Rockstar Games has now made Grand Theft Auto 2 available to download for free. Rockstar made the original GTA available to download sometime ago. The original, and now GTA2, have been revamped and remastered to work with today’s PCs. However, they do note that the game still may not work correctly, and they cannot take responsibility for any problems caused. GTA2 was the final game in the series to be 2D for the PlayStation and PC. It was an excellent step-up from the original. Looking back on it now, Rockstar has performed quite an amazing feat by completely transforming the GTA series....

I just got this from SlashDot: “This week’s deadly Asian Quake and Tsunami may have been so powerful, that it changed the rate of Earth’s rotation. In a Reuters article, a NASA geophysicist theorizes that the quake compacted the Earth enough to speed up the planet’s rotation by 3 microseconds. A second article says the quake moved undersea tectonic plates by up to 98 feet, shifting islands near Sumatra out to sea an unknown distance. Also, a USGS team wants images from commercial satellite operators to help pinpoint coastline damage. Lastly, an interesting article from the...

We’re all going to die! The chances that an asteroid would hit the Earth have never been this huge. NASA calculated that there is a 1-in-46 (2.2%) chance that 2004 MN4 will hit Earth on April 13, 2029. I don’t want to alarm you furthet, but that’s a friday! 2004 MN4 has a diameter of 390 meters and will hit the Earth with a speed of 12,59 km/s. The rock is now rated a 4 on the Torino scale! Freeky numbers: 2+0+2+9=13! If you go one further, you get 1+3=4. That may not seem that scary to you anymore, but he number 4 in Japanese is “shi” (U+56DB), “shi”...

A hundred beta testers sought for Roman MMORPG. Apply now for your chance. Jolt Online Gaming, Europe’s largest independent online gaming network, is now offering the MMORPG community 100 new beta tester slots in an upcoming behind-closed-doors test of Roma Victor, due to take place in 2005. Roma Victor is one of the few truly unique massively multiplayer experiences currently in development. Set in Roman-occupied Europe around the turn of the first millennium, the game offers players a chance to start out life as a Roman slave, working their way up the ranks to become a Gladiator, Legionary...

Sega and SNK Playmore are bringing back the classic NeoGeo arcade stick for Sony’s popular home console. TOKYO–Sega and SNK Playmore have announced today that they will be bringing a modern version of the classic NeoGeo Joystick to the PlayStation 2. The joystick, named the NeoGeo Stick 2, will be produced in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the King Of Fighters fighting game series. The NeoGeo Stick 2 will be released in Japan on February 17 at the price of 5,800 yen ($56). While the original NeoGeo joystick for the AES (Advanced Entertainment System) only featured 4 buttons,...

The past saturday 20th of November during the soccer match of Barca-Real Madrid, Philip Schiller and Marc Ingla met secretly in the offices of F.C. Barcelona. Shiller (Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing) presented to Ingla (vice president of Marketing of the F.C. Barcelona) supplies of the spectacular print of apple’s well-known symbol of the world in the shirt of the Barca. Apple is concretely to supply 22 million annual euros, plus incentives by gained through further promotions to get to the total of 27M. The deal has excited the people of marketing at...

Sunday 26 December 2004, 17:42 Makka Time, 14:42 GMT Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavals because of its location The most powerful earthquake in 40 years has triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into coastlines across Asia on Sunday, killing thousands of people in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and Thailand. The quake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale first struck at 7.59am (0059 GMT) off the coast of Aceh province on the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra and appeared to swing north into the Andaman islands in the Indian...

In continuing violence across Iraq, a council member from a town north of Baghdad has been shot dead while a provincial governor has narrowly escaped a second attempt on his life. On Saturday morning, a group of assailants shot dead Jalil Ibrahim, a local council member, and his friend Ali Muhammad, in Taji, about 20km north of Baghdad, home to US and Iraqi military bases, and a centre of anti-US activity, a police official said. Police also said a US patrol opened fire and killed a suspect who tried to flee in his car in western Baghdad, near the old Muthanna airport. The...