Category Archive: Entertainment

New Xbox or New Playstation?

Peench | February 7, 2013 | COMMENTS:7 Comments »

Rumors abound about the new Playstation and a possible new Xbox to be released this year. Talk is that Sony will announce something more specific on the 20th of February though they are downplaying that and haven’t commented on any rumors.  Microsoft, on the other hand, hasn’t released any news.  Here are some of the rumors and thoughts.

Playstation 4

  • Dualshock 3 shaped controller with Vita like touch sensitive surface
  • Sharing with friends while playing
  • Ditching Cell processors and using processors from AMD
  • Possibly same chip as new Xbox
  • Possibly using Gaikai cloud service
  • Year end launch
  • Cost over $400
  • Power efficient, less energy draw and quieter
  • Possibly 4K (ultra HD) output
  • No backwards compatibility
  • Games tied to your PS account (cutting out resale market)
  • New PS Eye camera for improved motion control gaming

Sources: Kotaku and TechRadar

Xbox 720

  • Greatly improved speech recognition
  • Integration with Skype
  • Interface similar to Win 8
  • Smaller, less expensive and more Kinect-focused
  • Similar controller to Xbox 360
  • Possible augmented reality 3D integration later
  • Dual GPUs from AMD
  • 16 core CPU
  • Included Blu-Ray Drive
  • 1080p and DVR support
  • Games tied to internet (cutting out resale market)
  • Pre-Christmas 2013 release date
  • Priced around $300

Sources: CVG, and TechRadar

With all those rumors out there, what do you think?  Will we see new consoles from Microsoft and Sony this year?  Or do they have more to milk out of their existing consoles?  Let us know your thoughts!

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Have You Read a Good LobbycastLou Article Lately?

LobbycastGeoff | January 20, 2013 | COMMENTS:2 Comments »

Hey, folks!  I don’t know if any of you were aware, but our very own LobbycastLou is a regular contributor to PSNFans.com.  Support our good friend by heading over and checking it out!  Here is a link to his work over at the site:  LINK to Awesomeness

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Please welcome our new (dream)host

Peench | January 17, 2013 | COMMENTS:8 Comments »

Okay so I’m not entirely sure that I did this correctly so for now I’m keeping my fingers crossed.  If I did everything correctly I signed up for new hosting at Dreamhost (2 year package for $214.80 – $8.95/mo) and I created and them imported the old database and then I uploaded the old files.

I didn’t upload our old forum so that link in the last post won’t work anymore.  I was trying to figure out what the actual IP address was for our site to see if we could get to it that way but I can’t figure it out.  Perhaps someone with more knowledge of these things can figure it out.  If so then I’ll hold off on canceling our old hosting so we can get to the old forum and grab some of the old posts.  If not, then we’re old postless for now and we’ll just have to forge ahead and create new information and posts here.

While I think the site is resolving to the new host (I updated the DNS settings on our domain about an hour ago), I can’t be certain. When I ping pregamelobby.com I am still getting a reply from Site5 so this one is up in the air for right now.  BUT, shortly after I changed the DNS servers I was able to access the new site on the new host and I’m pretty sure we’re on the new host now.

Anyway, I’m pretty excited I didn’t screw anything up too badly (other than perhaps not giving you all enough time to grab old posts from the old forum – SORRY!) and that we’re back up and running on a new host without too much difficulty.  In fact, I’m pretty proud of myself considering I really have no idea what I’m doing! haha!

Oh yeah, one other thing. When we switched to the new host we lost all of our old PGL email accounts. If you had one, email me at my gmail account (yes, it is peench), and let me know what the settings were and I’ll re-create it. Thanks!

Alright, enough rambling from me for now.  Start poking around and let me know if anything seems broken so I can try to fix it.  If all is good then we’ll forge ahead with our new host Dreamhost and leave Site 5 behind us!

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Farewell Site 5

Peench | | COMMENTS:4 Comments »

So our current host, Site 5, decided that they would rather spend more money trying to sign up a new customer than accommodate an existing, long standing customer.  With diligent follow up on my part I forced them to respond this morning.  Even though I was promised that the response would be an actual response, it was not.  Here’s the bullshit answer I received:

I have examined your resource usage and unfortunately at this time, it has not stabalized from the changes you have made. We will need a few days worth of usage before we can provide you with a reliable recommendation. I see that you are looking to change packages before the 25th and I believe we can should be able to provide you with a reliable recommendation by the 21st.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks,

Collin Simmons
Server Health Manager, Site5.com

I’m not sure what they expected in terms of stabilization since that is not what they asked of us.  I’m in a chat session with them right now giving them one final chance and if they don’t move us today then screw them.  I’m tired of wasting my time trying to save us as one of their customers.

If they don’t move us today I’ll sign up for hosting at Dreamhost tonight and make the settings change on our domain right away.  It might take a few hours or whatnot to populate and I’m not sure how we’ll move all the posts and the site itself, but we’ll figure that out.

In the meantime, for those of you who wanted to save posts from the old site, please go to the old site HERE and copy any posts you all want and save them and email them to me so I can post them when we’ve moved to the new host.

Thanks you all!

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No response from our host

Peench | January 16, 2013 | COMMENTS:3 Comments »

I have updated our trouble ticket with our host 3 times now asking for an update and have received absolutely no response.  I had asked that they respond with an update by this morning and that they move our host by today.  My last update asked them if I should assume by their lack of response that they are not interested in keeping us as a customer.  If they don’t move our site by today then tomorrow I’m signing up for another host and will have to move the site to someone else.

I have a couple of other sites hosted with Dreamhost and they have a shared host plan that would cost us $108/year.  Since I already know how they work they would be the easiest to switch to.  I’d shut the site down here, back it up and then try to put it back up over there.  If that doesn’t work we can always start over since we don’t have much of substance here yet.

Thanks for your patience everyone!

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