The Wee DVD Player

Nintendo Wii, the only next gen console that has no DVD/HD-DVD/Bluray playback but it's success with its unique gameplay has made it the best selling next-gen console. No wonder everyone's capitalizing on its success......
Introducing the Wee DVD player, the Wee that plays DVD but does not have any games support.

And this is found in a Japan retailer!
Info taken from Kotaku

Rev.Gear.Guide - iPod touch

For those who watched Apple's ipod keynote announcement a while ago will notice that Steve Jobs said they have created the best ipod ever. The iPhone which has a small ipod icon below the home screen. Well, he's right. iPhone was the best ipod they've created. But is that gonna hold true come this end September? For those that have watched the latest September Apple's special even keynote again, saw a series of new ipods announced. 

These includes revamped ipod nano, ipod "phat" which now called ipod classic (features a whooping 160 Gig storage) and also ipod touch. 

Descriptions: So, what is ipod touch exactly? Well, from the appearance... it looks 85 - 90% similiar to an iphone. I think it is safe to say that for those who lived outside of America and whishes to own the 'best ipod ever'.. this is the closest thing to it yet. It features the multi touch screen that made iphone so famous, it has Safari browser built in, it has youtube and also the new iTune wifi music store which allows you to purchase song off the wifi from Starbucks (America only at the moment). How cool is that? the only trade off is that it's storage might not be that much compared to ipod classic because it uses flash memory instead of those hard disc like ipod classic does. Battery life is 22 hours for music and 5 hours for video... not too shabby either. 

Price for 8gig is USD299 and 16gig will go for USD399. Oh, forgot to mention... Steve cuts iPhone (8gig) version from USD599 to USD399 to prepare them for this holiday season. 

Release date in US is 28th September 2007. Mark your calendar and check your wallet.

Pros: Gotta love the multi touch gorgeous display, safari is a nice add on, thinner than iPhone, finally.... touchable cover flow (ipod nano and ipod classic features this as well, but navigation to be done with traditional scroll wheel).

Cons: Pricey, finger print magnet for its screen, Wifi music store not available outside of America yet.

Official Url: iPod

Rev.Gear.Guide - Xbox 360 Messenger Kit

Veteran gamers would all know that Microsoft's Xbox and Xbox 360 controllers are famous for being bulky compared to Nintendo's Wii or Sony's Playstation. Well it's just about to get bigger with Microsoft's latest messenger kit add-on for the Xbox 360 Controller......

The messenger Kit fits just below the controller for simultanous live chat and text messaging. The Keypad is fully back-lit for all your messenging needs in the dark. This kit comes with a Xbox 360 headset as well for $29.99. Tell us what you think of the add-on kit from the Rev.Chatter box on the right or vote if you think this is a good accessory add-on!

Rev.Figure.Review - Revoltech #30 - Die Buster

Intro: After long overdue, we present to you Revoltech #30 - DieBuster from the Japanese anime series - Gun buster 2.

OBE: Well, I actually look pretty much to this figure. I've gotta say the moment I took him out of the box he feels heavy! This weight comes from the solid legs that he has. Both of them feel very sturdy but a little bit overweight for figure this scale. The reason being that you need to do a little bit of extra balancing work to achieve the desired poses.

The figure comes with a few accessories such as extra hand/fist for each side, An iron club, a hand drill thing, extra head with the eye closed, a back ghost image and also a display stand.

One thing that I would like to point out is, whenever you wanted to close the elbow so that both hands are positioned towards the chest, you'll have to bend the elbow like close to some 80 to almost 90 degrees or so. If you're not careful, the elbow will tend to pop off very often. The reason being that the revoltech joint which resides inside is too short for the rather large arm pieces as you can see from the pic above. You'll hardly notice the Revoltech joints protruding out also.
I dunno if they have any standard Revoltech joint length for both end of it or not, they could just make it longer to prevent this... sigh. As a result, the infamous Buster Beam! attack could not be executed properly, the fists just couldn't touch each other.

As for the posing, the cloak is splitted into 2 sheets attaching to a Revoltech joint each but I find it hard to bend it to any angle at all cos of the weight and the small joint just cannot hold the pressure.

If you take off the cloak, you can mount the 'ghost' face' armor plate at the back of his..well, back. They have some nice touch of the smoke which emits out from top of the mask.

2 Weapons are available, the fist mounted 'drill' knuckle and a bat.

Pros: Nice solid figure, good paint job overall. Nice add-on ghost mask with fancy smoke effect.

Cons: Elbow tend to pop off very often, too heavy legs requires some extra balancing effort.

Rating: 7/10
Until next time, who wants a piece of me?!!

Something free

Well, who said that nothing is free in this world? Well, almost everything... except, something comes along sometime.

In conjunction with the 12th Anniversary celebration for C&C, EA games is proudly presenting the first part of its celebration by releasing the games that has spawned hundreds of clones all these years, yes.. ladies and gentleman. Presenting C & C Gold edition for XP available for download.

I remembered the first time I played the game back in 1995, when I first saw it at my local computer club (there's no cyber cafe so to speak at that time) - ZEN, I thought hmmm what kinda game is this? That guy is controlling a bunch of soldiers. Walking and 'creating' roads along the way whereas the surrounding is shrouded in shadows.
After I gave the game a try, I've realized that they are not creating but revealing surrounding areas as they explored the map. haha, silly me, well... since then I've played lots of nice RTS - C&C series, Red Alert, Warcraft series, Starcrafts, Total Annihilation... etc etc etc.

Brings back good memories, especially during the 3 man free for all matches we used to have with the crazy strategy of loading engineers in a few APCs and rushing in to opponent's base and let all hell loose! or just sit around your base building defences (obelisk of light anyone?) while waiting for your superweapon to charge up! hahahahaha...

Point your browser to EA Games for the download. You'll need a special software to mount the ISO image and do a little bit of 'tweaking' to get the game runs on Windows XP.

Have fun!