I found at IGN.COM, about the 3 step plan of Mike Tyson  (err make it one) to get rid of your addiction from Angry Birds. Oh by the way, its available for the IPAD2.

 

 

That’s all for Now

 

Peace Out!!

*It was released this week to us, getting my copy on Saturday or if I can, tomorrow

* Will get my copy hopefully by Saturday or Tomorrow (C’mon Datablitz, be on stock please!)

One of my most anticipated game is Rockstar’s LA Noire. This project started on the year 2004 and after almost 6 years, it will be releasing this May. LA Noire is not your typical Sand box games, where you go point to point and completing missions after missions. Rockstar introduced some new innovation with the story ,gameplay and the whole art design.

 One of the best update happened last week and it was the introduction of the CLOUD, or in other words, Online Storage. This firmware update (3.60) makes PS3 owners have access to their own Online storage and they can put or take their own save files from there.

If you are wondering why the Internet is so slow in our country(Philippines) since the earthquake, I’m here to tell you why. Whatever ISP(PLDT, Sky, Digitel, Etc.)  you are using, I’m 100% sure that your ISP is affected and now is experiencing some slow download speed. In my experience right now, my download speed from download sites are a measly 8-10kb/s and my download speed on highly seeded torrents is at maximum 99kb/s. This is down from 355kb/s download speed that I usually get. If you do a speedtest, it will tell you that your Internet speed is normal but they didn’t tell you that there is a lot of ping and delay right now that’s why downloading continuous stream of data is slow.

Like what I said in my last post, this article is about the second TV show that caught my attention this upcoming season.

Game Of Thrones

One thing I love is watching TV series especially if it is a good one. Upon countless of hours and reading news and rumors about upcoming TV series and renewals, I decide to write a preview of the new shows. Among all the new tv series that will be shown this upcoming season, two really left a mark.I will discuss today the first one, and expect tomorrow a full article about the second one.

CAMELOT

There are about 15 reviews, I’ll try to summarize all of them,bear with me.


The good things about the IPAD 2 are:


It was light and comfortable to hold on

If you aren’t familiar with Rage, it is the upcoming new game from Doom and Quake Developers’ Id software that was 3 years in the making. It is the first game that Id software has partnered with the electronic giant, Electronic Arts, for the publication of this game. With marketing backing, this is expected to be a high profile game, and early demos of this game has already created buzz around the community as maybe the best upcoming FPS (first person shooter) around. As it dominated E3 2010, winning countless of awards with the playable demo.

 

Rage will follow some RPG element, something like Fallout and Borderlands. There are also some vehicle combat and racing in the game.

If you haven’t heard the news about the potential of the Unreal engine 3, then you are missing out. In a gist, the new Unreal engine 3 fully supports the DirectX 11 and its assorted tools. One of the best feature of the new engine is how the Anti-aliasing is being used in image-based reflections, in other words, reflections from water and shiny surfaces makes it as realistic as ever.

Don’t you hate that every social network has their own messenger, and you have to open multiple messenger all in the same time to check for updates from your friends. Worry no more, as Trillian is the answer for all your social network problems. I have been using Trillian for 2 months now, and it drastically changed my life. Before, I used to have Yahoo messenger, a browser for facebook, Skype, Tweetdeck, Outlook(Mail and RSS) and Raptr open at the same time. The one thing I really hate is that I have to check every one of them time to time if there is a new status update. Trillian solves that problem.

 

Social network?! Trillian Supports it

 

Trillian easily connect your different IM, Mail and social network in just one platform.  It can easily connect to AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook Chat, Jabber, Skype and a lot more. and Trillian 5 introduces improved Facebook Chat via XMPP and support for Foursquare, LinkedIn, and studiVZ / meinVZ / schuelerVZ chat!

 

All that is great, but the one thing I really loved with these software is how it synchronizes all the chat history from Facebook to YM flawlessly and it also synchronizes with another software that I use,Trillian for IPAD, easily. The best thing about chatting with Trillian is that there is only 1 chat window for chatting that is divided by tabs of people your chatting with. Skype’s video calling also runs beautifully with Trillian.

One Chat window, Multiple Tabs. So NEAT!!

 

Another great feature, is to be able to read status updates from Twitter and Facebook from the messenger itself, or you can have a mini notification of updates that appears on the side of your screen. It can also tell you if you received some mail. You can also download plugins from different users to support some social platform that wasn’t covered by Trillian, like PSN.

Check Status feeds from Twitter, Facebook on the Messenger itself

 

Lastly, Perhaps the best feature of Trillian is how it was coded as it was optimized for windows, it has very fast load times and doesn’t rely on third-party runtimes or toolkits. It only consumes just a constant 22k of memory.

 

The only downside of Trillian is it is not free. It costs a one time payment of 25 dollars, but every dollar is worth it.

 

PROS: All your social networking platforms + Mail + Feeds + More = Trillian. If your messenger can do it, Trillian can do it 100x much better

CONS: One time payment, but worth it

Eijan Says: Buy It! believe the hype!

Rating: (Out of 5 Stars)