Category Archives: News

Ooops, we forgot to mention, Minecraft is officially launched, but you knew that already

So last weekened was the big MineCon in vegas, where 5000 met to celelbrate the release with @notch and the rest of Mojang. As we here at grig can’t afford a plane ticket, 3 nights in a hotel, and the … Continue reading

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Need to buy a new Kinect, don’t use the one you got?

Well folkes, here’s the skinny, over at the Microsoft Research Kinect for Windows blog, there’s news that next year will see a new kinect that will have “optimized certain hardware components and made firmware adjustments which better enable PC-centric scenarios”. … Continue reading

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Darkstalkers are not dead!

Street Fighters retro stablemate Darkstalkers is fresh from the grave today, ressurected in full on PSN glory as Capcom confirm that they will be bringing the fisticuff related tomfoolery of Morrigan (star of a million breast-centred items of Deviant Art … Continue reading

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720 inbound?

Following on from yesterday’s article by actually bothering to write something new for the Grig, I venture forth once more and set my sights firmly on the future as we plot a course for the next generation! Now this is … Continue reading

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IGN are gonna live stream some MineCon goodness woo hoo

News of the day is that if you are a fan of Minecraft, but do not live in the states, and cannot afford to go to MineCon over the 18th -19th of Novemeber, then fret not, as Mojang have partnered … Continue reading

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Kinect for Windows SDK beta 2 is out

It’s great that Microsoft have put efforts in helping the community utilize the power of kinect, and now we’re seeing proof that they are continuing that commitment. Today i saw a news item in my rss feeds from Microsoft Research … Continue reading

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Street Fighter X Tekken Update Ahoy

WARNING – A massively outdated article follows! It’s been a long time, and I indeed shouldn’t have left you, and regretfully I plead guilty to the crime of leaving you without so much as a dope beat to step to. … Continue reading

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Gears Of War Drama Rocks Sleepy English Town

Residents of Ryde were packing their bags in fear today after the appearance of an emergence hole signalled an imminent attack on the town from the Locust Horde. The filthy aliens have never been seen before in the Isle of … Continue reading

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Daytona USA as it should be, out now XBLA

Daytona on an XBOX 360 is awesome, it looks a lot sharper than the saturn version, doesn’t suffer the bad pop ups or clipping, but still has that daytona look, unlike the Dreamcast updated version that looked slightly weird, still … Continue reading

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Minecraft 1.9 pre 5 is up for download for the impatient

What up minecraftalonians, if you’re one of those who likes to take a sneak peak at whats new, then you maye be intereseted in tehis here link http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre5/minecraft.jar which will be the latest build for hardcore fans to test out, … Continue reading

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