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Dead Head Fred – Crush! Frag! Review! Late to the Party Edition

dhf_logo_green_psd_jpgcopyLife can be tough for a private detective. Oh sure, things are fine for a while. You have your own business in a “quaint” office with a partner who isn’t drunk all the time, a hot girlfriend who sings at the club, and a big case that promises to further your career. That is, until the “entrepreneur” you’ve been tailing discovers you, has you killed, and takes your head for his trophy case. Next thing you know you’re on a slab in some crazy scientist’s basement with your brain in a jar attached to your shoulders.

Needless to say, Fred’s in a bit of a bad mood.

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Lost: Via Domus – Crush! Frag! Review! Late to the Party Edition

lostviadomuscoverOur first entry in the “Late to the Party Edition” of Crush! Frag! Review! is rather appropriate. You see, for the last five years the rest of the world has followed the adventures of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 while I, myself, only recently started watching Lost. This isn’t the first time I’ve found myself late to the party on some major pop culture event, but curiosity over talks of time travel, smoke monsters and fish biscuits finally got the better of me. I started renting the DVDs a month and a half ago and finally caught up with the end of Season Five last Friday night.

Before I reached that point, however, my sights turned towards the tie-in game – Lost: Via Domus. I received it as a gift from a friend of mine over a year ago. He had come upon the game for free himself and, having no desire to play it, re-gifted it to me. Not being one to turn away free games, it got slotted on my shelf with the vague notion that I would get around to playing it “some day”. Not being a follower of Lost at the time, that day was quite likely to be somewhere in the distant future. But, with my recently born infatuation with the show, it came far sooner than expected.

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Sony Patents Emotion Engine Emulation, 2006 Thrilled

cellSony’s on-again off-again relationship with backwards compatibility continues to keep us guessing; Siliconera has uncovered details suggesting that the PlayStation 3′s Cell processor could have the ability to emulate the PlayStation 2′s Emotion Engine. If true, this means that after a simple firmware update, the PS3 could have the ability to play the games of yesteryear.

Siliconera also ponders the possibility that the code allowing for this emulation will come with the oft-rumored PS3 Slim alone, meaning an even further segmented user-base.

Let’s hope that last bit of speculation proves benign. Regardless, this is certainly welcome news. Better late than never, right?