Cody Taylor

Intel has finally found its first customer for Moorestown, its follow-on to the Atom-based Menlow platform. But the Moorestown-based MID that Intel and LG have announced faces some serious headwinds, not even counting the basic questions about the form factor itself.

Reviews are beginning to appear for Guerrilla Games’ upcoming first-person shooter, Killzone 2, a PS3 exclusive that has received a great deal of hype over the past several months. The reviews are mostly complimentary, but not overwhelmingly so; Ars Technica says it has “some of the best graphics yet seen on the PS3,” and is a “solid take on the war-gaming genre.” They also acknowledge that this is the latest game being held up as a standard for how good PS3 games can be, though the PS3 may not need such validation anymore. Edge Magazine is critical of the story, saying, “you could play the levels in random order to little ill-effect,” but found the gameplay redeeming enough to warrant a 7/10. Concerns were raised early about the quality of the controls, but Guerrilla Games has affirmed that no changes will be made. Though the game won’t be out for about a week yet, rumors of some fairly typical DLC plans are already cropping up. Giant Bomb recorded some video showcasing Killzone 2’s multiplayer a while back.

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aedmunde sends along news from the LA Times: “A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea Tar Pits. It’s the largest known deposit of Pleistocene ice age fossils… in what might seem to be the unlikeliest of places — under an old May Co. parking lot in L.A.’s tony Miracle Mile shopping district. …huge chunks of soil from the site have been removed intact and now sit in large wooden crates on the back lot… The 23 crates range… from the size of a desk to that of a small delivery truck… There were, in fact, 16 separate deposits on the site, an amount that, by her estimate, would have taken 20 years to excavate conventionally. … Carefully identifying the edges of each deposit, her team dug trenches around them and underneath, isolating the deposits on dirt pedestals. After wrapping heavy plastic around the deposits, workers built wooden crates similar to tree boxes and lifted them out individually with a heavy crane. The biggest one weighed 123,000 pounds.”

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