Not content with ruining football games by eliminating the competition, Electronic Arts is looking to lay waste to the rest of the video game sporting world. EA has begun its $2 billion “hostile takeover” of Take-Two Interactive They are currently offering stakeholders in Take-Two Interactive $26 dollars per a share, 2 dollars over what Take-Two is currently trading for. The offer is set to expire on midnight April 11^th, but can be extended.

Even though this will come as a shock to no one, recent benchmark tests show that Xp still on average beat out Vista in performance out of sleep mode.  After cold boots the performance boost was minimal but still begs the question how can the newest Operating System be slower than its predecessor. 

"XP operating system remained faster than Vista SP1 in 61% of the operations grouped in a consumer test suite, and faster than Vista SP1 in 46% of the operations in the business-oriented head-to-head."

That may give pause for those of you thinking of switching your xp machine to vista, if its capable.  For those of you that already have Vista you can rejoice that the new sp1 for Vista helps streamline the operating system.  On average with the new service pack, Vista operated on average 60% faster than non sp1 vista machines.  It may not allow vista users to stop the jeers from XP users about performance, its a step in the right direction. 

If nothing else Microsoft has taken away most manufacturers licenses for xp, forcing them to use Vista this january.  It is rumored that after XP SP3 microsoft will stop patching xp as well.  Microsoft seems to be in a hurry to retire XP and pave a new future of Vista only.

FearedGamers.net has announced the winners of competitions they ran recently and 3 Point Games has taken the CAEK!!

THE TF2 VIDEO CONTEST AND iZ3D SLOGAN WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!!!!

Congratulations to the 3 Point Gaming Community with special thanks to Kevlar, Godling, and Blades for their outstanding "3-PG Exclusive Interview ".

Congratulations to Freman, also from 3PG, for his submission of "3D Monitors for a 3D World".  His submission will be used on iZ3D's future banners. The 3PG community has also won a free month of dedicated hosting, worth $300! Freman has won $250 and an iZ3D T-Shirt that says "GG Noob".

So for all of you who love Golden Eye the UK magazine Xbox World 360 has info in its next issue all about it, including what appears to be the world’s first hands on impression of it.


Now its time to sit back and wait for the information to come rolling in and wonder if there is going to be a Perfect Dark remake.

Source: Xbox World 360