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NFS:Pro Street PC demo has just released few days ago (2rd Nov). The demo setup size is quite small compare to Crysis demo. It is only nearly to 800MB. It’s quite upset me due to the file size.

Anyway, this demo has too few in the gameplay. It only has two types of races, Speed Challenge and Grip Race. Nothing more. Where’s the drift match? Darn.

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It is mobile version of NFSPS(Need For Speed:Pro Street). It released on the 26th of October for Europe and 30th October for North America. For this version, EA inserted 16 officially licensed racing cars to take on 8 rivals on a total of 11 racing tracks. In the game, player wins cash in order to tune cars or purchase new cars.

“We are very excited to release another great mobile version of this racing franchise that is so popular with our fans,” said Travis Boatman, VP of Worldwide Studios at EA Mobile(TM). “Need for Speed ProStreet delivers the adrenaline-fueled racing and drifting that you’ve come to expect from the Need For Speed franchise, while offering accessible gameplay and controls designed specifically for mobile phones.”

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Just currently, BlogRush has been updated to Phase 2.

What’s new?

Few new goodies that I find out. Under the dashboard, there will have few graphs, such as your site viewed within 30days, Syndication Credit Earned from your referral network, numbers of referral network you have, credit balance, credit earning report, your last 12 blog entries and lots more. Apart from that, under report section will enable user to view blog reports from specific date to particular date. Under the my blog section, it will enable user to change blog settings and widgets. Now it will have 120px width version but longer height compare. Changing the colour is so much easily. User only need to choose which colour favour and it will automatically update in your blog. Lastly, there will have one new section which called filters. It allows user to give a specific word or keywords in order not to show your entries related in BlogRush widget. It also allows user to filter out a specific URL from showing in the widget.

Introducing BlogRush: How Does it Work?

Understanding how BlogRush works isn’t difficult, although it can be a little confusing initially. Blogrush utilizes a viral concept which operates via a pyramid-style, multi level structure. This simply means that you get more traffic when you refer more people (who in turn refer others) to sign up and use Blogrush.

1. Sign up for a free account and register your blog by submitting your blog feed and picking a category. Place the widget on your blog and 5 links to other relevant blogs will show up within the widget (see my sidebar for an example).
2. Earn one credit whenever a page on your blog loads: this means that your latest post will be shown 1 time on other blogs with the widget. For example if your blog has 100 pageviews, your latest post will be displayed 100 times within the widgets on other blogs.
3. Refer others to sign up and install the widget. The number of pageviews your referee gets will be added to the number of times your blog titles will be shown within other blog widgets. For example, Tom signs up under your referral link and his blog has 500 page views.This means that your blog title will be shown 500 times on blogs within your category, in addition to the number of views you are already getting for displaying the widget on your own site. This goes on for 10 referral levels. [Source]

More details, watch this video

Last week ago, Opera just released new beta for desktop browser(9.50) and Opera Mini ( 4 beta 3). I have test out both of the software. I would say it was a great experience use these two softwares. I just briefly talks about opera browser for desktop. It is much lightweight and smooth scrolling. I have use firefox, which I find out that sometimes it does lags or freezes when loading javascript pages/sites, for an example like my own blog.

Apart of that, Opera release new product, Opera Link. It is a way to keep your web surfing activity synchronized across all the browsers you use, on multiple desktops and mobile devices, even if they aren’t all running Opera browsers!

Opera Link is integrated into both Betas. There’s a Synchronize Opera… item in the Opera 9.5 File menu and also at the bottom of the Opera Mini start page. Click either one and you are prompted for your My Opera account and password. If you don’t have an account, there’s a Register button on both the desktop and mobile Opera Link login screens. Once it’s started, Opera Link silently synchronizes any changes you make to your bookmarks or Opera Speed Dial shortcuts across all copies of Opera 9.5 or Opera Mini 4.0 Beta 3. Changes also show up on a personalized page at link.opera.com where you can login and use your bookmarks and speed dial from any browser, anywhere. Opera Link is very user friendly, you just log into it once and then use your browser to create bookmarks just as you would normally, but with the Opera Link your bookmarks now follow you wherever you go. [Source]

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Crysis demo just official out. It is a third person shooter game. It is using CryENGINE2 game engine, successor of CryENGINE used in Far Cry, and published by Electronic Arts. The final game will release in 15/16 November 2007.

What is Crysis?

“Crysis is based in a fictional future, where an alien race has invaded Earth. The single player campaign has the player assume the role of Jake Dunn. Dunn is a United States Delta Force operative, who is armed with various futuristic weapons and equipment, most notably a “Nano Muscle Suit”, which is an artificial and technologically advanced exoskeleton, inspired by the United States’ Future Warrior 2020 program, according to Bernd Diemer, one of Crytek’s senior game designers. In Crysis, the player fights both North Korean and extraterrestrial enemies, in four different locations: a tropical island jungle; an American aircraft carrier; inside an “Ice Sphere“, which will consist of the same jungle, but frozen; and the alien ship itself, some parts of which will be zero-gravity. Crysis will utilize Microsoft’s new API, Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) for graphics rendering, and will include the same editor that was used by Crytek to create the game.” - [Wiki]

Crysis System Requirements :

1. Minimum system requirements from Crytek and EA
   • OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
   • Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster (Vista)
   • Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
   • Video Card -256 MB
   • Hard Drive - 12GB
   • Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
2. Recommended System Requirements from Crytek and EA
   • OS - Windows XP / Vista
   • Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
   • Memory - 2.0 GB RAM
   • GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar

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