We recorded the final battle which lasted approx. 15 minutes.

The winners are:

3rd Place: Rafael Torres | $25

2nd Place: Calvin Capers | $50

1st Place: Luis Torres | $125

I’ve got a bunch of beta access keys to give away.

If you are interested, simply post below. Not a registered user? Well that’s easy enough to fix here.

Once you get your key, head over to

http://beta.battlefield-heroes.com/

and follow the steps listed to get set up.

This is one of the last phases of beta and your charecter will not be deleted once the game goes public.

You are welcome to join us almost nightly on Teamspeak @ ts.frag706.org

Screen shots and videos here.

According to Mediacom’s latest conference call, they are going to be rolling out Docsis 3.0 to 50% of the market by end of year. What does this mean? A hell of a lot more bandwidth. The conference states they are already testing 100mbit downloads to some employee homes. No doubt this is to keep up with Cablevision who recently released 101mbit service. No news on the Charter front, but they are rumored to already be offering 50mbit service in some areas. Knology is way (way) behind as I believe their fastest residential speed “edge” is currently still under 10mbit.

Great news, but what’s the catch? Well Docsis 3.0 is even less tolerant to problems such as line noise than the current Docis 2.0. Basically, if you live in a Mediacom area where your service is already bad, things could possibly get worse for you.

Some of you already swear off Mediacom, but, just to show you what they are capable of when you are in an area that works, here is my speed test:

You can read more about the upgrade here.

If, like me, you’re poor, and haven’t picked up your copy of Street Fighter IV yet, this week would be the time to do so. Best Buy is selling both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions for $39.99 each.

Best Buy is also selling skate 2, Major League Baseball 2K9, and Resistance 2 for the same price.

You buy now!

Every once in a while a Nintendo World Championship cart will pop up for sale. These carts were given to the contestants of the 1990 NWC. There are about 100 grey carts and 20 something gold carts. Grey carts can pull anywhere from 5-10k, while gold carts can pull 10-15k+.

This particular one is claimed to be cart #1 and at $25k is probably the most expensive NES related item to date.

Crazy madness.

Auction link: Here

NWC Reproduction link: Here